Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification – Bleaching – Chemical
Patent
1997-03-11
1999-05-11
Lieberman, Paul
Bleaching and dyeing; fluid treatment and chemical modification
Bleaching
Chemical
510284, 510312, 510375, 510417, 25218638, C11D3/395;7/54;1/02;1/83
Patent
active
059023546
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a liquid bleaching composition comprising a peroxide bleach. The compositions are useful for a variety of applications. The compositions are formulated so as to avoid itching of the skin of the user using the composition, when it comes in contact with the composition.
BACKGROUND
Bleaching with peroxygen bleaches is well known in the art. Peroxygen bleaching finds a variety of applications, such as bleaching fabrics or, in the household, treating hard surfaces or carpets. A major drawback of liquid peroxygen bleaches is that they may bleach the skin of the person using the composition and whiten it, if they come in contact with the composition. This whitening is fully reversible, but it also causes temporary itching of the skin.
It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a liquid peroxygen bleach composition which is formulated so as to avoid this temporary itching phenomenon.
In response, it has now been found that the itching can be reduced by adding an effective amount of an anionic surfactant in said liquid peroxygen bleach composition.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, in its broadest sense, the present invention is the use, in a liquid peroxygen bleaching composition, of an anionic surfactant to reduce itching of the skin of the user of said composition, after it has come in contact with said composition.
In a preferred embodiment, the invention is a liquid composition formulated as an emulsion comprising two phases, each phase comprising a nonionic surfactant, said composition comprising a peroxygen bleach in one of said phases and an activator for said bleach in the other phase, said composition further comprising an anionic surfactant.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The compositions according to the present invention are aqueous. Accordingly, the compositions according to the present invention comprise from 10% to 95% by weight of the total composition of water, preferably from 30% to 90%, most preferably from 60% to 80%. Deionized water is preferably used.
The compositions according to the present invention are stable aqueous emulsions of nonionic surfactants. By stable emulsion it is meant an emulsion which does not substantially separate into distinct layers, upon standing for at least 2 weeks at 50.degree. C.
Said emulsions of nonionic surfactants comprise at least two nonionic surfactants. In order to form emulsions which are stable said two nonionic surfactants must have different HLB values (hydrophilic lipophilic balance), and preferably the difference in value of the HLBs of said two surfactants is at least 1, preferably at least 3. By appropriately combining at least two of said nonionic surfactants with different HLBs in water, emulsions according to the present invention will be formed.
The advantage of formulating the compositions of the present invention as emulsions is that a stable activated bleaching compositions can be obtained where the bleach is present in the more hydrophilic phase, and the activator for said bleach is present in the other more hydrophobic phase. Such emulsions are described for instance in EP 92 932.
Suitable nonionic surfactants for use herein include alkoxylated fatty alcohols. Indeed, a great variety of such alkoxylated fatty alcohols are commercially available which have very different HLB values. The HLB values of such alkoxylated nonionic surfactants depend essentially on the chain length of the fatty alcohol, the nature of the alkoxylation and the degree of alkoxylation. Hydrophilic nonionic surfactants tend to have a high degree of alkoxylation and a short chain fatty alcohol, while hydrophobic surfactants tend to have a low degree of alkoxylation and a long chain fatty alcohol. Surfactants catalogues are available which list a number of surfactants including nonionics, together with their respective HLB values.
The compositions according to the present invention comprise from 2% to 50% by weight of the total composition of said hydrophilic and hydrophobic nonionic surf
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Polotti Gianmarco
Scialla Stefano
Scoccianti Raffaele
Aylor Robert B.
Lieberman Paul
Petruncio John M.
The Procter & Gamble & Company
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