DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING SILVER ANTI-TARNISHING AGENTS

摘要

A bleaching detergent composition which prevents or inhibits tarnishing of silver comprises: (a) a bleaching agent selected from a peroxygen or peroxygen-yielding compound, a hypohalite or hypohalite-yielding compound, or a salt thereof, or mixtures thereof; (b) an anti-tarnishing agent selected from: (i) a purine class compound; (ii) cyanuric acid or isocyanuric acid or a salt thereof; (iii) a 1,3-N azole compound; (iv) a mixture of any of the above compounds (i), (ii) or (iii); (c) optionally a builder; (d) optionally, a surfactant; wherein the composition exhibits a pH value in the range from 7 to 13, and wherein the anti-tarnishing agent has a pKa value below the pH value of an aqueous solution of the composition.