| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 510438000 | Heterogeneous arrangement (e.g., mixture of macroscopic particles differing in physical or chemical composition, etc.; liquid component encapsulated in or sorbed on solid material, etc.) | 44 |
| 20080293613 | Premoistened cleaning disposable substrate and method of incorporation of a cleaning composition into said substrate - The present invention is based in part on the discovery that impregnating a cleaning substrate with a nonionic, linear polymer unexpectedly improves the cleaning efficacy of the article and prevents redeposition of soil and dirt onto the cleaned hard or soft surface. The nonionic, linear polymer is, for example, polyacrylamide. In addition, a method of incorporation of a cleaning composition into said substrate is disclosed. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090018047 | FOAMING HAND SPONGE FOR BODILY CLEANSING WITH COLOR CHANGE INDICATOR - A cleansing product suitable for making the cleaning of both inanimate and animate surfaces more fun and effective for children is disclosed. Specifically, the cleansing product is capable of expanding in volume under certain temperature conditions, and in some embodiments, can additionally include a coloring agent, providing a color change to indicate when sufficient cleansing has been performed. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090018048 | FOAMING HAND SPONGE WITH COLOR CHANGE INDICATOR - A cleansing product suitable for making the cleaning of both inanimate and animate surfaces more fun and effective for children is disclosed. Specifically, the cleansing product is capable of expanding in volume under certain temperature conditions, and in some embodiments, can additionally include a coloring agent, providing a color change to indicate when sufficient cleansing has been performed. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20100249013 | ENCAPSULATED ACTIVE INGREDIENTS FOR CLEANING APPLICATIONS - Described are encapsulated time-release cleaning agents, comprising active agents that, when combined with an aqueous phase, have slight delay release, moderate delay release, and/or extended delay release. The invention also relates to the manufacture and use of such compositions. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110105378 | ENCAPSULATES - Encapsulates, compositions, packaged products and displays comprising such encapsulates, and processes for making and using such encapsulates, compositions, packaged products and displays. Such compositions have improved deposition and retention properties that may impart improved benefit characteristics to a composition and/or situs. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110294716 | Colored Speckles For Use In Granular Detergents - This invention relates to non-bleeding, non-staining colored speckles for use in granular or powdered detergents such as laundry detergents and automatic dishwashing detergents. The colored speckles are comprised of a salt or salt-containing carrier and a coloring agent and are characterized as being substantially uniformly colored throughout the cross-sectional volume of the speckle. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120252715 | Dissolvable, Personal Cleansing Compositions - A solid, dissolvable cleansing composition is disclosed. The cleansing composition includes a viscosity of about 1,000,000 to about 50,000,000 Pascal-seconds (PaS). The cleansing composition comprises about 25% or more, by weight of the cleansing composition, of a surfactant with an active content of about 60% or greater and about 5% or more, by weight of the cleansing composition, of a co-surfactant. The cleansing composition further includes about 30% or more, by weight of the cleansing composition, of expandable microspheres. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130017987 | GRANULAR WASHING, CLEANING OR TREATMENT AGENT ADDITIVE - A granular washing, cleaning or treatment agent additive, comprising 5 to 90 wt % of a particulate carrier material having an oil absorption capacity of at least 100 ml/100 g and 10 to 80 wt % of capsules in which one or more beneficial agents are enclosed, can be produced in that the particulate carrier material is fluidized, a pourable capsule preparation is applied to the carrier material, and the mixture thus obtained is granulated. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130210694 | HYDROPHOBIC SILICAS AS SQUEAKINESS ENHANCERS IN CLEANSING COMPOSITIONS - A cleanser composition is provided which includes:
| 08-15-2013 |
| 20130267452 | Colored Speckles For Use In Granular Detergents - This invention relates to non-bleeding, non-staining colored speckles for use in granular or powdered detergents such as laundry detergents and automatic dishwashing detergents. The colored speckles are comprised of a salt or salt-containing carrier and a coloring agent and are characterized as being substantially uniformly colored throughout the cross-sectional volume of the speckle. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130267453 | LOW STREAK DEGREASING COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to an aqueous composition comprising three components. The first component is a primary detergent, non-ionic surfactant with a critical packing parameters (CPP) of ≧0.95. The second component is a inorganic particle whose surface has been modified to improve stability. The third necessary component is a secondary surfactant with a CPP of ≦0.85. The secondary surfactant can function to improve the overall cleaning performance, the streaking performance and provide overall formulation stability. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130324455 | SOLIDIFICATION MECHANISM INCORPORATING IONIC LIQUIDS - A solid cleaning composition including an ionic liquid and a hardening agent is provided. The compositions are substantially free of alkyl phenol ethoxylates, including nonyl phenol ethoxylates. The solid cleaning compositions remain solid at room temperature despite the inclusion of ionic liquids, providing an effective, biorenewable, environmentally friendly alternative to nonyl phenol ethoxylate cleaning compositions. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140235525 | Composition Comprising Microcapsules - A liquid composition having a microcapsule, the microcapsule having an aldehyde-containing resin, and one or more formaldehyde scavenger which reacts with formaldehyde to achieve more than about 60% reaction completeness in about 15 minutes time at pH 8 and at about 21° C. A liquid composition having a microcapsule, the microcapsule having an aldehyde-containing resin, one or more sulfur-based formaldehyde scavenger and optionally a non-sulfur-based formaldehyde scavenger. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140287978 | MICROCAPSULES AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to perfume-containing microcapsules having both an aqueous inner phase and an oily inner phase, which can be used in home or personal care products, as well as to the process for producing these microcapsules and the consumer products comprising them. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140342972 | ENCAPSULATES - The present application relates processes that can be used to produce encapsulated benefit agents comprising a core and a shell that encapsulates said core, encapsulated benefit agents produced by such process and products comprising such encapsulated benefit agents as well as methods of making and using such products. Such process can be used to produce particles that offer the desired protection and release benefits when used in a variety of products. | 11-20-2014 |
| 510439000 | Package or dosing unit (e.g., sachet, wrapped cake soap, etc.) | 12 |
| 20100144584 | WATER-ACTIVATED "GREEN" CLEANING WIPE - Eco-friendly, or “green”, cleaning wipes are disclosed. The wipes may include a substrate and a green concentrated aqueous cleaning composition impregnated therein. The wipes are dry to the touch before they are activated by water and applied to inanimate surfaces for cleaning. Because of the green concentrated cleaning composition and water-activation just before application, the disclosed wipes may clean larger surface areas and have longer shelf lives and lower weights for easy transportation, packaging and handling than conventional wet wipes that are pre-loaded with a diluted cleaning composition. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20120135911 | Acetylation of Chitosan - A process for making modified N-acetylated chitosan comprising the steps of:
| 05-31-2012 |
| 20120208740 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A SOLID FORM OF ACETIC ACID AND PRODUCTS THEREOF - The present invention discloses a method of preparing a solid form of acetic acid. The method at least includes the steps of combining a solid acid and a metal acetate with a solvent to form a slurry. After a predetermined period of time, a solid form of acetic acid is recovered. The present invention also includes a solid product of acetic acid produced by the above-mentioned method. There is also disclosed a formulation including the solid product of acetic acid according to the present invention. Further, there is disclosed a cleaning system including the formulation according to the present invention. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120302489 | FUNCTIONALIZED POLYVINYL ALCOHOL FILMS - A film-forming composition includes a blend of polyvinyl alcohol and hydrophobically modified solution polymer or a water soluble polymer including an anionic ethylenically unsaturated monomer wherein the composition has a pH of about 5 or less. Further included are self-supporting materials, such as films, derived from the compositions and formulations including at least one volume-filling formulation surrounded by the self-supporting material. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130116162 | ENZYME CLEANING COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF USE - A cleaning composition for treating a surface comprises a purified enzyme and an enzyme denaturant system. The enzyme denaturant system is configured to denature the purified enzyme such that any residue remaining on the surface after the treatment of the surface is virtually free of active purified enzymes. