Method of laundering a fabric
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsNeil Joseph Lant, Linsey Sarah Bennie, Steven George Patterson, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick
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Abstract
A method of laundering a fabric, comprising the steps of; (i) contacting a fabric with a lipid esterase; (ii) contacting the fabric from step (i) with a cationically charged fabric softening active, wherein the cationically charged fabric softening active is a substrate for the lipid esterase; (iii) contacting the fabric from step (ii) with a laundry detergent composition, wherein the laundry detergent composition comprises an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant is present at the ratio of anionic surfactant to fabric on a weight to weight basis of from 1:200 to 1:500.
Claims20
A method of laundering a fabric, comprising the steps of;
- i) contacting a fabric with a lipid esterase;
- ii) contacting the fabric from step (i) with a cationically charged fabric softening active, wherein the cationically charged fabric softening active is a substrate for the lipid esterase;
- iii) contacting the fabric from step (ii) with a laundry detergent composition, wherein the laundry detergent composition comprises an anionic detersive surfactant, wherein the anionic detersive surfactant is present at the ratio of anionic surfactant to fabric on a weight to weight basis of from about 1:150 to about 1:500.
A method according to any preceding claims, wherein the detersive surfactant comprises an anionic surfactant,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.