CH636639A5 - Detergent composition and process for its production - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a detergent composition which is suitable for the production of detergent tablets. It contains a matrix of soap, synthetic non-soap detergent and a solvent component and also a water component.

The detergent composition according to the invention can be in the form of a water-soluble, soft, spreadable and spreadable detergent shaped body, for example a detergent stick, wherein such shaped bodies can optionally be transparent.

Transparent soaps and methods of making them are well known in the art and have been available for a variety of years. Since they have so far only been expensive to manufacture, they have generally been regarded as luxury goods and their transparency properties have been equated with high purity and neutrality. Such products have hitherto been used almost exclusively for toilet articles, such as bath articles, hand and face detergents and the like. Nevertheless, such transparent soaps as well as opaque soaps, which are not completely satisfactory, are also unsatisfactory and in particular not in terms of their cleaning effectiveness in hard water and / or in terms of their cleaning ability for certain synthetic fiber materials and / or the simplicity of their production and other aspects.

U.S. Patent No. 3,562,167 discloses a composition which is claimed to be useful in making transparent detergent blocks and solidification cakes which can be used in conjunction with hard water. Such compositions, blocks and solidification cakes, as well as the disclosed processes for their production, showed a number of disadvantages when tested. In particular, these products are extremely hygroscopic, which means that the blocks and solidification cakes easily absorb moisture from the atmosphere and, especially under conditions of high relative humidity, they become sticky and lose their transparency. Stickiness is, as is also generally correct, to be regarded as a disadvantage in the case of compositions which are produced by the process according to the invention. In addition, the previously known products are inferior in terms of their water solubility, as well as in terms of the detergent action and the ability to remove dirt, which are of course important properties in a detergent, and in particular in the case of a stain removal stick made from a detergent.

Detergent-based stain removal pens are known in the art, but have a number of disadvantages. Accordingly, U.S. Patent No. No. 3,417,023 discloses a stain removal stick made from a composition containing volatile solvents which tend to evaporate rapidly from the detergent stick, possibly leaving a hard shrunk product which is no longer applied to soiled fibrous materials or other materials can, unless you first moisten it with water. In addition, the detergent stick thus obtained is not sufficiently soluble in water, and in particular not in hard water, and is not sufficiently effective for cleaning certain synthetic fibrous materials from dirt and water-insoluble contaminants, such as ballpoint pens,

Ink, motor oil, animal oils, body fat, lipstick and / or shoe polish and the like. In addition, the above patent does not refer to products that are transparent.

A dirt removal pen is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 3,664,962, but no products which are transparent are described there either. In addition, the cited patent presupposes the exclusive use of high-melting sodium stearate soaps with a high molecular weight, and the proportion of synthetic detergents and polyhydric alcohols used is too low, which manifests itself in that an insufficient cleaning efficiency is achieved.

The aim of the present invention was to provide detergent compositions which are suitable for the production of detergent tablets and which do not have the disadvantages of previously known detergent compositions of this type. These detergent compositions are said to be capable of producing water-soluble, soft, spreadable and spreadable detergent tablets, for example detergent pens. The detergent compositions and compositions of this type in the form of detergent tablets should have a particularly good cleaning action against various types of dirt.

Surprisingly, it was found that the desired goals can be achieved by detergent compositions which contain a matrix of soap, synthetic, non-soap detergent and a solvent component and also contain a water component, provided that the individual constituents of the matrix mentioned are defined in more detail below Quantity ratios are present and also subsequently have more precisely defined properties with regard to their structure.

The present invention therefore relates to a detergent composition which is suitable for producing detergent tablets and which is characterized in that it contains the following constituents:

I. A matrix of (A) soap, (B) synthetic, non-soap detergent and (C) a solvent component; wherein the total soap component (A) makes up 2-25% by weight of the matrix if it is free from potassium salts and contains alkali metal salts, with the exception of potassium salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts or amine salts of fatty acids or makes up 4 to 50% by weight of the matrix, if they contain potassium salts of fatty acids, both of which are fatty acids with 6 to 30 carbon atoms and where this soap component in the matrix contains no more than 14% by weight of salts of fatty acids with more than 18 carbon atoms and no more provides as 20% by weight of salts of fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms or more carbon atoms, and wherein the soap has a weighted average number of carbon atoms, expressed as the arithmetic mean of weight, of at least 14, and wherein the synthetic, non-soap-like Detergent component (B) provides 5 to 88% by weight of the matrix and at least one of the ani contains onic organic sulfonates, anionic alcohol sulfonates, anionic ether sulfates, anionic organic phosphates and / or nonionic aliphatic detergents; and being the

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Solvent component (C) makes up 10 to 70% by weight of the matrix and is composed of normally liquid, essentially non-volatile organic solvents which have a boiling point in the range of at least 100 ° C., and at least 10% by weight of these solvents are water-insoluble and make up at least 10% by weight of the solvents of component (C), these non-volatile solvents mentioned not comprising more than 90% by weight thereof of water-soluble solvents, and the detergent further

II. Contains a water component (D) which makes up 1 to 35 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of matrix I.

In preferred detergent compositions according to the invention, the matrix contains 4 to 15% by weight of the component

(A) and 20 to 60% by weight of component (C) and such compositions further contain 1 to 15% by weight of water as component (D).

Component (A) of the detergent compositions according to the invention preferably contains alkali metal salts of palmitic and stearic acid or a mixture of alkali metal salts of palmitic and stearic acid.

At least 40% by weight of component (B) of the detergent compositions according to the invention preferably consist of an aliphatic, nonionic detergent or mixtures of such detergents. The aliphatic, non-ionic detergent is preferably a reaction product of 2-50 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a saturated aliphatic alcohol with 8-20 carbon atoms.

It has also proven to be advantageous if at least 40% by weight of component (B) is an anionic alkali metal, ammonium or amine salt of an alkylarylsulfonic acid, an a-olefin sulfonic acid, a paraffin sulfonic acid, an alcohol sulfate or a sulfate ester of the reaction product of 1- 20 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of an active hydrogen-containing compound having 8-24 carbon atoms.

In the detergent compositions according to the invention, component (C) preferably contains benzyl alcohol as the water-insoluble fraction and propylene glycol as the water-soluble fraction.

The detergent compositions according to the invention can be in the form of a water-soluble, soft, spreadable and spreadable detergent tablet, for example in the form of a detergent stick. Detergent compositions in the form of such a detergent stick advantageously contain benzyl alcohol in the component (C) as a water-insoluble fraction and propylene glycol as a water-soluble fraction. The same amounts of water-insoluble and water-soluble fractions are particularly preferably contained in component (C).

It has also proven to be advantageous if at least 40% by weight of component (A) contains alkali metal salts of hydrogenated tallow fatty acids and at least 40% by weight of the component

(B) are nonionic reaction products of 2-50 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a saturated aliphatic alcohol having 8-20 carbon atoms.

