DE102004010281A1 - Textile caring agent, useful as additives in main washing steps in a textile washing procedure, comprises a portion of textile softeners (e.g. bentonite) and carriers, in hardened molten form - Google Patents

Abstract

Textile caring agent (I) comprises a portion of one or more textile softeners (A) (preferably one or more non ionic textile softeners) and one or more carriers, where the portion is totally or partly exists in hardened molten form. Independent claims are also included for the preparation of (I) comprising melting the textile softeners and the carrier materials together, and subsequently molding and hardening.; and a kit comprising (I) and a detergent.

Description

The The invention relates to a single-use fabric care composition one or more fabric softening components and one or more Excipients. About that In addition, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of Textile care portions, their use as an additive in the main wash cycle a fabric washing process and a kit containing one Portion and in addition a detergent.

in the The prior art already contains numerous examples of softener portions, which integrated into the so-called rinse after the wash cycle become. However, a disadvantage of such softener portions is that not for her All washing machine types are suitable, since in particular the Einspülkammern for the rinse cycle various different requirements for the rinse aid put. For example, must the size and shape the softener portions to the circumstances or the geometry of the flushing chamber individually adapted to ensure easy flushing. About that have to go out also the chemical and physical requirements for such softener portion the most diverse conditions in a dispenser be adapted to residues in the dispenser to avoid. Important for Such a post-treatment agent portion is that within the shortest possible time Time with the help of very small amounts of water rinsed in the washing drum or disbanded can be. In water-soluble Foil-wrapped fabric softening formulations added to the dispenser compartment be fulfilled the aforementioned requirements frequently not that water-soluble Foil material often only partially dissolved and there are blockages in the washing channel of the washing machine or to residues in the Einspülkammer can come. An alternative to circumvent the aforementioned problems in EP-A-1149893. In the European patent application fabric softening granules or pressed tablets, which is fed into the wash together with the detergent of the laundry. However, a disadvantage of these pressed formulations is that through the tableting process as well as through aging processes layers in the shaped body can arise which leads to a difficult resolution of the molding to lead.

EP-A-1149894 describes pre-dosed detergent portions of the textile conditioning serve and as an additive in the washing cycle of a household washing machine be used. The portions contain compacted granules, contains the plasticizer components and a certain spherical one Form, wherein the outer layer the compacted granules comprises a basic material, see above that the pH in the wash liquor is raised. The compacted Granules consist essentially of clay minerals and pentaerythritol fatty acid esters, which optionally contain a disintegration system.

EP-A-570237 discloses a particulate, agglomerated, fabric softening composition comprising a fabric softening Clay powder agglomerates into particles with a normally solid Melting Mixture, a mixture of pentaerythritol compound and nonionic surfactant, wherein the melting point of the mixture in the range of 30 to 45 ° C lies. The molten mixture of pentaerythritol compound and nonionic surfactant is the clay minerals, for example in a spray tower or a Lödigemischer supplied and subsequently agglomerated. The agglomerates are small particles with irregular Shape. Those made by the process disclosed in EP-A-570237 Agglomerates are not used as a single-use textile care product to be used.

Pulverkompaktaten and agglomerates has the disadvantage that they by means of expensive Drying process or mixing process must be prepared and also an aesthetic unattractive outer irregular shape exhibit. About that In addition, the consumer faces the problem of easy metering. Granules or powders are difficult to meet by consumers dose it, so it's common to over- or underdose comes, with the result that there are residues in the Einspülkammer and / or on the textiles to be treated.

task The object of the present invention was to reduce the disadvantages of compacted and / or to overcome pressed fabric softening single portions and also to provide single-use fabric care ingredients which Both easy to produce, a good and easy Dosierbarkeit for the Deliver consumers and are also excellent, already while the washing process to develop their fabric softening effect.

Surprised has now been found that the above problems are solved can by textile care agents individual portions containing fabric softening components and vehicles, wherein the portion at room temperature (20 ° C) in whole or in part as solidified Melt is present.

