US 11,932,832 B2
Liquid hand dishwashing detergent composition
Karl Ghislain Braeckman, Gerpinnes (BE); Jeremie Robert Marcel Gummel, Brussels (BE); Christopher Hebden Nunn, Egham (GB); Pieter Jan Maria Saveyn, Destelbergen (BE); Jonathan Richard Stonehouse, Windlesham (GB); and Mauro Vaccaro, Brussels (BE)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/066,597.
Claims priority of application No. 19202433 (EP), filed on Oct. 10, 2019; application No. 20168365 (EP), filed on Apr. 7, 2020; and application No. 20168369 (EP), filed on Apr. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0108158 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. C11D 1/02 (2006.01); C11D 1/12 (2006.01); C11D 1/14 (2006.01); C11D 1/29 (2006.01); C11D 1/72 (2006.01); C11D 1/722 (2006.01); C11D 1/75 (2006.01); C11D 1/83 (2006.01); C11D 1/835 (2006.01); C11D 1/88 (2006.01); C11D 1/94 (2006.01); C11D 3/37 (2006.01); C11D 1/48 (2006.01); C11D 1/90 (2006.01)
CPC C11D 3/3707 (2013.01) [C11D 1/8355 (2013.01); C11D 1/945 (2013.01); C11D 1/48 (2013.01); C11D 1/72 (2013.01); C11D 1/722 (2013.01); C11D 1/75 (2013.01); C11D 1/90 (2013.01); C11D 2111/14 (2024.01)] 20 Claims
 
1. A liquid hand dishwashing cleaning composition comprising:
a. from about 5% to about 50% by weight of the total composition of a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system comprises from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight of the total composition of an alkyl ethoxylated nonionic surfactant of formula:
R1(PO)n(EO)mOH  (II)
wherein: R1 is a C8 to C19 alkyl chain; m is a number average of from 13 to about 50, and n is a number average of from 1 to about 6, wherein in the alkyl ethoxylated nonionic surfactant of formula (II), R1 is branched and selected from the group consisting of:
i. R1 is

OG Complex Work Unit Chemistry
wherein
R2 is a C4 to C9 alkyl chain;
R3 is a C2 to C7 alkyl chain;
with the proviso that R2 comprises 2 more carbon atoms than R3;
ii. R1 is

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wherein:
R4 is a C4 to C11 alkyl chain;
R5 is a C3 to C7 alkyl chain; and
iii. mixtures thereof; and
b. from about 0.1% to about 5.0% by weight of the total composition of at least one ethyleneoxide (EO)— propyleneoxide (PO)— ethyleneoxide (EO) triblock co-polymer of Formula (I):
(EO)x-(PO)y-(EO)x  (I)
wherein:
each x is independently a number average between about 3 and about 50; and
y is a number average between 5 and 60.