Patent ID: 8642529

Claim:
A liquid surfactant composition comprising: (a) 0.5 to 15% by wt., preferably 1 to 12%, more preferably 1 to 10% by wt, of a surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactant, nonionic surfactant, amphoteric/zwitterionic surfactant, cationic surfactant and mixtures thereof where said system must comprise at least 1% anionic surfactant; (b) 0.005 to 2.0% by wt. bacterial cellulose used to structure said composition and wherein said cellose has been subject to high shear processing at energy density above 1.0×10 6 J/m 3 ; and (c) 0.1 to 3.0% by wt., carboxymethylcellulose having a molecular wt. of 1,000 to 150,000 added to the composition.