In the detergent compositions according to the invention, in particular if they are in the form of detergent tablets, the matrix should advantageously be 0.8-5.7 parts by weight of component (B) per part by weight of component (A), 1-8.6 Parts by weight of component (C) per part by weight of component (A) and 0.53 to 6.8 parts by weight of component (C) per part by weight of component (B). As a further component, the detergent compositions can contain 0.1 to 5% by weight of free alkali metal hydroxides.

Another object of the present invention is a method for producing the detergent compositions according to the invention. This method is characterized in that component (A) of the composition is prepared in situ by melting the free fatty acids contained in component (A), mixing them with component (C) and this mixture in the presence component (D) and component (B), with the exception of any heat-sensitive components present therein, mixed with sufficient amounts of the bases forming the alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium or amine salt in order to neutralize the fatty acids, so that their alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, Ammonium salts or amine salts are formed in situ, and then at most heat-sensitive components contained in component (B) are added.

In this manufacturing process, when the molten fatty acids of component (A) are mixed with component (C), a homogeneous liquid can be obtained and components (B) and (D) can be added to this mixture, and then the neutralization of the fatty acids with the bases to form the alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts or amine salts. It is particularly advantageous if at least 40% by weight of component (B) is an aliphatic nonionic detergent and the salt-forming base is an alkali metal hydroxide.

According to another preferred embodiment of this production process, a component (B) is used which contains heat-sensitive components and in this case the molten free fatty acids which are contained in component (A) are set with component (C) and all non-heat-sensitive components component (B) at a temperature above the solidification temperature of the mixture and then carries out the neutralization at this temperature in the presence of component (D) by adding a sufficient amount of alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts or amine salts and then cooling after salt formation the liquid obtained, namely up to a temperature just above the solidification point of the salts mentioned, and then the respective heat-sensitive components of component (B) are mixed into this mixture.

An alkali metal hydroxide is expediently used as the salt-forming base.

The detergent compositions according to the invention have particularly good cleaning effectiveness against various types of soiling, even if they are in the form of soft, spreadable but dimensionally stable, solid detergent tablets. With the aid of these compositions, stains resulting from various types of soiling can be easily removed from synthetic surfaces, for example synthetic fabrics.

The compositions according to the invention are expediently processed into moldings by pouring the corresponding molten compositions into a removable mold or package or container in which they are to be dispensed and / or to be used and allowing the composition to cool, as a result of which it solidifies therein, specifically in the form of a pin or in any other desired size and cross-sectional configuration, such as round, oval, square, rectangular, triangular, hexagonal and the like. Another form can, however, also be produced, which is particularly favorable for a specific application. This shape can be, for example, unbalanced or symmetrical, spherical, cubic, egg-shaped, plate-shaped, ring-shaped or any other desired configuration. Accordingly, in the present description, “stick” is understood to mean any of the above-mentioned shapes, and in particular any shape of a transparent, water-soluble, soft, expandable, dimensionally stable detergent shaped body. The term “soft” is used here to refer to materials

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close, which are usually referred to as hard or with a hard surface, and, in contrast, refers to a firm consistency with a relatively soft surface, which can easily be transferred to a desired location on a soiled surface (generally a textile surface) if you rub the pen on it, ie the material is abrasion-resistant, spreadable, transferable. Specific parameters and procedures for determining «softness» and «spreadability» are subsequently revealed. Since the compositions and sticks according to the invention ">

containing substantial proportions of water-insoluble solvents, it will be appreciated that the term "water-soluble" as used herein means that the film or layer of such compositions which is locally applied to the soiled surface of the textile material or the like is light are dispersible in the aqueous detergent wash bath or system subsequently used, as a result of which they become effectively water-soluble. The term “dimensionally stable” denotes the physical dimensional stability under ambient conditions (for example about 0 ° C. to about 40 ° C. at a relative humidity of about 0 to about 100%),

under these conditions the product does not shrink, expand, deform or flow to any significant extent.

In addition to the fact that the detergent pens according to the invention have a highly desirable aesthetic appearance in the form of clear, colorless or colored transparent moldings, they have improved properties with regard to water solubility, detergent activity, solubility, dissolution properties and / or detachment properties 30 with regard to soiling, solid films or other foreign matter and undesirable materials on the treated surfaces and / or stability and resistance to changes in consistency, shape, transparency, surface softness, which are usually influenced by environmental conditions such as heat and moisture, loss of volatile constituents by evaporation and the like. They are particularly effective as a stain remover before the actual washing process, i.e. For use on limited soiled surfaces of textiles, plastics or other materials which are to be cleaned in any desired hot or cold detergent wash bath or system prior to the actual washing process of the entire body. Indeed, they can also be useful as pre-cleaning stainsticks before dry cleaning, especially in view of the relatively high level of organic water-insoluble solvents they can contain.

The compositions according to the invention are also particularly suitable for being shaped into desired sticks, which can be formulated in such a way that optimum fluidity or viscosity property is achieved if one melts before the step of making the sticks, whereby a rapid solidification in It is assumed that the shape of the pen is assumed to be necessary to achieve the desired transparency. The process according to the invention for the production of such compositions is relatively simple and expeditious, especially in the case in which the more soluble fatty acids of lower molecular weight are used and these are neutralized or saponified in situ.

With the limitations given below, the acids used to make component A soaps can contain from about 6 to about 30 or more, and preferably from 8 to about 22 carbon atoms, and can be animal, vegetable, mineral or be of synthetic origin, and they can be saturated or unsaturated, straight-chain or single or multiple

be branched chain hydrocarbon carboxylic acids. Examples of such acids include caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid, aluric acid, myristic acid, stearic acid, eicosanoic acid, oleic acid, elaidic acid, isostearic acid, palmitic acid, undecylenic acid, tridecylenic acid, pentadecylenic acid, 2-lower alkyl-higher 2-alkanoic acids (such as Methyl-tridecanoic acid, 2-methylpentadecanoic acid or 2-methylhepta-decanoic acid) or other saturated or unsaturated fatty acids. Dicarboxylic acids can also be used, such as dimerized linoleic acid. Other higher molecular weight acids such as resin or tall oil acids such as abietic acid can also be used.

