The Procter Gamble Company

Steven Jozef Louis Coosemans

Jean-Pol Boutique

James P Johnston

Axel Meyer

Regine Labeque

Francesco De Buzzaccarini

Lorenzo Matteo Pierre Gualco

Walter August Maria Broeckx

Diane Barbara Parry

David William Ingram

Eric Tcheou

Ann De Wree

Filip Dominique Hubert Vangeel

James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-Saint-Laurent

Luca Goovaerts

David Michael Wise

Mehmet Tugrul Ergelen

The present invention relates to detergent compositions, especially liquid, granular and tablet forms of laundry detergent compositions, that comprise improved hydrotropes, wherein the hydrotropes are organic molecules in which two polar groups are separated from each other by at least 5 aliphatic carbon atoms; liquid compositions that contain such hydrotropes have a viscosity, dilution profile and dissolution behavior that render the product effective and convenient for use as a liquid laundry detergent composition.

Detergent compositions comprising hydrotropes

The present invention relates to a pouched cleaning composition wherein the pouch is constructed from a water-soluble film and contains a liquid composition comprising less than 5% by weight of the liquid composition, of water; an anionic surfactant; and at least 0.5% by weight of the liquid composition of a builder/chelant free of C8-22 alkyl or alkenyl chains characterized by a solubility in said liquid composition of less than 0.3% by weight. Such pouched cleaning compositions provide better cleaning performance and better pouch solubility while avoiding the formation of residues.

Pouched cleaning compositions

Non-aqueous liquid detergent compositions containing bleaching agents and contained in plastic packages are stabilized against package bulging caused by oxygen release by means of transition metal macropolycyclic rigid ligand compounds.

Non-aqueous detergent compositions containing bleach

There is provided a liquid nonaqueous detergent composition comprising an alcohol alkoxylate nonionic surfactant and a bleach precursor having a Krafft point of at least 10&deg; C., said surfactant and said precursor being present in a molar ratio of nonionic surfactant to bleach precursor of at least 2:1.

Nonaqueous liquid detergent compositions containing bleach precursors

A non-aqueous liquid detergent composition comprising a bleaching agent and/or bleach precursor characterized in that said nonaqueous liquid detergent comprises less than,% of free water.

Non-aqueous, particulate-containing detergent compositions containing bleach

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Kampenhout, Belgium

Steven Jozef Louis Coosemans