LIQUID DETERGENT

THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO A LIQUID DETERGENT CONTAINING A SPECIFIC FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTER SULFONATE (A), A SPECIFIC FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTER ALKOXYLATE (B), AND AT LEAST ONE TYPE OF ORGANIC SOLVENT (C) SELECTED FROM AMONG ALCOHOLS HAVING A CARBON NUMBER OF 2 TO 4 AND COMPOUNDS REPRESENTED BY GENERAL FORMULA (C-L), WHEREIN THE TOTAL OF COMPONENT (A) AND COMPONENT (B) IS 40% BY MASS OR GREATER, COMPONENT (A)/COMPONENT (B) (MASS RATIO) IS FROM 5/95 TO 60/40, AND THE MASS RATIO REPRESENTED BY [COMPONENT (A)+COMPONENT (B)]/COMPONENT (C) IS 23 OR LESS. IN FORMULA (C-1), R6 REPRESENTS AN ALKYL GROUP HAVING A CARBON NUMBER OF 1 TO 6 OR A PHENYL GROUP, R7 REPRESENTS AN ALKYLENE GROUP HAVING A CARBON NUMBER OF 2 TO 4, AND N REPRESENTS AN AVERAGE NUMBER OF REPETITIONS OF OR7 AND IS AN INTEGER OF 1 TO 5. THE PRESENT INVENTION CAN PROVIDE A LIQUID DETERGENT WHICH EXHIBITS FAVORABLE LIQUID FLUIDITY AND LIQUID STABILITY, HAS EXCELLENT DETERGENCY AGAINST VARIOUS TYPES OF SOILING, AND, IN PARTICULAR, EXHIBITS EXCELLENT ODOR REMOVABILITY AND THE EXCELLENT APPLICATION DETERGENCY REQUIRED FOR REMOVING SOILING BY DIRECT APPLICATION TO THE ITEMS BEING LAUNDERED. R7-(OR8)n-OH (c-1)