Biosurfactants are becoming more commonplace in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and other forms of medicines. With the biobased economy growing substantially and pressure to reduce reliance on palm and crude oil derived materials, it is vital that the Home and Personal Care industry develops frameworks for deploying sustainably sourced alternative materials. Biosurfactants tend to be very similar to nonionic and mild anionic surfactants but with significantly higher molecular weights, generally more than double that of the most commonly used conventional surfactants. We have explored many such glycolipids in recent times and in this proposal wish to study the solution microstructure under conditions where the glycolipid self assembles into liquid crystalline like structures. Understanding the shear dependence of the mesophase behaviour is important precursor to commercialisation.