Rohm and Haas Company

Thomas Lawrence Pytlewski

Curtis Alan Schwartz

Thomas Cleveland Kirk

Richard James Tallent

The present invention provides a composition useful in a washing process containing at least one vinyl amide polymer. The vinyl amide polymer contains from 5 to 100 weight percent of at least one vinyl amide monomer, and from 0 to 95 weight percent of one or more vinyl ester monomers. The present invention also provides a method of cleaning an article and a method of providing soil resistance to an article using the vinyl amide polymer.

Washing composition and use of polymer to clean and provide soil

The present invention provides a fabric washing composition and aqueous treatment solution for inhibiting dye from transferring from one fabric to the same or different fabric in a fabric washing process. The fabric washing composition and aqueous treatment solution contain at least one dye deposition inhibiting polymer. The dye deposition inhibiting polymer contains, as polymerized units, from 5 to 100 weight percent of at least one vinyl amide monomer and from 0 to 95 weight percent of one or more vinyl ester monomers. The present invention also provides a method for inhibiting the deposition of dye by adding at least one of dye deposition inhibiting polymer useful in the present invention to a fabric washing process where dye may be released.

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Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Thomas Lawrence Pytlewski