Soap Patents (Class 510/481)
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Patent number: 6265370Abstract: A method of soap making comprises pulverizing naturally scented flora or other material with components of the soap making process prior to saponification. An improved scented soap is thereby provided with an intensified natural scent.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1999Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Inventor: Hall Newbegin
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Patent number: 6211129Abstract: The invention is a solid chemical concentrate system of at least two cooperative shapes. The first shape is an inwardly curved bar having an inner opening. The second shape is an insert which is capable of interlocking with the bar by insertion into the bar inner opening. The solid chemical concentrate provides chemical systems having active constituents which may be the same, different but compatible or functionally and chemically incompatible combined within one matrix to provide at least one substantially continuous surface. The system may also comprise an aqueous soluble or dispersible polymeric film cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1993Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Elizabeth J. Gladfelter, Tina O. Outlaw, James L. Copeland, Rhonda K. Schulz, Daniel K. Boche, Jeff W. Peterson
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Patent number: 6174846Abstract: The invention relates to liquid cleansing compositions in lamellar phase. Use of minimum amounts of defined polymeric hydrophilic emulsifier in combination with a lamellar phase inducing structurant has been found to enhance both initial viscosity and free thaw (low temperature) viscosity/stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1997Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Virgilio Villa
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Patent number: 6171007Abstract: A washing cake of soap, which includes a cake of solid cleaning substance, and a net embedded in the cake of solid cleaning substance. The washing cake of soap is made by putting a net and a liquid cleaning substance in the cavity of a mold, and then letting the liquid cleaning substance to be dried and hardened in the mold.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Inventor: Wei-Ling Hsu
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Patent number: 6140291Abstract: An aqueous metal cleaning composition is provided which comprises an alkalinity providing agent such as alkali metal carbonate and/or bicarbonate salts and a low foaming surfactant. The aqueous cleaning solution has specific foam height and foam collapse characteristics, and provides for substantially complete phase separation of a contaminant phase from the aqueous cleaning composition such that there is substantially no aqueous phase drag out into the contaminant phase; and the contaminant phase can be removed easily, and the aqueous cleaning solution can be recovered and reused.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.Inventors: Steven A. Bolkan, Gale A. Byrnes, Steven Dunn, Alfredo Vinci, Antony E. Winston, Patricia L. Phillips
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Patent number: 6121227Abstract: A storable, high-viscosity liquid detergent having high washing power and pronounced foaming comprising water, and from about 2% to about 10% by weight of a fatty alcohol sulfate, from about 5% to 25% by weight of an alkyl polyglycoside; from about 0.1% to about 9% by weight of a soap; and from about 3% to 8% by weight of a lower alcohol, wherein said detergent has a viscosity of from about 500 mPa's to about 3000 mPa's.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1993Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf AktienInventors: Georg Meine, Rolf Puchta, Juergen Hoffmeister
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Patent number: 6113886Abstract: Novelty items that are combinations of articles of manufacture with bioluminescence generating systems and/or fluorescent proteins are provided. These novelty items, which are articles of manufacture, are designed for entertainment, recreation and amusement, and include toys, personal items, such as cosmetics, bath powders, body lotions, gels, powders and creams, toothpastes and other dentifrices, soaps, body paints, and bubble bath, fountains, including liquid "fireworks" and other such jets or sprays or aerosols of compositions that are solutions, mixtures, suspensions, powders, pastes, particles or other formulations.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Bruce BryanInventor: Bruce Bryan