• a) ein oder mehrere Textilweichmacher-Komponenten, vorzugsweise ein oder mehrere nichtionische Textilweichmacher-Komponenten, und
• b) ein oder mehrere Trägersubstanzen,

wobei die Portion ganz oder teilweise als erstarrte Schmelze vorliegt.The present invention in a first embodiment is therefore containing a single-use textile care product

• a) one or more fabric softening components, preferably one or more nonionic fabric softening components, and
• b) one or more carrier substances,

wherein the portion is wholly or partially present as a solidified melt.

in the Within the scope of the present invention are the single-portion textile care products typically formed as separate individual elements before, the predetermined dosage amount of a washing process in corresponds to a washing machine. But it is also possible portions form a plurality of such mass units in one moldings connect, in particular by predetermined breaking points the easy separability of portioned, smaller units provided is.

The Textile care agent individual portions according to the invention lie as moldings before and can manufactured in a predetermined spatial form and predetermined size become. The moldings are produced in practically all sensible design, for example, in the form of a tablet, in bar or bar form, Cube, Cuboid and corresponding room elements with flat side surfaces as well in particular cylindrical Design with circular or oval section. Preferred geometric shapes, which preferably produced by the molding process according to the invention are concave, convex, biconcave, biconvex, cubic, tetragonal, orthorombic, cylindrical, spherical, Cylinder segment-like, disk-shaped, tetrahedral, dodecahedral, octahedral, conical, pyramidal, elipsoid, 5-, 7- and 8-sided prismatic as well as combohedral forms. Also completely irregular Basic forms such as arrow, heart or animal forms, trees, clouds etc. can be found in implemented procedures are realized. The molding body has corners and edges, so these are preferably rounded. As additional Optical differentiation is a rounded embodiment Corners and restricted (touched) Edges preferred. Another preferred molded article prepared according to the invention has a plate-like or tabular structure with alternating thick long and thin short segments, so that individual segments of this "bar" at the predetermined breaking points, the short ones thin Display segments, aborted and entered into the machine can be. This principle of the "bar-shaped" shaped body can in other geometric shapes, for example, vertical Triangles that are joined together on one side only are to be realized.

in the Particularly preferred within the scope of the present invention are moldings which a spherical design / spatial form exhibit. The spherical Design of the textile care single portion does not just hold an aesthetic appealing advantage in itself, but also causes the molding itself while the washing process in the washing drum significantly less and / or with a much shorter residence time in the rubber boot the bull-eye of the washing machine stops. The textile care product individual portions according to the invention are preferably intended to be in the washing drum of the washing machine to be applied. For the use of single portions in machines of the usual in Europe Type with horizontally arranged mechanism, can be used in the molded body Area of the rubber sleeve that surrounds the porthole / opening of the washing machine, set, with the result that the shaped body of a reduced convection and liquid / water application is exposed. In the known from the prior art compacted and / or pressed tablets, this has the consequence that the application forms dissolve only poorly or partially, so that residues on the textiles and / or in the cuff area of the remaining in the respective application form, which leads to consumer frustration. The textile care product individual portions according to the invention solve this Problem, in particular, in that it significantly improved Solubility / Dispergierbarkeitsgeschwindigkeit Compared to compacted, pressed or otherwise like from the State of the art known manufacturing process molded articles have. In addition, the preferred embodiment of the single portion according to the invention a significantly reduced residence time in the rubber sleeve area of the washing machine in comparison to known from the prior art Tablet forms. The individual portions according to the invention can be both as well as be multiphasic, being under the concept of multiphase moldings For example, so-called multilayer moldings (sandwich moldings), shell moldings or Point moldings (Bulleye moldings) are summarized.

The Single-use textile care product according to the invention serves in a preferred embodiment only the textile conditioning and is therefore as a textile conditioner portion in front.

Under The term conditioning is for the purposes of this invention, the avivierende Treatment of textile fabrics, Yarns, fibers, fabrics and fabrics. By conditioning the textiles are given positive qualities, such as an improved softness, an increased gloss and color brilliance, an improved scent impression, reduction of felting, ironing relief by reducing the sliding properties, reducing the creasing behavior and static charging as well as color transfer inhibition colored Textiles. The single-use textile care product is particularly preferably to improve the softness of the textiles and / or the ironing relief improving single serving. The textile care agent single portion has the for a wash load in a usual Household washing machine at normal loading predetermined dosage on which is sufficient for the textiles to be conditioned accordingly to treat their purpose. Usually the individual portions have a weight of 10 to 150 g, preferably 15 to 120 g, more preferably 20 to 100 g, more preferably 30 to 90 g and especially 50 to 80 g.

When essential component contain the individual portions according to the invention one or more fabric softening component (s). Fabric softener components are compounds, textile fabrics, yarns or fibers give a softness improving property.

