A laundry product comprising a particulate laundry composition releasably contained within a closed, single- or multi-compartment sachet having a frangible seal, in which the sachet is formed of water-insoluble, calender-bonded or calender-finished, non-woven bonded substrate material. The product combines good storage characteristics with excellent product dissolution characteristics under European and US laundering conditions.

The present invention relates to a substantially dry, disposable, personal cleansing product useful for both cleansing and conditioning the skin or hair. These products are used by the consumer by wetting the dry product with water. The product comprises of a water insoluble substrate, a lathering surfactant, and an oil soluble conditioning agent. The invention also encompasses methods for cleansing and conditioning the skin or hair using these products and to methods for manufacturing these pro...

Bacteriophages of food-contaminating or pathogenic bacteria or the lysins thereof are used to kill such bacteria. Examples include lysins from bacteriophages of Listeria monocytogenes and Clostridium tyrobutyricum. Tests for bacterial contamination can be made specific for specific bacteria by using the appropriate bacteriophage or lysin thereof and determining whether cells are lysed thereby.

A liposomal aqueous dispersion and method of making the liposomal aqueous dispersion is useful for encapsulation of drugs. The liposomal aqueous dispersion comprises: an aqueous suspension medium; multilamellar liposomes comprising an anionic phospholipid and cholesterol as essential components; neutral phospholipid in a mole ratio of 0 to 40% based on the total amount of said multilamellar liposomes; and a cation moiety-containing water-soluble drug, wherein the electrolyte concentration of sai...

Coated abrasives with engineered abrasive surfaces are produced using superabrasive particles mixed with metal particles in a cold-forming process.

A method of making an abrasive product involves crushing a diamond abrasive compact, typically a thermally stable diamond abrasive compact, and then re-constituting the fragments so produced under diamond synthesis conditions.

This invention describes various compositions obtained from thiodiglycol or thiodiglycol polymers. The compositions have unique antioxidant capability and are useful in a variety of functional fluids, hydraulic fluids, automatic transmission fluids and generally in oils of lubricating viscosity such as crankcase oils or greases.

This invention relates to a polarized material which is free or substantially free of mechanically-induced orientation and has polarization which is essentially stable up to the crystal melting temperature range of the polar crystals or to the softening temperature range or the glass transition temperature range of the polarized material if it is non-crystalline. A preferred polarized material provided is poly(vinylidene fluoride).

Macro defect free cementitious products are obtained by curing or firing a cementitious composition comprising water, a reactive filler and a water soluble alkali metal silicate. The products show good strength and heat and water stability, by contrast with known mdf products where leaching out of the polymers used results in decreased strength.

Coated abrasive materials can be made from a backing material and abrasive elements which comprise abrasive particles adhered to a rigid base material, said elements being rigidly adhered to the backing material in a predetermined pattern.