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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
  • C11D17/00—Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties
  • C11D17/04—Detergent materials or soaps characterised by their shape or physical properties combined with or containing other objects
  • C11D17/041—Compositions releasably affixed on a substrate or incorporated into a dispensing means
  • C11D17/042—Water soluble or water disintegrable containers or substrates containing cleaning compositions or additives for cleaning compositions
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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
  • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
  • C11D3/16—Organic compounds
  • C11D3/20—Organic compounds containing oxygen
  • C11D3/2075—Carboxylic acids-salts thereof
• • 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
  • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
  • C11D3/39—Organic or inorganic per-compounds
  • C11D3/3947—Liquid compositions
• • 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
  • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
  • C11D3/395—Bleaching agents
  • C11D3/3956—Liquid compositions
• • 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
  • C11D7/00—Compositions of detergents based essentially on non-surface-active compounds
  • C11D7/22—Organic compounds
  • C11D7/26—Organic compounds containing oxygen
  • C11D7/265—Carboxylic acids or salts thereof
• • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
  • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • D06L—DRY-CLEANING, WASHING OR BLEACHING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS, YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR MADE-UP FIBROUS GOODS; BLEACHING LEATHER OR FURS
  • D06L4/00—Bleaching fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods; Bleaching leather or furs
  • D06L4/70—Multi-step processes

Definitions

• the present invention is concerned with a process and product suitable for removing stains from textile fabrics,
• the process is especially suitable for use when washing fabrics by hand.
• JP 58 008 180A discloses a process for removing coloured disinfectant stains from hospital clothing, in which the clothing is first machine-washed in an acid solution at pH 2.5-4.0, for example at 60°C, then machine- washed with a solution containing sodium hypochlorite bleach, for example at 40°C.
• the preferred acid for the first step is phosphoric acid, but citric acid may also be used.
• the acid solution used for the first step may contain a neutral detergent .
• GB 2 095 254A discloses a composition for reducing discolouration of textiles during washing or dry cleaning, the composition comprising tertiary amine salts of citric acid or tricarballylic acid.
• JP 61 062 600A discloses a detergent composition for preventing the yellowing of fabrics due to ferrous ions, comprising citric acid, isocitric acid or their salts plus optionally polyethylene glycol , surfactants, builders, bleaches and other conventional ingredients.
• EP 534 525A discloses a granular detergent composition containing particulate citric acid, plus anionic and/or nonionic surfactants, sodium carbonate, other builder, and preferably also foam depressing agent and bleach components.
• the present invention provides a process for removal of stains from textile fabrics, which process comprises the steps of:
• the invention further provides a product for the treatment of textile fabrics to remove stains, comprising two separately packaged particulate compositions, wherein:
• the first particulate composition (i) has a pH (of a 1% solution in demineralised water at 25°C) of from 2 to 5 , preferably from 3.5 to 4.5, and comprises:
• a preferred process according to the invention comprises the steps of :
• a preferred product according to the invention comprises two separately packaged particulate compositions, wherein:
• the first particulate composition (i) has a pH (of a 1% solution in demineralised water at 25°C) of from 2 to 5, preferably from 3.5 to 4.5, and comprises:
• the first aspect of the invention is a wet treatment process.
• the fabrics are soaked successively in two different aqueous liquors and then rinsed.
• the fabrics may be rinsed between the two soaking steps.
• the process of the invention is especially useful, as a supplement to the normal laundry process, for removal of particularly stubborn stains.
• the process of the invention is suitable for carrying out by hand, using simple utensils such as buckets or bowls as are usually used in laundering fabrics by hand. However, the process may also be carried out by machine.
• the second aspect of the invention is a product comprising two separately packaged particulate products which may be used to prepare the two aqueous liquors used in the process of the invention.
• the first aqueous liquor has a relatively low pH, in the range of from 2 to 5, and advantageously in the range of from 3.5 to 4.5, most preferably about 4.0.
• lower pH values for example, 2 to 3.5, are also within the scope of the invention.
• the first aqueous liquor contains as an essential ingredient a water-soluble solid acid.
• the water-soluble acid is an organic carboxylic acid, for example, citric acid, oxalic acid, tartaric acid, malonic acid, succinic acid, or ascorbic acid. Acids containing two or more carboxyl groups are especially preferred.
• the acid is used in admixture with a corresponding water-soluble salt, preferably a sodium salt.
• a corresponding water-soluble salt preferably a sodium salt.
• the pH may then be controlled by choice of the ratio of free acid to salt.
• a preferred acid (i) (a) in accordance with the invention is a solid organic carboxylic acid, preferably containing two or more carboxyl groups, optionally in admixtures with a water-soluble salt thereof.
• the preferred acid for use in the present invention is citric acid, optionally and more preferably used in admixture with sodium citrate.
• the concentration of the acid, plus salt if present, in the first aqueous liquor is preferably at least 1 g/litre, and more preferably at least 3 g/litre.
