Patent ID: 6242399
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: C11D

Abstract:
A soap bar comprising:(A) 30-60% by wt. of an alkali metal salt of a fatty acid mixture consisting of:(i) 65-90% soap having 1-14 carbon atoms, which includes 2-15% soap having 1-10 carbon atoms, and which further includes 1-10% by wt. soap having 1-8 carbon atoms, and(ii) 10-35% of soap having greater than fourteen carbon atoms of which 0-25% is unsaturated soap;(B) 3-35% by wt. fatty acid;(C) 2-25% by wt. of a structurant selected from the group consisting of glycerol and/or one or more alkaline or alkaline earth salts of hydroxy carboxylic or dicarboxylic acid having chain length of C.sub.8 or less; and(D) the remainder water;wherein the composition is absent synthetic surfactant.