Agent containing microcapsules
AssigneeHenkel AG & Co. KGaA
InventorsAndreas Bauer, Ursula Huchel, Stefan Urlichs, Manuela Materne, Klaus Last, Daniel Mues
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Abstract
The application relates to cosmetic agents, cleaning agents, and fabric treatment agents containing a combination of at least two different microcapsules as well as to methods for releasing active substances from said microcapsules when using said agents.
Claims12
An agent for washing, cleaning, conditioning, and/or dyeing hard or soft surfaces, comprising
- i. at least one surface-active substance, and
- ii. a mixture of at least a first and a second microcapsule, each of whose capsule walls comprise a resin that is obtained by reacting
- a) at least one aromatic alcohol or its ethers or derivatives with
- b) at least one aldehydic component that possesses at least two carbon atoms per molecule, and
- c) optionally in the presence of at least one (meth)acrylate polymer,
- wherein the first and the second microcapsules differ from one another in at least one of the reacted components a) and/or b).
A method for releasing an active substance from a microcapsule that is present on a surface, wherein the microcapsule, through contact with an agent for washing, cleaning, conditioning, and/or dyeing hard or soft surfaces, comprising
- i. at least one surfactant, and
- ii. a mixture of at least a first and a second microcapsule, which each comprise at least one active substance and whose capsule walls comprise a resin that is obtained by reacting
- a) at least one aromatic alcohol or its ethers or derivatives with
- b) at least one aldehydic component that possesses at least two carbon atoms per molecule, and
- c) optionally in the presence of at least one (meth)acrylate polymer,
- wherein the first and the second microcapsules differ from one another in one of the reacted components a) and/or b),
- is deposited onto the surface and then releases the active substance by the application of mechanical force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.