Abstract: An enzyme-containing bleaching composition is disclosed containing an inorganic peroxide, an enzyme, and one or more anhydrous salts selected from the group consisting of anhydrous sodium citrate, anhydrous magnesium sulfate, anhydrous calcium chloride and anhydrous zinc sulfate.

Abstract: A fabric sizing composition comprising a copolymer of a vinyl monomer and an unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymerizable therewith, together with a cationic polymer which is added during or after formation of the copolymer.

Abstract: A bleaching composition comprising (A) sodium percarbonate and/or tetrasodium ethane-1,1,2,2-tetracarboxylate/hydrogen peroxide adduct, and (B) dicarboxyalkyleneimino, monocarboxyalkyleneiminobis(alkylene phosphonic acid), hydroxyethylimino diacetate and/or hydroxyethylethylenediamine triacetate compounds. The composition minimizes color change or fading of colored fabrics caused by bleaching.

Abstract: A sizing composition of the spraying type comprises from 2 to 10% by weight of a modified starch, of which a 4% aqueous solution has a viscosity of 5 to 30 centipoises at 20.degree. C., and 0.3 to 7% by weight of dipropylene glycol. It is improved in respect to ironing properties.

Abstract: A bleaching composition which does not cause color change or fading of fabrics, which composition contains 50 to 98 weight % of a peroxide which releases oxygen in an aqueous solution, 1 to 49 weight % of nitrilotriacetic acid or salt thereof and 1 to 49 weight % of a water softener as critical components.

Abstract: A fabric sizing emulson composition is obtained by emulsion polymerization of a vinyl monomer in the presence of a cationic polymer and a non-ionic water-soluble polymer, the resulting vinyl polymer having a cationic nitrogen content of 0.004 to 0.2% by weight based on the vinyl polymer. The obtained sizing agent is used by diluting it with water to a relatively large extent.

Abstract: A uniform transparent aqueous liquid composition is disclosed. The solid components of the composition consist essentially of; (A) a nonionic surfactant having one or more polyoxyethylene radicals in the molecule as a hydrophilic group, (B) a nonionic water soluble polymer having hydroxyl radicals or pyrrolidone radicals in the molecule, and (C) as a fluorescent optical brightener, a 4,4'-bis(2-sulfostyryl)biphenyl salt. The composition is especially effective on clothes made of hydrophobic fibers, such as polyester fibers.

Abstract: In the preparation of foamable sodium percarbonate, a cooling step is employed after a heat treatment at 110.degree.-135.degree. C. for 5-60 minutes.

Abstract: An aerosol starch composition consists essentially of 5 to 30 wt % of a propellant and 70 to 95 wt % of a liquid composition consisting essentially of 2 to 10 wt % of a modified starch, 0.1 to 2 wt % of a poorly water-soluble polyalkylene glycol or derivative thereof and the balance is water.

Abstract: A household starch composition comprises an emulsion prepared by emulsion-polymerizing a vinyl monomer in an aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol, nonionic modified starch or nonionic cellulose derivative in the presence of a cationic vinyl polymer or a ring-closed polymer of a cationic diallyl compound by using a cationic surface active agent or a cationic monomer or both thereof. Another composition comprises an emulsion obtained by emulsion-polymerizing a vinyl monomer in an aqueous solution of a nonionic water-soluble polymer in the presence of a cationic cellulose or cationic starch by using a cationic surface active agent or a cationic monomer or both thereof.

Abstract: A bleaching composition comprising 50 to 99.9 wt.% of an inorganic peroxide and 0.01 to 10 wt.% of a compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or alkyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, ##STR2## is a radical of a 5 member or 6 member heterocyclic ring system containing only nitrogen and carbon, or nitrogen, oxygen and carbon, atoms in the ring, which can be fused to a benzene ring or another heterocyclic ring to give a polycyclic radical, R.sub.2 is hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, pyridyl or pyrrolidone group, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, phenyl, alkoxy, phenoxy, amino, acyloxy, carbamoyl or acyl group or halogen, or R.sub.3 may form together with R.sub.4 a benzo radical, and R.sub.4 is hydrogen or a monovalent group --R.sub.5 Y in which R.sub.

Abstract: Sodium percarbonate or sodium perborate of high specific volume is prepared by mixing sodium carbonate or sodium borate, or an aqueous solution thereof, with aqueous hydrogen peroxide, in the presence of an anionic surface active agent in an amount exceeding the critical concentration for micelle formation.

Abstract: A liquid cleaning and bleaching composition containing from 3 to 7% by weight of an alkali metal hypochlorite and from 0.5 to 8% by weight of a surface active agent having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are alkyls having from 1 to 13 carbon atoms with the proviso that the total number of the carbon atoms of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is from 8 to 14; and M is Li, Na or K.

Abstract: A stable bleaching composition containing, as essential ingredients, an inorganic peroxide, an activating agent for said inorganic peroxide and potassium carbonate.

Abstract: A bleaching composition is disclosed characterized by containing (a) sodium percarbonate which has been heated at a temperature of 75.degree. to 135.degree. C for a time ranging from 5 to 30 minutes at 135.degree. C to 2 to 6 hours at 75.degree. C and (b) an activating agent for the sodium percarbonate.

Abstract: A neutral detergent composition containing a bleaching agent having the formula:4Na.sub.2 SO.sub.4.2H.sub.2 O.sub.2.

Abstract: A bleaching composition comprising a hydrogen peroxide adduct having the formula:4Na.sub.2 SO.sub.4.sup.. 2H.sub.2 O.sub.2.sup.. NaCland an activating agent.

Abstract: A bleaching composition comprising an inorganic peroxide capable of releasing hydrogen peroxide in aqueous solution and an activating agent represented by the following general formula ##EQU1## wherein R stands for an alkyl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms, a halogen- or hydroxyl-substituted alkyl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms or a substituted aryl group, B designates a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkali metal, and n is an integer of at least 1 when M is an alkyl group or n is an integer of at least 2 when M is a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal.