Hard surface cleaners which provide improved fragrance retention properties to hard surfaces
AssigneeS. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
InventorsMichael E. Klinkhammer, Richard S. Valpey III, Brandon R. Thalmann, Matthew A. Jones, John Tsibouklis, Maureen J. Stone, Richard W. Avery
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are hard surface cleaners which provide improved fragrance retention properties to the treated hard surface, and methods for using them. The cleaners include a fragrance, a carrier, and a surfactant selected from ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymers, polyglycosides, ethoxylated alkyl alcohols, and ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymers functionalized with a fatty alcohol moiety. The cleaner may also contain water and a base.
Claims20
A hard surface cleaner capable of providing increased fragrance retention properties to hard surfaces that have been treated with the cleaner, the cleaner comprising:
- a surfactant selected from the group consisting of an ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymer having an average molecular weight of at least 8,000, an alkyl polyglycoside having the formula RO-Zn, wherein R is an alkyl group having 8 to 14 carbon atoms, Z is a glucose moiety, and n is a number having an average value of 1 to 10, an ethoxylated C12-C18 alkyl alcohol with from 3 to 10 ethylene oxide units, and an ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymer functionalized with a fatty alcohol moiety, and mixtures thereof, the surfactant being from 0.5% w/v to 20% w/v of the cleaner;
- a fragrance;
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- a carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.