To The cationic softening components include the quaternary ammonium compounds, cationic ones Polymers and emulsifiers, as in hair products and also in means of textile avarage usually be used.

wobei in (III) R und R¹ für einen acyclischen Alkylrest mit 12 bis 24 Kohlenstoffatomen, R² für einen gesättigten C₁-C₄-Alkyl- oder Hydroxyalkylrest steht, R³ entweder gleich R, R¹ oder R² ist oder für einen aromatischen Rest steht. X^– steht entweder für ein Halogenid-, Methosulfat-, Methophosphat- oder Phosphation sowie Mischungen aus diesen. Beispiele für kationische Verbindungen der Formel (I) sind Didecyldimethylammoniumchlorid, Ditalgdimethylammoniumchlorid oder Dihexadecylammoniumchlorid.Examples are quaternary ammonium compounds of the formulas (I) and (II),

wherein in (III) R and R ^{1 is} an acyclic alkyl radical having 12 to 24 carbon atoms, R ^{2 is} a saturated C ₁ -C ₄ alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radical, R ^{3 is} either R, R ¹ or R ² or an aromatic radical. X ^- is either a halide, methosulfate, methophosphate or phosphate ion and mixtures thereof. Examples of cationic compounds of the formula (I) are didecyldimethylammonium chloride, ditallowdimethylammonium chloride or dihexadecylammonium chloride.

Compounds of formula (II), (III) and (IV) are so-called ester quats. Esterquats are characterized by excellent biodegradability. In formula (II), R ^{4 is} an aliphatic alkyl radical having 12 to 22 carbon atoms with 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds; R ⁵ is H, OH or O (CO) R ⁷ , R ⁶ is, independently of R ^5, H, OH or O (CO) R ⁸ , where R ⁷ and R ⁸ are each independently an aliphatic alk (ene) ylrest having 12 to 22 carbon atoms with 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds. m, n and p can each independently be 1, 2 or 3. X ^- may be either a halide, methosulfate, methophosphate or phosphate ion, as well as mixtures of these. Preference is given to compounds which contain the group O (CO) R ⁷ for R ⁵ and to alkyl radicals having 16 to 18 carbon atoms for R ⁴ and R ⁷ . Particularly preferred are compounds in which R ^{6 is} also OH. Examples of compounds of the formula (II) are methyl N- (2-hydroxyethyl) -N, N-di (tallowacyl-oxy-ethyl) ammonium methosulfate, bis (palmitoyl) -ethyl-hydroxyethyl-methyl-ammonium methosulfate or methyl N, N-bis (acyloxyethyl) -N- (2-hydroxyethyl) ammonium methosulfate. If quaternized compounds of the formula (II) which have unsaturated alkyl chains are used, preference is given to the acyl groups whose corresponding fatty acids have an iodine number between 5 and 80, preferably between 10 and 60 and in particular between 15 and 45 and which have a cis / trans isomer ratio (in wt .-%) of greater than 30: 70, preferably greater than 50: 50 and in particular greater than 70: 30 have. Commercial examples are sold by Stepan under the tradename Stepantex ^® methylhydroxyalkyldialkoyloxyalkylammonium or those known under Dehyquart ^® Cognis products known under or Rewoquat ^® manufactured by Goldschmidt-Witco. Further preferred compounds are the diesterquats corresponding to formula (III), under the name Rewoquat ^® W 222 LM or CR 3099 are available and provide in addition to the softness also for stability and color protection.

R ⁹ and R ¹⁰ are each independently an aliphatic radical having 12 to 22 carbon atoms with 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds.

wobei R¹², R¹³ und R¹⁴ unabhängig voneinander für eine C_1-4-Alkyl-, Alkenyl- oder Hydroxyalkylgruppe steht, R¹⁵ und R¹⁶ jeweils unabhängig ausgewählt eine C_8-28-Alkylgruppe darstellt und r eine Zahl zwischen 0 und 5 ist.Further preferred ester quats are described by formula (IV),

wherein R ¹² , R ¹³ and R ¹⁴ independently represent a C _1-4 alkyl, alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl group, R ¹⁵ and R ¹⁶ each independently represent a C _8-28 alkyl group and r is a number between 0 and 5 is.

