Soap bar having enhanced antibacterial activity

US10370622B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Conopco, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Prem Chandar · Closter, US
• Guohui Wu · Woodbridge, US
• Nitish Kumar · Supaul, IN
• Vamsi Krishna Manthena · Dhamtari, IN
• Kalpana Kamalakar Nayak · Bengaluru, IN
• Vibhav Ramrao Sanzgiri · Mumbai, IN
• Anat Shiloach · Trumbull, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 25, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D9/26
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A soap bar comprising: (a) 25 to 85% by weight, based on the total weight of the bar, of fatty acid soap; (b) 0.1 to 100 ppm by weight, based on the total weight of the bar, of at least one silver (I) compound having a selected silver ion solubility, wherein at 25° C., a 1 wt % solution of the bar in water has a pH of from 9 to 11.