Fabric care composition
AssigneeUnilever Home & Personal Care USA
InventorsRobert John Carswell, James Bernard Cooper
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Abstract
This invention relates to a fabric care composition comprising a polycarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, a catalyst and a thermoplastic elastomer, a method of treating fabric with such a composition and the use of such a composition to increase the tensile strength (especially the tear strength) of a fabric, to reduce creasing and/or wrinkling of a fabric and/or to improve the elasticity and/or shape retention of a fabric.
Claims23
A fabric care composition comprising a polycarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, a catalyst and a thermoplastic elastomer in which the thermoplastic elastomer is a block copolymer comprising a core polymer and two or more flanking polymers, each flanking polymer being covalently bound to an end of the core polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.