Next The compounds of the formulas (I) and (II) can also be short-chain, water-soluble, Quaternary ammonium compounds be used, such as Trihydroxyethylmethylammoniummethosulfat or the alkyltrimethylammonium chlorides, dialkyldimethylammonium chlorides and trialkylmethylammonium chlorides, e.g. cetyltrimethylammonium chloride, Stearyltrimethylammonium chloride, distearyldimethylammonium chloride, Lauryldimethylammonium chloride, Lauryldimethylbenzylammoniumchlorid and tricetylmethylammonium chloride.

Also protonated alkylamine compounds which have a softening effect, and the non-quaternized, protonated precursors of cationic Emulsifiers are suitable.

Further usable cationic compounds represent the quaternized Protein hydrolysates.

The cationic polymers include the polyquaternium polymers as described in the CTFA Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary (The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance, Inc., 1997), in particular the Polyquaternium-6, Polyquaternium-7, Polyquaternium-10, also referred to as Merquats Polymers (Ucare Polymer IR 400, Amerchol), polyquaternium-4 copolymers such as graft copolymers having a cellulose backbone and quaternary ammonium groups attached via allyldimethylammonium chloride, cationic cellulose derivatives such as cationic guar such as guar hydroxypropyl triammonium chloride, and similar quaternized guar derivatives (eg Cosmedia guar, manufacturer: Cognis Germany GmbH & Co. KG), cationic quaternary sugar derivatives (cationic alkyl polyglucosides), for example the commercial product Glucquat ^® 100, according to CTFA nomenclature a "lauryl methyl Gluceth-10 hydroxypropyl Dimonium Chloride", copolymers of PVP and dimethylaminomethacrylate, copolymers of vinylimidazole and vinylpyrrolidone, aminosilicone polymers and the like and copolymers.

Polyquaternized polymers (for example Luviquat Care from BASF) and also cationic biopolymers based on chitin and derivatives thereof, for example, under the trade designation chitosan ^® (manufacturer: Cognis) polymer obtainable.

die Alkylamidoamine in ihrer nicht quaternierten oder, wie dargestellt, ihrer quaternierten Form, sein können. R¹⁷ kann ein aliphatischer Alk(en)ylrest mit 12 bis 22 Kohlenstoffatomen mit 0, 1, 2 oder 3 Doppelbindungen sein. s kann eine ganze Zahl von 0 bis 5 sein. R¹⁸ und R¹⁹ stehen unbängig voneinander jeweils für H, C_1-4-Alkyl oder Hydroxyalkyl. Bevorzugte Verbindungen sind Fettsäureamidoamine, wie das unter der Bezeichnung Tego Amid^®S 18 erhältliche Stearylamidoropyldimethylamin oder das unter der Bezeichnung Stepantex^® X 9124 erhältliche 3-Talgamidopropyl-trimethylammonium-methosulfat, die sich neben einer guten konditionierenden Wir kung auch durch farbübertragungsinhibierende Wirkung sowie speziell durch ihre gute biologische Abbaubarkeit auszeichnen.Also usable are compounds of the formula (V),

the alkylamidoamines may be in their quaternized or, as shown, their quaternized form. R ¹⁷ can be an aliphatic alk (en) yl radical having 12 to 22 carbon atoms with 0, 1, 2 or 3 double bonds. s can be an integer from 0 to 5. R ¹⁸ and R ¹⁹ unbängig one another represent H, C _1-4 alkyl or hydroxyalkyl. Preferred compounds are fatty acid amidoamines, such as the Stearylamidoropyldimethylamin available under the name Tego Amid ^® S 18 or 3-Talgamidopropyl-trimethylammonium methosulfate available under the name Stepantex ^® X 9124, in addition to a good conditioning effect We also by color transfer inhibiting effect and especially by to distinguish their good biodegradability.

Prefers are alkylated quaternaries Ammonium compounds, of which at least one alkyl chain an ester group and / or amido group is interrupted, in particular N-methyl-N (2-hydroxyethyl) -N, N- (ditalgacyloxyethyl) ammonium methosulfate.

The use of cationic softener components in the inventive fabric care agents However, especially when using the individual portions directly in the washing cycle together with other detergent components, the risk of cell portions causing interaction with the constituents of the detergent is hindered. In particular, by interaction with anionic surfactants can lead to complexation, possibly precipitation, so that the washing performance is impaired. The content of the cationically charged plasticizer components is therefore typically below 40% by weight, preferably below 20% by weight, more preferably below 8% by weight, in particular below 5% by weight, most preferably below 1 % By weight, based in each case on the entire individual portion. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the individual textile care portions according to the invention are substantially free of cationic softener components.

