The Procter Gamble Company

James Byrd Edwards

Francis Louvaine Diehl

Mario Stephen Marsan

Pedro Antonio Rodriguez

William I Mullane, Jr

John Downing Curry

Fred M Habermehl, Iii

Ronald Earl Montgomery

Laundry detergent compositions essentially free of inorganic phosphate detergency builders and containing from about 3% to about 60% by weight of water-insoluble sodium aluminosilicate or organic detergency builder components and from about 0.5% to about 10% by weight hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid or salts thereof have enhanced organic stain removal characteristics.

Laundry detergent composition with enhanced stain removal

Solid absorbent materials, having adsorbed thereto from about 50 ppm to about 3000 ppm of a soluble salt of a transition metal of Group Ib or Group IIb of the periodic table of the elements, when used as animal litter products, effectively prevent the development of urine odors.

Animal litter composition

Contacting damp fabrics with a dry, activated bleaching composition in an automatic dryer results in improved bleaching and stain removal over dry bleaching compositions employed in an aqueous laundering bath.

Bleaching process

Softening articles with improved fabric conditioning properties comprising fabric softener, certain substantially water-insoluble particulate materials and a dispensing means especially adapted for use in an automatic clothes dryer are described. The articles simultaneously provide softness, ease of ironing, anti-wrinkling and improved appearance and aesthetic benefits to fabrics treated therewith.

Fabric treating articles with improved conditioning properties

Detergent compositions having fabric conditioning properties comprising an organic surface-active agent and low concentrations of substantially water-insoluble particulate material; said compositions imparting anti-wrinkling, ease of ironing, softness, anti-static, and appearance improvements to fabrics treated therewith.

Detergent compositions containing insoluble particulate materials having

Non-starch thickened peroxygen bleaches, and articles releasably containing same, especially adapted for use in an automatic dryer are provided.

Bleaching articles

Thickened chlorine bleaches, and articles releasably containing same, especially adapted for use in an automatic dryer are provided.

Low pH, non-starch gels containing particulate peroxygen compounds, especially diperazelaic acid, provide safe, effective and stable fabric bleaching compositions for use at alkaline pH's, e.g., in laundry baths.

Bleaching composition

Improved anti-static compositions comprising an electrically conductive metal salt dispersed in a water-insoluble quaternary compound are employed in improved detergent compositions. Detergent-compatible fabric softeners, and detergent compositions containing same, comprising a smectite clay softener and the improved anti-static compositions are provided.

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James Byrd Edwards