Abstract: Compositions that include at least one potassium-containing amphoacetate and/or betaine surfactant, water and at least one additional surfactant selected from anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, non-ionic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: An aqueous pearlescent concentrate, containing a pearlizing agent, an anionic surfactant, and a cationic component, having increased opacity and is useful in modifying the appearance of aqueous liquid compositions, particularly personal care compositions.

Abstract: An aqueous structured surfactant composition, contains water, one or more anionic surfactants, and one or more alkoxylated nonionic surfactants, wherein at least one alkoxyl unit per molecule of the alkoxylated nonionic surfactants is a propoxyl unit or a butoxyl unit, exhibits shear-thinning viscosity, is capable of suspending water insoluble or partially water soluble components, and is mild to the eyes and skin.

Abstract: A polymer that includes at least one monomeric unit having a pendant substituent group according to formula (II): wherein: R1 is H, chloro, bromo, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aryl, or aralkyl, R2 and R3 are each independently H, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, uriedo, or carboxyalkylene, R4 is alkylene or R5, R7, and R10 are each independently alkylene, R6, R8, and R9 are each independently H or alkyl, A is O or N—R11, provided if A is O and R4 is methylene, then R1 cannot be H, chloro, or bromo, R11 is H or alkyl, and X? is an anion, is useful in personal care application, such as hair styling compositions.

Abstract: The use of a stabiliser comprising a hydrophilic polymeric chain of more than four hydrophilic monomer groups and/or having a mass greater than 300 amu, linked at one end to a hydrocarbon-soluble hydrophobic group to reduce or prevent the flocculation of systems comprising a flocculable surfactant and a liquid medium which is capable of flocculating the surfactant and in which the stabiliser is capable of existing as a micellar solution at a concentration of at least 1% by weight.

Abstract: The use of a stabiliser comprising a hydrophilic polymeric chain of more than four hydrophilic monomer groups and/or having a mass greater than 300 amu, linked at one end to a hydrocarbon-soluble hydrophobic group to reduce or prevent the flocculation of systems comprising a flocculable surfactant and a liquid medium which is capable of flocculating the surfactant and in which the stabiliser is capable of existing as a micellar solution at a concentration of at least 1% by weight.