Especially Preference is given to using the nonionic plasticizer components.

As nonionic plasticizers are especially Polyoxyalkylenglycerolalkanoate, as described in British Patent GB 2,202,244, polybutylenes, as described in British Patent GB 2,199,855, long-chain fatty acids, as in EP-A-13780, ethoxylated fatty acid ethanolamides, as described in the EP A-43547 and fatty acid esters of polycarboxylic acids, as described in the German patent DE 2822891 be described.

In a preferred embodiment is / are the fabric softening component (s) selected from the Group of nonionic fabric softening components, preferably pentaerythritol ester, alkyl oligosaccharides, silicone oils, in particular selected from the mineral fabric softening components, particularly preferred selected from the group bentonites, in particular selected from any mixtures different nonionic plasticizer components.

Pentaerythritol esters are disclosed, for example, in EP-A-767826, the contents of which are fully incorporated in this application. The terms pentaerythritol and pentaerythritol are used interchangeably. Particularly preferred are the aliphatic saturated or unsaturated, optionally substituted, C ₈ -C ₂₄ acid esters of pentaerythritol, an oligomer of pentaerythritol, an alkylene oxide derivative of pentaerythritol with 1-10 alkylene oxide portions or an alkylene oxide derivative of an oligomer of pentaerythritol 1-10 Alkylene oxide portions or a mixture of 2 or more thereof.

preferred Monopentaerythritol esters are monopentaerythritol dilaurate, monopentaerythritol monostearate, Monopentaerythritol tristearate, monopentaerythritol monobehenate, monopentaerythritol dibehenate, Pentaerythritol ditalitalate, pentaerythritol dihydrogenated tallow ester, pentaerythritol alkylene oxide ester, such as monopentaerythritol-10-ethylene oxide distearate, monopentaerythritol-4-propylene oxide mono-stearate, Monopentaerythritol propylene oxide monobehenate, monopentaerythritol-4-propylene oxide dibehenate. Particularly preferred is the pentaerytritol ditalitalate and / or the esterified with hydrogenated tallow fat pentaerythritol.

preferred Dipentaerythritol esters are dipentaerythritol tetraalaurate and dipentaerythritol tetrastearate.

Suitable alkyl polyglycosides that can be used as fabric softening components are disclosed, for example, in EP-A-698140. Suitable alkyl glycosides of the general formula RO (G) _x , in which R is a primary straight-chain or methyl-branched, in particular 2-methyl-branched aliphatic radical having 8 to 22, preferably 12 to 18 carbon atoms and G is the symbol for a glycose unit with 5 or 6 C atoms, preferably for glucose. The degree of oligomerization x, which indicates the distribution of monoglycosides and oligoglycosides, is any number between 1 and 10; preferably x is 1.2 to 1.4. Particularly preferred are the sorbitan mono, di- and tri-fatty acid esters.

In a preferred embodiment Contain the inventive textile care single portion silicone oils as nonionic Plasticizer component. Among silicone oils are under the present Invention substantially modified with organic radicals silicon-containing Connections understood.

The use of silicone oils in the solid compacted or pressed conditioners known in the art has proven to be extremely difficult. The processing in compression and / or Kompaktierungsverfahren brings the most diverse procedural problems with it, such as bonding and smearing of the system by the mostly oily silicon-containing compounds. In contrast to the methods disclosed in the prior art, however, silicone oils can be easily incorporated into the melts, from which the textile care product individual portions according to the invention are produced the. Silicone oils not only give the textiles soft-feel and slip-improving properties, they also leave the textile fabrics, yarns and fibers treated with the silicone oils with a prolonged scent impression. That is, when using the same amounts of fragrance in the wash water of the fragrance is perceived by consumers for the treated with silicone oil textiles longer.

The essentially silicon-containing modified with organic radicals Compounds are preferably present as oligo- and / or polymers. It has been shown that higher molecular weight organically modified silicon compounds, ie in particular oligo- and / or polymeric silicon compounds, in addition to the fabric softening Effect of scent perception on treated textile fabrics and / or delaying yarns and / or fibers for a particularly long time. In a preferred embodiment In the present invention, the silicon-containing compounds a molecular weight of above 2,000, preferably above 5,000, more preferably above 10,000, more preferably above 50,000, especially from 100,000 to 2,500,000, most preferably 250,000 up to 1,000,000, in particular from 400,000 to 600,000.

