Fabric care composition
AssigneeUnilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsRobert Carswell, James Cooper, Ezat Khoshdel, Euan Reid, Keith Rutherford
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Abstract
This invention relates to a fabric care composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer and a textile compatible carrier, a method of treating fabric with such a composition as part of a laundering process and the use of a thermoplastic elastomer or a composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer to improve the crease recovery properties and/or elasticity and/or shape retention of a fabric.
Claims26
A fabric care composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer which is a block copolymer comprising a core polymer having a backbone comprising at least a proportion of C—C bonds and/or Si—O bonds and two or more flanking polymers, each flanking polymer being covalently bound to an end of the core polymer, wherein the copolymer is soluble at a level of at least 1% by weight in water or aqueous ethanol at 25°, and a textile compatible carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.