Allured Books

Adding new technologies, products and techniques introduced since the 1999 publication of the first edition and including, for the first time, Dr. Martin Rieger's classic review of surfactants for personal care products, this edition provides personal care formulators with a must-have tool:

• Provides a basic understanding of the chemistry, structural attributes and functional properties of major types of surfactants.
• Helps formulators better understand the rules that govern applications of surfactants in different types of formulation and thereby optimize formulations.
• The surfactants that are reviewed represent those most currently encountered by formulators.
• Find all the information you need on surfactants in one comprehensive volume!

• • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Raw Materials for Surfactant Preparation
  • Chapter 2: Amphoteric Surfactants
  • Chapter 3: Anionic Surfactants
  • Chapter 4: Cationic Surfactants
  • Chapter 5: Nonionic Surfactants
  • Chapter 6: Silicone Surfactants
  • Chapter 7: Analytical Methods
  • Chapter 8: Patent References
  • Appendix I Three-Dimensional HLB—Applying the Three-Dimensional HLB System
  • Appendix II Surfactant Interactions with Skin
  • Appendix III Analytical Methods
  • Appendix IV Instructions for Using a Pellet Press
  • Index

Anthony J. O'Lenick, Jr. has more than 30 years of experience in innovative personal care ingredients. He is president of Siltech LLC, a company he founded in 1989, specializing in functional silicones and specialty surfactants. O'Lenick has five published books, more than 40 technical articles and is the inventor of more than 260 patents.