Water-soluble, liquid-containing pouch
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsStylianos Kouvroukoglou, Liesbet Maria Cornelia De Troch, Mark William Ridyard
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Abstract
The present invention relates to water-soluble pouch which contains a liquid detergent composition, wherein the pouch is a water-soluble film, the film material comprising a polyvinyl alcohol, and wherein the liquid detergent composition also comprises a plasticizer, wherein the plasticizer is selected from the group consisting of glycerol, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, 2-methyl-1,3-propane diol, sorbitol, methanol, diglycerol, 1,4-butane diol, urea and mixtures thereof, and wherein the liquid detergent composition further comprises a viscosity modifier, preferably a hydrogenated castor oil.
Claims3
A water-soluble pouch which contains a liquid detergent composition, wherein the pouch is a water-soluble film material, the film material comprising a polyvinyl alcohol, and wherein the liquid detergent composition comprises:
- from about 10% to about 20%, by weight of the detergent composition, of a plasticizer for the film which is glycerol;
- from about 0.01% to about 5%, by weight of the detergent composition, of hydrogenated castor oil;
- from about 10% to about 80%, by weight of the detergent composition, of surfactant;
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- less than about 25%, by weight of the detergent composition, of water
- wherein the viscosity of the liquid detergent composition at 21° C. and at a low shear rate of 0.5s-1 is greater than 3000 centipoises
- and wherein the liquid detergent composition further comprises from about 0.1% to about 6%, by weight of the detergent composition, of zwitterionic polyamine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.