The Dial Corporation

Michael L Marshall

Robert J Jaworski

E Gary Myers

Joan M Bergstrom

Thorsten Bastigkeit

Julianne C Wood-Rethwill

Phase-stable concentrated liquid fabric softener compositions having controlled viscosity are possible through the use of borate salts as processing aid, stabilizer and viscosity control agent.

Phase-stable concentrated fabric softeners containing borates

A personal use soap bar composition containing alkali metal soaps of fatty acids having alkyl chain lengths of C.sub.8 -C.sub.22 which include an unhydrated cationic guar gum polymer as a skin feel and mildness additive. Prior to incorporating the polymer into the soap, it is mixed with an anhydrous polyglycol ether such as PEG-6 methyl ether. This eliminates the need to hydrate the cationic polymers to achieve uniform distribution of the polymer in the bar.

Personal use soap bar compositions containing cationic polymers

A continuous, high speed process for making translucent soap bars which, optionally are provided with a striated pattern. The process uses a mixture of tallow and coconut fatty acids saponified with a mixture of sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide. To the neat soap is added a superfatting agent and glycerin and the resulting neat soap is dried to a moisture level of from about 14% to about 18%. The dried soap is thereafter subject to amalgamation where a slurry containing additional glycerin and a polyethylene glycol of molecular weight of about 600 is added to and mixed with said soap. Following amalgamation, the soap is refined and thereafter compacted and extruded into a continuous log which may be cut and stamped into bars. A striated pattern may be incorporated into the translucent bars by adding mica platelets to the slurry at the amalgamation stage and conducting the compaction and extrusion of said soap in an extrusion plodder provided with a compaction plate, such plate having a series of openings through which the soap is forced resulting in soap bars having a unique striated pattern.

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Scottsdale, AZ, United States of America

Michael L Marshall