Claims
- 1. A microemulsion, fabric cleaning comprising approximately by weight:(a) 0.1% to 10% of an organic chemical having a chemical group having a dipole moment of at least about 1.5 Debyes, said organic chemical being selected from the group consisting of a fabric softener and an enzyme containing acid groups; (b) 0.5% to 7% of a chemical linker selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acids having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, an ethoxylated polyhydric alcohol, a polyvinyl pyrrolidone polymer and a polyethylene glycol having a molecular weight of about 600 to about 10,000, wherein the molar ratio of the chemical linker to the organic chemical is about 4:1 to 1:4, said chemical linker being complexed with said organic chemical; (c) 1% to 30% of at least one anionic surfactant having a carboxylate, sulfate or sulfonate group; and (d) 5% to 99.8% water, wherein the composition does not include a zwitterionic surfactant, amine oxide surfactants, ethoxylated nonionic surfactants formed from the condensation product of primary or secondary alkanols and ethylene oxide or propylene oxides, an organic compound containing ester groups, an anionic polycarboxylate polymer, an alkylamine, cyclomethicone, propylene glycol, linear molecularly dehydrated polyphosphate salts, a linear anionic polycarboxylate, N-alkyl aldonamides and alkylene carbonates.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation in part application of U.S. Ser. No. 09/441,907 filed Nov. 17, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,172,032, which in turn is a continuation in part application of U.S. Ser. No. 09/335,347 filed Jun. 17, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,020, 301, which in turn is a continuation in part application of U.S. Ser. No. 09/164,471 filed Oct. 1, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,955,407, which in turn is a continuation in part application of U.S. Ser. No. 08/764,342 filed Dec. 12, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,854,194.
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