Greener Products: Opportunities and Challenges for Surfactants

The use of surfactants in Home and Personal Care products (HPC) is of vital importance due to their wide range of application. Surfactants are the major player in HPC because of their ability in wetting, spreading, dispersing, sticking, solubilization and dissolution. It is then clear that most of the challenges and/or opportunities towards benign (green) surfactant will automatically affect the HPC industry directly or indirectly. Therefore, It is worthy understanding the perspective and views of each of the stakeholders and representatives appearing in the supply chain of the surfactants in order to explore and better understand opportunities and challenges for greener products and how green chemistry can be applied to improve their sustainability.The book presents the views from the stakeholders of Surfactant supply chain which are Suppliers of raw material for surfactants, manufactures’ and formulators of HPCs, retailers, consumers, NGOs, trade association and water treatment companies. The comparison between developed (UK) and developing countries (TZ) is also discussed.