6. Why and how to use non-ionic surfactants

Products and formulations using a single class of non-ionic surfactants are relatively few in number, as it is very rare for a single surfactant to combine all the properties and produce all the effects required under often very different application conditions.

The main properties and physico-chemical characteristics of non-ionic surfactants have already been described in 1 . Here we examine the implications of these properties...