Rohm and Haas Company

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation

Union Carbide Corporation

Rohn and Haas Company

Rohm and Haas Chemicals LLC

Eric P Wasserman

Scott Backer

Severine Ferrieux

Paul Mercando

Frederick John Karol

Marianne P Creamer

Bharat Indu Chaudhary

Timothy R Lynn

Edward D Daugs

Sara B Klamo

Robert Converse Brady, Iii

Randara Pulukkody

Jan Edward Shulman

David Laitar

Emmett Malone Partain, Iii

Muhunthan Sathiosatham

Lyndsay M Leal

Matthew E Belowich

Sun-Chueh Kao

Robert J Jorgensen

David L Malotky

Fanwen Zeng

Ralph Craig Even

Asghar Akber Peera

Cynthia L Rand

Susan J Babinec

Michael Leo Tulchinsky

Thomas H Newman

Kenneth A Burdett

Yang Cheng

Susan L Jordan

Abhijit Ghosh-Dastidar

Eric C Greyson

Donald Lee Morrison

Gary William Dombrowski

Michael B Biscoglio

Nikhil J Fernandes

Katherine R Davis

Robert Butterick

Irina V Graf

Robert Krasnansky

Gregoire Cardoen

Mark Wilton Smale

Xinlai Bai

James Pawlow

Elizabeth Clair Fox

Sun Chueh Kao

Yuanqiao Rao

Houxiang Tang

Stephen J Donovan

Ying O'Connor

Afua Sarpong Karikari

Bob R Maughon

Ioana Annis

Junsi Gu

Luqing Qi

Richard A Galley

Purna Chand Sishta

Mahesh R Sawant

Aslin Izmitli

Ashutosh Umarvadia

Ashutosh Sumantrai Umarvadia

Stephanie A Bloxom

Bertrand Ammeux

Purnendu Mukherjee

Michael M Luong

Lihao Tang

Robert Converse Brady Iii

Kurt J Magni

Woo Min Song

Donald L Morrison

David S Laitar

Iii Emmett M Partain

Michael Gysin

Tatiana Drovetskaya

Diane Frank

Yu Wanglin

Michael B Biscoglo

An aqueous personal care rinse off composition is provided, comprising: a dermatologically acceptable aqueous vehicle; a dermatologically acceptable cleaning surfactant; and a plurality of composite opacifier particles, wherein the composite opacifier particles comprise metal oxide particles that are partially or completely encapsulated by a wax; wherein the metal oxide particles are selected from the group consisting of zinc oxide, titanium oxide and mixtures thereof; wherein the metal oxide particles have a z average particle size of >100 nm as measured by dynamic light scattering; wherein the wax has a melting point temperature of 50 to 110° C.; and wherein the composite opacifier particles have a z average particle size of >100 nm to 2,000 nm as measured by dynamic light scattering.

Personal care rinse off composition with composite opacifier particles

A liquid laundry detergent formulation for household use is provided, comprising: a liquid carrier; a cleaning surfactant; and a cleaning booster of Formula (I) wherein each Ris independently a chain of Formula (II) wherein each Ris independently selected from the group consisting of a Calkyl group and a chain of Formula (II); wherein Rand Rare independently an aliphatic Calkanediyl group; wherein each Ris independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen and a —Calkyl group; wherein n is an average of 0 to 8; wherein m is an average of 5 to 50; and wherein the cleaning booster has a weight average molecular weight of ≤10,000 Daltons.

Liquid laundry detergent with cleaning booster

A deposition aid polymer for laundry is provided, comprising >50 to 99 wt % of structural units of formula (I) wherein Ris selected from hydrogen, —Calkyl and —CHOR; wherein Ris selected from —Calkyl and phenyl; and 1 to <50 wt % of structural units of formula (II) wherein Ris selected from a moiety of Formula (III), a moiety of Formula (IV) and a moiety of Formula (V) wherein Ais a counter anion balancing the cationic charge on the N; wherein Ris selected from hydrogen, —Calkyl and phenyl; and wherein Ris selected from hydrogen and —Calkyl; wherein the deposition aid polymer has a weight average molecular weight of <100,000 Daltons; and with the proviso that the deposition aid polymer has an average of at least two structural units of formula (II) per molecule.

Deposition aid polymer for laundry

An automatic dishwashing composition is provided including a builder; a phosphonate; a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer, comprising: (a) 50 to 95 wt %, based on weight of the dispersant polymer, of structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid monomer; and (b) 5 to 50 wt %, based on weight of the dispersant polymer, of structural units of a sulfate bearing ethylenically unsaturated monomer.

Dispersant polymer for automatic dishwashing

A fabric care composition is provided, comprising: a fabric care benefit agent; and a deposition aid polymer is provided, comprising >50 to 99 wt % of structural units of formula (I) wherein Ris selected from hydrogen, —Calkyl and —CHOR; wherein Ris selected from —Calkyl and phenyl; and 1 to <50 wt % of structural units of formula (II) wherein Ris selected from Formula (III), Formula (IV) and Formula (V) wherein Ais a counter anion; wherein Ris selected from a hydrogen, a —Calkyl group and a phenyl group; and wherein Ris selected from a hydrogen and a —Calkyl group; wherein the deposition aid polymer has a weight average molecular weight of <100,000 Daltons; and with the proviso that the deposition aid polymer has an average of ≥two structural units of formula (II) per molecule.

