WATER CLUSTER-DOMINANT ALKALI SURFACTANT COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE
Alkali surfactant treatment processes, such as cleaning, chemical pulping, mercerization, metal processing, leather processing, food processing, and personal beauty care. The process comprises the step of contacting a substrate with an effective amount of an aqueous alkali surfactant composition having a hydroxide Molarity of from 2 to 9. The composition comprises (a) alkali; and (b) a surfactant having a Lewis acid head group positioned terminally in a linear or branched aliphatic or aryl hydrocarbon chain comprising from 4 to 10 aliphatic carbon atoms.