Detergent composition for treating fabrics with insecticides
OwnerDesayo O. Ajisegiriinventor
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Abstract
A detergent composition including permethrin is disclosed that is particularly adapted to launder clothing or other personal fabrics. Laundering clothing with composition provides effective insect repellant properties to the clothing for at least 14 days. The detergent composition is especially useful for control of mosquitoes and other insects, thereby reducing the incidence of malaria, zika virus, and other diseases.
Claims6
A laundry detergent for cleaning fabric such that the fabric immediately becomes insect repellent and kills insects on contact for at least 14 days comprising a liquid laundry detergent and a liquid permethrin solution wherein the laundry detergent comprises 0.21 ounce of 36.8% permethrin concentrate per 1 gallon of detergent.
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The method of making a permethrin laundry detergent composition comprising mixing 0.21 ounce of 36.8% permethrin concentrate per 1 gallon of water, to make a permethrin water solution, and impregnating a dry laundry detergent support having a pore volume of 0.26 ml/g with the permethrin water solution using capillary action, and drying the composition under reduced pressure.
A method of making a dry laundry detergent which repels and kills insects on contact for at least 14 days, including permethrin, comprising determining the pore volume of a dry detergent support using nitrogen physisorption followed by bet calculations then mixing 0.21 ounce of 36.8% permethrin concentrate with 2 ounces of liquid laundry detergent and 1 gallon of water, and adding the permethrin/liquid laundry detergent/water solution to the dry detergent support in an amount equal to the pore volume of the dry detergent support, wherein a fabric washed with the dry laundry detergent repels and kills insects that contact the fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.