Patent ID: 7381697

Claim:
A method for using a fabric softener composition, the method comprising steps of: (a) attaching a fabric softener composition to an inside wall of a dryer, wherein the fabric softener composition comprises a result of melt mixing and molding a fabric softener component and a carrier component at a weight ratio of the fabric softener component to the carrier component of between about 1:19 and about 19:1 to provide a fabric softener composition exhibiting a melting point greater than 90° C., wherein the fabric softener component provides fabric softening properties to laundry during a drying operation of wet laundry in a dryer, and the carrier component contains the fabric softener component within the composition and allows the fabric softener component to transfer to wet laundry; and (b) drying laundry in the dryer in the presence of the fabric softener composition, wherein the composition does not melt during operation of the dryer.