Isoelectric point and surface tension of twelve of the alkylcarboxy betaines such as 2-(trimethylammonio) dodecanoate, 2-(trimethyammonio) tetradecanoate, 2-(trimethylammonio) hexadecanoate, (dimethyldodecylammonio)ethanoate, (dimethyltetradecylammonio)ethanoate, (dimethylhexadecylammonio) ehtanoate, 2-(dimethylododecylammonio) propanoate, 2-(dimethyltetradecylammonio)proopanoate, 2-(dimethylhexadecylammonio)propanoate, 2-(dimethyltetradecylammonio)-3-phenyl propanoate, 2-(dimethyltetradecylammonio)-3-phenyl propanoate are tested. From the measurement of the isoelectric point, it was found that the isoelectric point were leaned toward the alkaline zone for c-alkylarbrxybetaines, and toward the acidic zone for N-alkylcarboxybetaines. At the range of the carboxybetaine concentration $2;{ imes};10^{-2}{sim}2;{ imes};10^{-5}$mole/l, the surface tension of the aqueous solution were decreased to 30-38 dyne/cm, showing the tendency that the ability of lowering the surafce tension was depending on the increase of carbon atom number in the lipophilic alkyl chain. The critical micelle concetration measured by the surface tension and concentration curves have been found at the range of $10^{-2}{sim}10^{-5}$mole/l.