Gel laundry detergent composition
AssigneeUnilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsJohn David Hines, Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Yun-Peng Zhu
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Abstract
The present invention provides a shear thinning, transparent, gel laundry detergent composition, comprising a surfactant system containing surfactant material selected from an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant or a mixture thereof, and from 1 to 8% by weight of a fatty alcohol gelling agent having the formula wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen and saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched C1–C16 alkyl groups, whereby the total number of carbon atoms in the gelling agent is between 8 and 17. It has been found that this gel laundry composition can stable suspend particles or capsules either for improving visual appearance or for practical reasons.
Claims13
A shear thinning, transparent, gel laundry detergent composition free of microemulsion, comprising a surfactant system containing surfactant material selected from an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant or a mixture thereof, additional laundry detergent composition ingredient selected from the group consisting of enzyme, builder, optical brightener, soil release polymer, and mixtures thereof, and from 1 to 8% by weight of a fatty alcohol gelling agent having the formula
- wherein:
- R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen and saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched C1–C16 alkyl groups, whereby the total number of carbon atoms in the gelling agent is between 8 and 17;
- wherein said composition comprises an anionic surfactant in an amount from 5 to 50% by weight and has a viscosity of at least 100 Pa.s.
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