Patent ID: 7928050

Claim:
Method for designing a liquid detergent composition comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a surfactant system comprising from about 8% to about 18% by weight of total surfactant, wherein from 0% to about 5% of the surfactant system comprises a nonionic co-surfactant and from about 0.01% to about 9% of the surfactant system of a C 8 -C 14 linear alkyl benzene sulfonate anionic co-surfactant; (b) selecting a formulation salt modifier; (c) selecting a liquid carrier being essentially free of cumene sulfonate; and (c) calculating a Formulation Tolerance by a formula FT=(HI C /IS)*Σ y (weight % of surfactant y in the surfactant system) such that the FT is larger than 33, wherein HI C is the hydrophilic index of a finished liquid detergent and IS is the ionic strength of a finished liquid detergent composition.