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US 12,612,578 B2Granted
Laundry detergent compositions
AssigneeHenkel AG & Co. KGaA
InventorsJanet Coope-Epstein, Adam Winfield Germain
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides aqueous liquid detergent and liquid unit dose detergent compositions comprising at least one surfactant wherein at least 20% of the carbon content of the surfactant is derived from bio-content and accounted for using a mass balanced allocation method; at least one additive; and water.
Claims21
A detergent composition comprising:
- a. at least one surfactant comprising an alkyl chain and at least two ethoxylate units wherein at least 20% of the carbon content of the surfactant is derived from bio-content and accounted for using a mass balanced allocation method;
- b. at least one additive selected from surfactants, soaps, alkalinity agents, buffers, chelating agents, builders, preservatives, polymers, enzymes, fragrances, dyes, and any combination thereof, and
- c. water,
- wherein a mass balanced allocation method refers to a traceability protocol to match carbon output with carbon input according to the equation below
- Input
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- mass
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- of
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- eligible
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- biomass
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- X
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- Conversion
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- of
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- biobased
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- output
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- to
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- be
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- allocated
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- to
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- product
- wherein eligible biomass is raw materials and waste of biological origin, and biobased output is the mass of biomass or biobased allocations to be assigned to products from a chemical process or series of processes, and
- wherein the conversion factor is calculated based on the following equation:
- Conversion
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- Factor
- =
- Sum
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- of
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- mass
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- of
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- all
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- eligible
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- outputs
- Sum
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- of
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- mass
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- of
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- all
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- eligible
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- inputs
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- wherein eligible inputs are the eligible biomass, and eligible outputs are the products collected from the chemical process or series of processes, and
- wherein the conversion factor is derived from process operational data.
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A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising:
- a. about 0.1 wt. % to about 35 wt. % of at least one surfactant comprising an alkyl chain and at least two ethoxylate units wherein at least 20% of the carbon content of the at least one surfactant is derived from bio-content and accounted for using a mass balanced allocation method;
- b. at least one additive selected from surfactants, soaps, alkalinity agents, buffers, chelating agents, builders, preservatives, polymers, enzymes, fragrances, dyes, and any combination thereof;
- and
- c. water,
- wherein a mass balanced allocation method refers to a traceability protocol to match carbon output with carbon input according to the equation below
- Input
-
- mass
-
- of
-
- eligible
-
- biomass
-
- X
-
- Conversion
-
- Factor
- =
- Mass
-
- of
-
- biobased
-
- output
-
- to
-
- be
-
- allocated
-
- to
-
- product
- wherein eligible biomass is raw materials and waste of biological origin, and biobased output is the mass of biomass or biobased allocations to be assigned to products from a chemical process or series of processes, and
- wherein the conversion factor is calculated based on the following equation:
- Conversion
-
- Factor
- =
- Sum
-
- of
-
- mass
-
- of
-
- all
-
- eligible
-
- outputs
- Sum
-
- of
-
- mass
-
- of
-
- all
-
- eligible
-
- inputs
- ,
- wherein eligible inputs are the eligible biomass, and eligible outputs are the products collected from the chemical process or series of processes, and
- wherein the conversion factor is derived from actual process operational data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.