Solid transparent cleanser
AssigneeAmway Corporation
InventorRobert A. Gordon
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Abstract
The specification discloses a solid transparent soap employing a greater amount of sodium soap than prior artisans have ever been able to get into a transparent bar without plodding, milling or refining. In excess of 25% sodium tallow soap to as much as 55% sodium soap, based mainly on tallow, is mixed with 10% to 40% anionic or amphoteric surfactant, combinations and/or complexes thereof, and 65% to 15% of a two or six carbon dihydric alcohol. The resulting soap composition is transparent in that one can read 14 point type through a 1/4 inch bar and can be made by simple mixing, without plodding, milling or refining.
Claims28
A transparent soap bar consisting essentially of about 25% to about 55% sodium soap based mainly on tallow or its corresponding fatty acids, where the tallow or corresponding fatty acid soap component alone is at least 25%;
- about 10% to about 40% of one of an anionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant and combinations and complexes thereof;
- about 15% to about 65% of a two to six carbon dihydric alcohol;
- said bar being substantially free of monohydric short chain alcohols.
A method for producing transparent soap bars comprising:
- mixing from about 25% to about 55% of a sodium soap based mainly on tallow or its fatty acids, where the tallow or corresponding fatty acid soap component alone is at least 25%, with about 10% to about 40% of one of an anionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant and combinations and complexes thereof and with about 15% to about 65% of a two to six carbon dihydric alcohol with stirring and heating to about 180.degree. F.;
- keeping said mixture substantially free of monohydric short chain alcohols;
- pouring the resulting heated mixture into suitable molds for processing into individual bars.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.