Cationic Surfactants - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Cationic surfactants [17] are much less used in laundry detergents, due to their tendency to rapidly adsorb to – and not desorb from – the fabric and the soil (both having negatively charged surfaces under normal conditions). This property of adsorption on fabrics is used in fabric softening, where double long-chain surfactant-like ...