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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2003
John David Hines, Wirral, GB;
Feng-lung Gordon Hsu, Edgewater, NJ (US);
Yun-peng Zhu, Edgewater, NJ (US);
John David Hines, Wirral, GB;
Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Edgewater, NJ (US);
Yun-Peng Zhu, Edgewater, NJ (US);
Unilever Home and Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a shear thinning, transparent, gel laundry detergent composition, comprising a surfactant system containing surfactant material selected from an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant or a mixture thereof, and from 1 to 8% by weight of a fatty alcohol gelling agent having the formulawherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen and saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched C–Calkyl groups, whereby the total number of carbon atoms in the gelling agent is between 8 and 17. It has been found that this gel laundry composition can stable suspend particles or capsules either for improving visual appearance or for practical reasons.