To achieve optimum solubility, product consistency, viscosity, melting and solidification properties, mixtures or mixtures of the above types of fatty acids with other types of fatty acids can be used, which preferably do not contain more than about 15% unsaturated fatty acids, not more than about 5% fatty acids, which contain more than 18 carbon atoms and preferably contain at least about 5% but not more than about 70% fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms, particularly preferably stearic acid. A preferred class of fatty acid mixtures may include, for example, about 0 to 5% saturated fatty acids with 8 carbon atoms, 0 to 10% saturated fatty acids with 10 carbon atoms, 0 to 30% saturated fatty acids with 12 carbon atoms, 0 to 20% saturated fatty acids with 14 carbon atoms, 10- Contain 50% saturated fatty acids with 16 carbon atoms and 5 to 70% saturated fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms. Easily available, commercially available mixtures and mixtures of such mixtures for obtaining the particularly suitable fatty acid distribution which can be used contain distilled palm oil fatty acids and palm kernel oil fatty acids, distilled coconut oil fatty acids, hydrogenated tallow fatty acids and commercial stearic acid. The fatty acid content in parts by weight of various such mixtures and mixtures thereof is shown in the following table.

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c d

e f g

H

Cs

4.0

2.0

2.0

1.3

2.7

C10

-

3.0

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1.5

1.5

1.0

2.0

C12

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45.0

66.2

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22.5

15.0

30.1

C14

3.0

19.0

25.0

11.0

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8.3

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C16

30.0

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C18

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43 + 4 23.5

44.6

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Max.unges.

2.0

12.0

-

7.0

4.0 8.0

5.0

8.7

In the table above, mixture a) means commercially available hydrogenated tallow fatty acids b) commercially available distilled coconut oil fatty acids c) commercially available synthetic fatty acids d) 1: 1 mixture of a) and b)

e) commercial stearic acid f) 1: 1 mixture of b) and e)

g) 2: 1 mixture of a) and b)

h) 1: 2 mixture of a) and b)

For the saponification of these fatty acids in situ by the process according to the invention, alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium or amine salt-forming bases can be used, such as sodium, potassium, magnesium or ammonium hydroxides, mono-, di- or triethanol or pro -panol-amines or any other such base that gives a water-soluble salt or soap of the fatty acid to be saponified. The base is preferably in the form of a concentrated aqueous solution or in dispersion with a

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concentration of, for example, about 20 to 49%, and methylamino-lauric acid and zwitterionic substances, such as at the temperature of the molten fatty acids, for example the substituted betaines, such as alkyl

when mixed with them. An approximately stoichiometric dimethylaminoacetate. Various examples of this class see amount of base is preferably used when it is desired by zwitterionic compounds in Canadian that the product is indicated in a slight excess 5 Patent No. 696,355.

to contain fatty acid or base. Suitable anionic water-soluble detergents are

The soap of component A, in addition to, for example, the alkylarylsulfonates and in particular the

detergent function of the pens according to the invention (for example those containing 10-20 or more carbon

Body, strength and non-sticky properties. contain atoms), the alkylbenzenesulfonate salts, preferably the use of a too high proportion of component A io those alkylbenzenesulfonates in which the alkyl group contains 10 to 16 carbon atoms in the production of the product according to the invention. The alkyl group is

however, undesirably, the melting mode is preferably a straight-chain and particularly preferred or flow limit temperature (to about 110 ° C. or more), those that have an average alkyl chain length

Viscosity of the hot, molten liquid and having from about 11 to 13 or 14 carbon atoms, such as

The rate of hardening of this liquid, resulting in 15, for example, the straight chain dodecylbenzenesulfonate salts.

suitable working in the pen production process preferably also has the alkylbenzenesulfonate being prevented, and this gives rise to the tendency to the transparent content of the 3-alkylphenyl isomer and an

to reduce the limit in an undesirable manner, as well as the correspondingly low content (well below 50%) of the 2 and lightness of the pen thus obtained. The use of a too small 4-alkylphenyl isomer. A suitable type of such detectors

On the other hand, a reduced proportion of component A in 20 genes is described in US Pat. No. 3,320,174.

the viscosity of the hot, molten - likewise the olefin sulfonate salts are typical usable liquid and their rate of hardening, and anionic detergents. In general, they contain langket - in addition, there are sticks that are too soft and sticky, alkenyl sulfonates or long-chain hydroxyalkanesulfonates in any proportion of components B (the OH groups sitting on a carbon atom,

and C. 25 which is not directly attached to the carbon atom,

The compositions and sticks that are invented by the SCh group). Usually, the ole-

According to the process of the invention, about 2 finsulfonate detergents can be a mixture of these two types of up to about 25% and preferably about 4 to less than 15%, and compounds in different amounts, and often together in particular about 6 to about 12% of component A. included, with long chain disulfonates or sulfate sulfonates. Such at least 40% of this component, preferably alkali olefin sulfonates, are described in many patents, which correspond to hydrogenated tallow fatty acids for the limetal salting. Example in U.S. Patent Nos. 2,061,618; 3,409,637;

As component B, essentially any 3,332,880; 3,420,875; 3,428,654; 3,506,580 and the British water-soluble synthetic organic detergents or patent no. 1 139 158 and in scientific publication

Mixtures of these, both the cationic, amphoteric publication by Baumann et al. in «fat-soap-paint-

anionic sulfonate and sulfate types or non-ionic ali 35 tel, Volume 72, No. 4 on pages 247 to 253 (1970). All of the above phatic types are applied, with detailed publications mentioned being part of the citation

Description of such substances from McCutcheon in the present description. As in the patents mentioned

"Detergents and Emulsifiers" in the 1969 yearbook and specified by and the published publication can

Schwartz, Perry and Berch in “Surface Active Agents”, volume olefin sulfonates from straight-chain a-olefins, inner olefi-

11, 1958 (Interscience Publishers). These 40 olefins, in which the unsaturated site in a vinyl

Descriptions are hereby part of the front side chain (for example dimers of a-olefins)

lying description. and the like, or usually mixtures of such

Suitable cationic detergents are generally compounds, the a-olefins usually being the main

the quaternary ammonium compounds which are in the constituent are made. The sulfonation will

Can be described in such a way that, in addition to the 45, they are usually treated with

conventional halide (chloride, bromide, iodide and the like), partial pressure, and for example SO3 strongly verSulfat, phosphate or other anionic, aliphatic and / or thinly applied with atmospheric nitrogen or under vacuum. This alicyclic radicals, preferably alkyl and / or aralkyl radicals, reaction generally gives alkenylsulfonic acids, often linked via carbon atoms, to the four remaining together with a sulton. The acidic material thus obtained contains positions of the nitrogen atom, whereby 2 or 50 is generally made alkaline and treated, whereby

3 of these residues can be connected to each other, which opens the sulton ring and which corresponds to the

a heterocycle with the nitrogen atom builds up and forming hydroxyalkanesulfonate and / or alkenylsulfonate.

wherein at least one of these residues is an aliphatic residue. The number of carbon atoms in the olefin is generally

which has at least 8 and up to 22 or more carbon atoms in the range from about 10 to about 25, and more often in the atom. Examples of such a cationic detergent range from about 12 to about 20, for example a tien, are for example distearyldimethylammonium chloride, a mixture of mainly C12, Cu and Ci6 compounds

