Unilever Home and Personal Care Usa, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Unilever Home & Personal Care Usa, a Division of Conopco, Inc.

The Sun Products Corporation

Unilever Home & Personal Care USA

Conopco, Inc., D/b/a Unilever

Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu

Kristina Marie Neuser

Myongsuk Bae-Lee

Dennis Stephen Murphy

Yun-Peng Zhu

Ronald Frederick Vogel

Daniel Joseph Kuzmenka

Edward John Giblin

Daniel Joseph Fox

Robert Joseph Ahart

Yun Peng Zhu

Agnes Boudou

Charles Ebert

Shui-Ping Zhu

Barbara Helen Bory

David Van Blarcom

John David Hines

Gary Hsu

John Lovas

Kevin Schnaudigel

Fran&ccedil;oise Fredericks

Kim Garufi

Deborah Marie Coccaro

Mohammad Hosseini-Nejad

Sudhakar Puvvada

Charles F Irwin

William M Karpusiewicz

Diane Wolf

Tracy Bowens

Eric Charles Ehrnsperger

Kimball James Woelfel

Kwang H Lee

Nancy Pergament

Mei Shi

Andra J Vlosky

Ramon E Poo

John M Paulovich

Tirucherai Varahan Vasudevan

Andre Marie Puleo

Albert Joseph Post

Charles C Verburg

Tamara Padron

Corinne Saso

Richard Thomas Chalmers

Duane Anthony Raible

Philip Andrew Tarrant

Charles Nathaniel Knowlton

Guanglin Sun

Pieter Willem Van Reeven

Peter Anthony Divone, Sr

Rigoberto Felipe Garcia

Janet Mc Donald

Corrine Saso

Pascale Germaine Lazare

Cornelis Johannes Buytenhek

Frank Theodor Van De Scheur

Gregory Hsu

Pierre Dumas

Tan T Ho

Catherine J Ormancey

Mark E Pflugfelder

Mark E Pfugfelder

An aqueous liquid laundry detergent composition comprising an alkoxylated carboxylic acid surfactant and urea at pH 6-8. The composition has improved performance on grass stain removal.

Liquid laundry detergent with an alkoxylated ester surfactant and urea

A non-intrusive device for automatically dosing at least one liquid laundry care composition to an automatic laundry washing machine. The device employs a Venturi tube mechanism or a pump to dose the laundry detergent care composition. The dosing is controlled by a machine-generic algorithm capable of determining the actual cycle at any duration of wash for various cycle designs from various washing machines, without the input of precise cycle design; and dose the correct products correctly and is capable of distinguishing between major water addition and a water pulse.

Automatic stand-alone dispensing device for laundry care composition

A fabric care article made of solid or semi-solid matrix of materials for repetitive or multiple use in a machine drying apparatus such as a tumble dryer. The matrix includes a structuring agent comprising a filler structuring agent and a polymeric structuring agent. The filler structuring agent comprises about 0.2 % to about 10% and the polymeric structuring agent comprises about 0.5 to about 20% by weight of the composition. The matrix further includes up to about 25% of an anionic soap surfactant, about 10% to about 60% of free fatty acid, and about 1% to about 50% of a non-ionic, but is substantially free from cationic surfactant. When the fabric care article is used up, it simply disappears, indicating to a user that the article needs to be replenished.

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Automatic dispensing device for laundry care composition

A laundry detergent composition comprising from about 0.1% to about 80%, by weight of the composition, of a polyamine mono-anionic surfactant; and a solubiliser; in a defined weight ratio. Also, a process of making the polyamine mono-anionic surfactant and the laundry compositions containing the same.

Laundry detergent with polyamine mono-anionic surfactant

An aqueous liquid laundry detergent composition comprising an alkoxylated carboxylic acid surfcatant and a free radical scavenger in the mole ratio of from about 500:1 to about 20:1. The composition substantially prevents the degradation of the alkoxylated ester surfactant upon storage and is also color-stable.

Liquid laundry detergent with an alkoxylated ester surfactant

Detergent or personal care compositions comprising capsules, which in turn comprise a hydrophobic continuous phase, the latter comprising an isotropic mixture of a thermoplastic-type co-polymer and hydrocarbon oil. Preferably, the capsules further comprise an oil-soluble benefit agent. Preferably, the compositions are liquid, especially aqueous-based compositions. In the preferred embodiment, the capsules are transparent or translucent.

Detergent or personal care composition with oil capsules

A low-foaming aqueous liquid laundry detergent composition comprising from about 0.05% to about 6%, by weight of the composition, of certain carboxylic acid ester and/or low-degree alkoxylated derivatives thereof having HLB below about 10; from about 8% to about 80% of a surfactant; from about 15% to about 90% of water. The compositions are particularly suitable for use in front-loading laundry washing machines.

Low-foaming liquid laundry detergent

The present invention is directed to a device for dispensing a unit dose water-soluble pouch containing a laundry additive during the spin cycle of a washing machine process having a spinning wash drum. The device is attached to the vertical center post of a washing machine and holds a water-soluble pouch above the high water level. During the spin cycle, the spinning center post will create sufficient centrifugal force so that the water-soluble pouch is released from the device. The water-soluble pouch will then fall into the laundry where the water-soluble pouch will dissolve when rinse water fills the machine thereby releasing the laundry additive to treat the washed articles.

Dispensing device for unit dose laundry additive pouch

Aqueous laundry detergent compositions comprising a solubilized ethoxylated fatty acid diester as a detergency booster and/or a defoamer. Preferred compositions include a nonionic surfactant, preferably ethoxylated fatty acid monoester, as at least part of the surfactant in the composition, and also functioning as the solibilizer for the ethoxylated fatty acid diester.

Aqueous detergent composition containing ethoxylated fatty acid di-ester

Aqueous compositions comprising a perborate salt and a polyol. The advantageous properties of the composition include increased solubility of the perborate salt, increased available oxygen stability in an aqueous environment, and the capacity to increase the pH upon the dilution. The compositions are useful for bleaching various surfaces, especially in laundry cleaning.

Aqueous perborate bleach composition

A process of making a liquid laundry detergent composition comprising a polyanionic ammonium surfactant, the process comprising: forming the polyanionic ammonium surfactant by mixing a liquid carrier with: (a1) from about 0.03% to about 85%, by weight of the composition, of a conjugate acid of an anionic surfactant; and (a2) from about 10% to about 50%, based on the molar equivalent of the amount of the conjugate acid, of a polyamine; (a3) wherein the mixing of (a1) and (a2) is carried out in the substantial absence of bases other than the polyamine. Also included is a process wherein the monoanionic surfactant is formed along with the polyanionic ammonium surfactant, in which case a base other than the polyamine may be present but than the amount of such base should be no greater than the required stoichiometric amount of the base to form the monoanionic surfactant.

Process of making a liquid laundry detergent with polyanionic ammonium surfactant

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 formulawherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen and saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched C&#x2013;Calkyl 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.

Gel laundry detergent composition

A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising: (a) from about 0.1% to about 80%, by weight of the composition, of a polyanionic ammonium surfactant; (b) a liquid carrier; (c) wherein the composition is substantially free of bases having pKa equal to or greater than 10, other than nitrogen-based bases.

Liquid laundry detergent with polyanionic ammonium surfactant

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.

Process of making fatty alcohol based gel detergent compositions

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Tenafly, NJ, United States of America

Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu