Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Lever Brothers Company

Mohammad A Rahman

Shang-Ren Wu

Robert W Humphreys

Anthony P Hung

Abid N Khan-Lodhi

The present invention relating to novel oxazolidine and tetrahydrooxazine amide surfactants and to processes for making the surfactants. These are cyclic surfactants having good solubility and which are readily biodegradable.

Oxazolidine and tetrahydrooxazine amide surfactants

The present invention relating to compositions comprising novel oxazolidine and tetrahydrooxazine amide surfactants and to processes for making the surfactants. These are cyclic surfactants having good solubility and which are readily biodegradable.

Compositions comprising oxazolidine and tetrahydrooxazine amide

Biodegradable compounds which are effective fabric conditioning molecules are described as having Formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl or alkenyl, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each independently a C.sub.7 -C.sub.30 straight or branched alkyl or alkenyl, R.sub.4 is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl or alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl and X is a water soluble anion.

Ribose diester quaternary useful as a fabric conditioner

Novel fabric conditioning agents which contain either an ester or a NH link between a glyceric carboxyl group and a quaternary ammonium group are described. The compounds based on glyceric acid are both effective fabric conditioners and biodegradable, and may be formulated in any conventional physical form to form a fabric conditioning composition. A method of using the composition is also described.

Biodegradable fabric conditioning molecules based on glyceric acid

A method of conditioning fabrics with a composition containing novel agents which contain either an ester or a NH link between a glyceric carboxyl group and a quaternary ammonium group is described. The compounds based on glyceric acid are both effective fabric conditioners and biodegradable, and may be formulated in any conventional physical form to form the fabric conditioning composition.

Method of conditioning fabrics with glyceric acid based biodegradable

The present invention relates to novel surfactants based on readily available materials, i.e., glyceric acid. In particular, it relates to novel N-alkylglyceramide surfactants having the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 straight or branch-chained, saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon. These surfactants can be used in detergent compositions as surfactants together with cosurfactants to greatly enhance foam stability of the detergent compositions.

Alkyl glyceramide surfactants and compositions comprising these

The subject invention relates to detergent compositions in which N-alkylerythronamides react synergistically with surfactants having an HLB about that of octaethylene glycol mono-decyl ether to provide enhanced detergency provided that said compositions are also free of boron.

Compositions free of boron comprising N-alkylerythronamides and

The present invention provides detergent compositions comprising alkyl glycerates as a coactive in combination with cosurfactants for enhanced removal of oil.

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Mohammad A Rahman