Claims
- 1. A cleaning system which comprises:(a) a water soluble container; (b) a liquid cleaning composition disposed in said water soluble container, wherein said liquid cleaning composition comprises approximately by weight: (i) 1% to 13% of a fatty acid; (ii) 45% to 90% of at least one nonionic surfactant; (iii) 1% to 10% of a perfume; (b) 1% to 30% of a short chain amphiphile of the formula R1 O—(CH2 CH2 O)nH wherein R is a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms and n is a number from 2 to 8; and wherein the composition does not contain an anionic sulfate surfactant, anionic sulfonate surfactant, hexylene glycol, an amine oxide surfactant, 2-butyl ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, or propylene glycol.
- 2. The system according to claim 1 wherein said container is formed from a water soluble, melt processable polymer.
- 3. The system according to claim 1 wherein said container is formed from a polyvinyl alcohol polymer.
- 4. The system according to claim 2 wherein said container is a sachet, ampoule, capsule or sphere.
- 5. The system according to claim 4 wherein said nonionic surfactant is selected from the group consisting of ethoxylated nonionic surfactants and ethoxylated/propoxylated nonionic surfactants.
- 6. The system according to claim 1 wherein R1 has 6 carbon atoms and n is a number from 3 to 6.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation in part of U.S. Ser. No. 9/883,690 filed Jun. 18, 2001 pending.
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