Aqueous emulsions comprising carbamato-functionalized organopolysiloxanes containing an average per molecule of at least one carbamato-functional Y group of the formula -R 4 -[NX-R 5 -] n NX - H where X is the same or different and is a hydrogen atom or is a Z radical of the formula -CO-O-CHR 6 -CH 2 -OH or -CO-O-CH 2 -CHR 6 -OH where an average of at least one X radical per molecule is a Z radical, where R 4 is the same or different and is a divalent, Si-C-bonded hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, R 5 is the same or different and is a divalent hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R 6 is the same or different and is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 36 carbon atoms, and n is 1, 2, 3 or 4, preferably 1, with the proviso that, in the carbamato-functionalized organopolysiloxanes, less than 50 mol% of the N-bonded X radicals in the Y groups are not a hydrogen atom, but have the above meaning of the Z radical, nonionic, polyethylene oxide-containing emulsifiers containing more than 40 ethylene oxide units of the formula -CH 2 -CH 2 -O-, and having an HLB value of not less than 15, selected from the group of alkyl polyglycol ethers, carboxylic acid polyglycol esters, ethoxylated sorbitan fatty acid esters, ethoxylated castor oil or hydrogenated variants, ethoxylated fatty amines, ethoxylated glyceryl fatty acid carboxylates, block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide units that are referred to as poloxamers, and copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide units bridged via an ethylenediamine core that are referred to as poloxamines, and water, where the emulsions have particle sizes of not more than 100 nm measured according to the description. carbamato-functionalized organopolysiloxanes containing an average per molecule of at least one carbamato-functional Y group of the formula -R 4 -[NX-R 5 -] n NX - H where X is the same or different and is a hydrogen atom or is a Z radical of the formula -CO-O-CHR 6 -CH 2 -OH or -CO-O-CH 2 -CHR 6 -OH where an average of at least one X radical per molecule is a Z radical, where R 4 is the same or different and is a divalent, Si-C-bonded hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, R 5 is the same or different and is a divalent hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R 6 is the same or different and is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 36 carbon atoms, and n is 1, 2, 3 or 4, preferably 1, with the proviso that, in the carbamato-functionalized organopolysiloxanes, less than 50 mol% of the N-bonded X radicals in the Y groups are not a hydrogen atom, but have the above meaning of the Z radical, where an average of at least one X radical per molecule is a Z radical, where R 4 is the same or different and is a divalent, Si-C-bonded hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, R 5 is the same or different and is a divalent hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R 6 is the same or different and is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 36 carbon atoms, and n is 1, 2, 3 or 4, preferably 1, with the proviso that, in the carbamato-functionalized organopolysiloxanes, less than 50 mol% of the N-bonded X radicals in the Y groups are not a hydrogen atom, but have the above meaning of the Z radical, nonionic, polyethylene oxide-containing emulsifiers containing more than 40 ethylene oxide units of the formula -CH 2 -CH 2 -O-, and having an HLB value of not less than 15, selected from the group of alkyl polyglycol ethers, carboxylic acid polyglycol esters, ethoxylated sorbitan fatty acid esters, ethoxylated castor oil or hydrogenated variants, ethoxylated fatty amines, ethoxylated glyceryl fatty acid carboxylates, block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide units that are referred to as poloxamers, and copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide units bridged via an ethylenediamine core that are referred to as poloxamines, and water, where the emulsions have particle sizes of not more than 100 nm measured according to the description.