A process for preparing aqueous oil-in-water emulsions comprising from 1 to 70% by weight, based on the total weight of the emulsion, of functional alkoxysilanes and/or condensed oligomers thereof and/or organoalkoxysiloxanes, at least one emulsifier selected from among alkylsulfates having a C8-C18-alkyl radical, alkyl ether sulfates and alkaryl ether sulfates having a C8-C18-alkyl radical as hydrophobic radical and from 1 to 40 ethylene oxide (EO) or propylene oxide (PO) units, alkylsulfonates having a C8-C18-alkyl radical, alkarylsulfonates having a C8-C18-alkyl radical, monoesters of sulfosuccinic acid with monohydric alcohols or alkylphenols having from 5 to 15 carbon atoms, alkali metal and ammonium salts of carboxylic acids having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkyl, aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl radical, alkylphosphates and alkarylphosphates having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the organic radical, alkyl ether phosphates or alkaryl ether phosphates having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkyl or alkaryl radical and from 1 to 40 EO units, alkyl polyglycol ethers and alkaryl polyglycol ethers having from 8 to 40 EO units and from 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkyl or aryl radicals, ethylene oxide-propylene oxide (EO-PP) block copolymers having from 8 to 40 EO and PO units, addition products of alkylamines having C8-C22-alkyl radicals with ethylene oxide or propylene oxide, alkyl polyglycosides having linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C8-C24-alkyl radicals and oligoglycoside radicals having from 1 to 10 hexose or pentose units, silicon-functional surfactants or mixtures of these emulsifiers and water, which comprises (i) premixing of the constituents, and, at a proportion of condensed oligomers of functional alkoxysilanes of≧25% by weight, based on the total weight of the organosilicon compounds, and (ii) emulsifying in a high-pressure homogenizer having at least one pressure stage and a pressure of from 2 to 15 MPa, so that the width of the droplet size distribution, expressed as the
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