• the first aqueous liquor also contains an effective amount of an oxidising agent capable of masking and/or neutralising sulphurous odours.
• an oxidising agent capable of masking and/or neutralising sulphurous odours.
• odours may be generated when the blueing agent widely used in the Indian subcontinent is converted to a colourless form.
• Suitable materials are especially oxidative bleaches, preferably selected from alkali metal and alkaline earth metal iodates, peroxomonosulphates, benzenecarboperoxoates and monoperoxyphthalates, and hydrogen peroxide.
• alkali metal iodates more especially potassium iodate .
• the amount required to neutralise sulphurous odours may be determined by means of a lead acetate titration test, which is carried out as follows.
• a monitor is prepared by impregnating a 1 cm x 10 cm strip of Whatman IPS phase- separating filter paper (silicone treated) with lead acetate solution (1 g of lead acetate trihydrate in 100 ml demineralised water) .
• a fabric monitor is placed in 100 ml sample of the treatment liquor (first aqueous liquor) in a 400 ml beaker, the lead acetate strip is moistened with demineralised water and placed above the treatment liquor, and the beaker is closed with a transparent lid. If hydrogen sulphide is formed during the treatment, the lead acetate strip becomes black/brown due to the formation of lead sulphide, and this indicates that the liquor contains an insufficient amount of the oxidising agent.
• the first aqueous liquor may contain a bleach stable and effective at a pH of from 2 to 5.
• stable and effective is meant that the bleach must be stable in a product on storage at a pH of from 2 to 5, soluble when the product is dissolved in water, and function effectively as a bleach at the pH of the product .
• odour- masking or odour-neutralising agents are also stable and effective bleaches at a pH of from 2 to 5.
• the chosen oxidising agent is, for example, potassium iodate, it may be preferred for an additional bleach stable at low pH also to be present.
• Preferred bleaches are alkali metal dichlorocyanurates .
• Materials that may function both as odour-masking or neutralising agents and as stable and effective bleaching agents at a pH below 5.0 include magnesium monoperoxyphthalate and potassium benzenecarboperoxoate .
• the first aqueous liquor may also advantageously contain one or more surfactants .
• Anionic and/or nonionic surfactants are preferred, especially anionic surfactants used alone and combinations of anionic and nonionic surfactants in which the anionic surfactant predominates.
• a preferred surfactant system comprises an anionic surfactant selected from linear alkylbenzene sulphonate and alpha-olefin sulphonate, optionally together with at least one ethoxylated C 8 -C 0 alcohol nonionic surfactant having an average degree of ethoxylation of from 2 to 10.
• perfumes may be present, generally in minor amounts.
• the fabrics are allowed to soak in the first aqueous liquor for at least 1 minute, preferably from 1 to 60 minutes, more preferably from 10 to 45 minutes, and most preferably from 15 to 30 minutes.
• the fabrics are then allowed to soak in the second aqueous liquor.
• the second aqueous liquor contains as an essential ingredient a bleach.
• Other ingredients including surfactants and alkaline buffering agents may if desired be present, but that is not essential.
• Suitable bleaches include chlorine bleaches such as alkali metal hypochlorite, organic chloramides (eg alkali metal dichlorocyanurate (DCCA) or trichlorocyanurate) ; peracids, for example, N,N' -phthaloylaminoperoxycaproic acid (PAP), diperdodecanoic acid (DPDA) ; inorganic persalts, for example, alkali metal perborate or percarbonate, together with a bleach activator (peracid precursor) such as alkylsulphophenyl carbonate (ASPC) , cholylsulphophenylcarbonate (CSPC) , or SNOBS and similar materials. If desired, two or more bleaches may be used in combination.
• a bleach activator peracid precursor
• Preferred bleaches are alkali metal hypochlorite, alkali metal dichlorocyanurate (DCCA) , alkali metal perborate, and N,N' -phthaloylaminoperoxycaproic acid (PAP), and combinations thereof.
• Especially preferred bleaches are sodium DCCA, PAP, and combinations thereof.
• the second aqueous liquor may also contain a bleach stabiliser (heavy metal sequestrant) , for example, an aminopolycarboxylate or aminopolyphosphonate .
• a bleach stabiliser for example, an aminopolycarboxylate or aminopolyphosphonate .
• Preferred materials include EDTA, NTA, EDDS, and EDTMP and DETPMP (Dequests (Trade Mark) ) .
• a sequestrant is desirable or preferred when the bleach system includes PAP, but may be omitted if the bleach is NaDCCA.
• the concentration of bleach in the second aqueous liquor is preferably at least 0.05 g/litre, more preferably at least 0.1 g/litre and most preferably at least 0.2 g/litre.
• Surfactants may also be present. Especially preferred are anionic and/or nonionic surfactants . As in the first aqueous liquor, anionic surfactants alone and anionic/nonionic combinations in which the anionic surfactant predominates are preferred.
• the second aqueous liquor may also contain an alkaline buffering agent, which may suitably be selected from sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, sodium silicate and combinations of these.
