Detergent composition

Abstract

A detergent composition, suitable for use in washing vegetables and dishes and shampooing human hair, having both good detergency and little hand roughening action is presented. This detergent composition contains: (a) a water-soluble salt of olefin sulfonic acid having 12 to 16 carbon atoms and (b) a tertiary amine oxide having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group of 10 to 14 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group, of 1 to 3 carbon atoms. The contents of each of said components (a) and (b) in the composition being within the range of from 2 to 20% by weight, and the mol ratio of the component (a) to the component (b) being within the range of from 1.5/1 to 0.5/1, and the pH of an aqueous solution of the detergent composition being within the range of from 7.3 to 8.0 at the concentration when it is used in washing vegetables and dishes.

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