Patent ID: 6956016

Claim:
An automatic laundry or dishwashing product in unit dose pouch form comprising at least three distinct zones including a primary cleaning zone, a secondary cleaning zone and a finishing zone and wherein in use in an automatic laundry or dishwashing machine having a main-wash cycle and a plurality of post main-wash rinse cycles, the primary cleaning zone releases a primary cleaning composition into the main wash, the secondary cleaning zone releases a secondary cleaning composition into a pre-final rinse and the finishing zone releases a finishing composition into the final rinse wherein the finishing composition provides a wash liquor pH of about 5 or below and further, wherein the product includes a physical, chemical or mechanical trigger-means for releasing the primary cleaning, secondary cleaning, and finishing compositions into the wash or rinse liquors, and wherein the trigger-means for the primary cleaning, secondary cleaning, and finishing compositions are each responsive to one or more of temperature, pH, conductivity, pCa, pKa, redox potential, ionic concentration, enzymatic reaction or time.