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130196892 | PACKAGED PARTICULATE DETERGENT COMPOSITION - A packaged particulate detergent composition, wherein the composition comprises greater than 40 wt % detergent surfactant, at least 70% by number of the particles comprising a core, comprising mainly surfactant, and around the core, a water soluble coating in an amount of from 10 to 45 wt % based on the coated particle, each coated particle having perpendicular dimensions x, y and z, wherein x is from 0.2 to 2 mm, y is from 2.5 to 8 mm, and z is from 2.5 to 8 mm, the packaged particles being substantially the same shape and size as one another. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20140038877 | Portable Cleaning Article and the Forming method thereof - A portable cleaning article includes a coated capsule and cleaning agent, in which the cleaning agent is contained within the coated capsule, the characteristic in that: the coated capsule having a thin-film layer and an oil layer that is coated over the surface of the thin-film layer to form a portable cleaning article. When the coated capsule is brought into contact with water by the user, the coated capsule dissolves in water for the cleaning agent to exert its cleaning function. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140057825 | FUNCTIONALIZED SUBSTRATES COMPRISING PERFUME MICROCAPSULES - A functionalized substrate. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140315776 | Container for use in a washing process - The present invention provides a deformable water soluble or water dispersible outer pouch containing a detergent composition, the detergent composition comprising at least one phase in solid form and at least one liquid phase with at least one solid phase predominantly surrounded by a liquid phase. The pouches exhibit good physical and chemical stability and can also provide for sequential release of its ingredients. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140315777 | DETERGENT PACKET - A detergent packet includes a liquid detergent contained within a water soluble pouch. The water soluble pouch is formed from a film including at least one of a polymer of hydrolyzed vinyl acetate and a copolymer of hydrolyzed vinyl acetate and a second monomer. The liquid detergent includes between 5 wt % and 60 wt % water and between 0.5 wt % and 15 wt % inorganic sulfate. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140323383 | POUCH COMPRISING A LIQUID DETERGENT COMPOSITION - A pouch comprising a water-soluble film and a liquid detergent composition contained within the water-soluble film. The liquid detergent composition comprising: a) an alkanolamine; b) a sulfite; c) a perfume oil comprising aldehyde or ketone; and d) a sulfur-containing pro-perfume compound, delivers improved stability and perfume longevity. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150024992 | Washing Capsule For Providing A Washing Composition To A Machine - The invention provides a washing capsule for providing washing compositions to a machine, the capsule comprising a rigid water-soluble shell; a liquid or gel of a first washing composition within the shell; and a solid tablet of a second washing composition within the liquid, but not connected to the shell. | 01-22-2015 |
| 510440000 | Bar or cake (e.g., having segments of different color, solubility, etc.) | 2 |
| 20090005290 | Extruded Personal Washing Bars With Plate-Like Inclusions - An extruded personal washing bar providing unique combination of sensory attributes, said bar comprising:
| 01-01-2009 |
| 20150057215 | SOAP KIT FOR ASSSEMBLY - A soap kit that includes a plurality of soap pieces for assembly. Each soap piece is configured to engage with a geometrically conforming portion of at least another complementary soap piece, such that the soap pieces can be collectively arranged to form a unified integrated soap unit. The soap pieces may be engaged with one another while in a wet state to facilitate their adhesion. The soap pieces may then be transitioned from a wet state to a dry state to reinforce the adhesion and facilitate solidification of the soap unit. The integrated soap unit may depict a representation of an image or constitute a representation of an object. | 02-26-2015 |
| 510441000 | Coated or encapsulated solid material, or process of preparing | 14 |
