Light-duty liquid or gel dishwashing detergent compositions having beneficial skin conditioning, skin feel and rinsability aesthetics

US6162778A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Kirsten Louise McKillop · Cincinnati, US
• Peter Robert Foley · Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
• Paul Jerome Crabtree · Mason, US
• James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent · Lasne, BE
• Joanna Margaret Clarke · Brussels, BE
• Suchareeta Patil · Brussels, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 2, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 19, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 2, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D3/3409
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Liquid and gel dishwashing detergent compositions which exhibit good cleaning performance and desirable skin feel and rinsability aesthetics are disclosed. Such compositions comprise detergent surfactants, a nonionic surfactant- and hydrotrope-containing skin feel/rinsability enhancing system and small amounts of selected skin conditioning protease enzymes. Such compositions additionally will preferably contain suds boosters and divalent metal cations.