In Another particularly preferred embodiment, the in essentially organically modified silicon-containing compounds Amino and / or ammonium groups, in particular organic radicals with Amino and / or ammonium groups. It has been shown that in particular oligomeric and / or polymeric silicone compounds with amino and / or Ammonium groups not only the fragrance perception treated with it textile fabrics and / or yarns and / or fibers, but also textiles or fiber conditioning properties, such as a Reduction of creasing, ease of ironing behavior and to give an improvement of the soft touch. It is preferred when the nitrogen content of the silicon-containing compound above of 0.001%, preferably above 0.01%, more preferably above 0.1%, especially between 0.15 and 10%, most preferred between 0.2 and 2%, in particular between 0.22 and below 1 % lies.

The amino-modified polysiloxanes are therefore also preferred in the context of the present invention, since they surprisingly do not have a negative influence on the olfactory profile of the perfume. It is even possible with the use of such aminopolysiloxanes, which are commercially available, for example, under the trade name Formasil 410 ex Crompton or DC2-8500 ex Dow Corning, to reduce the perfume fraction to achieve a similar fragrance impression as without these silicon-containing compounds results in a significant cost reduction. Also suitable in the present invention are cationic silicone oils such as the commercially available products Q2-7224 (manufactured by Dow Corning, a stabilized trimethylsilylamodimethicone), Dow Corning 929 emulsion (containing a hydroxylamino-modified silicone, also referred to as amodimethicones), SM -2059 (manufacturer: General Electric), SLM-55067 (manufacturer: Wacker) Abil ^® -Quat 3270 and 3272 (manufacturer: Goldschmidt-Rewo; diquaternary polydimethylsiloxanes, quaternium-80), and Silicone quat Rewoquat ^® SQ 1 (Tegopren ^® 6922, Manufacturer: Goldschmidt-Rewo).

mit
R²⁰= unabhängig von einander C₁-C₃₀-Alkyl, vorzugsweise C₁-C₄-Alkyl, insbesondere Methyl oder Ethyl,
n = 1 bis 5000, vorzugsweise 10 bis 2500, insbesondere 100 bis 1500 und/oder

mit
R²¹= C₁-C₃₀-Alkyl, vorzugsweise C₁-C₄-Alkyl, insbesondere Methyl oder Ethyl,
Y = ggf. substituiertes, lineares oder verzweigtes C₁-C₂₀-Alkylen, vorzugsweise -(CH₂)_m- mit m= 1 bis 16, vorzugsweise 1 bis 8, insbesondere 2 bis 4, im speziellen 3
R²², R²³ = unabhängig voneinander H oder gegebenenfalls substituiertes, lineares oder verzweigtes C₁-C₃₀-Alkyl, vorzugsweise mit Aminogruppen substituiertes C₁-C₃₀-Alkyl, besonders bevorzugt -(CH₂)_b-NH₂ mit b=1 bis 10, äußerst bevorzugt b=2
x = 1 bis 5000, vorzugsweise 10 bis 2500, insbesondere 100 bis 1500Further preferred in the context of the present invention is a polymeric silicon-containing compound, wherein the polymer has structural units which are selected from the group:

With
R ²⁰ = independently of one another C ₁ -C ₃₀ -alkyl, preferably C ₁ -C ₄ -alkyl, in particular methyl or ethyl,
n = 1 to 5000, preferably 10 to 2500, in particular 100 to 1500 and / or

With
R ²¹ = C ₁ -C ₃₀ -alkyl, preferably C ₁ -C ₄ -alkyl, in particular methyl or ethyl,
Y = optionally substituted, linear or branched C ₁ -C ₂₀ -alkylene, preferably - (CH ₂ ) _m - with m = 1 to 16, before preferably 1 to 8, in particular 2 to 4, in particular 3
R ²² , R ²³ = independently of one another H or optionally substituted, linear or branched C ₁ -C ₃₀ -alkyl, preferably C ₁ -C ₃₀ -alkyl substituted by amino groups, more preferably - (CH ₂ ) _b -NH ₂ where b = 1 to 10, most preferably b = 2
x = 1 to 5000, preferably 10 to 2500, in particular 100 to 1500

Especially preferred are polymers in which both the structural unit a) as also the structural unit b) is present.

by virtue of their cost-effectiveness, their outstanding soft-grip enhancing properties and their Very good processability are within the scope of the present invention in particular mineral fabric softening components in the textile care single portions preferred as nonionic softening components. The mineral Fabric softener components are preferably made of fabric softening clay minerals that are made from a variety of minerals, in particular the layered silicates to be selected can. The group of smectites has proven to be advantageous.

