Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Ian R Kenyon

William Derek Emery

Fabrizio Bortolotti

Robin S Heslam

David G Evans

Hermes J Murakami

A particulate composition useful in the softening of fabrics from a wash liquor, the composition comprising a fabric softening clay material and a nonionic surfactant system which consists of one or more nonionic surfactants, wherein the nonionic surfactant system exists as a cloudy phase, at 1% concentration in water, somewhere in the range of 0.degree. C. to 80.degree. C., the weight ratio of the clay to the nonionic surfactant system is from 2:3 to 20:1, and the moisture content of the composition, as measured by the water loss at 135.degree. C., is from 7.5% to 12% by weight.

Composition for softening fabrics

A detergent composition for washing and softening fabrics comprising at least one detergent active material and, as a fabric softening agent, a smectite clay mineral which is a 2:1 layer phyllosilicate possessing a lattice charge deficiency in the range of 0.2 to 0.4 g equivalents per half unit cell.

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Gayton, United Kingdom

Ian R Kenyon