EP0075996B1 - Detergent compositions containing alkylpolysaccharide and nonionic surfactant mixture and anionic optical brightener - Google Patents

Detergent compositions containing alkylpolysaccharide and nonionic surfactant mixture and anionic optical brightener Download PDF

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EP0075996B1
EP0075996B1 EP19820201172 EP82201172A EP0075996B1 EP 0075996 B1 EP0075996 B1 EP 0075996B1 EP 19820201172 EP19820201172 EP 19820201172 EP 82201172 A EP82201172 A EP 82201172A EP 0075996 B1 EP0075996 B1 EP 0075996B1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
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  • This invention relates to surfactant combinations which provide good detergency and, optionally, good fluorescer effectiveness and/or suds control and/or corrosion inhibition in a laundry context.
  • Such compositions can be either built or unbuilt, granular or liquid, and can contain the usual auxiliary ingredients common to such compositions.
  • Alkylpolyglycosides which are surfactants have been disclosed in U.S. Patents 3,598,865; 3,721,633; and 3,772,269. These patents also disclose processes for making alkylpolyglycoside surfactants and built liquid detergent compositions containing these surfactants.
  • U.S. Patent 3,219,656 discloses alkylmono- glucosides and suggests their utility as foam stabilizers for other surfactants.
  • Various polyglycoside surfactant structures and processes for making them are disclosed in U.S. Patents 2,974,134; 3,640,998; 3,839,318; 3,314,936; 3,346,558; 4,011,389; 4,223,129.
  • This invention relates to the discovery of certain combinations of surfactants which provide unusually good detergency, especially in cool water, for a variety of fabric types. Specifically this invention relates to detergent compositions comprising:
  • a special advantage of the combination of detergent surfactants herein is their superior compatibility with anionic fluorescent or optical brighteners.
  • Nonionic surfactants especially ethoxylated nonionic detergent surfactants, normally diminish the effectiveness of such brighteners.
  • the alkylpolyglycoside surfactant With the addition of the alkylpolyglycoside surfactant, the brightener effectiveness is dramatically improved, especially on cotton.
  • the alkylpolysaccharides are those having a hydrophobic group containing from 6 to 30 carbon atoms, preferably from 10 to 16 carbon atoms and a polysaccharide, e.g., a polyglycoside, hydrophilic group containing from H to 10, preferably from 1'2 to 3, most preferably from 1.6 to 2.7 saccharide units. Any reducing saccharide containing 5 or 6 carbon atoms can be used, e.g.
  • glucose, galactose and galactosyl moieties can substitute for the glucosyl moieties.
  • the hydrophobic group is attached at the 2, 3, 4 etc. positions thus giving a glucose or galactose as opposed to a glucoside or galactoside.
  • the intersaccharide bonds can be, e.g., between the one position of the additional saccharide units and the 2-, 3-, 4-, and/or 6 positions on the .preceding saccharide units.
  • a polyalkoxide chain joining the hydrophobic moiety and the polysaccharide moiety.
  • the preferred alkoxide is ethylene oxide.
  • Typical hydrophobic groups include alkyl groups, either saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched containing from about 8 to about 18, preferably from 10 to 16 carbon atoms.
  • the alkyl group is a straight chain saturated alkyl group.
  • the alkyl group can contain up to 3 hydroxy groups and/or the polyalkoxide chain can contain up to about 10, preferably less than 5, most preferably 0, alkoxide moieties.
  • Suitable alkyl polysaccharides are octyl, nonyldecyl, undecyldodecyl, tridecyl, tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, and octadecyl, di-, tri-, tetra-, penta-, and hexaglucosides, galactosides, lactosides, glucoses, fructosides, fructoses, and/ or galactoses.
  • Suitable mixtures include coconut alkyl, di-, tri-, tetra-, and pentaglucosides and tallow alkyl tetra-, penta-, and hexaglucosides.
  • the preferred alkylpolyglycosides have the formula wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkylphenyl, hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkylphenyl, and mixtures thereof in which said alkyl groups contain from about 10 to about 18, preferably from 12 to 14 carbon atoms; n is 2 or 3, preferably 2; y is from 0 to 10, preferably 0; and x is from H to 10, preferably from H to 3, most preferably from 1.6 to 2.7.
  • the glycosyl is preferably derived from glucose. To prepare compounds the alcohol or alkylpolyethoxy alcohol is formed first and then reacted with glucose, or a source of glucose, to form the glucoside (attachment at the 1-position). The additional glycosyl units are attached between their 1-position and the preceding glycosyl units 2-, 3-, 4- and/or 6-position, preferably predominately the 2-position.
