Patent ID: 6127416
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: C11D,Y10S

Abstract:
A foam composition for killing dust mites comprising approximately by weight:(a) 0.5% to 10% of a polyacrylate polymer;(b) 2% to 10% of a hydrocarbon propellant;(c) 0.5% to 5% of pentasodium triphosphate;(d) 0.5% to 3% of an ether solvent;(e) 0.1% to 5% of benzyl salicylate;(f) 0.1% to 5% of a surfactant;(g) 0.1% to 3% of a hydrotrope;(h) 0.1% to 1% of a perfume; and(i) the balance being water, wherein the composition does not contain an alkyl, cyclic or aromatic alcohol, alkanol amine or amide, benzyl benzoate and the composition after application to a treated surface not leaving a pulverulent residue having a mean particle size suitable for ingestion by house mites, said mean particle size being 2 to 100 millimicrons.