GB2042580A - Pre-spotting compositions - Google Patents

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GB2042580A
GB2042580A GB8004104A GB8004104A GB2042580A GB 2042580 A GB2042580 A GB 2042580A GB 8004104 A GB8004104 A GB 8004104A GB 8004104 A GB8004104 A GB 8004104A GB 2042580 A GB2042580 A GB 2042580A
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
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    • C11D3/26Organic compounds containing nitrogen
    • C11D3/30Amines; Substituted amines ; Quaternized amines
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D1/00Detergent compositions based essentially on surface-active compounds; Use of these compounds as a detergent
    • C11D1/66Non-ionic compounds
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16Organic compounds
    • C11D3/38Products with no well-defined composition, e.g. natural products
    • C11D3/386Preparations containing enzymes, e.g. protease or amylase
    • C11D3/38618Protease or amylase in liquid compositions only
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/16Organic compounds
    • C11D3/38Products with no well-defined composition, e.g. natural products
    • C11D3/386Preparations containing enzymes, e.g. protease or amylase
    • C11D3/38663Stabilised liquid enzyme compositions
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    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11DDETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
    • C11D3/00Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
    • C11D3/43Solvents

Abstract

Aqueous, liquid laundry pre-spotting compositions comprise a nonionic detergent, an organic solvent, water, enzymes and an alkanolamine. They are clear, stable, isotropic and efficaceous against fatty and proteinaceous soils.

