IMPROVED PERFORMANCE CAST DETERGENT

摘要

A solid cast warewashing composition having improved soil removing properties is produced for use in automatic washing machines. A liquid detergent composition is cast and solidified in a mold. The solid cast detergent, surrounded on all but its upper surface by the mold, is used in automatic washing machines having a dispensing device designed to dispense a liquid aqueous detergent formed from the solid cast detergent using an impinging liquid spray. The liquid aqueous detergent flows out of the dispensing device generally simultaneously with its formation in the dispenser. The cast detergent composition includes at least about 0.1 wt.% of a selected nonionic surfactant, an alkali metal hydroxide, a sequestrant, water of hydration and optionally further an available chlorine source, a defoamer, or the like.