Patent ID: 7985773

Claim:
A composition having antimicrobial properties, comprising: an aliphatic alcohol having from 1 to about 8 carbon atoms in an amount from about 30 to less than 60 parts; an aromatic alcohol in an amount from about 0.5 to about 5.0 parts, wherein the aromatic alcohol is one or more of phenoxyethanol, benzyl alcohol, and 1-phenoxy-2-propanol; a cationic substrate binding activity enhancing substance in an amount from about 0.0125 to about 0.5 part, wherein the cationic substrate binding activity enhancing substance is behenoyl PG-trimonium chloride, behenamidopropyl PG-dimonium chloride, or a combination thereof; and water in an amount from about 33 to about 65 parts, all said parts based on 100 parts by weight of the composition, said composition free of a cationic cellulose polymer, and wherein the composition has a viscosity of from about 10 to about 100,000 centipoise.