I've noticed in the UK that most personal cleaning products, shampoo, toothpaste etc have sodium laureth sulfate in them, why use this instead of some other sulphate?

JP, Check out this... quite amazing what the Wiki has these days!!

Regards

Boxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_laureth_sulfate

Lots of good stuff there Boxy, but is it just cheaper than other detergents? Someone I once worked with reconed that "price overcomes many technical objections." Something that I've taken to heart.