High foaming nonionic surfacant based liquid detergent

Claim 1

A high foaming, nonionic surfactant-based, light duty, liquid detergent consisting essentially of, by weight, (A) 13% to 25% of a water soluble nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of primary and secondary C 8 -C 18 alkanol condensates with 5 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide, condensates of C 8 -C 18 alkylphenol with 5to 30 moles of ethylene oxide, condensates of C 8 -C 20 alkanol with a heteric mixture of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide having a weight ratio of ethylene oxide to propylene oxide from 2.5:1 to 4:1 and a total alkylene oxide content of 60% to 85% by weight and condensates of 2 to 30 moles of ethylene oxide with sorbitan mono- and tri- C 10 -C 20 alkanoic acid esters having an HLB of 8 to 15; (B) 2% to 8% of a water-soluble anionic detergent selected from the group consisting of C 8 -C 18 alkyl sulfates, C 8 -C 16 alkylbenzene sulfonates, C 10 -C 20 paraffin sulfonates, C 10 -C 24 alpha olefin sulfonates and C 8 -C 18 alkyl sulfosuccinate esters, C 8 -C 18 acyl isethionates and C 8 -C 18 acyl taurates; (C) 2% to 6% of a water-soluble C 8 -C 18 alkyl amidopropyl dimethyl betaine; (D) 2% to 6% of a C 12 -C 14 fatty acid monoethanolamide foam stabilizer; solubilized in (E) an aqueous medium; the sum of A-D being from 20% to 40% by weight of the composition, said nonionic surfactant being in excess of 50% by weight of said sum and said composition being free of anionic alkyl ether polyethenoxy sulfate detergent.