WO2006102984A1 - Colorants de nuançage - Google Patents

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WO2006102984A1
WO2006102984A1 PCT/EP2006/002300 EP2006002300W WO2006102984A1 WO 2006102984 A1 WO2006102984 A1 WO 2006102984A1 EP 2006002300 W EP2006002300 W EP 2006002300W WO 2006102984 A1 WO2006102984 A1 WO 2006102984A1
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Stephen Norman Batchelor
Jayne Michelle Bird
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Unilever Plc
Unilever N.V.
Hindustan Lever Limited
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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
    • C11D3/40—Dyes ; Pigments

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  • the present invention relates to the use of shading dyes in laundry treatment compositions.
  • a variety of dye types may be used for shading applications in laundry products.
  • direct and acid dyes may be used, and the chromophore may be chosen from triphenyl methane, azo and anthraquinone moieties.
  • Shading benefits function by providing a low level of colour to the white cloth, generally, blue or violet, that enhances the human perception of whiteness.
  • Acid blue 205 when used as a shading dye gives a high deposition to nylon.
  • Some acid anthraquinone dyes such as acid blue 80 are used to colour laundry detergent products but lack substantivity to fabric such as cotton.
  • WO05/003275 demonstrates that some acid dyes have the advantage of depositing to cotton but not building up on cotton over multiple washes. If a build up occurs an unacceptably high level of colour accrues on the cotton. Domestic washes contain a mixture of fabric types and in the application of acid shading dyes care must be taken that build up does not occur on fabric types other than cotton. For acid dyes particular attention must be paid to nylon, as acid dyes are widely used to dye nylon. Anthraquinone dyes show particular utility in dying nylon. Hence it would be expected that anthraquinone dyes would deposit more to nylon fabrics than to cotton fabrics, where they will build up over multiple washes.
  • anthraquinone dyes have the desirable property of not fading rapidly when exposed to light, so that the whiteness benefit is not lost during a day, or days.
  • the anthraquinone dyes are also shown to be more stable than azo, or triphenyl methane dyes. This means that the benefit may be enjoyed through out a day, or days of wearing.
  • the present invention provides a laundry treatment composition
  • a laundry treatment composition comprising from 2 to 60 wt % of a surfactant and from 0.0001 to 0.02 wt % of a dye selected from acid blue 62, 40 and 290.
  • the treatment composition comprises from 0.0001 to 0.02 wt%, preferably from 0.0005 to 0.01 wt% of the dye, more preferably from 0.001 to 0.01 wt% .
  • the composition should be such that a "unit dose” provides a suitable dose in solution that is within the thresholds given for the method described below.
  • a "unit dose” as used herein is a particular amount of the laundry composition used for a type of wash.
  • the unit dose may be in the form of a defined volume of powder, granules or tablet.
  • the method of the present invention employs the dye preferably at a concentration in the range from lOppb to 1 ppm, most preferably from lOOppb to 500ppb.
  • the low concentration used is such that the dye is at such a level that the dye provides a subtle shade to a fabric rather than what would be perceived by the public as a distinct colour change .
  • the ionic strength of the aqueous laundry treatment composition is between 0.001 to 0.5, more preferably between 0.02 to 0.2. It is preferred that this ionic strength is provided by dissolution of a "unit dose" of the laundry treatment composition.
  • the aqueous laundry treatment composition preferably has a pH in the range from 7 to 12, most preferably from 8 to 11.
  • the aqueous laundry treatment composition preferably has a and a surfactant present at a level in the range from 0.1 g/L to 4g/L, most preferably from 0.25 to 2.5g/L. It is preferred that this pH and surfactant level is provided by dissolution of a "unit dose" of the laundry treatment composition.
  • the laundry treatment composition in addition to the anthaquinone dye comprises the balance carriers and adjunct ingredients to 100 wt % of the composition.
  • surfactants may be surfactants, builders, foam agents, anti-foam agents, solvents, and enzymes.
  • the use and amounts of these components are such that the composition performs depending upon economics, environmental factors and use of the composition.
  • the composition may comprise a surfactant and optionally other conventional detergent ingredients.
  • the composition may also comprise an enzymatic detergent composition which comprises from 0.1 to 50 % by weight, based on the total detergent composition, of one or more surfactants.
  • This - surfactant system may in turn comprise 0 to 95 % by weight of one or more anionic surfactants and 5 to 100 % by weight of one or more nonionic surfactants.
  • the surfactant system may additionally contain amphoteric or zwitterionic detergent compounds, but this in not normally desired owing to their relatively high cost.
  • the enzymatic detergent composition according to the invention will generally be used as a dilution in water of about 0.05 to 2%.
  • the composition comprises between 2 to 60 wt % of a surfactant.
  • a surfactant may be chosen from the surfactants described "Surface Active Agents" Vol. 1, by Schwartz & Perry, Interscience 1949, Vol. 2 by Schwartz, Perry & Berch, Interscience 1958, in the current edition of "McCutcheon' s Emulsifiers and Detergents” published by Manufacturing Confectioners Company or in "Tenside-Taschenbuch” , H. Stache, 2nd Edn. , Carl Hauser Verlag, 1981.
