Abstract: A liquid detergent composition has a thickening system which comprises; (a) a carboxylic acid/carboxylate polymer, and (b) a polymer comprising an ammonium group.

Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to compositions comprising selected polyglycerol esters and a treatment and/or care agent. The disclosed compositions may be useful in fabric care compositions, for example, detergents, fabric softening compositions and the like. Methods of making and using compositions comprising polyglycerol esters and a treatment and/or care agent are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods to reduce smoking and/or haze during a heated laundry process. The compositions include a smoke reducing surfactant package and a detersive surfactant containing an amount of free alcohol. The smoke reducing surfactant package includes an anionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant or mixtures thereof. The surfactants are selected such that the amount of smoke or haze produced is reduced and or eliminated when garments contacted with the compositions containing the surfactants are heated to at least about 250° F. Methods of using the compositions are also provided.

Abstract: A liquid fabric treatment composition comprising a cationic fabric softening agent and a water-soluble linear polymeric viscosity modifier represented by the formula: Z—Y—(X—Y)n—Z in which: X represents a polyether chain, each Y independently represents a linking group derived from a diisocyanate, each Z independently represents a hydrophobic group and optionally includes a spacer linked to Y, n represents an integer of at least 2, and the molecular weight of the polymer is from 2,000 to 80,000.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a cleaning agent that contains surfactants and has a pH value of at least 11 when diluted in an aqueous solution and ready for use. Said cleaning agent is used to destabilize prions during mechanical and manual cleaning and/or disinfection of medical and/or surgical instruments and appliances. It has been recognized that this combination enables a reliable destabilization of prions during the mechanical reconditioning of surgical instruments.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid detergent composition containing the following components (a) to (c), wherein the total content of components (a) to (c), (a)+(b)+(c), is 40 to 90% by mass; a mass ratio of components (a) to (b), (a)/(b), is 25/75 to 90/10; and a mass ratio [(a)+(b)]/(c), is 95/5 to 70/30: component (a): 15 to 75% by mass of a nonionic surfactant produced by adding p1 mol of ethylene oxide to a compound represented by R—OH (wherein, R represents a hydrocarbon group having 8 to 18 carbon atoms), then adding q1 mol of an alkylene oxide having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, and then adding p2 mol of ethylene oxide, wherein p1 is the number of 3 to 30, q1 is the number of 1 to 5, and p1+p2 is 14 to 50, component (b): anionic surfactant, component (c): cationic surfactant, component (d): 5 to 40% by mass of water-miscible organic solvent.

Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to compositions comprising selected polyglycerol esters and a treatment and/or care agent. The disclosed compositions may be useful in fabric care compositions, for example, detergents, fabric softening compositions and the like. Methods of making and using compositions comprising polyglycerol esters and a treatment and/or care agent are also disclosed.

Abstract: A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contains an anionic surfactant, a hydrophobic syndetic, and a hydrophilic syndetic. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents.

Abstract: A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contain a hydrophobic syndetic, a hydrophilic syndetic, and a biguanide or a cationic quaternary ammonium salt. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents.

Abstract: A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contains an anionic surfactant, a hydrophilic syndetic, nonionic surfactant and a hydrophobic syndetic. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents.

Abstract: Fabric conditioning compositions such as those that are typically provided to the consumer in liquid form are disclosed. The fabric care conditioning composition is in the form of a porous, dissolvable substrate. The substrate comprises diester quaternary ammonium compound, water soluble polymer and Remaining Water. The substrate may take any number of suitable shapes.

Abstract: Liquid laundry detergent compositions are provided that show remarkable performance even though they utilize only eco-friendly ingredients and have a sustainability index of greater than 3. Some embodiments include a liquid laundry detergent composition comprising alkyl polyglycoside (APG) with fatty alcohol sulfate, at least two detersive enzymes, an enzyme stabilization system (e.g. borate and/or citrate and/or calcium salts), d-limonene or other natural essence, water and adjuvant. In another exemplary embodiment, APG is combined with fatty acid soaps, at least two detersive enzymes, an enzyme stabilization system (e.g. borate and/or citrate and/or calcium salts), d-limonene or other natural essence, water and adjuvant. Such compositions show remarkable performance, good viscosity, physical storage stability, enzyme stability, and have a sustainability index of greater than 3.

Abstract: A unique eco-friendly liquid laundry detergent enhanced with natural essence and further comprising non-petroleum source anionic and nonionic surfactants, naturally occurring builders, and optional enzymes, to yield remarkably effective yet environmentally responsible detergents.

Abstract: A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contains a nonionic surfactant, a solvent and a short chain syndetic. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents.

Abstract: A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contains an anionic surfactant, a hydrophobic syndetic, a hydrophilic syndetic and a solvent. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents.

Abstract: A cleaning composition with a limited number of natural ingredients contains an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, a solvent and a short chain syndetic. The cleaning composition can be used to clean laundry, soft surfaces, and hard surfaces and cleans as well or better than commercial compositions containing synthetically derived cleaning agents.

