A granulate for a detergent composition, the granulate comprising a nitrogen-containing builder, wherein the granulate is at least partially coated with a coating material comprising an alkoxy polyalkylene glycol.

Described herein is a household care composition, which delivers active agents onto fabric, in the form of a water-soluble unit dose article comprising a water-soluble fibrous structure and an encapsulated perfume composition, as well as methods for making the article and methods for treating fabrics using the article.

Disclosed is a composition including controlled release particles, wherein each of the controlled release particles includes: (a) a core including at least one hydrophobic active ingredient; and (b) a wall at least partially surrounding the core and including: (i) an outer layer including a polyurea; (ii) an intermediate layer under the outer layer and including a carbamic-carboxylic anhydride; (iii) an inner layer under the intermediate layer and including an acrylate copolymer; and optionally (iv) an optional outer layer above the outer layer and including a quaternary amine containing moiety, wherein the viscosity of the core can be manipulated from a low viscosity liquid to a semisolid. A method for preparing the composition is also disclosed.

A hybrid encapsulate formulation obtained by mixing a starch/fragrance emulsion with a core-shell capsule suspension is provided as is a method of using the formulation in a personal care product, a beauty care product, a fabric care product, a home care product, a personal hygiene product, an oral care product and a method for releasing an encapsulated fragrance by moisture, shear, or a combination thereof.

A method of mercury-free photochemical micro-/nano-encapsulation of an active material is a process for obtaining micro-/nano-capsules by means of curing by UV LED radiation at ambient or even cold temperatures. A stirrer photo-reactor made from glass or transparent plastics can be used but mixed flow reactor could be also employed. Appropriate mixing is sufficient to expose all droplets, which contain an active material surrounded by curable-shell materials in the emulsion to the LED radiation. Using the optimum light intensities and reactions' times is critical for encapsulating the active material with a high efficiency and producing a high quality micro-/nano- capsules, Solar monochromator device can also be used as long as it generate the same radiation with a narrow/single wavelengths as the LED device. Light emitted diode (LED) is a mercury-free UV radiation source with a long operating life time and an instant ON-Off. it has a high efficiency, a very low cooling requirements and cost-efficient in photochemical encapsulation. It reduces the time of microencapsulation from 6 hours to a less than 5 minutes. It has a significant decrease in manufacturing cost, waste-water, unconverted monomers, and leftover active phase change material (PCM) compared to other methods. Conversion of more than 90% of monomers can be achieved, and encapsulation efficiency can reach 100% at optimum conditions. This is in addition to the ability of this invented technology for encapsulate volatile and heat sensitive active materials at ambient as well as low temperatures. Normal glass or transparent plastics can be used as a reactor material. Only the matched useful wavelength radiation is emitted by LED without having other wavelengths which might have a bad impact on the encapsulation process.

A packaged laundry product comprising packaging and perfume particles contained in said packaging; wherein the packaging comprises a cylindrical receptacle formed from a material comprising cellulosic fibres, wherein the receptacle comprises a mechanism for impeding a child's access to the container; and wherein the perfume particles comprise carrier material and perfume components.

An embodiment provides a method for cleaning a surface, including: encapsulating a cleaning composition in a polymer material to form a compound, wherein the polymer material surrounds the cleaning composition; placing the compound in a location adjacent to the surface, wherein the location adjacent to the surface is a volume separated from an outer volume; dissolving the polymer material at a pH above a target value above the polymer material pH dissolution point, wherein the dissolving releases the cleaning composition; and cleaning the surface using the released cleaning composition. Other aspects are described and claimed.

The need for laundry detergent compositions that provide improved deposition of hydrophilic perfume ingredients onto fabrics comprising cotton fibres, and especially those perfume ingredients that deposit less readily onto cotton fibres, is met by incorporating certain cationic polymers and specific perfume ingredients into a laundry detergent composition.

A laundry product comprising; polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of 2 000 to 30 000; and free oil perfume comprising phenolic aldehyde, characterised in that the composition further comprises at least 1 w.t. % of starch or starch derivative.

A process for making a particulate laundry detergent composition.