Claims
- 1. A light duty liquid cleaning microemulsion composition consisting essentially of approximately by weight:
- a) 15% to 36% of a magnesium salt of a sulphonate surfactant;
- b) 1% to 20% of an alkali metal or ammonium salt of an alkyl polyethenoxy sulfate surfactant;
- c) 0 to 10% of an alkyl polyglucoside;
- d) 0.1% to 4% of D-limonene;
- e) 0.1% to 3% of a hydrotrope which is an alkyl aryl sulphonate;
- f) 0.5% to 3% of an alkyl monoalkanol amide or an alkyl dialkanol amide and mixtures thereof;
- g) 1% to 25% of at least one cosurfactant; and selected from the group consisting of a mono C1-C6 alkyl ether of R(x)nOH or R1(x)nOH wherein R is a C1-C6 alkyl group, R1 is a C2-C4 alkyl group, X is selected from the group consisting of (OCH2CH2) and (OCH2CH(CH3)) and n is number from 1-4;
- h) the balance being water, wherein the composition has a pH of about 1 to 11 and is optically clear having at least 90% light transmission.
- 2. The composition of claim 1, wherein said water insoluble organic compound has a .delta..sub.p of about 0 to about 6 12 (MPa).sup.1/2, a .delta..sub.H of about 0 to 12 (MPa).sup.1/2, and a .delta..sub.d of about 14 to about 19.
- 3. The composition of claim 2, wherein said water insoluble organic compound is selected from the group consisting essentially of D-limonene; mixture of water insoluble aliphatic alcohols having about 6 to 18 carbon atoms and aliphatic and isoaliphatic hydrocarbons having about 8 to 30 carbon atoms; mixtures of said water insoluble aliphatic alcohols having about 6 to 18 carbon atoms and alkyl esters having 10 to 20 carbon atoms; and alephatic or isoaliphatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 18 carbon atoms and mixtures thereof.
- 4. The composition of claim 2, wherein said cosurfactant is selected from the group consisting of C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkanols, polypropylene glycol and polyethylene glycol.
- 5. The composition of claim 2, wherein said solubilizing agent is urea.
- 6. The composition of claim 1, further including a partially degraded protein.
- 7. The composition of claim 1, wherein the concentration of the nonionic surfactant is 0.1 to 6.0 wt %.
- 8. The composition of claim 1, further including a sequestrant.
- 9. The composition of claim 1, further including an alkyl polysaccharide surfactant.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 8/091,775 filed on Jul. 14, 1993 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,393,468.
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