US 11,718,816 B2
Microplastic-free, opacified liquid laundry detergents
Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Fairfield, CT (US); and Janet Coope-Epstein, Trumbull, CT (US)
Assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Duesseldorf (DE)
Filed by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Duesseldorf (DE)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/102,094.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/938,707, filed on Nov. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0155883 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. C11D 1/04 (2006.01); C11D 1/22 (2006.01); C11D 1/29 (2006.01); C11D 1/72 (2006.01); C11D 1/83 (2006.01); C11D 1/831 (2006.01); C11D 11/00 (2006.01); C11D 17/00 (2006.01); C11D 1/38 (2006.01)
CPC C11D 17/0008 (2013.01) [C11D 1/29 (2013.01); C11D 1/38 (2013.01); C11D 1/831 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
 
1. A detergent composition comprising:
A. a surfactant component present in an amount of about 7 to about 60 weight percent of a total weight of said detergent composition and comprising;
(1) an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide;
(2) at least one non-ionic surfactant comprising an alkoxylated alcohol;
and
(3) at least one anionic surfactant comprising a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate;
B. water present in a total amount of from about 5 to about 90 weight percent of a total weight of said detergent composition; and
C. a free fatty acid component present in an amount of from about 1 to about 15 weight percent of a total weight of said detergent composition,
D. a magnesium cation component present in an amount of from about 0.005 to about 0.3 weight percent of a total weight of said detergent composition,
wherein said detergent composition has a turbidity value greater than 250 NTU at 75° F.