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US 5,476,614 AGranted
High foaming nonionic surfactant based liquid detergent
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsSteven Adamy, Sat Bedi, Ammanuel Mehreteab
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Abstract
A high foaming, surfactant based, light duty, liquid detergent with desirable cleansing properties and mildness to the human skin comprising a biodegradable solubilizing agent, a water soluble, foaming, ethoxylated alkyl ether sulfate anionic surfactant and a water soluble, foaming zwitterionic betaine surfactant.
Claims6
A light duty liquid detergent composition comprising:
- (a) about 5 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of an alkali metal of an ethoxylated C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 alkyl ether sulfate surfactant;
- (b) about 10 wt. % to about 25 wt. % of an alkyl polysaccharide surfactant;
- (c) about 2 wt. % to about 6 wt. % of cocoamido propyl betaine;
- (d) about 2 wt. % to about 5 wt. % of lauryl dimethyl amine betaine;
- (e) 1 to about 6 wt. % of an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant, wherein said nonionic surfactant is characterized by the formula
- R--(OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.x --OH
- wherein x is 1 to 5 and R is an alkyl group having about 8 to about 16 carbon atoms;
- (f) 0 to about 8 wt. % of 1-undecanol;
- and
- (g) the balance being water, said composition having a light transmission of at least 98% and a Brookfield viscosity at 25.degree. C. at 30 rpms, #2 spindle of about 20 to 500 cps.
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