Compositions for cleaning skin and/or hands comprising lemon juice or lemon juice concentrate
AssigneeMenno Chemie-Vertrieb GmbH
InventorsJan Nevermann, Wolfgang Zerling
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a lemon juice-containing composition and its use for cleaning skin and/or hands. The composition comprises 5-30% by weight lemon juice or a lemon juice concentrate, 0.5-10% by weight phenoxyethanol, 2-60% by weight anionic surfactant and ad 100% by weight water. The composition is particularly suitable for the effective but at the same time skin-friendly removal of contaminants containing chlorophyll and/or other plant dyes, of plant juices/extracts and/or other plant parts, such as flower pollen and/or plant dusts, and/or of phytopathogens, fertilizer residues, herbicides, bactericides, fungicides, virucides and germination inhibitors.
Claims15
A composition for cleaning skin and/or hands comprising:
- A) from 5-30% by weight of lemon juice or lemon juice concentrate;
- B) from 0.5-10% by weight of phenoxyethanol;
- C) from 2-60% by weight of an anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of secondary alkane sulphonic acids, secondary alkane sulphonates, alkyl ether sulphates, alkyl sulphates, and their sodium or potassium salts and any mixtures thereof;
- D) from 0.5 to 3% by weight of toluene sulphonate and/or cumene sulphonate and their sodium or potassium salts;
- E) optionally from 0.1-5% by weight of a non-ionic surfactant or of a mixture of two or more non-ionic surfactants;
- F) optionally from 0.05 to 1% by weight of one or more thickening agents;
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- G) water to 100% by weight.
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