The term smectite includes both clays in which alumina is present in a silicate lattice and clays in which magnesium oxide occurs in a silicate lattice. Typical smectites have the following general formulas: Al ₂ (Si ₂ O ₅ ) ₂ (OH) ₂ .nH ₂ O and Mg ₃ (Si ₂ O ₅ ) ₂ (OH) ₂ .nH ₂ O. Smectites are usually in one extended three-layer structure. Specific examples of suitable smectites include those selected from the class of montmorillonites, hectorites, volkonskites, nontronites, saponites, and sauconites, especially those having alkali or alkaline earth metal ions in the crystal lattice structure. Preferred is a three-layer, expandable aluminum silicate characterized by a dioctahedral crystal lattice, whereas the extended three-layer magnesium silicate structure has a trioctahedral crystal lattice. As mentioned previously, the clay minerals contain cationic counterions such as protons, sodium ions, potassium ions, calcium ion, magnesium ions, and the like. Usually, the clay minerals are distinguished by the cations that are predominantly or exclusively absorbed. For example, a sodium bentonite is such a clay mineral in which the absorbed cation is predominantly sodium. Such absorbed cations can undergo exchange reactions with other cations in aqueous solutions. A typical exchange reaction involving a smectite type is as follows: Smectite (Na) + NH ₄ OH → smectite (NH ₄ ) + NaOH

In the aforementioned equilibrium reaction becomes one equivalent Ammonium ion replaced by one equivalent Sodium ion. It is usual, the cation exchange capacity in milliequivalents / 100 g (meq / 100 g). The cation exchange capacity of the clays can be determined in different ways, for example by Electrodialysis or by exchange with ammonium ions, followed by a titration, as in the book by Grimshaw, "The chemistry and physics of clays ", Pages 264 - 265, Interscience 1971, is described. Smectites such as Nontonite has an ion exchange capacity of about 70 meq / 100 g. montmorillonite, the one exchange capacity from above 70 meq / 100g have been found to be extremely preferred in the context of the present invention, since they are particularly effectively on the textiles to be treated and give them the desired Give soft grip. Particularly preferred clay minerals in the frame The present invention is expanded three-layer smectite types with an ion exchange capacity of at least 50 meq / 100 g.

organophilic Clay minerals can also be used in the context of the present invention. Such hydrophobically modified clay minerals in which inorganic Metal ions are exchanged by organic ions through the previously described exchange process are also preferred. The modified clay minerals are very good with organic solvents miscible and have the property of organic solvents between layers store. Suitable examples of organophilic clay minerals are Benton SD-1, SD-2 and SD-3 from Rheox.

From the group of smectites have been found to be particularly preferred the bentonites. Bentonites are contaminated clays caused by the weathering of volcanic tuffs. Due to their high content of montmorillonite, bentonites have valuable properties such as swellability, ion exchange capacity and thixotropy. It is possible to modify the properties of the bentonite according to the intended use. Bentonites are a common constituent of clay in tropical soils and are mined as sodium bentonite, eg in Wyoming / USA. Sodium bentonite has the most favorable performance characteristics (swelling capacity), so that its use in the context of the present invention is preferred. Naturally occurring calcium bentonites originate, for example, from Mississippi / USA or Texas / USA or from Landshut / D. The naturally obtained Ca-bentonites are artificially converted by exchange of Ca for Na in the more swellable Na-bentonites.

The main constituents of the bentonites form so-called montmorillonites, which can also be used in their pure form in the context of the present invention. Montmorillonites belong to the phyllosilicates and here to the dioctahedral smectites belonging clay minerals, which crystallize monoclinic pseudohexagonal. Montmorillonite form predominantly white, grayish-white to yellowish, completely amorphous appearing, easily friable, in the water swelling, but not plasticizing masses, by the general formulas
Al ₂ [(OH) ₂ / Si ₄ O ₁₀ ] .nH ₂ O or
Al ₂ O ₃ · 4SiO ₂ · H ₂ O · nH ₂ O or
Al ₂ [(OH) ₂ / Si ₄ O ₁₀ ] (dried at 150 °)
can be described.

