Kao Soap Company, Ltd.

Kao Corporation

Fumio Sai

Moriyasu Murata

Takashi Fujino

Mikio Sakaguchi

Shuji Tagata

Mutsumi Kuroda

Shinichi Yabe

Tutomu Nebashi

Hiroyuki Yamashita

Ichiro Sakamoto

Masaki Tsumadori

Nobuyoshi Yamaguchi

Makoto Yamanaka

Motomitsu Hasumi

Ryuichi Akagi

Kouichi Hatano

Shuichi Takizawa

Hiroyuki Kondo

Yuichi Sakamoto

Yu Izumi

Hiroshi Ohtsuka

Kozo Saito

Takashi Fujieda

To provide a nonionic powdery detergent free from oozing of a liquid nonionic surfactant at ambient temperature and having excellent powder fluidity and non-caking properties and a solubility which is not deteriorated with time. The nonionic powdery detergent composition comprises (a) 12 to 35% by weight of a nonionic surfactant having a melting point of not higher than 40.degree. C. and an HLB in the range of 9.0 to 16.0, (b) 10 to 60% by weight of a crystalline aluminosilicate and (c) 5 to 20% by weight of an amorphous oil-absorbing carrier containing at least 30% by weight of silicon (in terms of SiO.sub.2) versus the weight of said carrier in an anhydrous state and having an oil-absorbing capacity of at least 80 ml/100 g, said carrier giving a dispersion with a pH of at least 9 or being soluble in a 2% aqueous NaOH solution in an amount of 0.5 g or below.

Nonionic powdery detergent composition containing an aluminosilicate

The synthesized crystalline ion exchange material or a hydrate thereof has a chain structure and a composition represented by the following general formula (A) in an anhydride form:

Synthesized inorganic ion exchange material and detergent composition

A detergent composition which has an excellent detergency against muddy dirt of clothing. It comprises (a) nonionic surfactant, (b) fatty acid or salt thereof and (c) sulfosuccinic amide, and further (d) anionic surfactant as occasion demands.

Detergent composition having a sulfosuccinic amide

A detergent composition which has an excellent detergency against muddy dirt of clothing which comprises (a) nonionic surfactant and (b) N-alkylamino sulfonate with weight ratio of (a) to (b) in the range of 1/10 to 10/1.

Detergent compositions containing an N-alkylamino sulfonic acid type

A high density-having, granular, concentrated detergent composition comprises:

High-density granular concentrated detergent composition

A high density-having, granular, concentrated detergent composition comprises a detergent component(s) and clathrate granules of a perfume-clathrate compound comprising a perfume and a compound having a clathration capability. The clathrate granules have an average size of 100 to 1500 micrometers.

Detergent composition containing clathrate granules of a

A granular detergent composition having a high density comprises an organic surfactant, a water-soluble, crystalline, inorganic salt, another inorganic salt and/or an organic sequestering agent for a divalent metal and a granular, water-soluble, crystalline, alkaline, inorganic salt, said alkaline salt having been blended in the dry state with a base comprising the above other three components. Instead of the alkaline salt, a granular, water-soluble, crystalline, inorganic salt having carried thereon an organic substance being capable of inhibiting hydration may be used.

High-density granular detergent composition

A bleaching detergent composition comprises (i) a water-insoluble aluminosilicate having a degree of crystallization of 0 to 75% or a water-insoluble aluminosilicate having exchangeable cations partially substituted by calcium and/or magnesium ions, (ii) a surface active agent and (iii) sodium percarbonate. It is very much improved in respect to the storage stability of the sodium percarbonate.

Bleaching detergent composition

A granular or powdery detergent composition comprises a nonionic surface active agent adsorption mixture composed of a nonionic surface active agent and a water-insoluble, amorphous, phosphorus-containing alkali metal aluminosilicate of the formula (I):

Granular or powdery detergent composition of high fluidity

An agent for sequestering heavy-metal ions comprising a water-insoluble amorphous alkali metal aluminosilicophosphate having the formula (I):

Sequestering agent

A detergent composition containing, as a builder component, a water-insoluble, phosphorus-containing alkali metal aluminosilicate having the formula

Detergent composition containing water-insoluble phosphorus-containing

A granular or powdery detergent composition comprising a surface active agent having a tendency to cake, and containing as an anti-caking agent from 0.2 to 20 % by weight of a polyoxyethylene alkyl or alkenyl ether which is solid at room temperature and has the formula:

Granular or powdery detergent composition

A granular or powdery detergent composition comprising (I) as an active detergent component a surface active agent having a tendency to cake, and (II) as an anti-caking agent, from 0.2 to 20% by weight, based on the total weight of the detergent composition, of a carboxylic acid or an alkali metal salt thereof obtained by reacting (A) a polyalkylene glycol and (B) an acid anhydride, at an (A)/(B) mole ratio of from 1/2 to 1/1, said polyalkylene glycol being selected from (i) polyethylene glycols having an average molecular weight of 2000 to 10000 and (ii) nonionic surface active agents having the formula: ##STR1## wherein a, b and c are numbers satisfying the relations:

A detergent composition comprising as all or a part of the active detergent component (A) a mixture of up to 70% by weight of unbranched-alkyl ether sulfate, or mixtures thereof, having the formula (I):

Non-phosphate or reduced phosphate detergent compositions containing

A granular or powdery detergent composition comprising from 3 to 25% by weight of a surfactant selected from ether sulfates having the formulae (I) and (II): ##EQU1## and ##EQU2## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 21 carbon atoms or alkenyl having 1 to 21 carbon atoms, provided that the sum of the carbon atoms of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 11 to 21, R.sub.3 is alkyl having 8 to 16 carbon atoms, n is a number of 1 to 10, and M is an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, And 10 to 100% by weight, based on said ether sulfate, of a polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 2,000 to 50,000.

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