Patent ID: 7244276

Claim:
A dry cleaning process for in-home dry cleaning consisting of a non-aqueous dry cleaning step of contacting a laundry article with a non-aqueous dry cleaning composition whereby the liquor to cloth ratio (w/w) (LCR) is at most 20, and said composition comprises: a) a non-flammable, non-chlorine containing organic dry cleaning solvent; b) 0 wt.% water by weight of the composition; and c) less than 0.9 wt.% of a surfactant wherein said surfactant comprises at least one anionic headgroup; and a a low aqueous dry cleaning step of contacting laundry articles with a low aqueous dry cleaning composition and wherein said low aqueous dry cleaning composition comprises: a) a non-flammable, non-chlorine containing organic dry cleaning solvent; b) from 0.01 to 10 wt % water; and c) from 0.001 to 10 wt. % of a surfactant by wt. of the total dry cleaning composition.