Claims
- 1. A non-aqueous liquid fabric treating composition which comprises a non-aqueous liquid comprising a nonionic surfactant, fabric-treating solid particles selected from the group consisting of detergent builders, bleaching agents, antistatic agents, and mixtures thereof suspended in said non-aqueous liquid, and an organophilic clay, in an amount from about 0.2% to about 1% by weight, based on the weight of the composition, as a stabilizing agent to inhibit settling of the suspended particles, said organophilic clay comprising a swelling smectite clay modified with a nitrogen containing compound including at least one long chain hydrocarbon having from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms.
- 2. The fabric treating composition of claim 1 wherein the suspended particles have an average particle size of 15 microns or less, no more than about 10% by weight of said particles having a particle size of more than about 15 microns.
- 3. The fabric treating composition of claim 1 wherein the suspended particles have an average particle size of from about 1 to 10 microns, no more than about 10% by weight of said particles having a particle size of more than about 10 microns.
- 4. The fabric treating composition of claim 3 wherein said nitrogen containing compound is a quaternary ammonium compound.
- 5. The fabric treating compound of claim 4 wherein the quaternary ammonium compound is a compound of the formula
- [R.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3 R.sub.4 N].sup.+ X.sup.-
- wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each, independently, hydrogen or an alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl or alkaryl group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms, at least two of R.sub.1 -R.sub.4 having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms and at most two of R.sub.1 -R.sub.4 having from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms; and X is an inorganic or organic anion.
- 6. The fabric treating composition of claim 1 wherein the nonionic surfactant is an alkoxylated fatty alcohol having from about 10 to about 22 carbon atoms.
- 7. The fabric treating composition of claim 6 wherein the fatty alcohol is a C.sub.12 to C.sub.18 alcohol alkoxylated with up to about 12 moles ethylene oxide and up to about 8 moles propylene oxide.
- 8. The fabric treating composition of claim 7 wherein the non-aqueous liquid further comprises a diluent or organic solvent selected from the group consisting of lower alcohols having from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms, and alkylene glycols having from 2 to about 6 carbon atoms.
- 9. The fabric treating composition of claim 7 wherein the non-aqueous liquid further comprises a viscosity-controlling and antigelling amount of an alkylene glycol ether of the formula
- RO(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n H
- wherein R is a C.sub.2 to C.sub.8 alkyl group and n is a number having an average value of from about 1 to 6.
- 10. The fabric treating composition of claim 9 wherein the alkylene glycol ether is diethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
- 11. The fabric treating composition of claim 1 wherein the non-aqueous liquid comprises from about 30% to about 70% by weight of the composition and the suspended solid particles comprise from about 70% to about 30% by weight of the composition.
- 12. The fabric treating composition of claim 11 wherein the non-aqueous liquid comprises from about 45% to 55% by weight of the composition and the suspended solid particles comprise from about 55% to 45% by weight of the composition.
- 13. The fabric treating composition of claim 1 comprising from about 30 to about 60% of alkoxylated fatty alcohol nonionic surfactant;
- from about 0% to about 20% of alkylene glycol ether viscosity control and antigelling agent;
- from about 20% to about 50% of detergent builder particles; and
- from about 0% to about 50% in total of one or more optional detergent additives selected from the following: enzymes, enzyme inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, anti-foam agents, suds suppressors, soil suspending agents, anti-yellowing agents, colorants, perfumes, optical brighteners, bluing agents, pH modifiers, pH buffers, bleaching agents, bleach stabilizers, and sequestering agents.
- 14. The fabric treating composition of claim 1 wherein the amount of the organophilic clay is from 0.2% to 0.7% by weight of the composition.
- 15. A heavy duty built liquid thickened non-aqueous laundry detergent composition comprising
- from about 30% to about 40% of a liquid nonionic surfactant which is a mixed ethylene oxide--propylene oxide condensate of a fatty alcohol having from about 12 to about 18 carbon atoms;
- from about 25% to about 40% of alkali metal phosphate detergent builder salt;
- from about 5% to about 12% of an alkylene glycol ether solvent as a viscosity control and anti-gelling agent;
- from about 0.2% to about 0.7% of an organophilic modified smectite clay in which from about 10% to 100% of the available base exchange capacity of the smectite clay is replaced by an organic cationic nitrogen compound having at least one long chain hydrocarbon with from about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms;
- from about 2% to about 20% of a peroxide bleaching agent;
- from about 0.1% to about 8% of a bleach activator;
- up to about 2% of enzymes;
- up to about 10% of soil suspending, anti-redeposition and anti-yellowing agents;
- up to about 5% of high complexing power sequestering agent; and
- up to about 2% each of one or more of colorants, perfumes and optical brighteners;
- the solid components of said composition being stably suspended in the liquid components of said composition and having an average particle size in the range of from about 2 to 10 microns, with no more than about 10% of the particles having a particle size of more than 10 microns; said composition having a plastic viscosity in the range of from about 0.05 Pa.multidot.sec to 0.5 Pa.multidot.sec.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/063,199, filed June 17, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,846.992.
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