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  • Will amount of NACL to achieve maximum viscosity change when percentage of surfactant in formula cha

    Posted by Abdullah on June 12, 2022 at 1:15 am

    10% SLES reaches its maximum viscosity when 5.5% NACL is added to system. Now does it mean if we have 5% or 15% SLES in formula, the maximum viscosity will still be achieved with 5.5% NACL or salt curve will change? 

    Abdullah replied 2 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • OldPerry

    Member
    June 13, 2022 at 11:54 am

    The viscosity/salt relationship changes with surfactant composition 

  • Abdullah

    Member
    June 13, 2022 at 1:46 pm

    @Perry you mean if a formula has only 10% SLES and another formula has only 5% SLES, salt response will be different between these two formulas? 

  • OldPerry

    Member
    June 13, 2022 at 2:28 pm

    I mean that whenever you change any aspect of the composition of a surfactant system (e.g. concentration, surfactant type, etc), the viscosity response to salt addition will change.

  • Abdullah

    Member
    June 13, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    Perry said:

    I mean that whenever you change any aspect of the composition of a surfactant system (e.g. concentration, surfactant type, etc), the viscosity response to salt addition will change.

    Got it
    Thanks

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