We have investigated the rheological properties of lamellar liquid crystal formed by nonionic surfactants at low and high surfactant concentrations with a small amount of octyl glucoside and their relationship with the topology of the bilayer. Rheologgy is a specific signature of each bilayer topology. The decrease in viscosity by increasing the shear rate according to a power law with exponent close to -0.8 was found for the concentrated system of LSB/1-butanol/water and 1% in weight of OG. Oil the contrary, the decrease in the viscosity by increasing the shear rate for the diluted system is less pronounced with lower exponent values. The rheological data agrees with the presence of vesicles. A special case is the system with benzyl alcohol. The apparent viscosity does not follow the same power law than for alkanols. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.