PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily provide a compound giving little stimulation and preferable feeling to the skin, etc., and useful as a base for hair and skin cosmetics, a cleaning agent, an emulsifying agent, a conditioning agent, etc., and producible with decreased number of reaction steps.
SOLUTION: A 2-hydrophobic 2-hydrophilic nonionic surfactant especially having a sugar amide chain as the hydrophilic group is extremely effective among 2-hydrophobic 2-hydrophilic nonionic surfactants.
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