Dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo articles containing salts
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorBrian Xiaoqing Song
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Abstract
A dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo article having a plurality of fibrous elements. The fibrous elements contain one or more polymeric structurants; one or more cationic polymers, a surfactant system, and two or more salts that include an inorganic salt and an organic salt. The plurality of fibrous elements are intertangled or otherwise associated with one another to form the fibrous article. The present invention provides a dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo articles having an adequate strength during manufacturing while not slowing down the dissolution of the structure during usage.
Claims12
A dissolvable solid fibrous shampoo article comprising a plurality of fibrous elements, comprising:
- a. from about 1% to about 50%, by weight on a dry article basis, of polyvinyl alcohol;
- b. from about 0.1% to about 5% by weight on a dry article basis, of one or more cationic polymers chosen from Polyquaternium-6, Polyquaternium-7, Polyquaternium-10, cationic guars, or a combination mixtures thereof;
- c. from about 20% to about 70%, by weight on a dry article basis, of a surfactant system comprising a glutamate surfactant and an alaninate surfactant, wherein the surfactant system is free of sulfate-based surfactants;
- d. from about 5.5% to about 20%, by weight on a dry article basis, of at least two salts comprising:
- i. sodium chloride;
- wherein the composition comprises less than 5% by weight on a dry article basis, of the sodium chloride;
- ii. from about 1% to about 18% by weight on a dry article basis, of sodium lactate;
- wherein the plurality of fibrous elements are intertangled or otherwise associated with one another to form the fibrous article.
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