  • Suitable nonionic detergent compounds which may be used include, in particular, the reaction products of compounds having a hydrophobic group and a reactive hydrogen atom, for example, aliphatic alcohols, acids, amides or alkyl phenols with alkylene oxides, especially ethylene oxide either alone or with propylene oxide.
  • Specific nonionic detergent compounds are C6-C2 2 alkyl phenol -ethylene oxide condensates, generally 5 to 25 EO, i.e. 5 to 25 units of ethylene oxide per molecule, and the condensation products of aliphatic C 8 - Ci ⁇ primary or secondary linear or branched alcohols with ethylene oxide, generally 5 to 40 EO.
  • Suitable anionic detergent compounds which may be used are usually water-soluble alkali metal salts of organic sulphates and sulphonates having alkyl radicals containing from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms, the term alkyl being used to include the alkyl portion of higher acyl radicals.
  • suitable synthetic anionic detergent compounds are sodium and potassium alkyl sulphates, especially those obtained by sulphating higher C 8 -Ci 8 alcohols, produced for example from tallow or coconut oil, sodium and potassium alkyl C 9 -C 20 benzene sulphonates, particularly sodium linear secondary alkyl C 10 -Ci 5 benzene sulphonates; and sodium alkyl glyceryl ether sulphates, especially those ethers of the higher alcohols derived from tallow or coconut oil and synthetic alcohols derived from petroleum.
  • the preferred anionic detergent compounds are sodium Cn-Ci 5 alkyl benzene sulphonates and sodium C 12 -Ci 8 alkyl sulphates.
  • surfactants such as those described in EP-A-328 177 (Unilever) , which show resistance to salting-out, the alkyl polyglycoside surfactants described in EP-A- 070 074, and alkyl monoglycosides .
  • Preferred surfactant systems are mixtures of anionic with nonionic detergent active materials, in particular the groups and examples of anionic and nonionic surfactants pointed out in EP-A-346 995 (Unilever) .
  • surfactant system that is a mixture of an alkali metal salt of a C 16 -C 18 primary alcohol sulphate together with a Ci 2 ⁇ Ci 5 primary alcohol 3-7 EO ethoxylate.
  • the nonionic detergent is preferably present in amounts greater than 10%, e.g. 25-90% by weight of the surfactant system.
  • Anionic surfactants can be present for example in amounts in the range from about 5% to about 40% by weight of the surfactant system.
  • the laundry treatment composition may comprise bleaching species.
  • the bleaching species for example, may selected from perborate and percarbonate . These peroxyl species may be further enhanced by the use of an activator, for example, TAED or SNOBS.
  • a transition metal catalyst may be used with the peroxyl species.
  • a transition metal catalyst may also be used in the absence of peroxyl species where the bleaching is termed to be via atmospheric oxygen, see, for example WO02/48301.
  • Photobleaches including singlet oxygen photobleaches, may be used with the laundry treatment composition. A preferred photobleach is vitamin K.
  • Example 1 Dye substantivity To determine the substantivity of a range of dyes the following experiment was performed. A stock solution of 1.5g/L of a base washing powder in water was created. The washing powder contained 18% NaLAS, 73% salts (silicate, sodium tri-poly-phosphate, sulphate, carbonate) , 3% minors including perborate, fluorescer and enzymes, remainder impurities and water. The solution was divided into 60ml aliquots and dye added to this to give a solution of optical density of approximately 1 (5 cm pathlength) at the maximum absorption of the dye in the visible lengths, 400-700nm. The optical density was measured using a UV-visible spectrometer.
  • a wide range of dyes may deposit to cotton.
  • acid blue 25, 205, 62, 281, 40, 290, 264, 171 and 225 shows a high level (>10%) of deposition.
  • the highest level of deposition (>20%) and hence the most efficient at colouring the cloth were acid blue 25, 62, 281 and 40.
  • Example 2 Deposition on Nylon The experiment of example 1 was repeated for the anthraquinone dyes listed below, but nylon was used as the fabric .
  • Acid dyes which deposit to nylon in the wash build up on the nylon over multiple washes and can overshade this fabric, as discussed in WO 2005/003275. It is therefore preferred that the deposition to nylon is much smaller than cotton, preferable at least 50% lower. Preferred dyes are those which have much lower deposition on nylon to cotton. Acid anthraquinone dyes are widely used to dye nylon but not cotton articles, and therefore would not be expected to have this characteristic. However surprisingly the data shows that acid blue acid blue 25, 62, 40 and 290, do have this property whilst showing good deposition to cotton.
  • Example 3 Dye Photofading Non-mercerised cotton cloth was dyed with the dyes listed in the table below. The dying was done from a wash solution containing the washing powder described in example 1 with dye added to solution to give a similar level of colour on the cloth (measured as the Delta E value relative to undyed cloth) . Following the dying the photostability of the dyes on cotton was investigated by irradiating the cloth for 5 hours in a weatherometer set to give 385 W/m 2 in the UV- visible range. The Delta E of the cloth was then remeasured, if the value had greatly dropped then the dye has been substantially photofaded.
  • the anthraquinone dye have a superior photostability on cotton than the azo or triphenylmethane dyes .

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L'invention concerne l'utilisation de colorants anthraquinoniques pour le nuançage de textiles.
PCT/EP2006/002300 2005-03-31 2006-03-13 Colorants de nuançage WO2006102984A1 (fr)

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EP2311919A1 (fr) * 2009-10-15 2011-04-20 Seiko Epson Corporation Composition d'encre et procédé de production de celle-ci
WO2011060109A1 (fr) 2009-11-11 2011-05-19 The Procter & Gamble Company Procédé de nettoyage

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