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US 6,605,581 B1Granted
Unit dose nonaqueous liquid softener disposed in water soluble container
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsHoai-Chau Cao, Joseph Reul, Juliette Rousselet, Alain Jacques, Alain Gourgue, Charles Schramm, Jr., Amjad Farooq, Jeffrey T. Epp, Marianne Zappone, Arthur Wagner
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Abstract
A water soluble container having disposed therein a nonaqueous liquid fabric softener composition.
Claims6
A non-aqueous softening system which comprises:
- (a) a water soluble container which is formed from a water soluble polymer which is selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohols, polyvinyl alcohol copolymers, partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, alkyl celluloses, ethers and esters of alkyl cellulosics, hydroxy alkyl, carboxy methyl cellulose sodium, dextrin, maltodextrin, water soluble polyacrylates, water soluble polyacrylates, water soluble polyacrylamides and acrylic acid/maleic anhydride copolymers;
- (b) a liquid fabric softener composition disposed in said water soluble container, wherein said fabric softener composition comprises approximately by weight 72% to 100% of at least one organic softening agent which is selected from the group consisting of wherein said composition does not contain anionic sulfate or sulfonate surfactants, hexylene glycol, amine oxide surfactants, detergent builder salts, silicone glycol copolymers, nonionic surfactants, green colorants, yellow colorants or poly(oxyalkylene) substrated colorant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.