Laundry care compositions, methods, and test kits for determining authenticity
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGregory Scot Miracle, Daniel Dale Ditullio, Jr., Sanjeev Kumar Dey, Haihu Qin
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a laundry care composition having at least one laundry care ingredient and at least one leuco composition conforming to Formula (I): Ar1Ar2Ar3CH (I) wherein Ar2 and Ar3 are independently a carbocyclic aryl or heteroaryl, and Ar1 is selected from the group consisting of: unsubstituted phenyl, electron deficient carbocyclic aryl, and heteroaryl. The present disclosure also provides a method of determining an authentic laundry care composition and test kits for detecting authentic laundry care compositions.
Claims9
A laundry care composition comprising at least one laundry care ingredient, an antioxidant and at least one leuco composition conforming to Formula (I):
- Ar1Ar2Ar3CH (I)
- wherein Ar2 and Ar3 are independently a carbocyclic aryl or heteroaryl, and wherein Ar1 is an unsubstituted phenyl and free of an electron contribution to the phenyl from any substituent, wherein the compositions undergo color change only when contacted with a sufficient triggering agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.