Laundry pre-spotter composition providing improved oily soil removal

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A clear, single phase, pre-spotting composition is provided in the form of a microemulsion solution, or gel and, which comprises, by weight: (a) from about 10 to 70% of an organic solvent comprising one or more alkanes having from 10 to 18 carbon atoms; (b) from about 4 to 60% of one or more nonionic surfactants comprising the condensation product of an aliphatic primary or secondary alcohol having from 9 to 16 carbon atoms with from 1 to 7 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of said alcohol; (c) from about 0 to 50% of a supplementary nonionic surfactant comprising an amine oxide or an alkyl phenol ethoxylate the, total amount of nonionic surfactants in the pre-spotting composition being no …