Stearyl-dimethylbenzyl-ammonium chloride, coconut alkyl with an average of about 14 carbon atoms or one,

dimethyl-benzyl-ammonium-chloride, dicoconut-alkyl mixture of mainly Cm, C16 and Ci8 with a middle-dirmthyl-ammonium-bromide, cetyl-pyridinium-chloride, cetyl value of about 16 carbon atoms.

pyridinium iodide and cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide and 60 Another class of water soluble synthetic organic

similar. African anionic detergents include higher (i.e. 10-20

Suitable amphoteric detergents, which contain anionic and carbon atoms) paraffin sulfonates. These having cationically active groups in one molecule can be primary paraffin sulfonates, which by reaction are, for example, the alkyl-β-iminodipropionate and imino of long-chain a-olefins with bisulfite, such as propionate and long-chain imidazole derivatives. Typical bis- 65 bisulfite, or paraffin sulfonates,

Games are, for example, the disodium salt of lauroylcyclo- which contain the sulfonate groups distributed along the paraffin chain and contain imidinium-l-ethoxyethionic acid and the corresponding ones, such as those products which are thereby

2-ethionic acid, the dodecyl-ß-alanine, the inner salt of the 2-tri- that long-chain paraffins with Schwe-

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field dioxide and oxygen are reacted under ultraviolet light and then neutralized with sodium hydroxide solution or a suitable base, as described in US Pat. Nos. 2,503,280; 2,507,088; 3,260,741; 3,372,188 and in German Patent No. 735,096. The hydrocarbon substituent of the paraffin sulfonates preferably contains 13 to 17 carbon atoms and the paraffin sulfonate is generally a monosulfonate, but if desired it can be a di, tri or higher sulfonate. Typically, a paraffin disulfonate can be used in admixture with the corresponding 10 monosulfonate, such as a mixture of mono- and disulfonates containing up to about 30% disulfonate.

The hydrocarbon substituent of the paraffin sulfonates is generally straight chain, but branched chain paraffin sulfates can also be used. The paraffin sulfonates that can be used can be terminally sulfonated or the sulfonate substituent can be attached to the 2-carbon atom or another carbon atom in the chain. Similarly, any di- or higher sulfonate products that contain sulfonate groups throughout the various carbons of the hydrocarbon chain can be used.

Other water-soluble, anionic detergents are, for example, the higher acyl sarcosinates (sodium lauroylsarco-25 sinate), the acyl esters such as oleic acid esters of isothionates and acyl-N-methyl taurides such as potassium N-methyl lauroyl or oleyl taurides. Other types of anionic detergents are higher alkylphenol sulfonates such as higher alkylphenol disulfonates, especially those having an alkyl group of 10 to 25 carbon atoms, and preferably a straight chain alkyl group of about 16 to about 22 carbon atoms, which can be made by doing this Corresponding alkylphenol sulfonated, whereby a product is obtained which contains an excess of 1.6 and preferably more than 1.8, for example from 1.8 to 1.9 or 1.95 SOsH groups per alkylphenol molecule . The disulfonate can be one whose phenolic hydroxyl group is blocked by etherification or esterification, and accordingly the hydrogen of the phenolic OH group can be replaced by an alkyl group, such as an ethyl group or a hydroxyalkoxyalkyl group, for example a - (CH2Ch20 ) xH group in which x denotes 1 or more, such as 3,6 or 10,

be replaced and the alcoholic OH introduced in this way can be esterified, giving, for example, a sulfate, namely, for example, a -SOîNa group.

Other suitable anionic detergents are alkyl sulfates with about 8 to about 20 carbon atoms, such as lauryl sulfate, tallow alcohol sulfate and a- or co-methoxyoc- so tadecyl sulfate and alkanoyl mono- and diglyceride sulfates and sulfonates containing about 8 to about 18 carbon atoms .

Another other group of suitable anionic detergents are the sulfate esters of nonionic detergents 55, such as the reaction products of about 1 to 20 moles of alkylene oxide with 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and preferably ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a compound with 8 to 24 carbon atoms, which is reactive Hydrogen atoms, such as, for example, aliphatic and alicyclic alcohols, such as, for example, lauryl, tallow, oxotridecyl and coconut oil and abietyl alcohols, contain aliphatic dihydric alcohols, such as, for example, polyoxypropylenated ethylene and propylene glycols and diamines, and dithiols, aliphatic and aliphatic and Carboxylic acids such as stearic acid and abietic acid, aliphatic mercaptans such as dodecyl mercaptan, aliphatic and alicyclic amines such as stearylamine and resinic acid amine, aliphatic amides such as stearyl

mid and alkylphenols such as nonyl and dinonyl phenol.

While the above structural types of organic carboxylates, sulfates and sulfonates are generally preferred, the corresponding organic carboxylates, phosphates (see U.S. Patent 3,595,968) and phosphonates are also useful as anionic detergents.

In general, the anionic detergents are salts of alkali metals such as potassium and especially sodium, although salts of alkaline earth metals, ammonium cations and substituted ammonium cations which consist of lower alkanolamines (with 2-4 carbon atoms) such as triethanolamine, tripropanolamine, diethanolmonopropanolamine and from Lower alkylamines (1 to 4 carbon atoms) such as, for example, methylamine, ethylamine, secondary butylamine, dimethylamine, tripropylamine and triisopropylamine can also be used.

Among the anionic detergents, the alkali metal salts of sulfated and sulfonated groups are preferred over carboxylic acid, phosphoric acid and phosphonium compounds.

Aliphatic, non-ionic detergents which are effective in or as component B can be used as reaction products from about 2 to about 50 moles of alkylene oxide having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, preferably ethylene oxide with one mole of an aliphatic compound, having 8 to 24 carbon atoms and reactive hydrogen contains, where the aliphatic compounds containing active hydrogens described above are typical examples of precursors of sulfate esters of non-ionic detergents which are aliphatic. Preferred non-ionic surfactants are those having the general formula

R0 (C2H40) nH

have, in this formula

R represents a residue of a saturated, straight-chain or branched-chain aliphatic alcohol, preferably a primary alkanol with about 8 to 20 carbon atoms, and preferably with about 12 to 18 carbon atoms, and where n is an integer in the range from about 2 to and means 50 and preferably in the range from about 3 to about 20.

Typical commercially available non-ionic surface-active agents which are suitable for use in the process according to the invention are ethoxylation products which have an average content of 11 ethylene oxide units in a 14 to 15 carbon atom long fatty alcohol chain, a 12 to 15 carbon atom long fatty alcohol chain, which also includes an average of 7 ethylene oxide units is ethoxylated; a 16 to 18 carbon atom long alkanol chain, which is ethoxylated on average with 10 to 11 ethylene oxide units, and such products, which are different or essentially equivalent, the reaction products of 11 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a primary alkanol with 14 to 15 carbon atoms or 1 mole of a primary alkanol of 12 to 15 carbon atoms, of 7 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a primary alcohol of 12 to 15 carbon atoms and 3: 1 to 1: 3 mixtures of reaction products of 20 to 50 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a primary Alkanols with 16 to 18 carbon atoms and a reaction product of 3 to 5 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of an alkanol with 9 to 10 carbon atoms.

