Aqueous gels

摘要

There is disclosed an aqueous medium comprising water to which has been added a water thickening amount of a water thickening polymer which is prepared by polymerizing at least one alkyl acrylate monomer and at least one carboxylic polymerizable monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid which are present from 20 to 95 parts by weight per hundred parts of total monomer being polymerized and utilizing, as an ionic emulsifier, an emulsifier selected from the group consisting of disodium or diammonium nonylphenoxy polyethoxy sulfosuccinate having the general formula: