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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2006
Yohei Ozeki, Wakayama, JP;
Teruo Kubota, Wakayama, JP;
Motomitsu Hasumi, Wakayama, JP;
Kao Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
[PROBLEMS] To provide a softening detergent composition capable of washing a fibrous manufactured article or the like having softening ability, and at the same time allowing a clay mineral to be less likely to remain on clothes. [SOLVING MEANS] A softening detergent composition containing (a) 2 to 20% by mass of clay granules containing as a main component a smectite clay mineral represented by the following general formula (I), provided that a Na/Ca mass ratio in the granules is 1.0 or more: [Si(MgAl)O(OH)].X/n [Me](I), wherein a, b, and x satisfy the formulas 0<a≦6, 0≦b≦4, 0.2≦x=12−2a−3b≦1.2; Me is at least one member of Na, K, Li, Ca, Mg and NH; and n is valency of Me; (b) 3 to 9% by mass of a nonionic surfactant; and (c) 12 to 27% by mass of an anionic surfactant, provided that a salt of a fatty acid is excluded; and the softening detergent composition used for hand-washing.