The disclosure provides a water soluble pouch including at least two sealed compartments, the pouch including outer walls including water soluble film including a water soluble resin, and an inner wall including water soluble film including a water soluble resin, the outer wall films being sealed to the inner wall film, the outer wall films being characterized by: a dissolution time of 300 seconds or less, the water soluble resin of the outer wall films having a viscosity in a range of 14.5 cP to 25cP, and a pouch strength of at least 200 N, and the inner wall film being characterized by: a dissolution time of 300 seconds or less, the water soluble resin of the inner film having viscosity in a range of 12 cP to 14.5 cP, and a tackiness value of at least 1500 g/s.

The present invention provides a method of producing a unit dose capsule for treatment of a substrate, the method comprising steps: a. placing a first sheet of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol film over a mould having sets of cavities, each set comprising three cavities arranged on the sealing plane one after the other in circumferential direction; b. heating and applying vacuum to the film to mould the film into the cavities and hold it in place to form three recesses in the film; a first recess (502), the second recess (503), and a third recess (504), the three recesses being connected to respective side recesses by the film; c. filling three different parts of a substrate treatment composition into the three recesses (502, 503, 504), the three parts together forming a full substrate treatment composition; d. sealing a second sheet of film to the first sheet of film across the formed recesses to form the sealing web comprising a peripheral sealing skirt (108) and inter-compartment sealing webs (1024, 1023, 1034) having average sealing width in the range of 0.3 to 3 mm between compartments and a central sealing web (10234) thereby separating the compartments (102, 103, 104) from one another to produce a three compartment capsule (101); and e. cutting between the capsules so that a series of three compartment capsules (101) are formed, each capsule containing a part of a substrate treatment composition in three compartments (102, 103, 104).

A multi-component detergent, including at least two components, that is contained in a container having at least two chambers, wherein a first component K1 is a first liquid composition, containing at least one catechol metal complex compound of formula (I) ##STR00001##
and at least one free catechol compound of formula (II) or the salt thereof ##STR00002##
with the proviso that the catechol compound of formula (II) and the salt thereof are different from the compounds of formula (I), and a second component K2 is a second liquid composition, containing at least one surfactant. The present invention further relates to the use of the multi-component detergent for removing bleachable stains and a method for washing textiles using the multi-component detergent.

A substrate treatment product comprising a package comprising at least one layer of fibrous or pulp material and at least one layer of a polymeric material selected from polylactic acid, polyhydroxyalkanoate, a polyester, polybutylenadipate terephthalate, a cellulose based material, a starch based material, a sugare cane based material and mixtures thereof, and the packaging containing a plurality of water-soluble capsules, each water-soluble capsule comprising a substrate treatment composition within a sealed compartment which is filled to at least 60% of the volume of the compartment, the package comprising (i) a receptable containing or more of said water soluble capsules and a closure; (ii) a child resistant closure mechanism comprising a first locking member on the receptacle and a second locking member present on the closure whereby the members interlock;

wherein the substrate treatment composition has a viscosity in the range 200 mPa.Math.s-2000 mPa.Math.s at 25° C. at a shear rate of 21 sec.sup.−1, wherein the water soluble capsule comprises a water soluble film comprising polyvinyl alcohol, a modified polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, carboxymethylcellulose or hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose and wherein the water content of the substrate treatment composition is in the range 0.01-15% wt. based on the total weight of the composition.

The present application is related to a container made of a polymer and containing a single unit dose of a detergent composition. The detergent composition contains at least two complexing agents (A) dissolved in an aqueous medium. The complexing agents (A) are (A1) at least one alkali metal salt of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA), and (A2) at least one alkali metal salt of glutamic acid diacetic acid (GLDA). The complexing agents (A1) and (A2) are partially neutralized with alkali and the weight ratio of (A1) and (A2) ranges from 1:9 to 9:1. The aqueous medium contains at least 25% by weight of water relative to the entire liquid phase.

The present invention provides formulations comprising a suspension of nanocellulose (NC) elements and a drying/dispersal additive selected from the group consisting of temperature-responsive polymers, small molecule additives in volatile systems, and blocking agents and methods of preparing such formulations, and further provides NC-containing materials, composite materials and useful articles of manufacture made therefrom.

Catechol metal complex compounds of formula (I) ##STR00001##
are colored and can be used to give color to surfactant compositions. Detergents containing these catechol metal complex compounds do not stain the textile even after repeated use.

A washing agent portion unit including a) at least one first receiving chamber, b) at least one water-soluble film surrounding this first receiving chamber, and c) at least one first flowable washing agent preparation located in the first receiving chamber, which preparation contains, based on the total weight thereof, i) 40 to 80 wt. % surfactant; ii) 2 to 15 wt. % fatty acid; iii) 0.3 to 8 wt. % of salt of a divalent cation; iv) 8 to 35 wt. % solvent; d) at least one second receiving chamber which is surrounded by a water-soluble film and is filled with a second washing agent preparation which differs from the first flowable washing agent preparation, wherein the first receiving chamber and the second receiving chamber are directly adjacent to one another and separated from one another by a water-soluble film, and washing methods using these washing agent portion units.

A detergent or cleaning agent, in particular a cleaning agent for hard surfaces, having at least two phases which are different from each other. The detergent or cleaning agent includes at least one first phase and at least one second phase that is different, with the at least one first phase being solid and the at least one second phase having at least one polymer and at least one polyvalent alcohol.

A fluid washing composition with four separate components and laundry washing kit thereof is disclosed. The four components are housed in respective independent tanks of a laundry washing machine equipped with a program for selecting, dosing and differentiated delivering. Component 1 is a detergent formulation with a pH of 4.0-12.0, with high detergent effect in washing programs at temperatures of 40°-60° C., having a specific action on cotton fibers, particularly, whites. Component 2 is a detergent formulation with a pH of 8.0-12.0, with high detergent effect in washing programs at temperatures of 15°-40° C., having a specific action on synthetic, colored and animal-origin fibers. Component 3 is an enzyme-based stain-removing formulation including protease and lipase and possibly amylase with a pH of 5.0-6.0, stabilized with sorbitol and calcium chloride. Component 4 is an after-wash conditioning formulation, with a pH of 2.0-4.0.