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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
May. 15, 2007
Yun Peng Zhu, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Feng-lung Gordon Hsu, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Diane Wolf, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Yun Peng Zhu, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Feng-Lung Gordon Hsu, Tenafly, NJ (US);
Diane Wolf, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
A fabric care article made of solid or semi-solid matrix of materials for repetitive or multiple use in a machine drying apparatus such as a tumble dryer. The matrix includes a structuring agent comprising a filler structuring agent and a polymeric structuring agent. The filler structuring agent comprises about 0.2 % to about 10% and the polymeric structuring agent comprises about 0.5 to about 20% by weight of the composition. The matrix further includes up to about 25% of an anionic soap surfactant, about 10% to about 60% of free fatty acid, and about 1% to about 50% of a non-ionic, but is substantially free from cationic surfactant. When the fabric care article is used up, it simply disappears, indicating to a user that the article needs to be replenished.