Effervescent compositions for preparing home care products and methods for preparing the same are disclosed. The effervescent compositions may include an effervescent base, one or more surfactants, one or more solidifying agents, and one or more disintegrant agents. The effervescent base may include one or more alkali metal carbonates and one or more acids. The one or more alkali metal carbonates and the one or more acids may be present in a weight ratio of from about 1:1 to about 5:1. The effervescent composition may be substantially free of water. The effervescent composition may have a dissolution time of from about 6 min to about 12 min. The method for preparing the effervescent composition may include contacting the effervescent base, the surfactants, the solidifying agents, and the disintegrant agents with one another to prepare a mixture, which may be a homogenous mixture.

A laundry composition including a plurality of granules, where each of said granules has a longest dimension of no less than 3 mm and no more than 12 mm, and an aspect ratio of no more than 5, and each of said granules has a mass from 1 mg to 1 g; wherein said granules comprise 25% to 99.9% of a water soluble carrier by weight of the granules. The laundry composition also includes from 0.1% to 10% of a plurality of fine particles, by weight of the laundry composition, said fine particles having an average particle size of 0.05 μm to 50 μm.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising a plurality of particles, wherein said particles comprise: 30 to 95 wt. % polyethylene glycol, wherein the polyethylene glycol has a weight average molecular weight from 4000 to 12000; 0.1 to 60 wt. % secondary carrier, wherein the secondary carrier is provided in the form of particles, the particles having a volume average particle size of 35 to 75 μm; and 0.1 to 30 wt. % perfume materials. The present invention also relates to a method of producing the particles and use of particles the particles.

Substantive, biodegradable, antimicrobial—diamidoquats of Formula I, comprising a quaternary ammonium center and amide functionality and having conditioning properties along with good antimicrobial efficacy wherein, R and R1 are selected from C.sub.6 to C.sub.24. Home care, fabric care composition comprising novel compounds are effective even at lower dosage compared to other traditional conditioning compounds.

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wherein, R and R.sup.1 may or may not be same and are selected from C.sub.6 to C.sub.24 straight or branched chain alkyl or alkenyl residue.

A method of making a non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet can include dispensing a microcapsule onto a precursor non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet, wherein the precursor non-fibrous laundry detergent sheet can include: (a) at least one surfactant; (b) at least one film former; and (c) a thickness ranging from 0.1 mm to 10 mm.

A solid fabric softening composition comprising; fabric softening active, co-active and disintegrant system, wherein the disintegrant system comprises salt and acid.

A shaped detergent product comprising 10 to 100 wt. % of a first solid phase and 0 to 90 wt. % of one or more other phases, wherein the first solid phase comprises: a) non-crystalline chiral aminopolycarboxylate; b) non-crystalline organic acid other than component a); c) at most 30 wt. % water; d) at most 50 wt. % of non-crystalline water-soluble component other than component a) or component b); e) at most 20 wt. % of homogeneously dispersed crystalline material; wherein the combination of the components a), b) and c) is present in the first solid phase in a concentration of at least 35 wt. % of the total weight of the solid phase; and wherein components a), b) and c) are present in the solid phase in a ratio of from 25 to 88 parts by weight of free acid equivalent of component a): from 10 to 60 parts by weight of free acid equivalent of component b): from 2 to 30 parts by weight of component c); and wherein the shaped detergent product comprises at least 0.5 wt. % surfactant.

Solid rinsing, cleaning and/or sanitizing compositions for various applications are provided. In particular, solid compositions include a complex of urea and an acid having desirable storage stability previously unavailable in solid urea/acid compositions. Stable solid compositions are disclosed and methods of making the same to overcome conventional limitations associated with with forming kinetically and thermodynamically stable solids that utilize urea/acid compositions.

Flexible, dissolvable, porous solid sheet articles which include direct-added microcapsules therein for delivering a benefit agent and a process for making such solid sheet articles.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein the process includes the steps of: (a) forming a mixture by contacting: (i) molten fatty acid; (ii) liquid alkaline ingredient, and (iii) non-ionic surfactant, to obtain a mixture, wherein the mixture includes: (i) partially neutralized fatty acid component; (ii) non-ionic surfactant; and (iii) water, wherein the molar ratio of fatty acid to liquid alkaline ingredient contacted together in step (a) is above 1:1; (b) contacting the mixture obtained in step (a) to a detergent powder to form a solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein in step (b) the mixture is contacted to the detergent powder by spraying the mixture at a temperature of greater than 50° C. onto the detergent powder, wherein the detergent powder includes a detergent ingredient.