Sanitizer compositions

Claim 1

1 A sanitizer composition comprising a peroxygen compound, an alkali metal chloride and optionally a surfactant and/or detergent builder characterised in that it contains:- (a) from 1 to 50% of the magnesium salt of a peroxygen compound having the empirical formula:- in which R 0 each represent hydrogen or both combine together to form an olefinic bond and R 1 and R 2 combine together with each other and the carbon atoms from which they depend to form an carbocyclic nucleus, which nucleus may optionally be further substituted by one or more of the functional groups selected from alkyl, carboxylate, percarboxylic acid, sulphonate, nitro, chloro and bromo groups; or in which R 1 and R 2 each represent either hydrogen or an alkyl group and both R 0 combine to form an olefinic bond; and n represents the number of carboxylate groups present in the compound (b) from 1 to 80% alkali metal chloride; (c) from 0 to 50% of an anionic, ampholytic, cationic, nonionic or zwitterionic surfactant; (d) from 0 to 70% of a water soluble or insoluble detergent builder.