  • the content of alkylmonoglycoside is low, preferably less than 60%, more preferably less than 50%.
  • anionic fluorescers which are normally relatively ineffective in the presence of conventional ethoxylated nonionic detergent surfactants at high levels in the absence of substantial levels of anionic detergent surfactants, are very effective when the alkylpolyglycoside surfactants are present.
  • the ratio of alkylpolyglycoside detergent surfactant to nonionic detergent surfactant should be greater than 1:4 preferably greater than 1:3, most preferably greater than 1:1.
  • Nonionic surfactants including those having an HLB of from 5 to 17, are well known in the detergency art. They are included in the compositions of the present invention together with the, e.g., alkylpolyglycoside surfactants defined hereinbefore. They may be used singly or in combination with one or more of the preferred alcohol ethoxylate nonionic surfactants, described below, to form nonionic surfactant mixtures useful in combination with the alkylpolyglycosides. Examples of such surfactants are listed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,717,630, Booth, issued Feb. 20, 1973, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,332,880, Kessler et al, issued July 25, 1967.
  • suitable nonionic surfactants which may be used in the present invention are as follows:
  • Preferred semi-polar nonionic detergent surfactants are the amine oxide detergent surfactants having the formula wherein R is an alkyl, hydroxy alkyl, or alkyl phenyl group or mixtures thereof containing from 8 to 22 carbon atoms, R 4 is an alkylene or hydroxy alkylene group containing from 2 to 3 carbon atoms or mixtures thereof, x is from 0 to 3 and each R 5 is an alkyl or hydroxy alkyl group containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or a polyethylene oxide group containing from one to about 3 ethylene oxide groups and said R5 groups can be attached to each other, e.g., through an oxygen or nitrogen atom to form a ring structure.
  • Preferred amine oxide detergent surfactants are C 10-18 alkyl dimethyl amine oxide, C 8-18 alkyl dihydroxy ethyl amine oxide, and C 8-12 alkoxy ethyl dihydroxy ethyl amine oxide.
  • Nonionic detergent surfactants (1)-(4) are conventional ethoxylated nonionic detergent surfactants.
  • Preferred alcohol ethoxylate nonionic surfactants for use in the compositions of the present invention are biodegradable and have the formula wherein R S is a primary or secondary alkyl chain of from 8 to 22, preferably from 10 to 20, carbon atoms and n is an average of from 2 to 12, particularly from 2 to 9.
  • the nonionics have an HLB (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) of from 5 to 17, preferably from 6 to 15. HLB is defined in detail in Nonionic Surfactants, by M. J. Schick, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1966, pages 606 ⁇ 613.
  • n is from 3 to 7.
  • Primary linear alcohol ethoxylates e.g., alcohol ethoxylates produced from organic alcohols which contain about 20% 2-methyl branched isomers, commercially available from Shell Chemical Company under the tradename Neodol
  • Neodol e.g., 2-methyl branched isomers
  • Particularly preferred nonionic surfactants for use in the compositions of the present invention include the condensation product of C 10 alcohol with 3 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of tallow alcohol with 9 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of coconut alcohol with 5 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of coconut alcohol with 6 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of C, 2 alcohol with 5 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of C 12 - 13 alcohol with 6.5 moles of ethylene oxide, and the same condensation product which is stripped so as to remove substantially all lower ethoxylate and nonethoxylated fractions; the condensation product of C 12 - 13 alcohol with 2.3 moles of ethylene oxide, and the same condensation product which is stripped so as to remove substantially all lower ethoxylate and nonethoxylated fractions; the condensation product of C 12 - 13 alcohol with 9 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of C 14-15 alcohol with 2.25 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation product of C 14-15 alcohol with 4 moles of ethylene oxide; the condensation
  • compositions of the present invention may contain mixtures of the preferred alcohol ethoxylate nonionic surfactants together with other types of nonionic surfactants.
  • One of the preferred nonionic surfactant mixtures contains at least one of the preferred alcohol ethoxylate nonionics, and has a ratio of the preferred alcohol ethoxylate surfactant (or surfactants) to the other nonionic surfactant (or surfactants) of from about 1:1 to about 5:1.
