Abstract: An aqueous concentrate of a tenside of the sulfate and sulfonate type containing at least about 20% by weight of a water-soluble salt of at least one anionic tenside selected from the group consisting of alkyl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfates, alkaryl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfates, alkyl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfosuccinates, alkaryl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfosuccinates, alkyl sulfates, alkaryl sulfonates and alkyl sulfosuccinates and a viscosity reducing amount of a water-soluble salt of a polyglycol ether sulfate selected from the group consisting of monosulfates of poly-lower alkylene ether glycols having a molecular weight of at least 600, disulfates of poly-lower alkylene ether glycols having a molecular weight of at least 600 and mixtures thereof and from 0 to a viscosity reducing amount of a poly-lower alkylene ether glycol having a molecular weight of at least 1,500; as well as the process of improving the flow behavior of difficultly pourable aqueous concentrates of at least one tensi

Abstract: An aqueous concentrate of a tenside of the sulfate and sulfonate type containing at least about 20% by weight of a water-soluble salt of at least one anionic tenside selected from the group consisting of alkyl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfates, alkaryl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfates, alkyl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfosuccinates, alkaryl polyalkylene ether glycol sulfosuccinates, alkyl sulfates, alkaryl sulfonates and alkyl sulfosuccinates and a viscosity reducing amount of a water-soluble salt of a polyglycol ether sulfate selected from the group consisting of monosulfates of polylower alkylene ether glycols having a molecular weight of at least 600, disulfates of poly-lower alkylene ether glycols having a molecular weight of at least 600 and mixtures thereof and from 0 to a viscosity reducing amount of a poly-lower alkylene ether glycol having a molecular weight of at least 1,500; as well as the process of improving the flow behaviour of difficultly pourable aqueous concentrates of at least one tensi

Abstract: A mixed nonionic detergent composition having a reduced viscosity at room temperature and whose aqueous solution has a substantially reduced viscosity at room temperature consisting essentially of:(a) from 40% to 60% by weight of at least one compound of the formula:R.sup.1 --O--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --Hwherein R.sup.1 represents the hydrocarbon moiety of a fatty alcohol having from 6 to 18 carbon atoms and n is a number from 4 to 15, and(b) from 60% to 40% by weight of at least one compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.2 represents an alkyl having from 8 to 14 carbon atoms and p and q are each a number from 0 to 15, the sum of p+q being a number from 4 to 15.

Abstract: This invention is directed to quaternary compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical of from about 1 to 21 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or has the same meaning as R.sup.1, the total number of carbon atoms in R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 being from 6 to 22, and, when R.sup.2 is hydrogen, R.sup.1 has from 6 to 21 carbon atoms; R.sup.3 represents an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a radical of formula ##STR2## wherein R and R are devined above, X and Y are each either hydrogen or a methyl group, with the proviso that X and Y cannot both be a methyl group, and p is an integer of from 1 to 20; R.sup.4 represents an alkyl radical of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; m and n are integers of from about 1 to 20; and A.crclbar. is an anion. The quaternary compounds are useful as fabric softeners.

Abstract: This invention relates to a detergent composition comprising:(a) from about 40 to 60% by weight of compounds of formulaR.sup.1 --O--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --H (I)wherein R.sup.1 represents a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic radical of a fatty alcohol having from about 6 to 18 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of from 4 to 15; and(b) from about 60 to 40% by weight of compounds of formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each independently represent an alkyl radical having from about 1 to 17 carbon atoms, the total number of carbon atoms in R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 being from about 8 to 18, and p and q each independently represent a number from 0 to 15, the sum of p and q being from about 4 to 15.