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Patent number: 6069121Abstract: A process for making a superfatted personal cleansing bar involving the steps of: (a) providing a solid-form superfatting agent consisting of: (i) a fatty component selected from the group consisting of C.sub.6 -C.sub.22 free fatty acids, C.sub.6 -C.sub.22 fatty alcohols, and mixtures thereof; and (ii) a nonionic sugar surfactant selected from the group consisting of an alkyl polyglycoside of formula I:R.sub.1 O(Z).sub.a Iwherein R.sub.1 is a monovalent organic radical having from about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms; Z is a saccharide residue having 5 or 6 carbon atoms; and a is a number having a value from 1 to about 6, a polyhydroxy fatty acid amide, and mixtures thereof; (b) providing a solid-form neutralized tallow/coco fatty acid soap mixture; (c) mixing components (a) and (b) to form a superfatted soap bar stock; and (d) stamping the superfatted soap bar stock into a finished personal cleansing bar.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1999Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: Henkel CorporationInventors: Timothy J. Cassady, Robert R. Schoettker
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Patent number: 6008172Abstract: An aqueous-based, pleasant tasting, non-toxic bubble-making composition of at least one surfactant, at least one bubble-stabilizer functionally compatible with the selected surfactant(s) and other constituents of the composition, appearing in quantities relative to each other and the composition as a whole sufficient to produce bubbles of the desired form, size and stability but non-toxic if consumed orally in substantial quantities by a child, and at least one taste-enhancing agent functionally compatible with the composition as a whole in quantities relative thereto to produce a bubble-making composition which is relatively pleasant tasting.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1996Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Inventors: Oded Broshi, Robert W. Hartley, Richard J. Vetrone
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Patent number: 6004918Abstract: Liquid foam control compositions provide good control for liquid detergent formulations, while being storage stable both before and after incorporation into liquid detergent.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1998Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Wacker Silicones CorporationInventor: William Kiger Adams
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Patent number: 5998344Abstract: Disclosed for cleaning hard surfaces is a detergent gel containing:(a) a detergent composition without thickeners having(i) a first surfactant, wherein the first surfactant is a non-ionic glycolipid, and(ii) a second surfactant, wherein the second surfactant is a charged surfactant, wherein the ratio of the first surfactant and the second surfactant is 1:10-10:1;(b) water, wherein the detergent composition is mixed with a sufficient amount of water to induce a phase change from a liquid phase to a gel phase; and(c) one or more enzymes.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1998Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/SInventors: Poul N.o slashed.rgaard Christensen, Bo Kalum, Otto Andresen
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Patent number: 5965499Abstract: Acidic and basic cleaning compositions using toxicologically-acceptable ingredients for cleaning fruits and vegetables are provided. Clear liquid formulations comprising oleate, alcohol ethoxylates and buffers are sprayed onto apples, lettuce and the like to remove soil and unwanted deposits.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bruce Prentiss Murch, Brian Joseph Roselle, Kyle David Jones
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Patent number: 5958853Abstract: A disinfectant and cleansing composition is provided in the form of an extruded solid. The active agent in the composition is a halogen-releasing agent such as a halogenated 5,5-dialylhydantoin. An inert binder such as a fatty acid salt or a hectoritic clay is used to enable manufacture of the composition using an extrusion process. Fragrance, colorants, and other pressure-sensitive materials may be included; fragrance and colorants are preferably incorporated in encapsulated form. Methods for manufacturing the compositions are also provided, as are methods for using the compositions in sanitizing water, particularly in disinfecting and cleansing flush toilets.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1998Date of Patent: September 28, 1999Assignee: The Clorox CompanyInventor: Erika Watanabe
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Patent number: 5952276Abstract: A composition for a soap bar comprises:(i) from about 0.5% to about 5%, by weight, of silicone;(ii) from about 0.5% to about 5%, by weight, of a first emollient selected from polyols, selected from glycerin, sorbitol, or mixtures thereof;(iii) up to about 5%, by weight, of a second emollient selected from vegetable, animal or mineral oils, or free fatty acids, or mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1997Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Marcia de Ferran, Adolfo Gutmann, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino
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Patent number: 5929025Abstract: The present invention relates to stabilized liquid fabric softening composition comprisinga) one or more biodegradable fabric softening compounds,b) one or more fatty acid compounds,wherein the ratio of said fabric softening agents to said fatty acid compounds is from 25:1 to 6.5:1.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1998Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Franciscus Joseph Madeleine De Block, Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch, Raphael Angeline Alfons Ceulemans
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Patent number: 5922667Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaner concentrate composition which can be diluted to form a viscous use solution, the cleaner composition comprising:an ammonium compound and/or an amphoteric compound; andan anionic surfactant, wherein the composition is free of amine oxide.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Diversey Lever, Inc.Inventors: Eduard C. van Baggem, Norman Jason Pritchard, Gijsbertus de Goederen, Ruben E. M. J. Jakobs
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Patent number: 5919744Abstract: A transparent/translucent dishwashing composition in bar/paste form containing: (a) an alkyl polyglycoside of the formula IR.sub.1 (R.sub.2 O).sub.b (Z).sub.a (I)wherein R.sub.1 is a monovalent organic radical having from about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is divalent alkylene radical having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms; Z is a saccharide residue having 5 or 6 carbon atoms; b is a number having a value from 0 to about 12; a is a number having a value from 1 to about 6; (b) a short-chain alcohol; (c) a fatty acid; (d) an amide; and (e) a polyol.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Henkel CorporationInventor: Virginia Lazarowitz
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Patent number: 5902778Abstract: A post-foaming gel shaving composition is disclosed which contains from about 40 to about 90 percent by weight water; from about 4 to about 25 percent by weight water-soluble soap; from about 0.5 to about 12 percent by weight aliphatic liquid post-foaming agent selected from the group consisting of saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons; from about 0.01 to about 5 percent by weight of at least one water-soluble gelling agent forming in said composition a gel having a yield value sufficiently high to restrain said composition from foaming for at least about 60 seconds; and from about 0.1 to about 2 percent by weight of a poly(ethylene oxide) having an average molecular weight of at least 2.times.10.sup.5.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1997Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: Pfizer IncInventors: Barbara A. Hartmann, Athanasios S. Ladas, Dino G. Muccia
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Patent number: 5888953Abstract: A process for making a soften or fluid personal cleansing composition comprising: (a) providing a solid personal cleansing stock consisting essentially of an acyl isethionate; (b) heating the solid personal cleansing stock using microwave energy to form a softened or molten stock personal cleansing component; (c) introducing the softened or molten stock personal cleansing into a mixing apparatus; (d) introducing a personal cleansing adjuvant into the mixing apparatus; and (e) mixing the softened or molten personal cleansing stock and adjuvant in the mixing apparatus to form a softened or fluid personal cleansing composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1997Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: Henkel CorporationInventors: Eugene G. Harris, J. Matthew White
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Patent number: 5888952Abstract: A solid cleansing composition comprising a) soap, b) moisture, c) from about 0.5 to about 5 wt. % TSPP, and d) free fatty acid in a quantity such that a pH above about 9.5 is present when he pH of a 1 wt. % soap bar in water solution is measured.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1997Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Ravi Subramanyam, Syed Abbas
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Patent number: 5876622Abstract: An aqueous, coal dust suppression fluid comprising one or more surfactants and at least one high terpene-containing natural oil. The coal dust suppression fluid can be used in a formulation of water dosed with the aqueous dust suppression fluid for the abatement of coal dust. A method is described for the abatement of coal dust using the formulation.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Inventors: Erroll Melvyn Pullen, Melvyn Donovan Pullen, Carol Pullen
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Patent number: 5863456Abstract: An aqueous dust suspression and dewatering fluid comprising one or more surfactants and at least one high terpene-containing natural oil. The fluid can be used in a formulation of water dosed with the aqueous dust suspression and dewatering fluid for the abatement of dust and dewatering of particulate material. Methods are described for the abatement of dust and dewatering of particulate material using the formulation.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1997Date of Patent: January 26, 1999Inventor: Erroll M. Pullen