  • surfactant mixtures useful in the present invention include a mixture of the condensation product of C 14-15 alcohol with 3 moles of ethylene oxide (Neodol 45 ⁇ 3) and the condensation product of C 14-15 alcohol with 9 moles of ethylene oxide (Neodol 45-9), in a ratio of lower ethoxylate nonionic to higher ethoxylate nonionic of from about 1:1 to about 3:1; a mixture of the condensation product of C 10 alcohol with 3 moles of ethylene oxide together with the condensation product of a secondary C 15 alcohol with 9 moles of ethylene oxide (Tergitol 15 ⁇ S ⁇ 9), in a ratio of lower ethoxylate nonionic to higher ethoxylate nonionic of from about 1:1 to about 4:1; a mixture of Neodol 45 ⁇ 3 and Tergitol 15 ⁇ S ⁇ 9, in a ratio of lower ethoxylate nonionic to higher ethoxylate nonionic of from about 1:1 to about 3:1; and a mixture of Neodol 45 ⁇ 3 with the condensation
  • Preferred nonionic surfactant mixtures may also contain alkyl glyceryl ether compounds together with the preferred alcohol ethoxylate surfactants.
  • Particularly preferred are glyceryl ethers having the formula wherein R 9 is an alkyl or alkenyl group of from 8 to 18, preferably 8 to 12, carbon atoms or an alkaryl group having from 5 to 14 carbons in the alkyl chain, and n is from 0 to 6, together with the preferred alcohol ethoxylates, described above, in a ratio of alcohol ethoxylate to glyceryl ether of from 1:1 to 4:1, particularly 7:3.
  • Glyceryl ethers of the type useful in the present invention are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,098,713, Jones, issued July 4, 1978.
  • the ratio of alkylpolyglycoside detergent surfactant to nonionic detergent surfactant is from 10:1 to 1:10, preferably from 3:1 to 1:3.
  • the detergent compositions herein also contain from 0% to 90%, preferably from 5% to 50%, and more preferably from 10% to 35% of a detergent builder.
  • a detergent builder include, by way of example, a crystalline aluminosilicate ion exchange material of the formula wherein z and y are at least about 6, the molar ratio of z to y is from 1.0 to 0.5 and x is from 10 to 264.
  • Amorphous hydrated aluminosilicate materials useful herein have the empirical formula wherein M is sodium, potassium, ammonium or substituted ammonium, z is from 0.5 to 2 and y is 1, said material having a magnesium ion exchange capacity of at least 50 milligram equivalents of CaC0 3 hardness per gram of anhydrous aluminosilicate.
  • the aluminosilicate ion exchange builder materials herein are in hydrated form and contain from 10% to 28% of water by weight if crystalline, and potentially even higher amounts of water if amorphous. Highly preferred crystalline aluminosilicate ion exchange materials contain from 18% to 22% water in their crystal matrix.
  • the preferred crystalline aluminosilicate ion exchange materials are further characterized by a particle size diameter of from about 0.1 micron to about 10 microns. Amorphous materials are often smaller, e.g., down to less than about 0.01 micron. More preferred ion exchange materials have a particle size diameter of from 0.2 micron to 4 microns.
  • particle size diameter herein represents the average particle size diameter of a given ion exchange material as determined by conventional analytical techniques such as, for example, microscopic determination utilizing a scanning electron microscope.
  • the crystalline aluminosilicate ion exchange materials herein are usually further characterized by their calcium ion exchange capacity, which is at least 200 mg. equivalent of CaC0 3 water hardness/g. of aluminosilicate, calculated on an anhydrous basis, and which generally is in the range of from 300 mg. eq./g. to about 352 mg. eqJg.
  • the aluminosilicate ion exchange materials herein are still further characterized by their calcium ion exchange rate which is at least about 2 grains Ca ++ /gallon/minute/gram/gallon of aluminosilicate (anhydrous basis), and generally lies within the range of from about 2 grains/gallon/minute/gram/ gallon to 6 grains/gallon/minute/gram/gallon, based on calcium ion hardness.
  • Optimum aluminosilicates for builder purposes exhibit a calcium ion exchange rate of at least about 4 grains/gallon/minute/gram/ gallon.
  • the amorphous aluminosilicate ion exchange materials usually have a Mg ++ exchange capacity of at least 50 mg. eq. CaCO 3 /g. (12 mg. Mg ++ /g.) and a Mg ++ exchange rate of at least about 1 grain/gallon/ minute/gram/gallon. Amorphous materials do not exhibit an observable diffraction pattern when examined by Cu radiation (1.54 Angstrom Units).
  • Aluminosilicate ion exchange materials useful in the practice of this invention are commercially available.
  • the aluminosilicates useful in this invention can be crystalline or amorphous in structure and can be naturally-occurring aluminosilicates or synthetically derived.
  • a method for producing aluminosilicate ion exchange materials is discussed in U.S. Patent 3,985,669, Krummel, et al, issued October 12, 1976.
  • Preferred synthetic crystalline aluminosilicate ion exchange materials useful herein are available under the designations Zeolite A, Zeolite P (B), and Zeolite X.
  • the crystalline aluminosilicate ion exchange material has the formula wherein x is from 20 to 30, especially about 27.
  • detergency builders include water-soluble neutral or alkaline salts.
  • water-soluble salts include the compounds commonly known as detergent builder materials.
  • Builders are generally selected from the various water-soluble, alkali metal, ammonium or substituted ammonium phosphates, polyphosphates, phosphonates, polyphosphonates, carbonates, silicates, borates, polyhydroxysulfonates, polyacetates, carboxylates, and polycarboxylates.
  • alkali metal especially sodium, salts of the above.
  • inorganic phosphate builders are sodium and potassium tripolyphosphate, pyrophosphate, polymeric metaphate having a degree of polymerization of from about 6 to 21, and orthophosphate.
  • polyphosphonate builders are the sodium and potassium salts of ethylene-1,1-diphosphonic acid, the sodium and potassium salts of ethane 1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonic acid and the sodium and potassium salts of ethane, 1,1,2-triphosphonic acid.
  • Other phosphorus builder compounds are disclosed in U.S. Patents 3,159,581; 3,213,030; 3,422,021; 3,422,137; 3,400,176 and 3,400,148.
  • nonphosphorus, inorganic builders are sodium and potassium carbonate, bicarbonate, sesquicarbonate, tetraborate decahydrate, and silicate having a molar ratio of Si0 2 to alkali metal oxide of from 0.5 to 4.0, preferably from 1.0 to 2.4.
  • Water-soluble, nonphosphorus organic builders useful herein include the various alkali metal, ammonium and substituted ammonium polyacetates, carboxylates, polycarboxylates and polyhydroxysulfonates.
  • polyacetate and polycarboxylate builders are the sodium, potassium, lithium, ammonium and substituted ammonium salts of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, nitrilotriacetic acid, oxy- disuccinic acid, mellitic acid, benzene polycarboxylic acids, and citric acid.
  • Other useful builders herein are sodium and potassium carboxymethyloxymalonate, carboxy- methyloxysuccinate, cis-cyclohexaneh exacarboxyl ate, cis-cyclopentanetetracarboxylate phloroglucinol trisulfonate, water-soluble polyacrylates (having molecular weights of from about 2,000 to about 200,000 for example), and the copolymers of maleic anhydride with vinyl methyl ether or ethylene.
  • polyacetal carboxylates for use herein are the polyacetal carboxylates described in U.S. Pat. 4,144,226, issued March 13, 1979 to Crutchfield et al, and U.S. Pat. 4,246,495, issued March 27, 1979 to Crutchfield et al.
  • These polyacetal carboxylates can be prepared by bringing together under polymerization conditions an ester of glyoxylic acid and a polymerization initiator. The resulting polyacetal carboxylate ester is then attached to chemically stable end groups to stabilize the polyacetal carboxylate against rapid depolymerization in alkaline solution, converted to the corresponding salt, and added to a surfactant.
  • detergency builder materials useful herein are the "seeded builder" compositions disclosed in Belgian Patent No. 798,856, issued Oct. 29, 1973. Specific examples of such seeded builder mixtures are: 3:1 wt. mixtures of sodium carbonate and calcium carbonate having 5 micron particle diameter; 2.7:1 wt. mixtures of sodium sesquicarbonate and calcium carbonate having a particle diameter of 0.5 microns; 20:1 wt. mixtures of sodium sesquicarbonate and calcium hydroxide having a particle diameter of 0.01 micron; and a 3:3:1 wt. mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium aluminate and calcium oxide having a particle diameter of 5 microns.
  • the detergent compositions herein can contain from 1% to 15%, preferably from 2% to 8%, of an organic surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, zwitterionic, ampholytic, and cationic surfactants, and mixtures thereof.
  • an organic surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, zwitterionic, ampholytic, and cationic surfactants, and mixtures thereof.
