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US 4,260,507 AGranted
Soap-synthetic detergent tablets
AssigneeLever Brothers Company
InventorDennis P. Barrett
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Abstract
A personal washing tablet based on tallow soap wherein the lather properties are surprisingly improved by inclusion of up to 40% by weight of active detergent of a defined sulphate/sulphomate synthetic detergent having not more than 10 carbon atoms in a linear chain.
Claims1
A personal washing tablet consisting essentially of an active detergent material and up to 20% by weight of water, said active detergent material being a mixture of:
- (a) 60-97% by weight of an alkali metal tallow soap of which at least 75% is the sodium salt, and
- (b) 3-40% by weight of a synthetic detergent having the structure ##STR7## wherein R is a C.sub.5 -C.sub.9 alkyl group, n is 1-3, and M is an alkali metal cation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.