Textile treating composition
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsPierre C. E. Goffinet, Jean-Pierre C. I. M. Leclercq
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Abstract
A textile-treating composition comprises a fabric-substantive cationic surfactant and a water-insoluble salt of a carboxylic acid having from 16 to 24 carbon atoms. Particularly useful water-insoluble salts are the calcium, aluminium or magnesium salts of stearic acid. Fabrics treated with the composition, either directly or in dilute aqueous solution, have enhanced softness and antistatic properties.
Claims9
A textile-treating composition in the form of an aqueous dispersion consisting essentially of (a) from 0.1% to 15% of a fabric-substantive cationic surfactant and (b) from 0.1% to 10% of a substantially water-insoluble di-carboxylate salt based on a carboxylic acid having from 16 to 24 carbon atoms.
A textile-treating composition consisting of
- (a) from 2% to 10% by weight of the composition of a cationic surfactant selected from the group consisting of
- (i) non-cyclic quaternary ammonium salts having two C.sub.12 -C.sub.30 alkyl chains;
- (ii) substituted polyamine salts of formula ##STR8## wherein R is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or alkenyl group having 10 to 22 carbon atoms;
- each R.sub.1 is independently selected from hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl, and (C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.p H or (C.sub.3 H.sub.6 O).sub.p H, where p is from 1 to 3;
- m is from 0 to 6;
- n is from 2 to 6;
- and A.sup.(-) represents an anion;
- (iii) C.sub.8 -C.sub.25 alkyl imidazolinium salts;
- (iv) C.sub.12 -C.sub.20 pyridinium salts;
- and
- (v) a mixture of any two or more of these,
- (b) from 1% to 6% of a substantially water-insoluble di-carboxylate salt based on a carboxylic acid having from 16 to 24 carbon atoms;
- and
- (c) from 84% to 97% of a liquid carrier selected from water, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkanols and mixtures thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.