AQUEOUS LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS HAVING IMPROVED SOFTENING PROPERTIES AND IMPROVED AESTHETICS

摘要

Aqueous heavy duty liquid laundry detergent compositions useful for launderi ng fabrics and providing cleaning and softening benefits. Such detergent compositions contain at least 5%, by weight of the composition, of a surfactant component; from about 0.1% to about 10% of a quaternary ammonium fabric-softening agent having the formula wherein R1 and R2 are individually selected from the group consisting of C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 hydroxy alkyl, benzyl, and -(C2H4O)xH where x has a value from about 2 to about 5; X is an anion; and (1) R3 and R4 are each a C8-C14 alkyl or (2) R3 is a C8-C22 alkyl and R4 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C10 alkyl, C1-C10 hydroxy alkyl, benzyl, and -(C2H4O)xH where x has a value from about 2 to about 5; a nd such compositions contain less than 10ppm of trimethylamine and dimethylamin e impurities.