Rinse-added fabric treatment composition, kit containing such, and method of use therefor

US7026278B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Kenneth Nathan Price · Wyoming, US
• Jean-Luc Philippe Bettiol · Etterbeek, BE
• Nicola Brown · Birtley, GB
• Simon Green · Dundee, GB
• Li Li · Beijing, CN
• Helen Frances O'Connor · Loveland, US
• Massimo Morini · Tervuren, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 11, 2006
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D2111/12
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A rinse-added fabric treatment composition having a rinse aid increases the rinse capacity of an aqueous rinse bath solution for removing laundry residue from laundered fabrics. When properly diluted in water, the rinse-added fabric treatment composition provides a rinse bath solution having a rinsing capacity of greater than 1. In addition, a rinse-added fabric treatment composition reduces the surfactant residue on a fabric, and includes from about 0.05% to about 10% of a residue reduction agent, a suds suppresser, and the balance adjunct ingredients. The residue reduction agent is selected from a cationic residue reduction agent, a zwitterionic residue reduction agent, and a combination thereof. Moreover, methods for reducing surfactant residue on fabric and a method for reducing the amount of water used in a rinsing step of a laundry process are included. A kit for improving the rinsing capacity of water includes a rinse-added fabric treatment composition and an instruction set.