The Procter Gamble Company

Donald Ray Brown

Gayle Marie Frankenbach

Alessandro Corona, Iii

Toan Trinh

Dimitris Ioannis Collias

Frederick Anthony Hartman

Stephan Gary Bush

Mary Vijayarani Barnabas

Timothy Roy Nijakowski

John William Smith

John Henry Shaw, Jr

Lucille F Taylor

Bruno Albert Jean Hubesch

Steven Matthew Gabriel

Anne Marie Candido

Todd Stephen Alwart

Adrian John Angell

Earl Bray, Jr

Joseph Adam Pauley, Iii

Ellis Bailey Gregg

Michael E Burns

Yonas Gizaw

Patti Jean Kellett

William A Cilley

John R Rusche

Alice Marie Ward

Ronald A Swift

Michelle Frances Mellea

Nour-Eddine Guedira

Wendell Ivan Norman

Richard Thomas Owen

Gabrielle Holly (Spangler) Detzel

John Robert Rusche

Gabrielle Holly Spangler Detzel

Ludivine Pascale Grippay

Susan Judith Mason

Anna Liza Tolentino

Fabric care compositions comprise cationic starch and fabric softening active, wherein the composition comprises a viscosity of less than about 2000 centipoise.

Fabric care compositions comprising cationic starch

Polymer compositions, while providing suitable wrinkle control, also tend to dispense poorly when sprayed. The present invention shows that when viscosity of polymer compositions is minimized spray dispensing improves. Several approaches to minimizing the viscosity of polymer compositions are disclosed. Methods of controlling wrinkles in fabrics comprise treating fabrics with a variety of polymer compositions following a variety of methods. Articles of manufacture comprise (1) a container or substrate, (2) a wrinkle controlling composition, and (3) a set of instructions.

Articles to aid the ironing of fabrics and methods of use

Polymer compositions having specified PH for improved dispensing and improved stability of wrinkle reducing compositions and methods of use

Granular detergent compositions and in particular low density, phosphate containing detergent compositions comprise a specific bleaching system containing hydrophobic peracid bleach and hydrophilic peracid bleach and a peroxide source. These detergent compositions have specific low levels of available oxygen from hydrophobic aid hydrophilic peroxyacid bleach, specific ratios of available oxygen from the hydrophobic peracid bleach to the hydrophilic peracid bleach and specific ratios of available oxygen of the peroxide source to the available oxygen of the peracids. These specific mixed bleach systems are useful for sanitization or reduction of bacterial activity.

Bleaching compositions

Short-chain surfactants such as octyl sulfate are used to provide a solvent-like cleaning function in detergent compositions. Preferred bleach-containing hard surface cleaners comprising the short-chain surfactants and long-chain surfactants, are especially useful for bathroom and kitchen clean-up operations. Compositions with long-plus-short chain surfactants including alkyl sulfates, olefin sulfonates, amine oxides and the like, are disclosed.

Cleaning compositions containing short-chain surfactants

A bleach-containing detergent composition which contains a peroxygen bleaching compound and a bleach activator is disclosed. The bleach activator is in the form of particles having a mean particle diameter of 200 microns to 2000 microns. Also disclosed are bleach activator particles in the form of substantially cylindrically-shaped extrudates having a mean extrudate length of from about 500 microns to about 3500 microns and a mean extrudate diameter of from about 450 microns to about 850 microns.

Detergent composition containing optimally sized bleach activator

A bleach-containing detergent composition which contains a peroxygen bleaching compound and a bleach activator is disclosed. The bleach activator is in the form of substantially cylindrically-shaped extrudates having a mean extrudate length of from about 500 microns to about 3500 microns and a mean extrudate diameter of from about 450 microns to about 850 microns.

Detergent composition containing cylindrically-shaped bleach activator

A method of softening fabrics where the consumer adds an effective amount of a particulate fabric softening composition comprising fabric softener agent to an automatic dosing dispenser with water, seals the dispenser, and places the automatic dosing dispenser into a washing machine at the beginning of the wash process. The mechanical agitation and/or heat of the wash cycle aids in forming a finely divided emulsion/dispersion of fabric softener agent which is then released from the dispenser during the rinse cycle.

Method for using solid particulate fabric softener in automatic dosing

A method of laundering soiled fabrics comprises contacting the fabrics in an aqueous laundering solution with a granular detergent composition comprising at least about 1% by weight of a surfactant, at least about 1% by weight of a builder, from about 6% to about 9% by weight of a particulate foam control agent, from about 1% to about 5% by weight of bleach activator, from about 0.3% to about 7% by weight of a peroxygen bleaching agent and from about 0.05% to about 0.2% by weight of a cellulase enzyme, wherein the detergent composition produces the low level of foam required for optimal cleaning in washing machines employing a low water wash process.

Method of laundering with a low sudsing granular detergent composition

A granular fabric softening composition, which can be added to water to form an aqueous concentrated emulsion, comprising nonionic fabric softener, preferably a fatty alkyl ester of a polyhydric alcohol, and a mono-long-chain alkyl cationic surfactant. In particular, the use of a sorbitan ester with a mono-long-chain alkyl cationic surfactant provides a granular softening agent which can be used to form a highly dispersed, concentrated, aqueous composition which, when added to, e.g., a rinse cycle of a typical washing process, effectively deposits onto fabric from the aqueous bath.

Granular fabric softener compositions which form aqueous emulsion

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