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

Michael Douglas Eason

Ezat Khoshdel

Michael Stephen White

Susanne Henning Rogers

Brodyck James Royles

Julie Hutchison Cooper

Hair treatment compositions comprise: at least one polymer comprising at least two hydrogen-bonding moieties, which may be the same or different, covalently bonded to each other by at least one polymeric, oligomeric or monomeric linker, each moiety having at least 3 groups capable of forming a hydrogen bond with the same moiety or a different moiety; and from 0.1 to 50% by weight of the total composition of a hair conditioning agent and/or a cosmetically acceptable surfactant.

Cosmetic and personal care compositions

The present invention relates to the use of polymers comprising a block copolymer containing at least one group A and at least one group B in which each group A is a polymeric block built up from an ethylenically unsaturated polymerisable monomer and each group B is a polymeric block built up from an alkylene oxide, alkylene glycol or cyclic ether monomer or a mixture thereof for promoting soil release during laundering of a textile fabric and processes for their preparation. Laundry cleaning compositions comprising such polymers, a method of promoting soil release during laundering of a textile fabric and the use of such polymers in the manufacture of a laundry cleaning composition for effecting soil release from a laundry item form other aspects of the invention.

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Michael Douglas Eason