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SPECIFICATION Laundry pre-treatment cleaning composition The present invention relates to a laundry pretreatment cleaning composition. Such a cleaning composition is used to treat, prior to the usual laundering and washing process with common detergent compositions, heavily soiled areas of the fabrics to be cleaned, so as to make the removal of the soil from those areas in the subsequent washing process more effective. Such areas are, for example, collars, cuffs, brims of shirts, underwear, which may be heavily soiled with human sebum, as well as industrial clothing, which may become heavily soiled by external soil-sources, not only fats and oils, but also blood and the like.
Such pre-treatment compositions, also known as pre-spotting compositions, are as a type of product not unknown in the detergent industry. They normally comprise a mixture of a suitable organic solvent and a suitable detergent active material, optionally with further desirable additives. Normally, the detergent-active material is a nonionic surfactant, and the organic solvent may be one of the many solvents known in the art. Typical examples of such pre-spotting compositions are described in German Patent Applications 2,021,677, 1,279,273 and in US Patent Specification 3,872,021. Most of these compositions are liquid compositions containing a relatively small amount of water.
However, although these products often satisfactorily remove several types of fatty soils and -stains, they do not do so when the garments are soiled with several types of other organic soils such as proteins, blood and the like.
The present invention aims at improving such products in their overall stain-removal properties, particularly as regards the removal of the above organic soils, besides the fatty soil.
It has already been proposed in US Patent Specification 3,953,353 to include an enzyme in a solid prespotting composition to enhance the stain-removal properties of common pre-spotting compositions. In US Patent Specification 3,741,902 a liquid prespotting composition is proposed which contains a liquid nonionic detergent, an organic solvent, and an enzyme. These prior proposals, however, dissuade the use of an aqueous liquid composition, since the presence of water may cause gelling, or may jeopardize the efficacy of the enzymes.
The present invention aims at providing an aqueous liquid enzyme-containing pre-spotting composition which is a clear, isotropic liquid and in which the enzymes maintain their efficacy. It has now been found that the incorporation of an alkanolamine in a pre-spotting composition containing a nonionic detergent, an organic solvent, an enzyme and water, provides for an efficaceous, stable, clear and isotropic liquid pre-spotting composition.
In German Patent Application 1,617,119 a liquid pre-spotting composition is disclosed, which contains a mixture of two different classes of nonionics, a solvent, a hydrotrope and optionally water. Among the solvents also amino alcohols are mentioned.
However, there is no disclosure of the possibility to include enzymes in these compositions, nor any indication that especially the amino alcohols should be selected, together with organic solvents, if one wishes to incorporate enzymes.
The present invention therefore provides a liquid water-containing pre-spotting composition, comprising: a) from 10-50% by weight of a nonionic detergent; b) from 20-60% by weight of an organic solvent; c) from 5-20% by weight of water; d) from 0.001-20% by weight of an enzyme; and e) from 0.5-20% by weight of an alkanol amine.
The nonionic detergent to be used in the present invention is an ethoxylated and/or propoxylated primary or secondary alcohol, or alkylphenol. The ethoxylation and/or propoxylation degree may vary rather widely, i.e. the nonionic detergent may contain from 130 moles of ethylene oxide or from 1-30 moles of propylene oxide. When the nonionic detergent contains both ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, the latter is present in smaller amounts than the former. The primary or secondary alcohol contains from 11-24 carbon atoms. Mixtures of nonionic detergents may also be used.Typical examples of suitable nonionics are linear sec. C,1-C,s alcohols, condensed with 7,9 or 12 moles of ethylene oxide, linear primary C,2-C,s alcohols condensed with 7 or 12 moles of ethylene oxide, Cx3-Cr5 primary alcohols, condensed with 7 moles of ethylene oxide plus propylene oxide, in which the weight ratio of ethylene oxide to propylene oxide is 88:12 or 92:8.
The preferred amount of nonionic detergent in the composition is from 20-40% by weight.
The organic solvents to be used in the invention are the well-known solvents, miscible with the above nonionic detergents. Typical examples are drycleaning solvents such as petroleum distillates, carbontetrachloride, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, turpentine, cyclohexane, benzine; furthermore paraffins such as decane, dodecane; alcohols such as isopropanol, hexanol, tridecanol; ketones, such as acetone, glycols such as ethylene glycols, and ethers such as diethylene glycol monomethylether.
A preferred solvent is a high-boiling aliphatic hydrocarbon having a specific gravity of 0.76, a boiling range of 187-212"C and a flame point of 58"C (Pensky Martens). This solvent is manufactured and sold under the tradename "Shellsol T" by the Shell Company. Mixtures of different solvents may also be used. The preferred amount of solvent is from 25-50% by weight The enzymes to be used in the present invention are proteolytic, amylolytic, lipolytic or cellulolytic enzymes or mixtures thereof. They are preferably of bacterial or fungal origin.Typical examples are Alcalase OR, Esperase < 9, Maxatase {), all pro- teases from B. subtilis, Maxamyl Qn and Thermamyl (), all amylases of B. subtilis or B. licheniformis, Lipase My 3, , a bacterial lipase ex Meiji Co., Japan, and Meicelase R, a fungal cellulase ex Meiji Co., Japan.
