Detergent composition having synergistic sudsing properties containing amides and sulfonate-containing detergents

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A DETERGENT COMPOSITION HAVING SYNERGISTIC SUDSING PROPERTIES CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF A SYNERGISTIC SUDSING MIXTURE OF DETERGENT A AND DETERGENT B WHEREIN DETERGENT A IS AN INGREDIENT WHICH COMPRISES FROM ABOUT 30% TO ABOUT 70% OF COMPONENT A, FROM ABOUT 20% TO ABOUT 70% OF COMPONENT B AND FROM ABOUT 2% TO ABOUT 15% OF COMPONENT C, WHEREIN: (A) SAID COMPONENT A IS A MIXTURE OF DOUBLEBOND POSISTIONAL ISOMERS OF WATER-SOLUBLE SALTS OF ALKENE-1-SULFONIC ACIDS CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, SAID MIXTURE OF POSITIONAL ISOMERS INCLUDING BY WEIGHT ABOUT 10% TO ABOUT 25% OF AN ALPHA-BETA UNSATURATED ISOMERS, ABOUT 30% TO ABOUT 70% OF A BETA-GAMMA UNSATURATED ISOMER, ABOUT 5% TO ABOUT 25% OF A GAMMA-DELTA UNSATURATED ISOMER, AND ABOUT 5% TO ABOUT 10% OF A DELTAEPSILON UNSATURATED ISOMER; (B) SAID COMPONENT B IS A MIXTURE OF WATERSOLUBLE SALTS OF BIFUNCTIONALLY SUBSTITUTED SULFUR CONTAINING SATURATED ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, THE FUNCTIONAL UNITS BEING HYDROXY AND SULFONATE RADICALS WITH THE SULFONATE RADICAL ALWAYS BEING ON THE TERMINAL CARBON AND THE HYDROXYL RADICAL BEING ATTACHED TO A CARBON ATOM AT LEAST TWO CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM THE TERMINAL CARBON ATOM AT LEAST 90% BY WEIGHT OF SAID COMPONENT B HAVING A HYDROXYL RADICAL ON THE THIRD, FOURTH OR FIFTH CARBON ATOM; (C) SAID COMPONENT C IS A MIXTURE COMPRISING FROM 30-95% WATER-SOLUBLE SALTS OF ALKENE DISULFONATES CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, AND FROM ABOUT 5% TO ABOUT 70% WATER-SOLUBLE SALTS OF HYDROXY DISULFONATES CONTAINING FROM ABOUT 12 TO ABOUT 16 CARBON ATOMS, SAID ALKENE DISULFONATES CONTAINING A SULFONATE GROUP ATTACHED TO A TERMINAL CARBON ATOM AND A SECOND SULFONATE GROUP ATTACHED TO AN INTERNAL CARBON ATOM NOT MORE THAN ABOUT SIX CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM SAID TERMINAL CARBON ATOM, THE ALKENE DOUBLE-BOND BEING DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN THE TERMINAL CARBON ATOM AND ABOUT THE SEVENTH CARBON ATOM, SAID HYDROXY DISULFONATES BEING SATURATED ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS HAVING A SULFONATE RADICAL ATTACHED TO A TERMINAL CARBON, A SECOND SULFONATE GROUP ATTACHED TO AN INTERNAL CARBON ATOM NOT MORE THAN ABOUT SIX CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM SAID TERMINAL CARBON ATOM, AND A HYDROXY GROUP ATTACHED TO A CARBON ATOM WHICH IS NOT MORE THAN ABOUT FOUR CARBON ATOMS REMOVED FROM THE SITE OF ATTACHMENT OF SAID SECOND SULFONATE GROUP; AND WHEREIN DETERGENT B IS A FATTY ACID AMIDE COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF UNSUBSTITUTED FATTY ACID AMIDE FATTY ACID MONOETHANOLAMIDE, FATTY ACID MONOISOPROPANOLAMIDE, AND FATTY ACID GLYCERYLAMIDE, THE FATTY ACID GROUPS CONTAINING 10 TO 14 CARBON ATOMS, SAID SYNERGISTIC SUDSING MIXTURE CONSISINTG OF SAID DETERGENTS IN THE FOLLOWING PROPORTIONS: (1) WHEN DETERGENT B IS SAID UNSUBSTITUTED FATTY ACID AMIDE, THE PROPORTION OF DETERGENT A TO DETERGENT B BEING ABOUT 5:1 BY WEIGHT; (2) WHEN DETERGENT B IS SAID FATTY ACID MONOETHANOLAMIDE, THE PROPORTION OF DETERGENT A TO DETERGENT B BEING ABOUT 5:1 BY WEIGHT; (3) WHEN DETERGENT B IS SAID FATTY ACID MONOISOPROPANOLAMIDE, THE PROPORTION OF DETERGENT A TO DETERGENT B BEING IN THE RANG OF 9:1 TO 3:1 BY WEIGHT; (4) WHEN DETERGENT B IS SAID FATTY ACID GLYCERYLAMIDE, THE PROPORTION OF DETERGNET A TO DETERGENT B BEING IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 11:1 TO 1.5:1 BY WEIGHT.