Abstract: The invention relates to specific active compositions for producing highly viscous laundry and cleaning formulations, particularly laundry fabric softeners, to a method for the production thereof and to said laundry and cleaning formulations. High viscosity can be achieved in the products according to the invention despite a low concentration of active compositions and without using additional thickeners.

Abstract: The invention relates to a granulate comprising an inorganic solid carrier with at least one biosurfactant contained thereon, as well as to formulations containing this granulate and to the use of same.

Abstract: The invention relates to specific active compositions for producing highly viscous laundry and cleaning formulations, particularly laundry fabric softeners, to a method for the production thereof and to said laundry and cleaning formulations. High viscosity can be achieved in the products according to the invention despite a low concentration of active compositions and without using additional thickeners.

Abstract: The invention relates to a granulate comprising an inorganic solid carrier with at least one biosurfactant contained thereon, as well as to formulations containing this granulate and to the use of same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to washing or cleaning agents having improved foaming characteristics under high soil loading, containing at least one anionic surfactant and at least one alkylamidopropyl betaine of formula (R1)C(?O)NH(CH2)3N+(R2)(R3)CH2COO?, where R1 is an alkyl radical having 7 to 9 carbon atoms and R2 and R3 are identical or different alkyl radicals having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, wherein the weight ratio of the alkylamidopropyl betaine defined herein/total amount of anionic surfactant in the washing or cleaning agent is from 0.003 to 0.12, wherein the weight ratio of the total amount of alkylamidopropyl betaine as defined herein/total amount of alkylamidopropyl betaine in the washing or cleaning agent is 0.25 to 1.0, to washing or cleaning methods in which washing or cleaning agents of this kind are used.

Abstract: The present invention further relates to a biosurfactant-containing formulation including A) at least one biosurfactant, and B) at least one additional surfactant selected from the group of betaines, alkoxylated fatty alcohol sulphates and alkylamine oxides, wherein the biosurfactant-containing formulation may be used on hard surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds, to aqueous, in particular surfactant-containing formulations containing the novel compounds and to the use of the novel compounds as thickening agents of aqueous, in particular surfactant-containing formulations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to washing or cleaning agents having improved foaming characteristics under high soil loading, containing at least one anionic surfactant and at least one alkylamidopropyl betaine of formula (R1)C(?O)NH(CH2)3N+(R2)(R3)CH2COO?, where R1 is an alkyl radical having 7 to 9 carbon atoms and R2 and R3 are identical or different alkyl radicals having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, wherein the weight ratio of the alkylamidopropyl betaine defined herein/total amount of anionic surfactant in the washing or cleaning agent is from 0.003 to 0.12, wherein the weight ratio of the total amount of alkylamidopropyl betaine as defined herein/total amount of alkylamidopropyl betaine in the washing or cleaning agent is 0.25 to 1.0, to washing or cleaning methods in which washing or cleaning agents of this kind are used.

Abstract: Reacting at least one tris-(2-hydroxyethyl)-amine fatty acid ester with dimethylsulfate at a molar ratio of dimethylsulfate to amine nitrogen of from 0.79 to 0.94 until the reaction mixture has a total amine number of from 7 to 20 mg KOH/g provides novel fabric softener active compositions with a low content of methanol, comprising from 65 to 98% by weight of tris-(2-hydroxyethyl)-methylammonium methylsulfate fatty acid esters and from 1 to 1500 ppm methanol.

Abstract: Polysiloxane polyether copolymers with amino groups and/or quaternary ammonium groups in the polyether moiety, process for their preparation from hydrogen siloxanes and chlorine-containing unsaturated polyethers in a hydrosilylation reaction with subsequent substitution of chlorine by amine groups and use as softeners for textile fabrics.

Abstract: The invention relates to detergent formulations for textiles, comprising rhamnolipids, where the content of di-rhamnolipids predominates, and to the use of certain rhamnolipid mixture compositions and of the aforementioned detergent formulations for increasing the rate of foam formation and/or for foam stabilization, and to the use of rhamnolipids for preventing the greying of a textile.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-soluble or water-dispersible, hydrophilic polyisocyanates and polyisocyanate mixtures, to a process for preparing them, and to their use as a starting component in the production of polyurethane polymers, more particularly as crosslinkers for water-soluble or water-dispersible film-forming binders, adhesives binders, or sealant binders or binder components with or without groups which are reactive towards isocyanate groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to water-soluble or water-dispersible, hydrophilic polyisocyanates and polyisocyanate mixtures, to a process for preparing them, and to their use as a starting component in the production of polyurethane polymers, more particularly as crosslinkers for water-soluble or water-dispersible film-forming binders, adhesives binders, or sealant binders or binder components with or without groups which are reactive towards isocyanate groups.

Abstract: The invention relates to microemulsions which comprise, as oil phase, a polysiloxane containing at least one quaternary ammonium group, methods for production thereof and also to the use of such microemulsions.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds, to aqueous, in particular surfactant-containing formulations containing the novel compounds and to the use of the novel compounds as thickening agents of aqueous, in particular surfactant-containing formulations.

Abstract: Reacting at least one tris-(2-hydroxyethyl)-amine fatty acid ester with dimethylsulfate at a molar ratio of dimethylsulfate to amine nitrogen of from 0.79 to 0.94 until the reaction mixture has a total amine number of from 7 to 20 mg KOH/g provides novel fabric softener active compositions with a low content of methanol, comprising from 65 to 98% by weight of tris-(2-hydroxyethyl)-methylammonium methylsulfate fatty acid esters and from 1 to 1500 ppm methanol.

Abstract: Polysiloxane polyether copolymers with amino groups and/or quaternary ammonium groups in the polyether moiety, process for their preparation from hydrogen siloxanes and chlorine-containing unsaturated polyethers in a hydrosilylation reaction with subsequent substitution of chlorine by amine groups and use as softeners for textile fabrics.

Abstract: The invention relates to detergent formulations for textiles, comprising rhamnolipids, where the content of di-rhamnolipids predominates, and to the use of certain rhamnolipid mixture compositions and of the aforementioned detergent formulations for increasing the rate of foam formation and/or for foam stabilization, and to the use of rhamnolipids for preventing the greying of a textile.

Abstract: A process for producing amino-functional polysiloxanes by reacting the components A) identical or different terminally hydroxy-functional, linear or branched polysiloxanes, B) identical or different alkoxysilanes of the formula R1xR23-xSiR3??(I) where R1 is identical or different alkyl radicals having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 is identical or different alkoxy radicals having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R3 is an organic radical having at least one nitrogen atom, x=0 to 2, and C) water, in the presence of D) one or more phosphorus-containing, Brønsted-acidic compounds, to the correspondingly obtainable polysiloxanes containing nitrogen-containing groups, and to the use thereof are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of trimethylcyclododecatriene in a continuous or batchwise process by trimerizing isoprene in the presence of a catalyst system and of a solvent. It is possible to isolate the resulting crude trimethylcyclododecatriene by means of distillation. The dimethylcyclooctadiene formed as a by-product may likewise be isolated from the crude product.