Other suitable nonionic, aliphatic detergents are, for example, liquid and semi-solid reaction products of 3 to 20 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of a secondary alkanol with 11-15 carbon atoms, the plurons and the

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Reaction products of 5 to 7 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of an alkane diol with 16-18 carbon atoms.

Other other suitable aliphatic, non-ionic detergents are those of the polar type, which can also serve to improve the foaming and cleaning properties of the other types of detergents, and in particular the anionic detergents. In a polar, non-ionic detergent, the hydrophilic group contains a semipolar bond directly between two atoms, such as the bonds N - O, P - O, As - O and S - O, where the arrow indicates the usual representation of a semipolar bond . Charge separation occurs between the two directly bonded atoms, but the molecule shows no net charge and does not dissociate into ions. Typical examples of this are the amine oxides of the general formula

R'R2R3N ~ * O and the phosphine oxides of the general formula

R1R2R3P _ O

being in this formula

R1 is an alkyl group with about 10 to 18 carbon atoms, an alkenyl or an alkanol group, and

R2 and R3 independently of one another represent an alkyl or alkanol group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, such as, for example, dodecyldimethylamine oxide and the corresponding phosphine oxide.

As indicated above, mixtures of the detergents described above can be used as component B. A preferred embodiment consists in the use of at least about 40% up to 100% of the non-ionic reaction product from about 2 to 50 and preferably about 5 to about 15 moles of ethylene oxide with one mole of a saturated aliphatic alcohol, preferably a primary alkanol about 8 to 20 and preferably with about 11 to 16 carbon atoms as or in component B.

The detergents of component B give the compositions and sticks according to the invention solubility in hard water and an improved detergent action, in particular in hard water and / or with regard to synthetic fiber material such as nylon, polyester fibers such as Dacron and polyacrylonitrile fibers such as Orion and Acrylan. These ingredients also increase water solubility and the rates of wetting and dissolution of such compositions and sticks. Component B should contain little or no mineral salts, namely a fairly common ingredient in commercial detergent formulations, thereby minimizing the effect on the transparency properties of such products, and they can be used in the compositions and sticks of the invention in amounts of about 5 to about 88%, and preferably present in amounts from about 25 to about 76% by weight, and particularly preferably in amounts from about 35 to about 76% by weight.

A major proportion (è 50%) and preferably in the range from about 75 to about 100% of solvent component C should normally be in the liquid state, i.e. with a solidification point below about 40 ° C and preferably below room temperature, with a boiling point of at least about 100 ° C and preferably from at least about 120 ° C to about 400 ° C. It should essentially be a non-volatile compound which has a negligible vapor pressure at room temperature, whereby negligible evaporation loss occurs during aging or storage. Accordingly, good non-volatility is particularly indicated by a weight loss of 5% or less after 2 hours at 105 ° C or after 10 hours at 43 ° C for a 20 g sample of the solvent in a container with an evaporation surface area of about 46.5 cm2 (2.3 inch2), which is located in a heating cabinet below 5 airflow.

At least a percentage of 10% by weight of said non-volatile fraction of said component C should be water-insoluble (such as benzyl alcohol), whereby 10% of it is made available in component C, and preferably at least 25 to 100 %. One or more substantially water-soluble organic solvents, such as propylene glycol, can build up a portion of the non-volatile fraction in an amount of no more than about 90%, and preferably no more than 75%, and most preferably no more than about 50% by weight of the said fraction. The preferred water soluble solvents should contain a dihydric alcohol, such as propylene glycol.

As a suitable, substantially water-insoluble organic solvent, benzyl alcohol or laryl alcohol or terpineol is preferred, but as an example of other solvents that can be used in or as component C, a rule of thumb is any liquids that are more water-insoluble as benzyl alcohol, 2s including generally any water-insoluble aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbons, halogenated (iodinated, brominated or preferably chlorinated) hydrocarbons, hydroxylated hydrocarbons, ethers, esters or the like, which have the properties described above, such as octane, Hexad-can, chlorhexane, chloro- and dichlorobenzene, heptyl, oxotride-cyl and hexadecyl alcohols, abietyl alcohols, octaldiol, phen-ethyl alcohol, mono- and dialkylphenols with 1 to 14 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, phenyl ether, benzyl ether, 351,2-dibutoxybenzene, 2-benzylo xyethanol, butyl ether, diethyl and dibutyl phthalates, benzyl propionate, isopropyl myristate, palmitate and stearate and the like. Together with other solvents, benzyl alcohol is particularly cheap because it gives the matrix products a good body and dimensional stability. Similarly, as a rule of thumb, it can be said that the substantially water-soluble solvents in or as component C can be any solvents that are more water-soluble than benzyl alcohol. They can be of any chemical form, but in general "it is a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, an ether alcohol or an amine such as 1,2-heptanediol, the mono- and polyethylene and propylene glycols with a molecular weight up to about Fertilize 4000 and the monoalkyl esters with 1-14 carbon atoms of this compound-5o, sorbitol, glycerol, glucose, diglycerol, sucrose, lactose, dextrose, 2-pentanol, 1-butanol, mono-, di- and triethanolamine, 2-amino-l -butanol and the like, and in particular the polyhydric alcohols and alkanolamines.

As stated above, the solubility of 55 benzyl alcohol (4 g per 100 ml water at 17 ° C) is selected as a general guideline to select water-soluble and water-insoluble solvents. Another guideline is that a solvent can be considered water-insoluble if its solubility in water at 20 ° C is less than about 10% by weight, and preferably less than 5% by weight.

Suitable ratios of water-insoluble to water-soluble solvents fall in the range from about 10: 1 to about 1:10, and preferably in the range from about 10: 1 to 65 about 1: 5, and particularly preferably in the range from 8: 1 to 1: 3. Other preferred ratios range from 5: 1 to 1: 3 and 4: 1 to 1: 2.

The solvent component C is in the manufacture of the

Pens which are transparent are absolutely necessary and have further functions as coupling and common solvents for the soap of component A and their fatty acid precursor and the detergent of component B. The solvent of component C also brings about better flowability of the melt and facilitates shaping of the material or the manufacture of the pencil, the pencils hardening rapidly when cooled in accordance with the inventive method. In addition, this component improves the surface softness and the solubility of the stick products. The use of essentially exclusively water-soluble solvents in component C, which are also good coupling and counter-solvents for components A and B, and also increase the water solubility of the stick products, tend to undesirably increase the softness and stickiness and hygroscopicity of the Moldings thus produced, and in particular those of the polyhydric alcohol type, which applies both to storage and to use. Such tendencies are kept under control by the process according to the invention by limiting the proportions of water-soluble solvents and using water-insoluble solvents in component C as described above, which also performs other functions due to these insoluble solvents. It should be noted, however, that a controlled level of hygroscopic properties may be desirable in the product to prevent such products from drying out, shrinking and prone to cracking during storage and use. Component C, like component B, should of course be stable or resistant to the action of the base or the alkaline material which is used in the manufacture of the soap of component A in situ by the process according to the invention.

Component C should generally be no more than about 70%, preferably no more than about 60%, and most preferably less than about 50% of the compositions and sticks of the invention to prevent undesirable reduction in detergent properties because only small amounts of the components A and B are present and to avoid excessive exudation (fluid leakage), hygroscopic properties, softness and stickiness of the pencils. In general, the compositions and sticks which are produced by the process according to the invention can contain approximately in weight percentages of 10 to 70, and preferably 20 to 60, and particularly preferably 20 to less than 50% of component C. The water component D lowers the viscosity of the compositions according to the invention in the liquid or molten state and facilitates the neutralization of the fatty acid precursors of the soaps of component A in the process for the preparation of the sticks and compositions, and in addition it facilitates the solubility of components A and B. Further stated that something, if not all, of water is advantageously used in the form of aqueous solutions of the bases or alkaline materials which are required in situ for neutralizing or saponifying the fatty acid precursors of soap component A. Water also increases the water solubility and transparency of the sticks according to the invention and its partial loss from the sticks due to evaporation during aging and storage and in particular on the outer layers of the sticks is compensated for by the hygroscopic properties of the other components, in particular the polyhydric alcohols in component C. Too low a water content affects the applicability of the compositions according to the invention and the transparency of the sticks thus produced.

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Too high a water content undesirably slows down the solidification of the compositions according to the invention into sticks and undesirably increases the stickiness and softness of these sticks.

In general, the compositions and sticks according to the invention contain about 1 to about 25 parts by weight, preferably 5 to 15 parts by weight, particularly preferably 5 to 10 parts by weight of water component D, and they can also contain smaller amounts, for example a total of about 0 up to about 5 or 10%, conventional additives including coloring materials, such as pigments, brighteners or optical colors, preservatives, ultraviolet absorbers, stabilizers, perfumes, disinfectants, foaming and antifoaming agents, enzymes, fillers, sequestering agents, flooring body suspending agents, anti-redeposition agents and the like. Fillers and builders can similarly be added in any amount (e.g. 1 to 85%). Sodium sulfate is a common filler and phosphates, carbonates, borates and silicates are typical inorganic complexing agents. Among the latter, sodium tripolyphosphate is usually the material of choice. Organic complexing agents such as trisodium nitrilotriacetic acid, hydroxyethyliminodiacetic acid, sodium salts, citrates, gluconates and the like are also useful. Polyelectrolytes and sequestrants can also be used in any desired amounts.

According to the process according to the invention for the preparation of the composition according to the invention, it is preferred to melt the free fatty acids corresponding to the soaps of component A in a heated vessel and components B and C with gentle stirring at a temperature which is higher, but preferably not more than 30 ° C higher to mix. The temperature is preferably about 2 to about 15 ° C above the melting point of the fatty acids mentioned (about 70 to 80 ° C) until a homogeneous liquid is obtained. A solution of the selected salt-forming base in the water component D, preferably at the temperature of the homogeneous solution mentioned, is then mixed into the latter and preferably stepwise and / or in small portions, thereby avoiding clumping and overheating until neutralization in situ and / or Saponification of the fatty acids in the liquid mentioned is complete. An approximately stoichiometric amount of the base is preferably used, as a result of which an excess of base or fatty acid in the product is avoided. The neutralization of the product can be ensured by, for example, periodically testing with a phenolphthalein indicator. If desired, detergent component B can first be dissolved in heated solvent component C, and the solution so obtained can be filtered to remove mineral salts and any other undissolved materials before adding components B and C to the molten acids mixes in, which gives hot, clear solutions.

After all of the base has been added and the hot liquid containing the product has been mixed sufficiently, and once it is determined that all acids are neutralized, any minor amounts, as desired, as described above, will be added known additives are added to the detergent formulation and mixed with it, and, if desired, further additional amounts of the water component D, if necessary. Alternatively, part of the water component D can be added together with the detergent components B and / or the solvent component C.

In some cases it may be desirable, and it is well within the scope of the present invention, up to about

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75% or more of the initially melted free fatty acid usually stirs for 10 minutes) and water hardness in the ren to be replaced by their corresponding soaps or salts, range from 0 to 300 or more ppm (in the form of calcium car-

such as pure or kettle soap, whereby self-evident bonat) works. Before the «after» measurements are carried out, a corresponding reduction in the ratio of soap or water is carried out, the cleaned fabric samples are rinsed for 5 minutes in water of the same hardness that has to be mixed in during a few salt-forming base which is then mixed in neutralizing the melt or using detergent test step, and then drying

saponify. net and judged.

According to another embodiment of the invention, the products according to the invention also show superior method, a product is produced which has an effect on various types of soiling, heat-sensitive, anionic, organic sulfonate or io such as, for example, grease, oil stains, lipstick, ball alcohol sulfate detergent as or in component B, pen ink and the like. The dissolution rate and, accordingly, such a detergent is not determined with the products according to the invention in water in the range of the molten fatty acids before the exothermic neutralization from room temperature to boiling temperature (and mixed with the base in the ionization reaction, but instead in general and suitably at 40 ° C. ). The method followed by the previously neutralized and cooled 15 generally consists of mixing 2 g of the product into liquid or mixing it into it (which just adds 500 ml of water at the selected temperature and at above the solidification point of the named liquid , standardized conditions, until the pro takes place), which the soap or the fatty acid salt component A, is dissolved. The process consists in detail of the solvent component C and possibly other detergents - that one contains a 600 ml beaker of 12 cm height and 8.5 cm contractions of component B. 20 diameter (with very flat bottom), which is graduated at intervals of the hot, melted, liquid composition which graduates 50 ml. 500 ml of water are poured into the beaker described in the process according to the invention, as described above, the temperature is adjusted and 2 g of the sample which has been prepared are added, and if desired, cooled product can be added and stirred. The stirring is carried out by means of a magnet and thereby solidified, to some extent or stirrer, which is a cylindrical rod which is 1 mm thick by pouring into any desired shape. 25 plastic coating. The total dimensions of this sta- According to another embodiment of the present invention are 12 mm in diameter and 6.2 mm in length. The Rota-dung such cooled and solidified composition speed is adjusted so that a Rota-tongue melted again and preferably a tion cone is formed, the lower tip of which is applied at the 300 ml mark of such liquid composition, without intermediate beaker .

switched cooling, solidification and remelting. The products according to the invention show dissolution

zen, whereby losses of components are possible due to speed, if they are tested according to the test

of decomposition and / or evaporation, and pouring procedures are determined from Vi up to 5 minutes at directly in molds, packs or containers of the desired 40 ° C.

