The influence of surfactants (CTAB and SDS) on suspensions of monoionic kaolinite (Na ÷ and H ÷ form) was investigated by adsorption, sedimentation, turbidity, electroosmosis, and rheological measurements, at pH = 3.3 and 10.0. Only small differences are found between the Na + and H + forms of the kaolinite. The data can be accounted for satisfactorily by a mathematical model based on the DLVO theory for face-face, edge-edge, and edge-face interactions, if some assumptions on the local qJ8 potentials near edge and face type surfaces are introduced.