Textile softening detergent composition

#The present invention relates to a textile softening detergent composition.

#It is known that soft and fluffy textiles frequently washed in a drum washing machine become deprived of their initially pleasant feeling. The feeling becomes harder, especially when the textiles are repeatedly dried, hanging quiescently. This is due to an agglutination of fibers, also termed water stiffness, which occurs during drying.

#This effect can be acted upon with the use of conditioning agents, preferably cationic surfactants, more preferably quaternary ammonium compounds. The softening effect on the textile generally has an antistatic effect associated with it. The term "softening" as used herein always means this conditioning effect on textiles; it does not relate to the softening of water by sequestration of calcium and magnesium ions inducing the hardness of water, in complex form.

#Loop pile fabrics were washed 5 times in each case with one of the two following detergent compositions (the percentages being by wgt)

#______________________________________ Composition A Composition B ______________________________________ Sodium tripolyphosphate 23.3 30 Zeolite A 15.5 -- Anionic 6.2 6.0 Non-ionic Surfactants 3.5 1.5 Cationic -- 6.5 Sodium perborate 21.0 20.5 tetrahydrate Sodium carbonate 1.2 1.3 Enzymes 0.34 0.8 Laminated alkali-aluminum -- 1.5 silicate (bentonites) Laminated sodium silicate 10 -- (invention) the balance up to 100 100 ______________________________________

#being water of crystallization, adhering water and detergent aids.