Capsule comprising oil surrounding hydrophobic or hydrophilic active and polymeric shell surrounding oil

Claim 1

A capsule composition for use in an aqueous liquid cleaning composition comprising: (a) an active which is degraded by components in said aqueous liquid composition; (b) an oil dispersion containing said active, wherein said oil is defined: (1) by its ability to retain greater than 80% active in oil after an hour when the dispersion of active in oil is added to an aqueous solution containing 0.5 wt. % sodium lauryl sulfate; (2) the ability to suspend said active with less than 10% phase separation when stored at 37° C. for 1 week; and (3) by the ability to release more than 50% active after 5 minutes of a wash cycle when measured at 40° C.; and (c) a polymer shell surrounding the oil dispersion of (b), wherein said polymer shell is a water soluble polymer or water dispersible polymers selected from at least one of the groups consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, a polyacrylamide, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, carrageenan, guar gum, xanthan gum, cellulose and protein; wherein the active of (b)(i) is not modified with a hydrophobic matrix polymer.