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Patent number: 5843876Abstract: A cleansing composition which comprises a cleansing effective amount of a long chain alkyl or alkenyl containing surfactant or mixtures thereof and a color stabilizing effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are the same or different and are isopropyl or tertiary butyl, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.9 and R.sub.10 are the same or different and are isopropyl or tertiary butyl and n is about 8 to about 20, or ##STR3## wherein R.sub.11, R.sub.12, R.sub.13, R.sub.14, R.sub.15 and R.sub.16 are the same or different and are isopropyl or tertiary butyl.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1997Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.Inventors: Richard Payne, AnBen Hwang, Ravi Subramanyam
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Patent number: 5834411Abstract: An aqueous metal cleaning composition is provided which comprises an alkalinity providing agent such as alkali metal carbonate and/or bicarbonate salts and a low foaming surfactant. The aqueous cleaning solution has specific foam height and foam collapse characteristics, and provides for substantially complete phase separation of a contaminant phase from the aqueous cleaning composition such that there is substantially no aqueous phase drag out into the contaminant phase; and the contaminant phase can be removed easily, and the aqueous cleaning solution can be recovered and reused.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 1996Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., IncInventors: Steven A. Bolkan, Gale A. Byrnes, Steven Dunn, Alfredo Vinci, Antony E. Winston, Patricia L. Phillips
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Patent number: 5820695Abstract: The present invention relates to single-phase soap gels and viscous soap compositions which are produced by alkanolamine neutralization of a fatty acid above the Krafft point. These compositions are robust, biodegradable, and are insensitive to temperature changes. The compositions also exhibit excellent cleaning properties and may be used as laundry cleaning agents, oven cleaners, hard surface cleaners, and disinfectants and air fragrancing compositions.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignees: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., University of Southern MississippiInventors: E. Theodore Lance-Gomez, Mark M. Gipp, Robert Y. Lochhead, Charles E. Seaman, Jr.
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Patent number: 5804541Abstract: A floor stripper composition is provided, having a pH-value above 9.0, and comprising a soap, water and a glycine-N,N-diacetic acid compound, which is preferably methylglycine diacetic acid (MGDA). The diacetic acid is desirably in the form of a divalent metal complex thereof. A process is also provided for removing a zinc containing acrylate polymer film from a floor surface, wherein a floor stripper composition of the invention is applied. A good floor stripper performance could be obtained with this composition owing to its low foaming behaviour.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1997Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: Diversey Lever, Inc.Inventor: Josef Jans
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Patent number: 5786312Abstract: The present invention is directed to mixed fatty acid soap based bar compositions, which may include synthetic surfactants as co-actives, wherein relatively small amounts of specified polyoxyethylene-polypropylene nonionic polymer has been found to enhance mildness and reduced mush of bar compositions without sacrificing the user properties and processability of the formulations.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1996Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Albert Joseph Post, Edward Van Gunst, Mengtao He, Michael Fair, Michael Massaro
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Patent number: 5767059Abstract: The present invention provides a cleanser composition which is free from any thickener, contains surfactant(s) at such a concentration as not to irritate the skin or mucosa, can impart an appropriate consistency to the cleanser, exhibits excellent foaming, can be easily taken out from a container in use and gives a good feel in use.The cleanser composition comprises the following components (A), (B) and (C):(A) an alkali metal salt of a secondary amide-type N-acylamino acid represented by formula (1):R.sup.1 CONH(CH.sub.2).sub.n COOH (1)wherein R.sup.1 CO represents a linear acyl group having 10 to 16 carbon atoms; and n is a number of 1 or 2;(B) an alkali metal salt of a higher fatty acid; and(C) an amphoteric surfactant; and the mixing ratio by weight of (A+B)/C ranges from 2.5/1 to 1/2.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1996Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Isao Umemoto, Yasushi Kajihara
