Foam boosting of hair shampoo compositions
AssigneeDow Corning Corporation
InventorsDavid Alan Glover, Linda Moy Madore
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Abstract
Oxyethylene functional organosilane compounds are used as foam boosters in hair shampoo compositions. The oxyethylene functional organosilane compounds having the formula RSiR'.sub.3 in which R is the radical --O(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x R"; R' is an R group or an alkyl group having one to six carbon atoms; R" is an endblocking radical such as hydrogen, an alkyl group having one to six carbon atoms, or an aryl group; and x is an integer having a value of six to thirty.
Claims7
In a method of boosting foam in an aqueous media containing an emulsifying agent selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, and mixtures thereof, by adding to the aqueous media a foam boosting effective amount of a foam boosting compound, the improvement comprising the foam boosting compound being an oxyethylene functional organosilane compound having the formula RSiR'.sub.3 in which R is the radical --O(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x R";
- R' is an R group or an alkyl group having one to six carbon atoms;
- R" is a radical selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group having one to six carbon atoms, and an aryl group;
- and x is an integer having a value of six to thirty.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.