Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable aqueous medium, at least one monosaccharide or a polysaccharide containing up to six sugar units, a polyol and a betaine, said composition being free of potassium sorbate. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the composition comprises sucrose, 1,3-propanediol and cocoyl betaine, said composition being free of potassium sorbate. The invention also relates to an article comprising such a composition, and also to a cosmetic process for treating keratin materials by applying such a composition and/or such an article.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to surfactant and detergent compositions and, more specifically, to surfactant and detergent compositions containing a propoxylated glycerine.

Abstract: Certain alkyl mono-alcohols provide low temperature stability benefits to isotropic liquid detergent compositions.

Abstract: Compositions include a water-soluble polymer, silica nanoparticles, and a combination of a nonionic and anionic dispersed in an aqueous liquid phase. The polymer is a water-soluble copolymer of acrylic acid and an acrylamide, or a salt of the same. Methods of using the compositions to clean and coat a substrate are also disclosed.

Abstract: A dishwasher detergent composition, preferably pH neutral, and comprising a strong biodegradable builder and optionally a bleach, and optionally a sulfonated polymer.

Abstract: A tablet including a dishwashing detergent composition and a crosslinked acrylic acid polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at least 500,000.

Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising; an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises linear alkylbenzene sulphonate; an ethoxylated alcohol non-ionic surfactant; greater than 5.5% by weight of the composition of water; wherein the weight ratio of total anionic surfactant:non-ionic surfactant is between 11:1 and 23:1; and wherein the weight ratio of linear alkylbenzene sulphonate:non-ionic surfactant is between 11:1 and 15:1; and wherein the weight ratio of total surfactant to water is between 3:1 to 20:1.

Abstract: This liquid detergent contains an ?-sulfofatty acid ester salt (component (a)), an alkylbenzene sulfonate (component (b)), a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate (component (c)), and an alkanolamine (component (d)). The amount of the component (a) is 5% by mass or greater; the total amount of the component (b) and the component (c) is 5% by mass or greater; the total amount of the component (a), the component (b), and the component (c) is 10% by mass to 50% by mass, the mass ratio represented by (d)/(a) is 1/5 or greater, and the mass ratio represented by (a)/((b)+(c)) is 1 or less.

Abstract: This invention relates to a composition comprising at least the following in a physiologically acceptable medium: an aqueous phase and; an oily phase comprising at least one non-volatile hydrocarbon oil chosen from among linear or branched hydrocarbons, and; at least one glycinate type anionic surfactant and possibly at least one additional anionic surfactant different from glycinates and fatty acid salts; at least one amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactant and; at least 5% by weight of the total weight of the composition of at least one structuring agent chosen from among saturated fatty acids with a melting point of less than 45° C., saturated fatty alcohols with a melting point of less than 45° C., and mixtures thereof and; the ratio by weight of the total quantity of anionic surfactants and amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactants to the quantity of the structuring agent varies between 80/20 and 60/40.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to surfactant and detergent compositions and, more specifically, to surfactant and detergent compositions containing an ethoxylated diol.

Abstract: The present invention is to a liquid laundry detergent composition comprising an anionic surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant, between 0.5 wt % and 25 wt % water and 0.05% and 2% by weight of the composition of a cationic polymer being an hydroxyethyl cellulose polymer derivatized with trimethyl ammonium substituted epoxide, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises fatty acid; and wherein; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to anionic surfactant is less than 1:5; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to non-ionic surfactant is more than 1:10; the weight ratio of cationic polymer to total surfactant is less than 1:5; and wherein the weight ratio of anionic to non-ionic surfactant is from 5:1 to 23:1, wherein ‘total surfactant’ means the level of all surfactant present in the liquid laundry detergent composition, including but not limited to all anionic, non-ionic and cationic surfactant.

Abstract: An alkalizing delivery system for promoting healthier saliva is provided. The alkalizing delivery system may take many portable forms that include a saliva buffering agent and a saliva alkali agent adapted to transiently change the pH balance of a user's saliva without the use of self-foaming agents.

Abstract: An alkalizing delivery system for promoting healthier saliva is provided. The alkalizing delivery system may take many portable forms that include a saliva buffering agent and a saliva alkali agent adapted to transiently change the pH balance of a user's saliva without the use of self-foaming agents.

Abstract: Generally, the present invention relates to industrial cleaning solvents for removing coatings and adhesives and methods for using these solvents. More specifically, the invention relates to solvents for industrial cleaning and for removing/dissolving urethane, varnish, and epoxy coatings and adhesives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the foaming and/or yield value properties associated with surfactant containing compositions comprising at least one anionic surfactant, the method comprises combining an effective amount of at least one nonionic, amphiphilic polymer with at least one anionic detersive surfactant in combination with an optional surfactant selected from amphoteric surfactants, nonionic surfactants and combinations of two or more thereof. The at least one nonionic amphiphilic polymer is prepared from a free radically polymerizable monomer composition comprising at least one hydrophilic monomer and at least one hydrophobic monomer, wherein said hydrophilic monomer is selected from a N-vinyl lactam and wherein said hydrophobic monomer is selected from a vinyl ester of a C1-C22 carboxylic acid or at least one monomer selected from a C8-C22 alkyl (meth)acrylate an associative monomer, a semi-hydrophobic monomer, or mixtures thereof, and an optional crosslinking monomer.

Abstract: This invention relates to an external structuring agent for application in liquid detergent and personal care products. It has been found that cellulose based particles, which comprise cell wall material and their networks of cellulose based fibers and nanofibrils can advantageously be used to structure liquid detergent and personal care products, providing certain benefits that are much sought after in the design of such products. It is assumed that the organization of the cellulose fibrils, as it exists in the parenchymal cell walls, is at least partly retained in the cellulose based particles of the invention, even though part of the pectin and hemicellulose is removed there from. The process of making the structuring agent involves processing under relatively mild conditions, of a biological material that is currently considered a by-product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cleaning composition, preferably a laundry detergent composition, comprising a cationic polymer capable of improving the overall sudsing profile of such cleaning composition.

Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition which provides a shine to hard surfaces and which is water resistant includes 0.001-50 wt. % of at least one detersive surfactant, at least 10 wt. % of a diluent, the diluent including water, and 0.01-40 wt. % of particles comprising at least one of an anionic polyurethane polymer and an anionic polyurethane hybrid polymer, formed as an aqueous dispersion, the particles having an average particle size of less than 170 nm.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to compositions containing anionic surfactant and solvent, more specifically, to compositions containing anionic surfactant and a solvent comprising butanediol.

Abstract: Polymer obtainable by radical emulsion polymerization of (A) at least one acidic vinyl monomer or salt thereof; (B) at least one nonionic vinyl monomer, particularly preferably a hydrophobic nonionic vinyl monomer; (C) at least one monomer containing an unsaturated end group and a polyoxyalkylene part; (D) at least one crosslinking monomer; and (E) optionally, a protective colloid, characterized in that the polymerization is controlled such that (F) the gel effect occurs, at least at times, achieved by adding monomers of type (A), (B), and (C) (dosing time) during 120 minutes; and such that (G) the crosslinking monomer (D) is added, at the very earliest, 10 minutes after the first addition of the monomers (A), (B), and (C).