Shape and size, such as for pens, and cools down to 'The penetration hardness of the invented

a temperature below the solidification point. The products according to the invention can be determined using the ASTM method, which is water-soluble, soft, spreadable, solid and D217-52T (Richardson method). Values the optionally transparent detergent sticks obtained after that for the matrix products according to the invention,

Processes according to the invention are produced will vary in the range from about 70 to about 120 (tenths of a millimeter).

received, and one can, if desired, during ter).

aging in a short period of time to balance the stickiness of the product (as well as the spreadability

Environment. and rubability convertibility) is determined by

The products of the matrix according to the invention provide properties under a contact pressure which, owing to a 2 kg weight, has a unique combination of chemical and physical properties - a shaped cylinder of 2.54 cm diameter (1 inch). As already practiced above, determined by guiding the product on one, they are generally transparent, stable, soft, rubbing 45 standard cotton cloth (10 cm long), and the amount of spreadable, dimensionally stable materials which an excellent product, which is released by friction when the detergent effect in washing processes for textiles is pulled under the weighted cylinder, and they also have excellent solubility- Suitable products have friction values (transfer value, speed properties, especially in washing machines) translucent factors) from about 100 mg to about 300 mg of product The products according to the invention generally show 50 per 10 cm strip length of the cotton cloth. Preferred Pro a dirt removal effectiveness, which compared to previous products show convertibility factors of above about 150 known textile detergents comparable, if not more than less than about 300.

gen is. The detergent effectiveness is suitably determined with The product transparency is suitably determined by means of the standard tergotometer test (standard tergotometer) (U.S. of a lamp / photocell / galvanometer system,

Testing Company, Hoboken, New Jersey USA) and with usual 55 by testing the percentage of light passing through after washing in conventional washing machines. Determined at zero point adjustment. Spectrocolori-

Tergotometer test, an aqueous solution of detergent meter will be applied. With the pro

(0.1 to 0.5% concentration) together with soiled products can give an essentially total transparency (i.e. from

Textile samples (cloth samples) stirred (and usually together over 95%) can be achieved.

with pure cloth samples to simultaneously determine the effectiveness 6o other important parameters of the inventive

against redeposition) and the detergents are the solidification temperature and the viscosity of the gene is then suitably determined by color determination of the product in the liquid state, because this is an important factor

"Before" and "After" on a color difference measuring device for processing the compositions according to the invention

(for example the Gardner Color Difference Meter) are measured to shaped bodies, as described above. The test can be run at any temperature 65. These parameters have a direct effect on the (generally at room temperature up to boiling-production speed, size and manageability-

temperature), while at speeds of 0 to 250 keit of such shaped bodies (for example pens) and they influence

Revolutions per minute for 5 to 20 minutes (the transparency and stickiness of the end product

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tes. In general, the solidification point of the matrix products according to the invention is in the range from approximately 40 ° C. to approximately 100 ° C., and the viscosity, which is determined by means of a spherical viscometer, is in the range from approximately 50 to approximately 3000 cps, the most suitable values are in the range of about 1000 to about 2000 cps.

The invention will now be explained in more detail with reference to the following examples.

example 1

Formulation I: parts

Hydrogenated tallow fatty acids 12.5

Benzyl alcohol 20.0

Propylene glycol 30.0

Non-ionic alkanols with 14 to 15 28.0 carbon atoms +> 11 ethylene oxide units *

Formulation II:

Deionized water 5.0

38 percent aqueous sodium hydroxide solution with a low 4.1 chloride content

Formulation III:

1 percent aqueous solution of Pigmosol Blue 0.4 5G

* Reaction product from one mole of an alkanol with 14-15 carbon atoms with the stated number of moles of ethylene oxide.

The ingredients of Formulations I and II were mixed separately in mixing tanks at 80-85 ° C with good stirring until homogeneous, and then the mixture of Formulation II was slowly added to the mixture of Formulation I with stirring. A few drops of phenolphthalein indicator were then added to the mixture, and if the mixture was still colorless, small portions of sodium hydroxide solution were added until the color of the mixture turned pink. Formulation III, namely the dye, was then mixed in and the mixture was kept at about 71 ° C while pouring it into stick molds. The pins were solidified by cooling slowly and carefully to ensure the transparency of the pins.

The transparent, water-soluble, easily spreadable detergent pens thus obtained are highly effective for removing ballpoint ink stains, as well as for removing discoloration from cuffs and collars and the like when the stained or soiled areas are rubbed with the pens, and then in an aqueous one Detergent bath can be washed. The pens are stable to various varying environmental conditions over long periods of time.

Example 2

The procedure according to Example 1 was repeated, but using the following formulations, the results being almost the same.

Formulation I parts

Hydrogenated tallow fatty acids 10.00

Benzyl alcohol 28.65

Propylene glycol 28.65

Non-ionic alkanols with 14-15 28.00

Carbon atoms +11 ethylene oxide units

Formulation II

Deionized water 4.50

35 percent sodium hydroxide solution 4.40

Formulation III

1 percent aqueous solution of Pigmasol Blue 0.10 5G

Optiblanc BT11 * 0.10

Optiblanc 2MG * 0.10

* 6 percent solution of the respective optical brightener, free of mineral salts in a mixture of benzyl alcohol to propylene glycol in a ratio of 1: 1.

Example 3

Examples 1 and 2 were repeated, except that the non-ionic detergent in Formulation I was replaced with equal amounts of the following detergents:

(A) cationic distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride,

(B) 1: 1 mixture of (A) and alkanols with 14 to 15 carbon atoms + 11 ethylene oxide units,

(C) Anionic sodium paraffin sulfonate with 14 to 17 carbon atoms (100% active, pure, desalted) *,

(D) 1: 1 mixture of (C) and alkanols with 14 to 15 carbon atoms + 11 ethylene oxide units.

* Added in the form of a 66.5 percent solution in a 1: 1 mixture of benzyl alcohol and propylene glycol.

The results are similar to those of Examples 1 and 2. If (C) is used, it can alternatively be included in Formulation III instead of Formulation I. In the following examples, which are summarized in Table II, the proportions of the constituents are given and the explanations for this can be found in Table I. The procedure of Example 1 is followed by preparing the following compositions.

