A fabric conditioning composition includes a fabric softening agent, a highly-branched cyclic dextrin, and water. A method for laundering fabric includes applying a detergent composition to the fabric, rinsing the detergent composition from the fabric, and after rinsing the detergent composition from the fabric, applying a fabric conditioning composition to the fabric. The fabric conditioning composition includes a fabric softening agent, a highly-branched cyclic dextrin, and water. Furthermore, the method includes rinsing the fabric conditioning composition from the fabric.

The present invention relates to a method for reducing hydrophobic soil from a textile comprising the step of treating the textile with a cleaning composition comprising at least two surfactants selected from nonionic surfactants of general formula (I) and/or alkylpolyglycosides of general formula (II). The present invention further relates to a use of the cleaning composition for reducing hydrophobic soil from a textile.

A laundry detergent composition containing an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-ethylene oxide (EO/PO/EO) triblock copolymer and a lipase enzyme and use of an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-ethylene oxide (EO/PO/EO) triblock copolymer and lipase enzyme in the laundry detergent composition.

A liquid detergent composition may have a continuous liquid phase and solid particles dispersed in the continuous phase. The continuous phase may be transparent or translucent. The solid particles may be made of a polymeric matrix material, have a diameter ranging from about 0.8 to about 8 mm, and may include a plurality of microcapsules. The plurality of microcapsules may be dispersed in the polymeric matrix material. The microcapsules may have a diameter ranging from about 4 to about 70 70 μm. Use of and methods of use of such a liquid composition are also described.

A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising: one or more anionic and/or non-ionic surfactants; and a sulphated ethoxylated C10Guerbet alcohol surfactant with a number average degree of ethoxylation in the range of 2.5 to 6, wherein the weight ratio of total anionic and/or non-ionic surfactants to sulphated ethoxylated C10 Guerbet alcohol surfactant is from 100:1 to 30:1.

The present disclosure relates to a textile detergent having at least one protease and a detergent ingredient for cleaning textiles by removing protease-sensitive stains. The protease may have proteolytic activity and include an amino acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence given in SEQ ID NO:1 over its entire length and, in each case based on the numbering according to SEQ ID NO:1. The protease may have amino acid substitutions at the positions corresponding to positions 3, 4, 99, or 199; and at least one additional amino acid substitution at at least one of the positions corresponding to positions 74, 136, 143, 154, 161, 163, 171, 200, 203, 209, 212 or 256. The textile detergent may have a pH ranging from approximately 9 to approximately 12, measured in a 1 wt. % solution in deionized water at 20° C.

Novel methods and compositions for treating textiles and other materials are disclosed in which persistent odor or other symptoms of biofilm presence can be reduced through the use of compositions comprising N-acetyl cysteine or other agents in combination with certain enzymes.

Disclosed is a modified biopolymer having the formula A-XY wherein: (a) A is a starting material selected from the group consisting of a polysaccharide, a protein and a cellulose; (b) X is a first moiety bearing a functionality co-reactive with A; (c) Y is a second moiety covalently bound to X, capable of undergoing free radical polymerization and bearing at least two ethylenically unsaturated functional groups; (d) the starting material A and the first moiety X are linked covalently through linkages selected from the group consisting of an ester, an amide, a urethane, a urea, a sulfonate ester, a phosphate ester and an ether; and (e) a degree of substitution of the starting material A with the first moiety X is less than 0.5 but more than 0.1. Compositions including the modified biopolymer and methods for making them are also disclosed.

A laundry care or dish care composition including a poly alpha glucan derivative, wherein the poly alpha glucan derivative includes: (i) a poly alpha glucan backbone of glucose monomer units, wherein greater than or equal to 40% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages, or a combination of alpha-1,3 and alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages, and optionally at least 5% of the backbone glucose monomer units have branches via alpha-1,2 glycosidic linkages; and (ii) at least one organic group linked to the poly alpha glucan backbone through a linkage moiety; wherein, the poly alpha glucan backbone has a weight average degree of polymerization of from 51 to 150; and wherein, the poly alpha glucan derivative has a degree of substitution of

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linkage moiety of from 0.001 to 3.00.

Cleaning compositions comprising variants of an alpha-amylase, methods of making such cleaning compositions and methods of treating surfaces such as fabrics with aqueous liquor comprising such compositions.