Detergent softener compositions containing a soap-cellulose ether mixture
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorHarold E. Wixon
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Abstract
Heavy duty detergent compositions, particularly for imparting improved softness and detersive effects to fabrics laundered therewith, said composition including in addition to conventional builder and principally anionic surfactant components, fatty acid soap, a minor quantity of cellulose ether, and cationic softener of the di-lower-di-higher alkyl quanternary ammonium and/or heterocyclic imide type, e.g., imidazolinium, the weight ratio of soap to softener being about 8:1 to 1:3 preferably 5:1 to 1:2 more preferably 3:2:2:3, e.g. about unity. The soap cellulose ether mixture is preferably in the form of a spaghetti, flake, or other shape and is present in the product composition as substantially homogeneously dispersed, discrete particles.
Claims30
A detergent softener composition capable of imparting improved softness, detergency, antistatic and soil antiredeposition properties to fabrics treated therewith in a laundering process comprising by weight from about 9 to 40% of water soluble non-soap, organic surfactant, at least about 90% thereof being of the anionic type, from about 10 to 60% of water soluble, neutral to alkaline builder salt, from about 2 to 20% water soluble or dispersible fatty acid soap-cellulose ether mixture, from about 2 to 20% of cationic amine softener selected from the group consisting of (a) aliphatic di-(lower) C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, di-(higher) C.sub.14 -C.sub.24 alkyl quaternary ammonium salts (b) hetrocyclic compounds, and mixtures of (a) and (b), the weight ratio of soap to softener being from about 8:1 to 1:3 the percent concentration of anionic surfactant being at least about 1.5x+5, x representing the percent concentration of softener, wherein the soap-cellulose ether mixture is substantially homogeneously dispersed in said composition as discrete particles.
A detergent-softener product including about:
- 5% distearyl dimethyl-ammonium chloride
- 5% soap spaghetti consisting of 96% tallow/coco, 85/15 and 4% of carboxymethyl cellulose
- 0.15% perfume
- and 89.85% of the following detergent composition:
- 15% linear tridecylbenzene sulfonate
- 33% sodium tripolyphosphate
- 7% silicate
- 1% borax
- 0.48% brightener
- Q.5 sodium sulfate and water.
A detergent softener product including about
- 5% distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride
- 5% soap spaghetti consisting of 96% tallow/coco, 85/15 and 4% of carboxymethyl cellulose
- 0.15% perfume
- and 89.85% of the following detergent composition:
- 23% linear dodecyl benzene sulfonate
- 20% sodium carbonate
- 15% silicate
- 3% borax
- 1% nonionic surfactant
- 2% fatty acid soap
- 1% carboxymethyl cellulose
- 0.48% brightener
- 1% Metakoalin
- Q.S. sodium sulfate and water.
A detergent softener product including about:
- 5% distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride
- 5% soap spaghetti consisting of 96% tallow/coco, 85/15 and 4% of carboxymethyl cellulose
- 0.15% perfume
- and 89.85% of the following detergent composition
- 19% linear dodecylbenzene sulfonate
- 1% nonionic surfactant
- 30% zeolite
- 5% silicate
- 0.48% brightener
- Q.S. sodium sulfate and water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.