The Procter Gamble Company

Michael Timothy Creedon

Benjamin Edgar Chapman

Errol Hoffman Wahl

Michael Peter Siklosi

Toan Trinh

William Michael Scheper

Eugene Steven Sadlowski

Keith Homer Baker

Connie Lynn Sheets

Vincent John Becks

Donna Jean Haeggberg

Henry Cheng Na

Janine Morgens Strang

Michael Glen Murray

Fernando Ray Toll&eacute;ns

Mark Robert Sivik

Gayle Marie Frankenbach

Alan Edward Sherry

Nabil Yaqub Sakkab

Freddy Arthur Barnabas

Thomas Charles Hortel

John Downing Curry

Todd Michael Wernicke

John G Schroeder

Gregory Thomas Waning

Jack Austin Doty

Mitsuyo Okamoto

Fernando Ray Tolléns

Yana Milligan Nicks

Allison Lynn Gerdes

Ramanan Venkata Ganapathysundaram

Ingrid Rose-Marie Maerten

Natsuko Nishio

Fernado Ray Tolléns

Vajih A Khan

Rejuvenation compositions including a reactive dye are disclosed for the one-shot rejuvenation of the color for dark-colored textile fabrics and garments formed therefrom. The rejuvenation compositions return faded black or dark colored garments to a like-new look. Methods of rejuvenating the faded color of garments by using the dye compositions are also disclosed.

Fabric color rejuvenation composition

A product and process for laundering delicate or dry-clean only garments in a washing machine, such as a conventional home washing machine. The process may utilize a garment container, such as a flexible wrap to protect the garments. The process also includes at least one cleaning composition specially formulated for delicate garments. The cleaning composition(s) can be in a number of suitable forms, and can be introduced into the process in a number of different manners. The products used in the process may be provided in the form of a kit. The kit may also include a pretreatment applicator.

Methods for laundering delicate garments in a washing machine comprising a woven acrylic coated polyester garment container

The present invention relates to compositions for treating shoes, especially leather-containing shoes, such as athletic shoes, and methods and articles of manufacture employing same to treat the shoes prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions applied to one or more shoes in need of treatment prior to and/or during and/or after washing the shoes for imparting a desired benefit to the shoes such as cleaning and/or conditioning and/or disinfecting and/or deodorizing.

Compositions for treating shoes and methods and articles employing same

The subject invention involves processes for making granular compositions comprising soil release polymers, the polymers comprising at least about 10% of substantially linear esters having a backbone; the esters being uncapped or end-capped on one or both ends of the backbone; the esters comprising in their backbones oxyalkyleneoxy units and hydrophobic aryldicarbonyl units; the esters having a molecular weight of from about 500 to about 20,000; the polymers if in solid state having the tendency when exposed to moisture to spontaneously rearrange from an amorphous form which is readily soluble in water to a crystalline form which is relatively insoluble in water; the process comprising the following steps:

Process for making soil release polymer granules

An improved, no -bleach process for the production of sulfonated fatty acid alkyl ester surfactants containing sulfonated fatty acid alkyl esters and less than 10% of sulfonated fatty acid disalt, fatty acid salt (soap), and fatty acid alkyl ester impurities, said process comprising sulfonating fatty acid alkyl esters, reacting with a C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 alcohol, and continuously neutralizing with an alkoxide in a substantially anhydrous medium of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 alcohol, wherein the process does not consist of a

No-bleach process for making sulfonated fatty acid alkyl ester surfactant

Acyl lactam bleach activator is intimately mixed with a water-soluble surfactant to form a bleach activator particle, with good solubility and which perhydrolyzes well. Said process does not include a drying step. Optionally, but preferably, the particle will further comprise binders and a crystalline material.

Process for making lactam bleach activator containing particles

Liquid alkyl lactam bleach activators are intimately mixed with a water-soluble surfactant and a thickener to form a bleach activator particle with good solubility, which perhydrolyzes well, and which is non-sticky and free flowing. Optionally, but preferably, the particles will further comprise binders and filler materials. Novel activator compositions comprising polyhydroxy fatty acid amides plus lactam activators are disclosed.

Process for making particles comprising lactam bleach activators

A process for improving the color and purity of dark-colored potassium or magnesium alkyl ester sulfonate surfactant compositions, and particularly alpha-sulfo fatty acid methyl ester compositions, without the need for bleaching or other process steps. The process comprises the steps of (1) forming a mixture comprising (i) an alkyl ester sulfonate surfactant composition containing impurities including dark-colored impurities, organic and inorganic salts, and disalts, and (ii) water, and (2) separating the ester sulfonate surfactant from the mixture. The process may further comprise step (3) recovering the alkyl ester sulfonate surfactant. Methyl ester sulfonate surfactant compositions are most preferred. After processing in accordance with the invention, the alkyl ester sulfonate surfactant composition has improved color, purity, and odor properties.

Process to improve alkyl ester sulfonate surfactant compositions

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Michael Timothy Creedon