Patent ID: 7635393

Claim:
An aqueous liquid laundry detergent composition comprising: (a) from about 5% to about 80%, by weight of the composition, of a detergent surfactant, wherein from about 1% to about 80%, by weight of the composition is an alkoxylated carboxylic acid ester surfactant of formula (I): wherein R 1 is selected from linear or branched C 6 to C 22 alkyl or alkylene groups; R 2 is selected from C 2 H 4 or C 3 H 6 groups; R 3 is selected from H, CH 3 , C 2 H 5 or C 3 H 7 groups; and n has a value between 1 and 20, (b) from about 0.1% to about 3% of urea; (c) wherein the pH of the composition is in the range from about 6 to about 8; (d) a free radical scavenger in an amount up to 0.05%, with the mole ratio of the alkoxylated ester to the free radical scavenger of from 200:1 to 50:1; (e) from about 15% to about 90% of water.