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US 5,580,848 AGranted
Microemulsion light duty liquid cleaning comnpositions
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorJulien Drapier
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Abstract
A microemulsion light duty liquid detergent with desirable cleansing properties and mildness to the human skin comprising four essential surfactants: a water soluble nonionic surfactant, a C.sub.8-18 ethoxylated alkyl ether sulfate anionic surfactant, a C.sub.10-20 paraffin sodium sulfonate surfactant, and a betaine surfactant.
Claims7
A clear microemulsion light duty liquid cleaning composition which comprises approximately by weight:
- (a) 14% to 24% of an alkali metal salt of a C.sub.12-18 paraffin sulfonate;
- (b) 2% to 6% of an alkali metal salt of a C.sub.8-18 ethoxylated alkyl ether sulfate;
- (c) 3% to 6% of a betaine surfactant;
- (d) 4% to 12% of a nonionic surfactant;
- (e) 1% to 10% of at least one solubilizing agent selected from the group consisting of glycerol, polyethylene glycols, polypropylene glycol of the formula HO(CH.sub.3 CHCH.sub.2 O).sub.n H, wherein n is 2 to 18, mixtures of polyethylene glycol and polypropylene glycol, mono C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl ethers and esters of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol having the formulas of R(X).sub.n OH and R.sub.1 (X).sub.n OH wherein R is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group, R.sub.1 is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 acyl group, X is (OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2) or (OCH.sub.2 CHCH.sub.3) and n is from 1 to 4;
- (f) 1% to 14% of a cosurfactant;
- (g) 0 to 10% of a supplemental solubilizing agent;
- (h) 1% to 8% of a perfume or an essential oil;
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- (i) the balance being water.
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