Dryer-activated laundry additive compositions with color care agents

US5942486A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Robert Allen Godfroid · McKinney, US
• Ronghui Wu · Loveland, US
• Janet Sue Littig · Lancaster, US
• Alessandro Corona, III · Maineville, US
• Mark Robert Sivik · Lancaster, US
• Fred Hartman · Kirkwood, US
• Sandra Louise Honsa · Middletown, US
• Daniel Dale Ditullio, Jr. · Hamilton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 9, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 24, 1999
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06P5/06
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to dryer-activated laundry additive compositions and products having a color care agent and to methods for using the compositions and products. The dryer-activated laundry additive composition comprises from about 0.1% to about 50% of by weight of the composition of a color care agent having the formula: EQU (R.sub.1)(R.sub.2)N(CX.sub.2).sub.n N(R.sub.3)(R.sub.4) wherein X, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are as defined within. Optional ingredients include a quaternary ammonium fabric softening compound, a cyclodextrin, or a perfume. Products according to the invention involved the color care composition described above disposed on a substrate such as a sheet.