Abstract: Liquid washing and cleaning compositions are claimed, which comprise, as a surfactant, one or more of the components of linear alkylbenzenesulfonate, olefinsulfonate, alkylsulfate as well as soap and a nonionic surfactant, and, as a dye fixative, homo- and copolymers of diallyldimethylammonium chloride or the reaction products of cyanamides with aldehydes and ammonium salts or cyanamides with aldehydes and monoamines or monoamines and/or polyamines with epichlorohydrin or polyamines with cyanamides and amidosulfuric acid.

Abstract: Aqueous liquid laundry detergent compositions useful for cleaning fabrics wherein the compositions contain from about 0.05% to about 0.4%, by weight of the composition, of a cationic hydroxyethyl cellulose polymer having a degree of substitution of the cationic charge of from about 0.01 to about 0.20; from about 5% to about 30%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant comprising at least one anionic surfactant and at least one nonionic surfactant; and from about 2% to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of fatty acid. Use of such aqueous liquid laundry detergent compositions for handwashing delicate fabrics. Use of such aqueous liquid laundry detergent compositions for machine washing of delicate fabrics, wherein the machine washing occurs at a delicate machine setting.

Abstract: Liquid washing and cleaning compositions are claimed, which comprise one or more anionic surfactants from the group of the alkylbenzenesulfonates, olefinsulfonates, alkylsulfonates, alkyl ether sulfonates together with sec. alkanesulfonate, and one or more components from the group of the soaps, ether carboxylates, betaines and a nonionic surfactant, and, as a dye fixative, homo- and copolymers of diallyldimethylammonium chloride or the reaction products of cyanamides with aldehydes and ammonium salts or cyanamides with aldehydes and monoamines or monoamines and/or polyamines with epichlorohydrin or polyamines with cyanamides and amidosulfuric acid.

Abstract: This invention relates to liquid washing and cleaning agents containing a secondary alkane sulphonate, soap and a non-ionic surfactant as a surfactant and homo and/or copolymers of diallyl-dimethyl-ammonium chloride or reaction products of cyanamides comprising aldehydes and ammonium salts or monoamines and/or polyamines with epichlorhydrine, or polyamines with cyanamides and amido sulphuric acid as color fixing agents.

Abstract: The invention relates to liquid washing agents and detergents containing, as surfactants, at least one of the constituents of linear alkyl benzene sulfonate, olefin sulfonate, alkyl sulfate, and ether carboxylate and/or betaine and a non-ionic surfactant, and as color fixing agents, homopolymers or copolymers of diallyl-dimethyl-ammonium chloride or the reaction products of cyanamides with aldehydes and ammonium salts, or cyanamides with aldehydes and monoamines, or monoamines and/or polyamines with epichlorhydrine, or polyamines with cyanamides and amidosulphuric acid.

Abstract: Liquid compositions containing one or more anionic surfactants in combination with one or more polydiallyl dialkyl ammonium compounds or derivatives or copolymers thereof, these compositions being suitable for the production of liquid laundry detergents, preferably for dye-transfer-inhibiting liquid color-protecting detergents.

Abstract: A concentrate and a ready-to-use or diluted formulation for an aqueous vehicle cleaner can remove a wide range of different types of traffic film using either low pressure application, hand pressure application, water jet spray apparatus, clean-in-place systems or other manual or mechanical washing systems. The compositions may comprise, for example, one or more solutions that each or collectively contain or comprises: a) at least one anionic surfactant; b) at least one poly[oxyalkylene] ammonium cationic surfactant; and c) an alkaline agent. Optional additional ingredients may comprise at least one polycarboxylic acid chelating agent (preferably an aminocarboxylic acid chelating agent), at least one non-ionic or amphoteric surfactant, at least one hydrotrope, inorganic and/or organic acids and at least one silicate. The alkaline agent may provide a pH (when the finished product is diluted to 0.5 to 5% by weight in water) will be between about 9 to 13.

Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.

Abstract: Liquid detergent compositions, are disclosed, comprising a surfactant and a builder mainly comprised of a quaternary ammonium salt of a carboxyl-containing polymer, which has good compatibility with surfactants and is capable of providing excellent detergency, especially, against mud dirt in washing clothes. Detergent compositions, are also disclosed, containing an alkoxylated alcohol nonionic surfactant having a specific distribution constant and narrow molecular weight distribution or an anionic surfactant derived therefrom, together with one or more of a quaternary ammonium or organic amine salt of a carboxyl group-containing polymer, a cationic surfactant and a quaternary ammonium or organic amine salt of a low molecular weight polycarboxylic acid, whereby detergency is synergistically enhanced.

Abstract: Amine fabric softener actives are prepared in dispersion and/or clear form with materials to improve performance by increasing the cationic charge density. These materials include polycationic compounds, especially cationic polymers; single long-chain cationic compounds; and carboxylic acids that increase the acidity in the rinse, thus lowering pH and increasing the percentage of amine fabric softener active that is protonated. Antistatic properties are also improved.

