Surfactants affect the water relations of water repellent soils but may or may not affect those of wettable soils.  We studied the effects of three surfactants, i) Aquatrols IrrigAid Gold®, ii) an ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymer, and iii) an alkyl polyglycoside, along with untreated tap water as a control, each applied two ways, on the water relations of two wettable silt loams, Rad (Xeric Haplocambid) and Latahco (Xeric Argialboll).  Each soil was packed 76 mm deep at 1.1 Mg m^-3 atop 76 mm of fine gravel in 1.2-m (W) x 1.5-m (L) x 0.2-m (D) soil boxes, with four replicates per treatment.  At 46.8 L ha^-1, each surfactant was either sprayed onto the soil as a chemigation with the first of two simulated, tap-water irrigations or was sprayed by hand onto the packed soil prior to the first irrigation.  Runoff with time and sediment losses from boxes sloped at 2.5% were then measured from a 29-mm irrigation, followed one week later by a 22-mm irrigation, each at 88 mm h^-1 intensity.  Additional post-irrigation measurements included bulk density, aggregate stability, surface penetration resistance, water content, water retention (at potentials from -100 to 0 kPa), and ponded and tension infiltration at three potentials.  In short, the surfactants we studied did not affect the parameters we measured, with one exception.  As supply potential decreased from -20 to -60 mm H₂O, the Rad’s hydraulic conductivity after the first irrigation decreased more sharply (p < 0.047) for hand-sprayed IrrigAid Gold than for the remaining surfactants or the control, revealing that IrrigAid Gold increased flow through larger pores but decreased flow through pores with diameters ≤ 0.5 mm in the recently treated, nearly saturated Rad silt loam.  A better understanding of surfactant effects on water relations of “normal” soils could improve our management of herbicides, fertilizers, and other agrochemicals.