Table I: Ingredients

Component A Al Hydrogenated tallow fatty acids A2 Distilled coconut oil fatty acids A3 Distilled tallow fatty acids

A4 synthetic fatty acids with 11-13 carbon atoms A5 fatty acids with 22 carbon atoms A6 commercial stearic acid A7 pure soap (18:85 A2 soap: A3 soap + 33% water) A8 soap noodles (soap flakes) (85/15 tallow coconut and 12% water)

Component B

B1 Non-ionic reaction product from 1 mole of primary alkanol with 14-15 carbon atoms with about 11 moles of ethylene oxide + 11 ethylene oxide units B2 Non-ionic primary alkanols with 12-15

Carbon atoms + 11 ethylene oxide units B3 Non-ionic primary alkanols with 12-15

Carbon atoms + 7 ethylene oxide units B4 Non-ionic primary alkanols with 9-11

Carbon atoms + 5 ethylene oxide units B6 non-ionic secondary alkanols with 11-15 carbon atoms + 3 ethylene oxide units B7 non-ionic alkane diol with 16 carbon atoms

(Omega Omega) + 5 ethylene oxide units B8 Anionic sodium alkylbenzenesulfonate with 10 to 14 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain (average dodecyl)

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Ethylene glycol monoethyl ether

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Example 47

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636 639 1 mole of a saturated aliphatic alcohol having 8 to 20 carbon atoms. 1. A matrix of (A) soap, (B) synthetic non-soap detergent and (C) a solvent component; wherein the total soap component (A) makes up 2-25% by weight of the matrix if it is free from potassium salts and contains alkali metal salts, with the exception of potassium salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts or amine salts of fatty acids or 4% to 50% by weight of the Matrix, if it contains potassium salts of fatty acids, both of which are fatty acids with 6 to 30 carbon atoms and which soap component in the matrix does not contain more than 14% by weight of salts of fatty acids with more than 18 carbon - is atomic and does not provide more than 20% by weight of salts of fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms or more carbon atoms and the soap has a weighted average number of carbon atoms, expressed as the arithmetic mean of the weight, of at least 14, and 20 wherein the synthetic, non-soap detergent component (B) provides 5 to 88% by weight of the matrix and at least one of the detergents d he group contains anionic organic sulfonates, anionic alcohol sulfates, anionic ether sulfates, anionic organic phosphates and / or non-ionic aliphatic detergents; and wherein the solvent component (C) makes up 10 to 70% by weight of the matrix and is composed of normally liquid, essentially non-volatile organic solvents which have a boiling point in the range of at least 100 ° C., and 30 where at least 10% by weight of these solvents are water-insoluble and make up at least 10% by weight of the solvents of component (C), these non-volatile solvents mentioned not comprising more than 90% by weight thereof of water-soluble solvents, and the 35th Detergent continues II. Contains a water component (D) which makes up 1 to 35 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the matrix I. 1. Detergent composition which is suitable for the production of detergent tablets, characterized in that it contains the following constituents: 2. Composition according to claim 1, characterized in that the matrix contains 4 to 15% by weight of component (A) and 20 to 60% by weight of component (C), and that the composition 1 to 15 % By weight of water as component (D). 2nd PATENT CLAIMS 3rd 636 639 Carries out ammonium salts or base forming amine salts and then 'after salt formation cools the liquid obtained, to a temperature just above the solidification point of the salts mentioned, and then the respective heat-sensitive components of component (B) are mixed into this mixture. 3 characterized in that at least 40% by weight of component (B) is an aliphatic, non-ionic detergent or mixtures of such detergents. 3. Composition according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that component (A) contains alkali metal salts of palmitic and stearic acid or a mixture of alkali metal salts of palmitic and stearic acid. 4. Composition according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that at least 40 wt .-% of component (B) an anionic alkali metal, ammonium eo or amine salt of an alkylarylsulfonic acid, an a-olefin sulfonic acid, a paraffin sulfonic acid, an alcohol sulfate or a sulfate ester of the reaction product from 1 to 20 moles of ethylene oxide with 1 mole of an active hydrogen-containing compound having 8-24 carbon atoms. 65 5. Composition according to one of claims 1-4, characterized in that the aliphatic, non-ionic detergent is a reaction product of 2 to 50 moles of ethylene oxide 55 and 1 mole of a saturated aliphatic alcohol having 8-20 carbon atoms. 6, characterized in that the water-insoluble component (C) contains benzyl alcohol and the water-soluble component (C) contains propylene glycol. 6. Composition according to one of claims 1 to 7. Composition according to one of claims 1 to 8. Composition according to one of claims 1-7, characterized in that the water-insoluble part of component (C) is benzyl alcohol and that the water-soluble part of component (C) is propylene glycol. 9. Composition according to one of claims 1-8, characterized in that it contains equal amounts of water-insoluble and water-soluble components in component (C). 10. Composition according to one of the claims 1 to 9, characterized in that at least 40% by weight of component (A) alkali metal salts of hydrogenated tallow fatty acids and at least 40% by weight of component (B) non-ionic reaction products from 2 to 50 Moles of ethylene oxide with 11. Composition according to one of the claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the matrix 0.8 to 5.7 parts by weight of component (B) per part by weight of component (A), 1 to 8.6 parts by weight . Parts of component (C) per part by weight of component (A) and 0.53 to 6.8 parts by weight of component (C) per part by weight of component (B). 12. The composition according to any one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that it also contains 0.1 to 5 wt .-% free alkali metal hydroxides. 13. The composition according to claim 1 in the form of a water-soluble soft spreadable and spreadable detergent shaped body. 14. Composition according to claim 13, characterized in that the detergent molded body is a detergent pen and has a composition according to one of claims 8 to 10. 15. A process for the preparation of the composition according to claim 1, characterized in that component (A) of the composition is prepared in situ by melting the free fatty acids contained in component (A), combining them with component ( C) mixed and this mixture in the presence of component (D) and component (B), with the exception of any heat-sensitive components present therein, mixed with sufficient amounts of the bases forming alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium or amine salt in order to neutralize the fatty acids, whereby their alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts or amine salts are formed in situ, and then any heat-sensitive components contained in component (B) are added. 16. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that when the molten fatty acids of component (A) are mixed with component (C) a homogeneous liquid is obtained and component (B) and (D) is added to this mixture and then the neutralization the fatty acids with the bases to form the alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, ammonium salts or amine salts. 17. The method according to claim 16, characterized in that at least 40 wt .-% of component (B) is an aliphatic non-ionic detergent and that the salt-forming base is an alkali metal hydroxide. 18. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that one uses a component (B) which contains heat-sensitive components and that one of the melted free fatty acids contained in component (A), component (C) and all non-heat-sensitive Components of component (B) are added to the mixture at a temperature above the solidification temperature and then the neutralization at this temperature in the presence of component D by adding a sufficient amount of alkali metal salts, alkaline earth metal salts, 19. The method according to claim 18, characterized in that an alkali metal hydroxide is used as the salt-forming base.