Abstract: An aqueous fabric conditioning composition comprises a cationic softening agent and a silicone having a viscosity of from 1 to less than 10,000 cSt wherein the silicone comprises a cyclic polydi-(C1-6)alkyl siloxane. A silicone is used in a fabric conditioning composition comprising a cationic fabric softening agent to reduce the drying time of laundered fabrics and/or to increase the rate of water removed from the fabrics during the spin cycle of an automatic washing machine.

Abstract: The softener composition of the present invention comprises a compound having one or more C8-36 hydrocarbon groups and two or more groups selected from an amino group and a quaternary ammonium group in the molecule (component (a)), an anionic surfactant having a C8-36 hydrocarbon group (component (b)) and a nonionic surfactant (component (c)), wherein the molar ratio of the component (a) to the component (b) is from 90/10 to 50/50. This softener composition can endow cotton and cotton clothes in particular with a preferred softness, elasticity (fluffy feeling) and feeling of dryness with small oiliness.

Abstract: An aqueous fabric care composition for use in the wash or rinse cycle of a washing machine for cleaning or softening of fabrics concomitant with providing improved benefits to treated fabrics relating to moisture absorption, fragrance deposition, soil removal, reduced wrinkling prior to ironing and better appearance after ironing, said composition comprising:

Abstract: A fabric conditioning composition comprises:

Abstract: A laundry detergent composition is disclosed which comprises: (A) a nonionic surfactant represented by formula (1); (B) at least one cationic surfactant represented by formula (2) wherein the cationic surfactant has a whole iodine value of 40 to 100; (C) at least one sparingly water-soluble solvent selected from a solvent represented by formula (3) and a solvent represented by formula (4); and (D) at least one easily water-soluble solvent selected from a solvent represented by formula (5) and a solvent represented by formula (6).

Abstract: A nonionic surfactant having cyclic 1,3-dioxane and/or 1,3-dioxolane functionality which is irreversibly splittable by lowering the pH of its aqueous solution is useful in various processes requiring the removal of emulsified hydrophobic contaminants or other hydrophobic materials from an aqueous stream. After splitting of the surfactant into its component ketone and polyol, the hydrophobic components phase-separate and can be removed from the aqueous stream by routine means.

Abstract: A nonionic surfactant having cyclic 1,3-dioxane and/or 1,3-dioxolane functionality which is irreversibly splittable by lowering the pH of its aqueous solution is useful in various processes requiring the removal of emulsified hydrophobic contaminants or other hydrophobic materials from an aqueous stream. After splitting of the surfactant into its component ketone and polyol, the hydrophobic components phase-separate and can be removed from the aqueous stream by routine means.

Abstract: A nonionic surfactant having cyclic 1,3-dioxane and/or 1,3-dioxolane functionality which is irreversibly splittable by lowering the pH of its aqueous solution is useful in various processes requiring the removal of emulsified hydrophobic contaminants or other hydrophobic materials from an aqueous stream. After splitting of the surfactant into its component aldehyde and polyol, the hydrophobic components phase-separate and can be removed from the aqueous stream by routine means.

Abstract: Laundry detergent compositions containing a detergent surfactant, a detergent builder, and from about 0.1% to about 50% by weight ethylene aspartate cysteate sequestrants or its acid form are disclosed. These compositions provide enhanced removal of organic stains, such as food and beverage stains particularly polyphenolic stains such as wine, blueberry, tea, coffee, morello juice and the like.

Abstract: Antistatic, fabric softening and soil release promoting compositions are disclosed which comprise nonionic detergent, soil release promoting agent of the PET-POET type, and a certain type of silicone polymer (designated Type X or Silicone X). Such compositions very preferably also include cationic fabric softener (CFS), polyacrylate, silicone glycol copolymer (SGC), and builder for the nonionic detergent, with adjuvants being optional.Also within the invention are compositions that comprise only some of the mentioned components, and such compositions may be employed as wash cycle additives to improve the properties of detergent compositions and of softergent compositions. Processes for manufacturing and using the invented compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: A fabric treatment composition contains at least a detergent active material, a fabric softening agent and 0.5 to 3% a nonionic substituted cellulose ether derivative which has an HLB of 3.1 to 4.3 and a gel point of less than 58.degree. C., which improve softening performances on cotton while controlling deposition on synthetic fabrics. Ethyl, hydroxyethyl or methyl hydroxyethyl cellulose ethers are preferred. The detergent active material is anionic or a mixture thereof with other detergent active materials and may be present at 2 to 50% of the composition. The softening agent may be soap, a cationic material, a fatty amine and/or a clay with a soap/cationic mixture being preferred, and may be present at 0.5 to 50% of the composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a mixture of a quaternary ammonium compound, fatty acid, fatty acid ester and tertiary amine salt in situ which is a highly functional mixture that is manufactured in a single step reaction whereby quaternization is completed without the aid of solvents, especially flammable solvents. The single step reaction process eliminates separate blending of individual components. The compositions obtained can be used as fabric softeners, in modified clays, as hair treating compounds and as disinfectants.