Multicompartment water-soluble unit dose articles and methods of making them.

The present disclosure relates to serine proteases and variants thereof. Compositions containing the serine proteases are suitable for use in cleaning fabrics and hard surfaces, as well as in a variety of industrial applications.

The present invention relates to polypeptide variants and methods for obtaining variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.

The present invention relates to the use of substituted bis-4H-pyranonyl compounds in which the 4H-pyranonyl units are combined with heteroalkyl groups, in detergents and cleaning agents, for improving detergent or cleaning performance with respect to bleachable stains.

The present invention is a detergent composition for textile products, containing the following component (A) and the following component (B): component (A): an internal olefin sulfonate with 16 or more and 24 or less carbons, wherein a mass ratio between an internal olefin sulfonate (IO-1S) with 16 or more and 24 or less carbons having a sulfonate group present at position 2 or higher and position 4 or lower and an internal olefin sulfonate (IO-2S) with 16 or more and 24 or less carbons having a sulfonate group present at position 5 or higher, which is (IO-2S)/(IO-1S), is 0.30 or more and 5 or less; and component (B): a soil release agent.

The present invention provides a method for treating fabrics by employing an automatic laundry washing machine to selectively add agitation-sensitive detersive actives into the wash liquor during a wash cycle when the mechanical agitation power applied to the fabrics by said washing machine is more than 12 W/kg, so as to improve or optimize the cleaning performance of such agitation-sensitive detersive actives.

A particulate composition for providing a softening benefit to an article of clothing. The composition includes a water soluble or water dispersible carrier, a cationic polymer, and a fatty amine.

Liquid detergent compositions are disclosed which comprise one or more shell-core capsules types. The core comprises one or more enzymes, wherein the material that forms the shell is able to be degraded by at least one of the enzymes. The capsules preserve the activity properties of the enzymes during the storage of the liquid detergent composition and they release the ingredients upon the application of shear during the use of the liquid detergent composition in a washing process. The methodology also enables the presence of incompatible benefit agents in the same product, and the reduction of undesirable residue on the articles that are being washed.

A detergent composition comprises a trisiloxane having at least one carbinol functional group. The trisiloxane comprises the reaction product of (A) an initial trisiloxane and (B) an organic compound. Component (A) has a pendant silicon-bonded functional group selected from a hydrogen atom, an epoxy-containing group, an ethylenically unsaturated group, and an amine group. Typically, component (A) is free of certain terminal silicon-bonded functional groups and is free of polyoxyalkylene groups. Component (B) has a functional group reactive with the pendant silicon-bonded functional group of component (A), and has at least one hydroxyl functional group. The trisiloxane may be of the following general formula (I): (R.sup.1.sub.3SiO.sub.1/2)(R.sup.1R.sup.3SiO.sub.2/2)(R.sup.1.sub.3SiO.sub.1/2) (I). In formula (I), each R.sup.1 is an independently selected hydrocarbyl group. R.sup.3 may be selected from the groups (i) to (x) described herein, each of the groups having at least one carbinol group. Typically, the trisiloxane has 1-6 carbinol groups.

Fabric care compositions that include perfume encapsulates and a quaternary ammonium ester compound, where the shell of the encapsulates include an acrylate or methacrylate material. Related methods of using and making such compositions.