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US 6,605,585 B1Granted
Liquid cleaning compositions
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsPatrick Durbut, Guy Broze, Francoise Mathieu
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Abstract
All purpose cleaning or microemulsion compositions more environmentally friendly, which is especially effective in the removal of oily or greasy soils contains a positively charged surfactant-polymer complex, a hydrocarbon ingredient, a cosurfactant, and water.
Claims1
A hard surface microemulsion cleaning composition comprising:
- (a) about 0.1 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of a positively charged complex comprising:
- (i) an alkali metal salt or an ammonium salt of an anionic surfactant or a mixture thereof which is not fluorinated;
- and
- (ii) a polycationic polymer being complexed with said anionic surfactant in a molar ratio of said anionic surfactant to the positively charged binding sites available on the backbone of said polycationic polymer of about 0.95:1 to 0.05:1;
- (b) about 0 to about 25 wt. % of a glycol ether selected from the group consisting of glycol monobutyl ether, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, pentaethylene glycol monohexyl ether and mixtures thereof;
- (c) about 0 to about 5 wt. % of a water insoluble hydrocarbon or a perfume;
- and
- 60-97% by weight of water.
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