Fabric care composition

An automatic dishwashing composition is provided including a builder; a phosphonate; a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer comprising: 60 to 98 wt % of structural units of formula I wherein each Ris independently selected from a hydrogen and a &#x2014;CHgroup; and 2 to 40 wt % of structural units of formula II wherein each Ris independently selected from a &#x2014;Calkyl group and wherein each Ris independently selected from a hydrogen and a methyl group.

Automatic dishwashing formulation with dispersant copolymer

An automatic dishwashing composition is provided, comprising: a dispersant polymer blend, comprising an acrylic acid homopolymer; and a copolymer of acrylic acid and a sulfonated monomer; wherein the dispersant polymer blend has a blend ratio of the acrylic acid homopolymer to the copolymer of 3:1 to 1:3; a surfactant; a builder; and optionally, an additive.

Dispersant system for automatic dish washing formulations

A laundry detergent composition comprising an anti-redeposition agent, a surfactant, and optionally a builder, wherein the anti-redeposition agent is a polymer comprising polymerized units of: (a) from 5 to 40 wt % of at least one nitrogen-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one pKa value from 6 to 11.5, and (b) from 60 to 95 wt % of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer.

Anti-redeposition additive for laundry detergent

A polymer comprising a first fraction and a second fraction, wherein the first fraction comprises from 90 to 100 wt % polymerized C-Ccarboxylic acid monomer units; and the second fraction comprises from 30 to 80 wt % polymerized C-Ccarboxylic acid monomer units and from 20 to 70 wt % polymerized sulfonic acid monomer units; wherein the first fraction is from 10 to 40 wt % of the polymer and the second fraction is from 60 to 90 wt % of the polymer; the polymer has Mfrom 3,000 to 30,000; and monomers are randomly distributed within each fraction.

Gradient copolymers for use in automatic dishwashing systems

A personal care composition is provided, comprising: a vehicle; a surfactant; a water-soluble cellulose ether base material substituted with a hydrophobic group having a carbon chain with 8 to 15 carbon atoms; wherein the water-soluble cellulose ether base material has a weight average molecular weight, M, of &#x3e;800,000 Daltons; and, wherein the body wash formulation contains &#x3c;0.01 wt % alkyl sulfate and &#x3c;0.01 wt % alkyl ether sulfate.

Personal care composition

A composition contains ethylenically unsaturated quaternary ammonium cations with acetate counterions, where each of the ethylenically unsaturated ammonium cations contain only one non-aromatic carbon-carbon double bond and the composition contains less than one mole-percent chloride relative to quaternary ammonium cations can be polymerized to form a cationic polymer acetate.

Chloride-free cationic polymers using acetate anions

A detergent formulation comprises 0.5 to 10 weight-percent mixed-charge polymer and one to 10 weight-percent nonionic surfactant, where weight-percent is relative to total detergent formulation weight, and wherein the mixed-charge polymer comprises quaternary ammonium groups and carboxylate groups extending as pendant side groups from the polymer backbone.

Detergent formulation containing mixed-charge polymers and nonionic surfactant

A method for solution polymerization. The method comprises polymerizing in a solvent a monomer mixture comprising: (a) 5 to 95 wt % of a C-Cethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid; and (b) 5 to 95 wt % of vinyl acetate; wherein the solvent comprises 51 to 88 wt % isopropanol and 12 to 49 wt % water.

Solution polymerization in isopropanol and water

An automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising: (a) 0.5 to 8 wt % of a polymer comprising polymerized units of: (i) 5 to 75 wt % itaconic acid, (ii) 10 to 60 wt % of vinyl acetate; and (iii) 10 to 50 wt % (meth)acrylic acid; and having Mfrom 5,000 to 100,000; (b) 2 to 50 wt % of an aminocarboxylate builder; (c) 1 to 10 wt % of a nonionic surfactant; (d) 20 to 75 wt % of carbonate, citrate, silicate or a combination thereof; and (e) 5 to 25 wt % of a bleaching agent.

Additive for controlling spotting in automatic dishwashing systems

An automatic dishwashing composition is provided including a dispersant polymer; a builder; and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is a fatty alcohol alkoxylate of formula I: wherein Ris a linear or branched, saturated Calkyl group; Ris a linear saturated Calkyl group; m has an average value of 22 to 42; n has an average value of 4 to 12; wherein m+n is an average value of 26 to 54; wherein the fatty alcohol alkoxylate has an average ethyleneoxy unit concentration per molecule, X, of &#x3e;45 wt %; and, wherein the fatty alcohol alkoxylate has a ratio, Z, equal to X divided by n, wherein the ratio, Z, is &#x3c;9.5.

Automatic dishwashing compositions with spot prevention surfactant

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Eric P Wasserman