The longer the chain of the alcohol, the lesser it adsorbs at the interface. As a consequence, long chain alcohols (above C8) enhance the solubilization in optimum surfactant-oil-water systems according to the lipophilic linker effect. The solubilization improvement can be rendered by a multiplicative factor which depends almost linearly upon the chain length of the alcohol (above C8). Alcohol mixing is a way to increase the interaction even more.