Patent ID: 6262003
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: C11D

Abstract:
A clear light duty liquid cleaning composition which comprises approximately by weight:(a) 10% to 55% of a mixture of an alkali metal salt of an anionic sulfonate surfactant or an anionic sulfonic acid and an alkali metal salt of a C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 ethoxylated alkyl ether sulfate and/or a C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 alkyl ether sulfate, wherein the weight ratio of the sulfonate surfactant to the sulfate surfactant is from 15:1 to 1:1;(b) 1 to 10% of an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant;(c) 0.1% to 5% of a polyethylene glycol;(d) 0.05 to 5% of a hydroxy aliphatic acid selected from the group consisting of citric acid and latic acid and mixtures thereof;(e) 1 to 10% of a solubilizer;(f) 0.1 to 8% of an inorganic magnesium salt; and(g) the balance being water, wherein the composition does not contain a C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 alkyl or alkenyl monobase or dibasic acid which does not contain a hydroxy group, phosphoric acid or an amino alkylene phosphonic acid.