摘要 |
Particulate heavy duty detergent compositions, particularly for imparting improved softness and detersive effects to fabrics laundered therewith, comprise in addition to conventional builder and principally anionic surfactant components, particulate cationic softener of the di- lower-di-higher alkyl quaternary ammonium and/or heterocyclic imide type, e.g. imidazolinium, in admixture with nonionic surfactant and optionally a mixture of fatty acid soap and nonionic organic surfactant, the weight ratio of soap to softener being about 8:1 to 1:3 preferably 5:1 to 1:2, more preferably 3:2:2:3, e.g. about unity. The soap-nonionic surfactant mixture as well as the cationic softener-nonionic mixture are in the form of a spaghetti, flake, or other shape and is present in the product composition as substantially homogeneously dispersed, discrete particles. A process of laundering fabrics using the above-mentioned composition is also described. |