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

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

The Sun Products Corporation

John David Hines

Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu

Yun-Peng Zhu

Ronald Frederick Vogel

Agnes Boudou

Yun Peng Zhu

Charles Ebert

Johannes Cornelis Van De Pas

Jane Elizabeth Ormond

Brian Arthur Steinhobel

Lili Faucia Brouwn

A dispensing device () comprising a reservoir () for storing a fabric cleaning fluid () having a viscosity of over 10 Pa.s at rest or under an applied stress of up to 10 Pa, one or more dispensing orifices () in fluid communication with the reservoir (), a movable platform movable () by means of a screw mechanism (), whereby rotation of a screw () advances the movable platform () against the stored, fabric cleaning fluid () thereby dispensing a metered dose of the cleaning fluid () from the reservoir () to be dispensed via the dispensing orifices ().

Fabric cleaning fluid and dispensing device

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 0.1 to 10% by weight of a clarity improving agent being a glycol dialkyl ether selected from

Gel laundry detergent composition

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.

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

A shear-thinning lamellar gel detergent composition containing suspended particles, employing a non-neutralized fatty acid as a structuring agent, in a specific amount, depending on the total surfactant level. The weight % ratio of non-neutralized fatty acid to the total surfactant within a specific range, defined by the Gelling Index equation, results in gels with the desired properties. The inventive product offers an advantage of laundry pre-treater and a detergent in a single product and also provides a visual cue of suspended particles.

Laundry detergent gel with suspended particles

An isotropic aqueous liquid detergent composition comprising:

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John David Hines