Patent ID: 8097579

Claim:
A laundry detergent or cleaning composition which comprises an amphiphilic water-soluble alkoxylated polyalkylenimine polymer comprising in condensed form repeating units of formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) wherein # in each case denotes one-half of a bond between a nitrogen atom and the free binding position of a group A 1 of two adjacent repeating units of formulae (I), (II), (III) or (IV); A 1 is independently selected from linear or branched C 2 -C 6 -alkylene; E is independently selected from alkylenoxy units of the formula (V) wherein * in each case denotes one-half of a bond to the nitrogen atom of the repeating unit of formula (I), (II) or (IV); A 2 is in each case independently selected from 1,2-propylene, 1,2-butylene and 1,2-isobutylene; A 3 is 1,2-propylene; R is in each case independently selected from hydrogen and C 1 -C 4 -alkyl; m has an average value in the range of from 0 to about 2; n has an average value in the range of from about 20 to about 50; and p has an average value in the range of from about 10 to about 50; wherein the individual alkoxylated polyalkylenimines consisting of 1 repeating unit of formula (I), x repeating units of formula (II), y repeating units of formula (III) and y+1 repeating units of formula (IV), wherein x and y in each case have a value in the range of from 0 to about 150; and the polymer having a backbone comprising the combined repeating units of formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) excluding the alkylenoxy units E, where the average molecular weight, Mw, of the polyalkylenimine backbone in each case having a value in the range of from about 60 to about 10,000 g/mol; and the polymer comprising a degree of quaternization ranging from 0 to about 50.