Applied Surfactant Science for Personal Care and Home Care Applications

This course relates primarily to developing the fundamental surfactant science principles required for successfully formulating and optimizing surfactant based personal care and home care products. In-depth understanding will be developed for the physico-chemical properties required to optimize key performance controlling criteria-emulsification, cleansing & foaming. Surfactant self-assembly processes and key microstructures such as wormlike micelles, lamellar gel phases etc will be discussed in depth with a view to building an understanding of microstructure-property-performance linkages. Optimization of surfactant based formulations will be discussed in context of facial cleansers, shampoos, conditioners, home care products etc. Practical case-study examples and an opportunity for attendees to use their newly-acquired knowledge in simulated situations will be included. One such area will be on Biosurfactants. The course will have a built-in workshop for participants to brainstorm around formulation challenges of novel sustainable alternatives such as biosurfactants and develop experimental programs to de-risk these by taking into account principles they have learned in the course.