Abstract
The influence of sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) or zeolites on the detergency performance of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) has been evaluated at different water hardness levels. This study demonstrates that STPP or zeolite behaves either as a sequestrant or through an important synergism with LAS, showing a minimum and a maximum in detergency performance, depending on the water hardness level. There is an optimum LAS/builder ratio for each individual water hardness level. This optimum has to be determined experimentally as it will not always necessarily coincide with the highest surfactant and/or builder concentrations.
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