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US 6,645,929 B2Granted
Cleaning composition
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsIsabelle Leonard, Didier Dormal
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Abstract
An improvement is described in microemulsion compositions which are especially effective in the removal of oily and greasy soil without leaving streaks which contains a mixture of nonionic surfactants, an anionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, an alkali metal hydroxide, a water soluble solvent, and water.
Claims6
A microemulsion composition comprising approximately by weight:
- (a) 0.5 to 10% of an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant formed from a C9-C11 alkanol and about 6 to about 9 moles of ethylene oxide;
- (b) 0.1% to about 4.0% of an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant formed from a C9-C11 alkanol and about 2 to about 3 moles of ethylene oxide;
- (c) 0.1% to 10% of an amphoteric surfactant;
- (d) 0.01% to 0.25% of an alkali metal hydroxide;
- (e) 1.0% to 10% of at least two different glycol ethers;
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- (f) the balance being water.
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