Claims
- 1. An improved liquid composition for use in treating fabrics to impart a sensorially perceivable effect thereto by the deposition of a sensorially perceivable effect producing material thereon and of the type comprising a sensorially perceivable effect producing material in water, the improvement comprising:
- said effect producing material being present in said composition as a component of a first dispersed phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, wherein:
- (a) said first phase is present in said composition at a level of about 0.5 to about 50 percent of said composition;
- (b) said first phase is a particulate phase comprising:
- (i) about 25 to about 90 percent by weight of said phase of a substantially water insoluble organic matrix material;
- (ii) about 0.5 to about 50 percent by weight of said phase of a cationic material; and
- (iii) about 0.5 to about 50 percent by weight of said phase of a sensorially perceivable effect producing material; and
- (c) said aqueous phase is present in said composition at a level of about 50 to about 99.5 percent by weight of said composition.
- 2. A liquid composition according to claim 1 further comprising a second dispersed phase dispersed in said aqueous phase, wherein said second dispersed phase is present in said composition at a level of about 0.5 to about 30 percent by weight of said composition and comprises a fabric conditioning material.
- 3. A liquid composition according to claims 2 wherein said fabric conditioning material is a fabric softening agent.
- 4. A liquid composition according to claim 2 wherein said second phase is present at a level of about 2 to about 15 percent by weight of said composition.
- 5. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said cationic material is present at a level of about 2 to about 10 percent by weight of said first phase.
- 6. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said first phase is present in said composition at a level of about 0.5 to about 10 percent by weight of said composition.
- 7. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said first phase is present in said composition at a level of about 0.5 to about 2 percent by weight of said composition.
- 8. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said sensorially perceivable effect producing material imparts a visually perceivable effect.
- 9. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said sensorially perceivable effect producing material imparts a olafactually perceivable effect.
- 10. A liquid composition according to claim 9 wherein said sensorially perceivable effect producing material is a perfume.
- 11. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said sensorially perceivable effect producing material imparts a tactilly perceivable effect.
- 12. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said organic matrix material is a sensorially perceivable effect producing material.
- 13. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said organic matrix material is a non-cationic material.
- 14. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said organic matrix material is a nonionic material.
- 15. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said organic matrix materials solubility in said aqueous phase does not exceed 200 parts per million.
- 16. A liquid composition according to claim 15 wherein said solubility does not exceed 50 parts per million.
- 17. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said cationic material of said first dispersed phase has a solubility in water at 25.degree. C. not greater than 5 grams per liter.
- 18. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said cationic material of said first dispersed phase is a fabric softening agent.
- 19. A liquid composition according to claim 1 wherein said organic matrix material selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) aliphatic alcohols having from 8 to 22 carbon atoms;
- (b) aliphatic alcohols ethoxylated with up to about 5 moles of ethylene oxide; and
- (c) esters of the general formula:
- RCOOR.sub.1
- wherein R and R.sub.1 are each alkyl or alkenyl groups having about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms.
- 20. A method of preparing the liquid composition according to claim 1 comprising:
- (a) melting the components of said first phase together; and
- (b) dispersing said first phase into said aqueous phase of a component thereof while said first phase is still in the moltant state.
- 21. A method of preparing the liquid composition according to claim 1 comprising:
- (a) melting the components of the first phase together;
- (b) cooling said molten first phase until it solidifies; and
- (c) dispersing said solidified first phase in said aqueous phase or a component thereof.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 816,681, filed July 18, 1977.
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