A sensor array includes a plurality of sensors. A sensor of the plurality of sensors has a sensor pad exposed at a surface of the sensor array. A method of treating the sensor array includes exposing at least the sensor pad to a wash solution including sulfonic acid and an organic solvent and rinsing the wash solution from the sensor pad.

Washing and/or care articles may include a substrate containing polyvinyl alcohol and starch and one or more perfume compositions comprising fragrance precursor compounds. Furthermore, such articles may be used for washing, cleaning and/or care purposes, such as for textiles. A method for washing, caring for or conditioning textiles using such an article is also disclosed.

The present disclosure pertains to surfactants for use in the formulation of detergents, foaming agents, emulsifiers, and degreasers. Some aspects of the invention include formulations suitable for cleaning and/or condition fabrics including upholstery. Some formulations are suitable for in home or commercial dry cleaning. Some of the formulations may be suitable for cleaning hard surfaces including plastic surfaces.

Consumer product compositions that include a consumer product adjunct material and a population of delivery particles, where the delivery particles include a core and a polymer wall, preferably a poly(meth)acrylate polymer wall, surrounding the core, where the weight ratio of the core materials and the wall polymer of the delivery particles is relatively high (e.g., at least 95:5). Related methods of making and using such compositions.

A fabric care composition, methods for preparing the fabric care composition, and methods for increasing microbiological robustness of the fabric care composition are disclosed. The fabric care composition may include a preservative system, a cationic softener, a cationic polymer, and an organosilicone. The method for preparing the fabric care composition may include contacting the preservative system, the cationic softener, the cationic polymer, and the organosilicone with one another.

The present disclosure relates to cleansing compositions that are free of sulfate-based surfactants and free of sodium chloride. The cleansing compositions include: (a) one or more non-sulfate anionic surfactants; one or more amphoteric surfactants; one or more nonionic surfactants; (d) one or more hydrophobically modified poly(meth)acrylates; one or more silicones; and water. The cleansing compositions are particularly useful for cleansing hair and providing conditioning benefits to the hair.

The present invention relates to cleaning compositions with improved rinse suds profile, which comprise an alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine, an organomodified silicone and a siloxane-based diluent.

A cleaner and method for maintaining bearings, bushings, linkage pins and chains used in various types of machinery, including industrial machinery is disclosed. The cleaner is effective to rejuvenate spent grease and includes a polar fraction, a miscible non-polar fraction, and a non-ionic surface activating agent.

Fabric treatment compositions are described that provide three functions to the textiles to which they are applied: sanitizing (killing microbes therein or thereon), conditioning or softening, and providing a residual antimicrobial effect to prevent immediate reinfection after treatment. Such trifunctional, or three-in-one, fabric treatments employing organosilane compounds, nonionic and cationic surfactants, a botanical (Thymol) and cationic fabric conditioners, and their use as microbicidal and microbiostatic agents, and fabric conditioners and softeners are also described.

There is provided herein a polyalkylene-oxide-free surfactant composition comprising an ester-modified organosilicon having the general formula (I)

AO.sub.aR.sup.4.sub.b(BO.sub.cR.sup.11.sub.d).sub.e(C).sub.fD.sub.g.

There is also provided methods for making the ester-modified organosilicon (I) and agricultural, coating, personal care and home care applications containing the polyalkylene-oxide-free surfactant composition.