Process of making fatty alcohol based gel detergent compositions
AssigneeUnilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsFeng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Yun-Peng Zhu, Charles Ebert, Agnes Boudou, Ronald Frederick Vogel, John David Hines
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Abstract
According to the inventive method of making gels, the main mixture comprising most of the ingredients with the exception of a fatty alcohol is mixed, using at least one in-line mixer, with the gelling post-mix comprising the fatty alcohol. The preferred process includes the mixing of the main mixture and the gelling post-mix just prior to either filling or storing the composition.
Claims5
A process of making a gel laundry and/or pre-treater detergent composition, the process comprising mixing ingredients comprising preparing a main mixture and a gelling post-mix, which comprise in total:
- (a) from about 8% to about 35%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant, selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, cationic, amphoteric surfactants and mixtures thereof;
- (b) additional laundry composition ingredient selected from enzyme, builder, fluorescent dye, soil-release polymer, buffering agent, and mixtures thereof;
- (c) from about 0.1% to about 5%, by weight of the composition, of a fatty alcohol;
- (d) from about 50 to about 90% of water;
- wherein
- (i) the mixing is carried out in at least one in-line static or dynamic mixer;
- and
- (ii) the gelling post-mix constitutes from about 1% to about 30% of the composition and comprises the fatty alcohol and wherein said composition comprises 3 to 35% by weight of an anionic surfactant.
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