A scale‐down study of an industrial reactor for the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) via an emulsion polymerization process was performed in order to understand the source of batch‐to‐batch variations in product quality. In Part 2 of this series of three papers, it is demonstrated that a large excess of base is required to control the particle size distribution of the seed process. Although differences exist between the critical micelle concentration and the surface area occupied by a surfactant molecule for linear and branched isomers of the surfactant sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate, the characteristics of the molecules from different suppliers were reasonably similar.