Moulded detergent compositions

US4861508A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Ingo Wegener · Goldkronach, DE
• Brigitte Giesen · Goldkronach, DE
• Alfred Meffert · Monheim, DE
• Claus Werner · Neuss, DE
• Udo Hennen · Krefeld, DE
• Marlene Hormes · Krefeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 1988
• Grant date: Aug 29, 1989
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D1/28
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Improved mouldability and surface smoothness is provided for moulded detergent compositions, for example bar soaps, containing from 30 to 70% by weight of a sodium C.sub.12 -C.sub.18 alkyl sulfate, from 5 to 25% by weight of a C.sub.12 -C.sub.18 fatty alcohol, from 5 to 25% by weight palmitic and/or stearic acid, optionally partially saponified, and from 1 to 30% by weight of an .alpha.-sulfofatty acid salt corresponding to the following formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a linear C.sub.9 -C.sub.21 alkyl group, A is an alkali metal, ammonium or alkanolammonium cation, and B is hydrogen or has one of the meanings of A.