Liquid household cleaner

Claim 1

A liquid, homogenous, stable, household cleaner composition, in particular for cleaning hard surfaces, containing anionic detersive surfactants, builder salts, and other usual cleaner additives, consisting essentially of: A. from about 2% to about 15% by weight of a mixture of a. an anionic, organic, synthetic sulfonate, having the formula R 1 SO 3 M wherein R 1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups containing from 10 to 20 carbon atoms, and wherein M represents a cation selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, ammonium and ethanol ammonium; and b. an anionic, organic synthetic sulfate having the formula R 2 SO 4 M wherein R 2 is selected from the group consisting of saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon groups containing from 8 to 18 carbon atoms, and M has the meaning given above; whereby the weight ratio of (a) to (b) is between 3/2 and 10/1; B. from about 3% to about 7.5% by weight of a water-soluble, organic or inorganic builder salt; and mixtures thereof; C. from about 0.3% to about 3% by weight of a suds depressing system comprising a fatty ester of the general formula R 3 COOR 4 , wherein R 3 is an alkyl radical containing from 11 to 17 carbon atoms and R 4 is an alkyl radical containing from 2 to 4 carbon atoms; and sodium, potassium or ammonium soap of a fatty acid containing from 12 to 18 carbon atoms; whereby the ester/soap weight ratio is between 1/1 and 1/20; and D. water; wherein the weight ratio of (A) to (B) is between 5/1 and 1/2.