  • surfactants useful herein are listed in U.S. Pat. 3,664,961, Norris, issued May 23,1972, and U.S. Pat. 3,919,678, Laughtin et aI, issued Dec. 30, 1975.
  • Useful cationic surfactants also include those described in U.S. Pat. 4,222,905, Cockrell, issued Sept. 16,1980, and in U.S. Pat. 4,239,659, Murphy, issued Dec. 16,1980.
  • the following are representative examples of surfactants useful in the present compositions.
  • Water-soluble salts of the higher fatty acids are useful anionic surfactants in the compositions herein.
  • Soaps can be made by direct saponification of fats and oils or by the neutralization of free fatty acids.
  • Particularly useful are the sodium and potassium salts of the mixtures of fatty acids derived from coconut oil and tallow, i.e., sodium or potassium tallow and coconut soap.
  • the preferred soap as discussed hereinbefore and hereinafter, especially in combination with semipolar or amide nonionic detergent surfactants, is at least partially unsaturated.
  • the unsaturated fatty acid soap of this invention contains from 16 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably in a straight chain configuration. Preferably the number of carbon atoms in the unsaturated fatty acid soap is from 16 to 18.
  • the unsaturated soap in common with other anionic detergent and other anionic materials in the detergent compositions of this invention, has a cation which renders the soap water-soluble and/or dispersible.
  • Suitable cations include sodium, potassium, ammonium, monoethanolammonium, diethanolammonium, triethanolammonium, tetramethylammonium, etc. cations.
  • Sodium ions are preferred although in liquid formulations ammonium, and triethanolammonium cations are useful.
  • a level of at least about 1% of the unsaturated fatty acid soap is desirable to provide a noticeable reduction in sudsing and corrosion.
  • Preferred levels of unsaturated fatty acid soap are from 1% to 15%, preferably from 1% to 10%, most preferably from 2% to 5%.
  • the unsaturated fatty acid soap is preferably present at a level that will provide a level of from 15 pp m to 200 pp m, preferably from 25 ppm to 12 5 ppm in the wash solution at recommended U.S. usage levels and from 30 ppm to 1000 ppm, preferably from 50 ppm to 500 ppm for European usage levels.
  • Mono-, di-, and triunsaturated fatty acids are all essentially equivalent so it is preferred to use mostly monounsaturated soaps to minimize the risk of rancidity.
  • Suitable sources of unsaturated fatty acids are well known. For example, see Bailey ' s Industrial Oil and Fat Products, Third Edition, Swern, published by interscience Publisher (1964).
  • the level of saturated soaps is kept as low as possible, preferably less than about 60%, preferably less than about 50% of the total soap is saturated soap.
  • low levels of saturated soap can be used.
  • Tallow and palm oil soaps can be used.
  • Useful synthetic anionic surfactants also include the water-soluble salts, preferably the alkali metal, ammonium and alkylolammonium salts, of organic sulfuric reaction products having in their molecular structure an alkyl group containing from 10 to 20 carbon atoms and a sulfonic acid or sulfuric acid ester group.
  • Such synthetic anionic detergent surfactants are desirable additives at a level of from 1% to 10% to increase the overall detergency effect and, if desired, increase the level of suds.
  • alkyl is the alkyl portion of acyl groups.
  • these group of synthetic surfactants are the sodium and potassium alkyl sulfates, especially those obtained by sulfating the higher alcohols (C a -C, 8 carbon atoms) such as those produced by reducing the glycerides of tallow or coconut oil; and the sodium and potassium alkylbenzene sulfonates in which the alkyl group contains from 9 to 15 carbon atoms, in straight chain or branched chain configuration, e.g., those of the type described in U.S.
  • Preferred anionic detergent surfactants are the alkyl polyethoxylate sulfates, particularly those in which the alkyl contains from 10 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably from 12 to 18 and wherein the polyethoxylate chain contains from 1 to 15 ethoxylate moieties preferably from 1 to 3 ethoxylate moieties. These anionic detergent surfactants are particularly desirable for formulating heavy-duty liquid laundry detergent compositions.
  • anionic surfactants herein are the sodium alkyl glyceryl ether sulfonates, especially those ethers of higher alcohols derived from tallow and coconut oil; sodium coconut oil fatty acid monoglyceride sulfonates and sulfates; sodium or potassium salts of alkyl phenol ethylene oxide ether sulfates containing from 1 to 10 units of ethylene oxide per molecule"and wherein the alkyl groups contain from 8 to 12 carbon atoms; and sodium or potassium salts of alkyl ethylene oxide ether sulfates containing 1 to 10 units of ethylene oxide per molecule and wherein the alkyl group contains from 10 to 20 carbon atoms.