• an alkaline buffering agent which may suitably be selected from sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sesquicarbonate, sodium silicate and combinations of these.
• builder and/or filler salts suitably selected from sodium tripolyphosphate, other sodium phosphates, sodium sulphate, and combinations of these.
• the second aqueous liquor may also comprise one or more detergent enzymes, preferably selected from proteases, cellulases and combinations thereof.
• the second aqueous liquor may be purely a bleach solution; or may to a greater or lesser extent contain other detergent or cleaning ingredients.
• the second aqueous liquor may be generated purely by dissolving bleach in water; at the other extreme, the seocnd aqueous liquor may be generated by dissolving or dispersing a fully formulated bleaching detergent composition, or a fully formulated non-bleaching detergent composition plus separate bleach, in water.
• the fabrics are allowed to soak in the second aqueous liquor for a period of at least 1 minute, preferably from 1 to 60 minutes, more preferably from 10 to 30 minutes.
• the fabrics are rinsed in water.
• a first particulate composition is used to prepare the first aqueous liquor, This suitably contains:
• the balance if any may be constituted by an inert filler such as sodium sulphate.
• the first particulate composition preferably contains from 0.5 to 10 wt% of potassium iodate, magnesium monoperoxyphthalate or potassium benzenecarboperoxoate .
• Potassium iodate is especially preferred and is effective in an amounts of from 0.5 wt%, preferably from 0.5 to 2 wt%.
• the first particulate composition preferably contains from 0.5 to 10 wt%, preferably from 0.5 to 6 wt% and more preferably from 0.5 to 4 wt%, of alkali metal dichlorocyanurate .
• the first particulate composition has a pH (of a 1% solution in demineralised water at 20°C) within the range of from 2.0 to 5.0, preferably within the range of from 3.5 to 4.5, and desirably about 4.0.
• a surfactant system is preferably present.
• this comprises one of more anionic and/or nonionic surfactants.
• compositions may, for example, contain the following ingredients in the following concentration ranges (suitable and preferred, wt%) :
• Anionic surfactant (LAS or AOS) 0-25 3-25
• Nonionic surfactant eg C i2 7EO 0-5 0-5
• the first particulate composition may suitably be used at a dosage of from 2 to 20 g, preferably from 5 to 10 g, per 250 g fabrics to prepare the first aqueous liquor.
• a second particulate composition is used to prepare the second aqueous liquor.
• This product comprises:
• the second particulate composition may suitably be used at a dosage of from 2 to 20 g, preferably from 5 to 10 g, per 250 g of fabrics.
• compositions may, for example, contain the following ingredients in the following concentration ranges (suitable and preferred, weight %) :
• Anionic surfactant (LAS or AOS) 10 -30 20 -25
• Nonionic surfactant eg C ⁇ 2 7E0
• Sequestrant eg Dequest 2047
• Fluorescer eg Tinopal CBS-X 0.1-1 0.2-0.5
• Protease granules 0-5 1-3 Cellulase granules 0.5 1.3
• Perfume 0.05-1. .0 0.1-0.5
• the two particulate compositions are separately packaged. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, they are packaged in unit dose form so that a single dose of each composition may be used per treatment. Especially preferred are sachets. Opening sachets of paper or nonwoven fabric are preferred. Sachets suitable for containing detergent powders and similar materials are widely disclosed in the prior art.
• the sachets containing the two particulate compositions are visually distinct, for example, colour coded.
• the sachets may then be packed together in common outer packaging, for example, a bag or carton, possibly grouped in pairs, while remaining readily distinguishable.
• a first particulate composition 1 (i) having a 1 wt% solution pH of 4.0 had the following formulation:
• a second particulate composition l(ii) had the following formulation:
• a first particulate composition 2 (i) having a 1 wt% solution pH of 4.0 had the following formulation:
• a second particulate composition 2 (ii) had the following formulation:
• a first particulate composition 3 (i) having a 1 wt% solution pH of 4.0 had the following formulation:
• a second particulate composition 3 (ii) had the following formulation:
• a first particulate composition 4 (i) had the following formulation:
• composition 4 (i) 7.5 g doses of Composition 4 (i) were packaged in sachets of nonwoven fabric.
• the 1% solution pH of Composition 1 (i) was 2.4-2.5.
• a second particulate composition 4 (ii) had the following formulation:
• Example 1 The stain removal performance of the product of Example 1 was compared with that of a commercially available laundry detergent powder sold on the Indian market .
• Stained cotton monitors were each soaked for 30 minutes in a 5.0 g/1 solution of composition 1(a), then soaked for 30 minutes in a 5.0 g/1 solution of composition 1(b), then rinsed twice in large volumes of water and allowed to dry.
• monitors carrying the same stains were each soaked for 30 minutes in a 5.0 g/1 solution of a commercially available Indian laundry detergent powder, rinsed twice in large volumes of water, and allowed to dry.
• the commercial product contained LAS, nonionic surfactant, sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, photobleach, protease, cellulase, lipase and conventional minor ingredients.

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