the marine life - poisoning property ( tlm value ) of each detergent constituent is shown in table - 1 . table - 1__________________________________________________________________________ tlm value ( ppm )* __________________________________________________________________________example1 lysine salt of straight - chain dodecylbenzene sulfonic 25id &# 34 ; 2 hydroxylysine salt &# 34 ; 20 &# 34 ; 3 arginine salt &# 34 ; 100 &# 34 ; 4 histidine salt &# 34 ; 45 &# 34 ; 5 ornithine salt &# 34 ; 30 &# 34 ; 6 mixed basic amino acid salt of straight - chain dodecyl - benzene sulfonic acid ** 25controlexample1 straight - chain sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate 4 &# 34 ; 2 straight - chain ammonium dodecylbenzene sulfonate 4example7 lysine salt of c . sub . 15 . sub .- 18 mixed alkane sulfonic 25id &# 34 ; 8 mixed basic amino acid salt of c . sub . 15 . sub .- 18 mixed alkane sulfonic acid ** 25 &# 34 ; 9 arginine salt of hydroxy hexadecane sulfonic acid 70 &# 34 ; 10 arginine salt of hexadecene sulfonic acid 60 &# 34 ; 11 mixed basic amino acid salt of hexadecene sulfonic 25id **&# 34 ; 12 arginine salt of lauryl alcohol sulfuric ester 100 &# 34 ; 13 mixed basic amino acid salt of lauryl alcohol sulfuric ester ** 25__________________________________________________________________________ * in accordance with jis k 0102 ( 1971 ), japanese gold fishes ( a kind of gold fish ) were kept in the active constituent - containing water for 24 hours and then the active constituent concentration ( tlm value ) measured at the time when 50 % of the tested gold fishes survived was expressed in terms of ppm . ** the mixed basic amino acid comprises 40 % by weight of lysine , 30 % by weight of arginine and 30 % by weight of histidine . a 0 . 167 % aqueous solution of the detergent having the following composition was subjected to a detergency test and the thus obtained results are shown in table - 2 . the constituents of the detergent according to the present invention were recognized to be not inferior in detergency as compared with the straight - chain sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate which was publicly known as one of the detergent constituents being most excellent in detergency . table - 2______________________________________ example control 14 example 3______________________________________ straight - chain dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid lysine salt 20 -- straight - chain dodecylbenzene sulfonic acidcompo - sodium salt -- 20sition ( wt .%) sodium silicate 15 15 sodium carbonate 5 5 sodium sulfate 56 56 cmc 1 1 water 3 3 ( by employingdeter - artificial sebumgency soil detergency 83 85 test procedure )*** ______________________________________ *** the artificial sebum soil detergency test procedure is conducted as follows . the following organic constituents are heated at 60 ° to 80 ° c and mixed together . after leaving the resulting mixture stand to thereby cool it down to room temperature , an inorganic constituent , clay , is added thereto , and the mixture is further mixed by the use of a mortar . ______________________________________ myristic acid oleic acid tristearin trioleinorganic soil cholesterol cholesterol stearate paraffin wax squalene clay : obtained by drying &# 34 ; shimosueyoshi &# 34 ; loaminorganic soil at 800 ° c for 3 hours , crushing thereafter and passing 325 - mesh . organic soilinorganic soil 49 . 75 / 49 . 75 / 0 . 5carbon black______________________________________ by putting a small dose of the soil on a sponge and spreading it uniformly on a desized no . 60 cotton broadcloth ( manufactured by kanebo k . k .) not subjected to fluorescent dying to soil it to such an extent that it will attain a reflectance of 42 ± 2 % as measured with elrepho - model photoelectric reflectance meter manufactured by carlzeiss co ., further rubbing the thus soiled cloth with a clean sponge and cutting said soiled cloth into pieces of 5 cm × 5 cm each , test pieces of soiled cloth are prepared . 10 pieces of soiled cloth prepared as above are subjected to 10 minutes &# 39 ; cleansing by the use of terg - o - tometer ( u . s . testing co .) under the conditions of bath volume : 900 cc , bath temperature : 25 ° c , agitating speed : 150 c . p . m ., bath ratio : x30 . for the purpose of adjusting the bath ratio , there is employed cloth having 0 . 6 % of organic constituent of an artificial soil attached thereto . rinsing is effected for 3 minutes under the same condition as in the case of washing . the detergency is computed by applying the following equation upon measuring the reflectance of the soiled cloth before and after washing . ## equ1 ## ( wherein ro represents the reflectance (%) of clean cloth , rs represents the reflectance (%) of soiled cloth before washing , and