Patent ID: 7018970

Claim:
A process of making a gel laundry and/or pre-treater detergent composition, the process comprising mixing ingredients comprising preparing a main mixture and a gelling post-mix, which comprise in total: (a) from about 8% to about 35%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant, selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, cationic, amphoteric surfactants and mixtures thereof; (b) additional laundry composition ingredient selected from enzyme, builder, fluorescent dye, soil-release polymer, buffering agent, and mixtures thereof; (c) from about 0.1% to about 5%, by weight of the composition, of a fatty alcohol; (d) from about 50 to about 90% of water; wherein (i) the mixing is carried out in at least one in-line static or dynamic mixer; and (ii) the gelling post-mix constitutes from about 1% to about 30% of the composition and comprises the fatty alcohol and wherein said composition comprises 3 to 35% by weight of an anionic surfactant.