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Patent number: 5736503Abstract: Detergent compositions with high sudsing properties comprise an anionic surfactant of the alkyl sulfate, alkyl ethoxy sulfate, 2-sulfonated fatty acid methyl esters, alkyl benzene sulfonates, secondary alkyl or alkenyl sulfates, alkyl ethoxy carboxylates, sulfated or polyhydroxy fatty acid amides class, and a specially selected soap such as sodium 2-butyl-1-octanoate. The compositions provide spontaneous emulsification of grease even at neutral pH, especially in the presence of calcium ions. Sudsing may optionally be boosted by incorporating magnesium ions into the compositions. Laundry and dishwashing compositions are provided. Compositions containing a polyhydroxy fatty acid amide, sulfated polyhydroxy fatty acid amide, or alkyl ethoxy carboxylate are especially useful.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1997Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Phillip Kyle Vinson
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Patent number: 5723428Abstract: Particulate high bulk density non-spray-dried detergent compositions containing organic non-soap surfactant, zeolite builder and fatty acid soap as powder structurant, prepared by non-tower mixing and granulation processes involving in-situ neutralization of fatty acid to soap with aqueous sodium hydroxide, can suffer from localized particle yellowing on storage when perfume and/or fluorescer are present, due to the presence of areas of high alkalinity. Yellowing is reduced without loss of powder structuring if a defined, less than stoichiometric amount of sodium hydroxide is used for the fatty acid neutralization. Surprisingly, in bleaching powders improved bleach stability is also observed. The resulting powder can be defined in terms of a low "basic sodium" content.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1996Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: Lever Brothers CompanyInventors: Jelles Vincent Boskamp, Timothy Richard Bundy, Marilena Coruzzi, Pauline Farnworth, Mark Phillip Houghton, Christophe Joyeux, Peter Cory Knight, Leandre Naddeo, Alistair Richard Sanderson
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Patent number: 5712232Abstract: An aqueous liquid cleansing composition, packaged in a foamer container, said composition comprising:(A) from 5 to 50% by weight of an anionic carboxylate surfactant; and(B) from 0.1 to 5% by weight of a salt.The aqueous liquid cleansing composition of the present invention shows an extremely low viscosity increase at a low temperature and can be easily pushed out from the foamer container even at a low temperature thus giving uniform foam. It is particularly suitable for a skin cleanser.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1995Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Masaaki Moriyama, Hisateru Tanabe, Hideyuki Hanazawa, Yasushi Kajihara
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Patent number: 5705462Abstract: A bar soap comprising:A) from about 70 to about 85% by weight of at least one fatty acid salt,B) from about 0.5 to about 10% by weight of at least one fatty acid,C) from about 1 to about 10% by weight of at least one alkyl ether sulfate, andD) from about 0.1 to about 1% by weight of at least one of an alkyl oligoglycoside and an alkenyl oligoglycoside.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1996Date of Patent: January 6, 1998Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf AktienInventors: Marlene Hormes, Werner Schneider, Wolfhard Scholz, Udo Hennen
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Patent number: 5631215Abstract: Personal cleansing bars having a relatively high moisture content are made by forming a soap composition comprised of a neutralized tallow-free fatty acid mixture having an iodine value of less than about 7 and an alkyl polyglycoside of the formula IR.sub.1 O(Z).sub.a Iwherein R.sub.1 is a monovalent organic radical having from about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms; Z is saccharide residue having 5 or 6 carbon atoms; a is a number having a value from 1 to about 6. The soap composition is then finished to produce a bar having from about 15% to about 30% by weight of water.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: May 20, 1997Assignee: Henkel CorporationInventor: Donald V. Kinsman
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Patent number: 5536436Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition containing not more than 50% water by weight of the total liquid detergent composition, from about 0.0001 to about 1.0% on an active basis of a lipolytic enzyme, and further comprising a specially selected soap selected from the group consisting of specific C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 secondary carboxyl materials; specific secondary carboxyl materials wherein the carboxyl substituent is on a ring hydrocarbyl unit; and specific C.sub.10 -C.sub.24 primary or secondary carboxyl compounds and specific C.sub.10 -C.sub.24 tertiary carboxyl compounds. A pretreatment laundering process using the composition is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1994Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Kakumanu Pramod