  • Other useful anionic surfactants herein include the water-soluble salts of esters of alpha-sulfonated fatty acids containing from 6 to 20 carbon atoms in the fatty acid group and from about 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the ester group; water-soluble salts of 2-acyloxy-alkane-1-sulfonic acids containing from 2 to 9 carbon atoms in the acyl group and from 9 to 23 carbon atoms in the alkane moiety; alkyl ether sulfates containing from 10 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and from 1 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide; water-soluble salts of olefin sulfonates containing from about 12 to 24 carbon atoms; and beta-alkyloxy alkane sulfonates containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms in the alkyl group and from 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the alkane moiety.
  • Ampholytic surfactants include derivatives of aliphatic or aliphatic derivatives of heterocyclic secondary and tertiary amines in which the aliphatic moiety can be straight chain or branched and wherein one of the aliphatic substituents contains from about 8 to 18 carbon atoms and at least one aliphatic substituent contains an anionic water-solubilizing group.
  • Zwitterionic surfactants include derivatives of aliphatic quaternary ammonium, phosphonium, and sulfonium compounds in which one of the aliphatic substituents contains from about 8 to 18 carbon atoms.
  • auxiliary surfactants herein include linear alkylbenzene sulfonates containing from about 11 to 14 carbon atoms in the alkyl group; tallowalkyl sulfates; coconutalkyl glyceryl ether sulfonates; alkyl ether sulfates wherein the alkyl moiety contains from 14 to 18 carbon atoms and wherein the average degree of ethoxylation is from 1 to 4; olefin or paraffin sulfonates containing from 14 to 16 carbon atoms; and alkyldimethylammonium propane sulfonates and alkyldimethylammonium hydroxy propane sulfonates wherein the alkyl group contains from 14 to 18 carbon atoms.
  • Specific preferred surfactants for use herein include: sodium, potassium, mono-, di-, and triethanolammonium C 14 - 15 alkyl polyethoxylate,_ 3 sulfates; sodium linear C " - 13 alkylbenzene sulfonate; triethanolamine C 11-13 alkylbenzene sulfonate; sodium tallow alkyl sulfate; sodium coconut alkyl glyceryl ether sulfonate; the sodium salt of a sulfated condensation product of a tallow alcohol with 4 moles of ethylene oxide; 3-(N,N-dimethyl-N-coconutalkylammonio)-2hydroxypropane-1-sulfonate; 3-(N,N-dimethyl-N-coconutalkylammoniopropane-l-sulfonate; 6-(N-dodecylbenryl-N,N-dimethylammonio)-hexanoate; and coconut alkyl
  • adjunct components which may be included in the compositions of the present invention, in their conventional art-established levels for use (i.e., from 0 to 90%), include solvents, bleaching agents, bleach activators, soil-suspending agents, corrosion inhibitors, dyes, fillers, germicides, pH adjusting agents (monoethanolamine, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, etc.), enzymes, enzyme-stabilizing agents, perfumes, fabric softening components, static control agents, and the like.
  • Fatty acid amide detergent surfactants useful herein include those having the formula: wherein R 6 is an alkyl group containing from 7 to 21 (preferably from 9 to 17) carbon atoms and each R 7 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C 1-4 alkyl, C 1-4 hydroxy alkyl, and ⁇ (C 2 H 4 O) x H where x varies from 1 to about 3.
  • Preferred amides are C 8-20 ammonia amides, monoethanolammonium, diethanolamides, and isopropanol amides.
  • optical brightener From 0.01 to 2%, preferably from 0. 1 to 1% optical brightener is used.
  • Suitable brighteners include the following:
  • R and X are:
  • compositions of the present invention can be manufactured and used in a variety of forms such as solids, powders, granules, pastes, and liquids.
  • the compositions can be used in the current U.S. laundering processes by forming aqueous solution containing from 0.01 % to 1 %, preferably from 0.05% to 0.5%, and most preferably from 0.05% to 0.25% of the composition in water and agitating the soiled fabrics in that aqueous solution. The fabrics are then rinsed and dried. When used in this manner the preferred compositions of the present invention yield exceptionally good detergency on a variety of fabrics.
  • Composition of the invention C 12-13 alkylpolyethoxylate 3 /C 12-15 alkylpolyglycoside 2-3 at a ratio of 1:1.

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