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US 12,630,785 B2Granted
Liquid fabric care compositions comprising capsules
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsAndre Martim Barros, Mariana B. T. Cardoso, Johan Smets, Steven Daryl Smith, Pierre Daniel Verstraete, Valerie Wong
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Abstract
Liquid fabric care compositions that include certain fabric treatment adjuncts and/or water, where the compositions further include capsules characterized by substantially inorganic shells, for example silica-based shells. The present disclosure further relates to methods of making and using such compositions.
Claims4
A liquid fabric care composition comprising:
- a fabric treatment adjunct,
- wherein the fabric treatment adjunct is selected from the group consisting of a conditioning active, a surfactant, or a mixture thereof,
- wherein, if present, the conditioning active is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl quaternary ammonium compound (“alkyl quat”), an alkyl ester quaternary ammonium compound (“alkyl ester quat”), and mixtures thereof, and
- wherein, if present, the surfactant is selected from the group consisting of anionic surfactant, nonionic surfactant, cationic surfactant, zwitterionic surfactant, amphoteric surfactant, ampholytic surfactant, and mixtures thereof;
- a population of capsules,
- the capsules comprising a core and a shell surrounding the core,
- wherein the core comprises perfume raw materials,
- wherein the core is liquid;
- wherein the shell is substantially inorganic and comprises silica and no more than 10% organic content;
- wherein the shell comprises a mean shell thickness of 5 nm to 500 nm;
- wherein the capsules comprise a mean volume weighted capsule diameter between 1 μm and 100 μm;
- wherein the population of capsules has a permeability between 0.01% and 40%;
- and
- wherein the population of capsules has a fracture strength between 0.5M Pa and 10 MPa;
- and
- a free perfume, wherein the free perfume is present at a level of from 0.1% to 10%, by weight of the liquid fabric care composition.
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