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US 6,191,101 B1Granted
Fabric softening compositions providing enhanced performance and containing cationic softeners and fatty amides
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsAlain Jacques, Leopold Laitem
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Abstract
A stable, pourable and water dispersible fabric softening composition comprising: (i) from about 2% to about 35%, by weight, of a combination of softening components (A) and (B) wherein: (A) is a cationic fabric softening compound; and (B) is a fatty amide compound; (ii) from about 0 to about 10%, by weight, of a polysiloxane; and (iii) balance water and optionally adjuvants selected from the group consisting of perfumes; dyes; sequestrants; thickeners; and anti dye-transfer polymeric materials.
Claims6
A stable, pourable and water dispersible fabric softening composition comprising:
- (i) from about 2% to about 35%, by weight, of a combination of softening components (A) and (B) wherein:
- (A) is a cationic fabric softening compound;
- and
- (B) is a fatty amide compound;
- (ii) from about 0 to about 10%, by weight, of a polysiloxane;
- and
- (iii) balance water and optionally adjuvants selected from the group consisting of perfumes;
- dyes;
- sequestrants;
- thickeners;
- and anti dye-transfer polymeric materials;
- wherein said cationic softening compound (A) is selected from the group consisting of:
- (i) dialkyl quaternary ammonium compounds;
- (ii) dialkyl fatty ester quaternary ammonium compounds;
- and
- (iii) alkyl imidazolinium compounds;
- and said fatty amide compound (B) is an alkyl carbamidoethyl urea having the following structural formula:
- wherein R is a C12 to C22 alkyl group.
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