Patent ID: 8354364

Claim:
A foamable alcohol composition comprising: (a) 30-95% by active weight C 1 -C 4 alcohol, or mixtures thereof; (b) 0.001-10% by active weight polymeric fluorosurfactant, wherein the fluorosurfactant is according to structure II: m>about 1 to about 100; n is about 1 to about 50; k is about 1 to about 50; including n=k; R f and R g are independently selected from the group consisting of: —CF 3 , —CF 2 CF 3 , —(CF 2 ) p CF 3 , —R′CF 3 , —R′(CF 3 ) p , —R″(CF 3 ) q , perfluorinated alkyl radical, perfluorinated aryl radical, partially fluorinated alkyl radical, partially fluorinated aryl radical, derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof; R′ is a C 1 to C 20 linear or branched, alkyl or alkylene moiety, optionally substituted with and/or terminated with at least one —CF 3 group; R″ is a radical comprising a phenyl, aryl group and combinations thereof with q degrees of —CF 3 substitution; p is about 1 to about 6; q is about 1 to about 5; R is hydrogen, or —CH 2 O(CH 2 ) k R g or an alkyl comprising from about 1 to about 6 carbon atoms; R 2 is an alkyl having from about 1 to about 40 carbon atoms; wherein R and R 2 may be alkyl, alkylene moieties derivatized with radicals comprising carboxylic, ester, amine, amide, aminoamide, siloxane, silyl, alkylsiloxane, perfluoroalkyl and combinations thereof; (c) 1-70% water; and wherein the composition is capable of being foamed.