Applications
Surfactants play an important role as cleaning, wetting, dispersing, emulsifying, foaming and anti-foaming agents in many practical applications and products, including:
- Detergents
- Fabric softeners
- Emulsions
- Paints
- Adhesives
- Inks
- Anti-fogs
- Ski waxes, snowboard wax
- Deinking of recycled papers, in flotation, washing and enzymatic processes
- Laxatives
- Agrochemical formulations
- Herbicides (some)
- Insecticides
- Quantum dot coatings
- Biocides (sanitizers)
- Cosmetics:
- Shampoos
- Hair conditioners (after shampoo)
- Toothpastes
- Spermicides (nonoxynol-9)
- Firefighting
- Pipelines, liquid drag reducing agent
- Alkali Surfactant Polymers (used to mobilize oil in oil wells)
- Ferrofluids
- Leak Detectors
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