| 20080207479 | Modified Sodium Carbonate Carrier Material - A process for preparing a modified sodium carbonate carrier material, the process comprising the steps of: (i) preparing an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate; an effective amount of a crystal growth modifier selected from the group comprising polyacrylates, polyaspartates and polyaspartic acids; and optionally one or more anionic and/or nonionic detergent-active compounds, one or more detergency builders and/or one or more further heat-insensitive detergent components; whereby crystal growth-modified sodium carbonate is formed; (ii) drying the solution to form a dry solid carrier material; (iii) optionally incorporating into the dried solid carrier material one or more detergent components in liquid form and/or mixing the dried solid material with one or more solid detergent components. Also, a modified sodium carbonate carrier material comprising: dry inorganic solids consisting of habit modified sodium carbonate; and polyaspartic acid, or a sodium salt of polyaspartic acid, wherein the weight ratio of polyaspartic acid to the dry inorganic solids is in the ratio from 0.5:100 to 10:100. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080305982 | Benefit agent containing delivery particle - The present invention relates to benefit agent containing delivery particles, compositions comprising said particles, and processes for making and using the aforementioned particles and compositions. When employed in compositions, for example, cleaning or fabric care compositions, such particles increase the efficiency of benefit agent delivery, there by allowing reduced amounts of benefit agents to be employed. In addition to allowing the amount of benefit agent to be reduced, such particles allow a broad range of benefit agents to be employed. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100009893 | Microcapsules - Microcapsules comprising a core of fragrance and a shell of aminoplast polymer, the composition of the shell being from 75-100% of a thermoset resin comprising 50-90%, preferably from 60-85%, of a terpolymer and from 10-50%, preferably from 10-25%, of a polymeric stabilizer; the terpolymer comprising: (a) from 20-60%, preferably 30-50% of moieties derived from at least one polyamine, (b) from 3-50%, preferably 5-25% of moieties derived from at least one aromatic polyol; and (c) from 20-70%, preferably 40-60% of alkylene or alkylenoxy moieties having 1 to 6 methylene units, preferably 1 to 4 methylene units and most preferably 1 methylene unit; the microcapsules additionally optionally comprising up to 25%, preferably up to 10% of a cationic polymer. The microcapsules are useful for the storage and dissemination of fragrance in various products, such as laundry products and fabric care products. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100160205 | Low-Density Cleaning Substrate - The present invention is directed to a low-density substrate, which has an optimized pore volume distribution. The optimized pore volume distribution allows the substrate to hold at least 50 percent of its cumulative volume within pores with a radius size of about 110 to 250 microns. The optimized pore volume distribution can also be characterized by having a dry fibrous web that absorbs less than 20 percent of the cumulative volume of the fibrous web at a pore radius of 75 microns. The optimized pore volume distribution of the substrate enables it to controllably release a fluid composition effectively onto a surface. The basis weight of the substrate is about 80 to 20 gsm and the density of the substrate is below 0.1 g/cc. The substrate may be a pre-loaded wipe, which is either moistened by a consumer prior to use or moistened prior to packaging. The composition loaded onto the substrate may contain dry and/or liquid compositions preferably for cleaning hard or soft surfaces. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110086792 | PARTICLE CONTAINING ALKALI - The present invention relates to [1] alkali agent-containing particles which are free from deterioration of dissolvability in water and excellent in anti-caking property and which include (a) particles containing an alkali agent and having an average particle size of from 150 to 1000 μm, and a layer of (b) clay mineral particles exhibiting a water impregnation capacity of 200% by mass or more as calculated according to the following method and having an average particle size of from 1 to 200 μm, the layer being formed on a surface of the respective particles (a); and [2] a method for suppressing caking of the alkali agent-containing particles including the step of forming a layer of the clay mineral particles (b) on a surface of the respective particles (a): | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110152164 | Wet Wipe Having Improved Cleaning Capabilities - A wet wipe that is formed from a nonwoven structure that comprises a matrix of at least one meltblown fibrous material and at least one secondary fibrous material is disclosed. A weight ratio of the at least one secondary fibrous material to the at least one meltblown fibrous material may be between about 40/60 to about 90/10. Additionally, the nonwoven structure has a first side with a textured surface having a three-dimensional texture that includes a plurality of peaks and valleys and a second side with a substantially planar surface. The nonwoven structure includes about 150 to about 600 wt. % of a liquid solution to prepare a wet wipe. The difference in a cleaning pickup percentage between the first side and the second side of the wet wipe is less than 30%, more desirably less than 20%, and even more desirably less than 15%. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110224127 | Perfume Encapsulate, a Laundry Detergent Composition Comprising a Perfume Encapsulate, and a Process for Preparing a Perfume Encapsulate - A process for preparing an encapsulate, the process having the steps of: (i) emulsifying a hydrophobic perfume-polymer complex in water to form an oil in water emulsion; (ii) at least partially dissolving an encapsulating material in water; (iii) removing at least some water from the oil in water emulsion comprising the hydrophobic perfume-polymer complex and the encapsulating material to form an encapsulate. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20130053296 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SOLID WITH SUFFICIENTLY LOW HYGROSCOPICITY WHICH COMPRISES GLUTAMIC ACID-N,N-DIACETIC ACID (GLDA) OR A DERIVATIVE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a solid with sufficiently low hygroscopicity which comprises glutamic acid-N,N-diacetic acid (GLDA) or derivatives and/or salts thereof, and a method for its production. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20140323384 | Composition - A particulate material comprising a bleach catalyst wherein the particles of the bleach catalyst have a coating and the weight ratio of the coating to the bleach catalyst is in the range of from 10-60 wt %. The particulate material exhibits good stability. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150038398 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT PARTICLE - The present invention provides lenticular or disc detergent particles comprising surfactant, inorganic salts and pigment, wherein the inorganic salts are present on the detergent particles as a coating and the surfactant and the pigment are present as a core. The particles show reduced staining. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150072915 | POUCHES COMPRISING APERTURED FILM WALL MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME - Pouches, for example pouches that contain one or more active agents, such as a fabric care active agent or dishwashing active agent and/or detergent compositions, and more particularly pouches employing an apertured film wall material and methods for making same, are provided. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150094253 | Phthalocyanine particles and the use thereof - The present invention relates to encapsulated phthalocyanine particles, to a process for the preparation thereof, compositions comprising such particles and washing agent formulations. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150337246 | TWO-STAGE NEUTRALIZATION PROCESS FOR FORMING DETERGENT GRANULES, AND PRODUCTS CONTAINING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a two-stage neutralization process for forming detergent granules comprising a linear alkyl benzene sulphonate anionic surfactant with improved flowability and simplified processing requirements. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20160108346 | MICROCAPSULES CONTAINING A GAS-GENERATING PHOTOLABILE KETOACID OR KETOESTER AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to water-dispersable microcapsules comprising an oil phase, e.g. a perfume, containing a photolabile α-ketoacid or α-ketoester capable of generating a gas upon exposure to light. The gas is able to cause an extension or the breaking of the microcapsule allowing the release of the oil phase and thus increasing the long-lastingness of the odor perception. The present invention concerns also the use of said microcapsules in perfumery as well as the perfuming compositions or perfumed articles comprising the invention's microcapsules to provide a prolonged release of fragrant molecules. | 04-21-2016 |
| 510444000 | Agglomerated product or component, or process of preparing | 1 |
| 20090124532 | Detergent Granule and Process for Production Thereof - [Problems] To provide detergent granules capable of suppressing paste formability and having low exothermic property; a process for producing the detergent granules; and a high-bulk density detergent composition containing the detergent granules. [Solving Means] Detergent granules containing a sodium linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS-Na), sodium sulfate undetected by X-ray diffraction method and sodium sulfate detected by X-ray diffraction method, wherein a molar ratio of [sodium sulfate undetected by X-ray diffraction method]/[LAS-Na] is from 0.1 to 1.0, and a molar ratio of [sodium sulfate detected by X-ray diffraction method]/[chemically quantified sodium sulfate] is from 0.5 to 0.9; a process for producing detergent granules, including the step of dry-neutralizing a mixture of a liquid acid precursor of a sodium linear alkylbenzenesulfonate (LAS-S) and sulfuric acid with a water-soluble solid alkali inorganic substance in a mixture containing powdery anhydrous sodium sulfate, wherein sulfuric acid is present in a ratio of 0.1 to 1.0 mol to one mol of the LAS-S, and the powdery anhydrous sodium sulfate is present in a ratio of from 0.5 to 0.9 mol to one mol of a total of the powdery anhydrous sodium sulfate and sulfuric acid; and a high-bulk density detergent composition having a bulk density of 500 g/L or more, containing the detergent granules as defined above, or detergent granules obtainable by the process as defined above. | 05-14-2009 |
