Patent ID: 8236746

Claim:
A detergent composition comprising: (a) a nonionic surfactant comprising a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether of which alkylene oxide moiety has an average number of moles of from 4 to 8; (b) a surfactant system comprising an anionic surfactant, excluding a fatty acid and a salt thereof, and a cationic surfactant present in an amount of 2% by weight or less (c) a clay mineral represented by the general formula (I): [Si 8 (Mg a Al b )O 20 (OH) 4 ] X− ·Me X+ (I) wherein a, b and x satisfy 0<a≦6, 0<b≦4, and x=12−2a−3b, and Me is at least one member selected from Na, K, Li, Ca, Mg and NH 4 , wherein the detergent composition comprises the clay mineral in an amount of 3% by weight or more, a weight ratio of a total amount of component (a) to the total amount of component (b), (a)/(b), exceeds 1 and is less than 5, a total amount of the nonionic surfactant (a) and anionic surfactant (b) in the detergent composition is from 10% by weight to 30% by weight, and the clay mineral (c) has a Na/Ca weight ratio of 1.0 or more.