Untangling hair conditioners: The swelling of surfactant bilayer phases

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Untangling hair conditioners: The swelling of surfactant bilayer phases

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 13th September 2004
  • Speaker: David Fairhurst (University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

Hair conditioner is made of water, charged surfactant bilayers and 'benefit agent'. When you rub a blob onto your wet hair, it swells and releases the benefit agent hopefully depositing it on your hair. I have been trying to understand how and why these surfactant systems swell at all, and what controls this process.

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