This article provides a set of thickener recommendations arranged by paint type, focused not on chemistry, but on practical guidelines with supporting application data.
Thickener performance, especially for synthetic associative thickeners, depends on interactions with latexes and surface-active paint ingredients such as surfactants and dispersants. However, each of the four classes of organic thickeners is characterized by several attributes that are fairly independent of paint type and composition (see Table 1).