LIQUID LAUNDRY CLEANING COMPOSITION

• US 20160230124A1
• Filed: 02/01/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: LANT, Neil Joseph, PATTERSON, Steven George, SOMERVILLE ROBERTS, Nigel Patrick, REID, Victor Stuart, BROOKER, Alan Thomas
• Application Number:
  US15/011,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20160230124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/043 Liquid or thixotropic (gel) compositions
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 17/06 Powder; Flakes; Free-flowing mixtures; Sheets
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/222 Natural or synthetic polysaccharides, e.g. cellulose, starch, gum, alginic acid or cyclodextrin
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 3/225 etherified, e.g. CMC

Abstract

A cleaning composition being a liquid laundry treatment composition or component thereof, comprising a substituted polysaccharide particle having a mean particle size as expressed by the area-equivalent diameter from about 1 to 100 μm according to ISO 9276-6 and a laundry adjunct ingredient.

Claims

1. A composition being a liquid laundry treatment composition or component thereof, comprising:

a. a substituted polysaccharide particle having a mean particle size as expressed by the area-equivalent diameter from about 1 to 100 μ

m according to ISO 9276-6; and

b. a laundry adjunct ingredient.

2. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle is a substituted cellulose.

3. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle is an anionically modified cellulose.

4. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle is carboxymethyl cellulose.

5. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle has a degree of substitution, DS, of from 0.01 to 0.99.

6. A composition according to claim 2, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle has a degree of substitution, DS, of at least 0.55.

7. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle has a degree of blockiness, DB, such that a DS+DB is of at least 1.00.

8. A composition according to claim 4, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle has a degree of blockiness, DB, of at least 0.35.

9. A composition according to claim 4, wherein the substituted polysaccharide particle has a DS+DB, of from 1.05 to 2.00.

10. A composition according to claim 1, wherein the mean particle size as expressed by the area-equivalent diameter is from about 40 to 50 μ

m according to ISO 9276-6

11. A composition according to claim 1, further comprising an adjunct ingredient, wherein the adjunct ingredient is selected from the group comprising bleach, bleach catalyst, dye, hueing dye, cleaning polymers including alkoxylated polyamines and polyethyleneimines, soil release polymer, surfactant, solvent, dye transfer inhibitors, chelant, enzyme, perfume, encapsulated perfume, polycarboxylates, structurant and mixtures thereof.

12. A method of cleaning a fabric with a composition according to claim 1, said method comprising the steps of applying the contacting the fabric with the composition.

13. A laundry treatment composition comprising the composition according to claim 1, wherein the composition is a unit dose pouch, wherein the composition is at least partially enclosed by a polyvinyl alcohol film.