The Procter Gamble Company

James C St Laurent

Gregory Scot Miracle

Jeffrey John Scheibel

William Michael Scheper

Eugene Paul Gosselink

Alan David Willey

Daniel Stedman Connor

Kevin Lee Kott

Jeffrey Donald Painter

Yi-Chang Fu

Janet Layne Marshall

Automatic dishwashing detergents containing N-alkoxy or N-aryloxy polyhydroxy fatty acid amide surfactants which provide not only improved cleaning, but also improved filming and spotting performance on tableware are described. Thus, C.sub.12 -C.sub.14 N-(3-methoxypropyl) glucamide is used in automatic dishwashing compositions which, optionally, can be formulated to be free from chlorine bleach or phosphate builders. Weak builders such as citrate and perborate or percarbonate bleach can be used in the compositions, as can various detersive enzymes.

Automatic dishwashing detergent with alkoxy or aryloxy amide surfactant

Improved cleaning and/or bleaching compositions including fabric laundry and bleaching compositions, automatic dishwashing compositions, hard surface cleaners, bleach additives and the like, suitable for domestic use, comprising improved bleach activators having particular alpha-modified lactam leaving groups leading to improved in-use performance of bleaching agents such as perborate even under wash conditions less alkaline than those typically encountered or when hydrogen peroxide source is at low levels in a cleaning operation. A preferred class of activators are N-acyl-3-morpholinone compounds with benzoyl being a preferred acyl group and N-Benzoyl-3-oxomorpholine being a highly preferred activator.

Bleaching compositions and additives comprising bleach activators having

Disclosed is a process for making nonphosphated automatic dishwashing detergents which have granular form and comprise a conventional nonphosphorus builder system consisting essentially of an organic builder salt (such as citrate) and a dispersant (such as a polyacrylate); and an oxygen bleach system comprising a chelant (such as ethylenediamine disuccinate) and a bleach active (such as perborate or percarbonate) optionally with enzymes and/or dry-mixed hydrous silicates. The invention secures stable, free-flowing granules by a premix step in which the chelant and dispersant are brought together; a drying step using conventional equipment; and one or more admix steps in which the bleach active is mixed with the product of the drying step.

Nonphosphated automatic dishwashing compositions with oxygen bleach

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James C St Laurent