The amount of enzyme is mostly governed by its activity, and is by weight from 0.001-20%, preferably 0.001-10%. For proteases a preferred amount is equal to 1-15 glycine units/mg.
The alkanol amine to be used in the present invention is a mono-, di- ortrialkanol amine in which the alkanol group is a methanol, ethanol, propanol or isopropanol group. A preferred alkanol amine is triethanol amine. The preferred amount of alkanol amine is from 5-15% by weight. The composition of the invention may furthermore comprise other desirable ingredients in minor amounts.
Such ingredients are perfumes, dyes, germicides, evaporation retarders, hydrotropes, soil-suspending agents, and flash-point increasing agents.
The compositions of the invention are normally used priorto a main-wash operation; they can be applied to the fabrics to be treated by simply applying the liquid thereon with the finger or dipping it on.
The invention will now be further illustrated by way of Example.
Example I The following liquid pre-spotting composition was prepared as follows: The enzyme was dispersed in water, and subse quentlytriethanol amine was added. The resulting mixture was stirred into a mixture of the nonionic and the solvent at room temperature.
% by weight C1315 primary alcohol condensed with 7 moles of ethylene oxide plus propylene oxide (weight ratio of EO:PO=92:8) 40 Solvent "Shellsol rx, a high boiling hydrocarbon with a boiling range of 187-212"C 40 Alcalase tD ex Novo Industri AS, a bacterial protease from B. subtilis in an amount, equivalent to 10 glycine units/mg water 10 triethanol amine 10 This composition, which was a stable, non-gelling composition, was used to pre-treat soiled test pieces, which were subsequently washed in a normal washing machine under normal conditions. A comparison was made with test-pieces, also washed under the same conditions, but without a pretreatment, or with a pre-treatment with the above composition, in which the enzymes had been left out.
The test pieces were standard test pieces, soiled with a standard soil (AS 10, Empa 116 or Empa and blood). The pre-spotting composition was applied by dipping it on the dry fabric, at ambient temperature.
The test pieces were then washed in a Philips HN 3156 washing machine, using the C 4/5 programme in 121. water at 8" German hardnessattemperatures of 20,40 and 60"C with a commercially available heavy-duty detergent powder with and without proteolytic enzymes.
The following results were obtained (the figures denote mean detergency values in %).
TABLE I
\ product detergent powder teop detergent powder with without enzymes P enzymes (10 GU/mg) Test fabri 0 2a 4 OC 0 2 4 prog.
AS 10 1 17 18 41 20 1 35 35 50 EMPA-Blood 1 46 43 71 20 1 37 64 72 Cs 1 15 13 22 20 1 2 20 2 25 23 32 As 10 1 25 25 49 40 1 50 50 55 EDPA-Blood 1 35 51 66 40 1 45 75 74 Cs EMPA-116 l 26 26 34 40 l 36 36 39 As 10 1 34 28 51 60 1 55 56 56 EMPkBlood 1 37 69 66 1 44 67 75 C4 EMPA-116 1 25 33 35 1 39 41 42 * 0 = no pre-spotting composition used 2 = pre-spotting composition without enzymes used 4 = pre-spotting composition with enzymes used Example II Soaking tests were carried out with and without the (enzymatic) pre-treatment compositions of Example I, with and without an enzymatic detergent composition. The results are shown below: TABLE II
Tapluater (80 ) DRwm-tnp." I I'ftW,at.;bfG:/f:d:,,g';te,Pz7 PSiO E-RLMIT EPA-II6 PSIO OIALOOI A-116 I I I \ pre-tatnent 0 2 Ir O Z 4 0 2 4 0 2 4 0 2 0 2 4 \ puduet i h. 1( 8 20 n 7 97 1 4 23 2 7 22 3 3I) 61 9 11 26 15 her. 0 5 23 29 u 7S 0 4 29 S9 24 28 59 65 61 31 31 32 rata are Sewn as B-age dc-terA=ncy= Rn-Rr x - RS - RS The data of Table I showed that a significantly improved detergency was obtained with the composition of the invention. On AS 10 and EMPA-1 16 the non-enzymatic pre-spotting composition did not show much improvement, and on EMPA-blood it sometimes showed a clear increase in detergency, depending on whether the main wash was carried out with an enzymatic or non-enzymatic detergent powder. The pre-treatment with the enzymatic prespotting composition of the invention gave on all test pieces and under all test conditions a clear, unexpected detergency improvement.
The same overall picture was shown by the data of Table II.

Claims (6)

1. An aqueous liquid laundry pre-treatment cleaning composition comprising, by weight, a) from 10-50% of a nonionic detergent, b) from 20-60% of an organic solvent, c) from 5-20% of water d) from 0.001-20% of an amylolytic, lipolytic or proteolytic enzyme, e) from 0.5-20% of a mono-, di- ortrialkanolamine in which the alkanol group is methanol, ethanol, propanol or isopropanol.
2. A composition according to claim 1, comprising, by weight, 2040% of a) 25-50% of b) 5-20% of c) 0.001-10% of d) 5-15% of e).
3. A composition according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the nonionic detergent is a C13-Crs primary alcohol, condensed with 7 moles of ethylene oxide plus propylene oxide, the weight ratio of ethylene oxide to propylene oxide being 92:8.
4. A composition according to anyone of claims 1-3, wherein the solvent is an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a specific gravity of 0.76, a boiling range of 187-2120C and a flame point (Pensky Martens) of 58no.
5. A composition according to anyone of claims 14, wherein the alkanolamine is triethanolamine.
6. A composition according to anyone of claims 1-5, substantially as described in Example 1.
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