Montmorillonites have a three-layer structure consisting of two tetrahedral layers, which are electrostatically crosslinked via the cations of an octahedral intermediate layer. The layers are not rigidly connected, but can swell by reversible incorporation of water (in 2-7 times the amount) and other substances such as alcohols, glycols, pyridine, ammonium compounds, hydroxy-aluminosilicate ions, etc. The above. Formulas are only approximate formulas since montmorillonites have a high ion exchange capacity. Thus Al can be exchanged for Mg, Fe ²⁺ , Fe ³⁺ , Zn, Cr, Cu and other ions. As a result of such substitution, a negative charge of the layers results, which is balanced by other cations, especially Na ⁺ and Ca ²⁺ .

calcium or magnesium bentonites are usually non-swellable and usually worse-acting Plasticizers. However, it is advantageous non-swellable bentonites with carrier materials, such as polyethylene glycol combine to a considerable extent improved soft feel of the treated textiles. Also advantageous are calcium or magnesium bentonites which are present a sodium source such as NaOH or NaCO3 used become.

In a particularly preferred embodiment If the clay is a treated montmorillonite-containing Clay having the following properties: montmorillonite content of at least 85% and when the clay activated with sodium ions, dried and ground to particles, then swell the ground Particles no more than two and a half times in one Time of 24 hours if deionized water at room temperature added becomes.

Particularly preferred is a montmorillonite-containing clay, which is obtained by the following process steps:
Drying the clay to a water content of 25-35% by weight,
Extruding the dried material into a paste;
Drying the paste to a moisture content of 10 - 14 wt .-% and
Calcining at a temperature between 120 and 250 ° C.

The chemical composition of the bentonite to be used as starting material is preferably the following: SiO ₂ : 55.0 - 61.0% by weight Al ₂ O ₃ : 14.5-17.6% by weight Fe ₂ O ₃ : 1.45-1.7% by weight CaO: 2.8 - 7.0% by weight MgO: 5.0-6.3% by weight K ₂ O: 0.5-0.58% by weight Na ₂ O: 0.25-0.3% by weight Mn ₃ O ₄ : 0.04-0.25% by weight

A detailed description of the process for the treatment of bentonite is found in WO-A-00/03959, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference full is incorporated.

The crystalline structure of montmorillonite is more or less resistant to acid treatment. By acid treatment in the context of the invention is meant that a sample of the clay (for example 1 g / l) is exposed in a 1N HCl solution for 15 hours at a temperature of 80 ° C. It has to be there may be mentioned that most clays can be destroyed by acid treatment with, for example, hydrogen fluoride. In the context of the present invention, however, acid treatment means HCl treatment. Montmorillonites (magnesium saturated / air dried) usually have a maximum diffraction distance of 14-15 Å in the 001 plane when treated with X-radiation. This maximum diffraction distance usually does not change by treating the clay with HCl.

in the However, the scope of the present invention is acid-sensitive montmorillonites preferably, for example Montmorillonite whose crystalline Structure destroyed when treated with HCl. The use of such clay minerals has a softening effect and also makes for a better Dispersibility in the aqueous Wash liquor or the aqueous Textile treatment liquid. The destruction The crystalline structure can be measured by measuring the diffraction distance be determined so that at the destroyed Montmorilloniten at crystalline Montmoriloniten expected maximum diffraction distance in the 001 level from 14 - 15 Å not appears.

Without being bound by theory, it is believed that the acid sensitivity is related to increased exchange of aluminum by magnesium in the octahedral layer of the montmorillonite clay. Preference is given to a ratio of Al ₂ O ₂ / MgO of less than 4, more preferably of less than 3. The abovementioned acid-sensitive montmorillonites have the advantage that they allow a reduced tendency to gel and an improved dispersibility in the wash liquor. In addition, it has been observed that such clay minerals produce an improved softness.

The mineral plasticizer components have in a preferred embodiment a mean particle size below of 50 μm, preferably below 10 μm, more preferably below 1 micron.

The The aforementioned fabric softening components can be used in any desired mixtures exist together. For example, mixtures are preferred from mineral fabric softening components with silicone oils and / or Penta-erythritolestern.

The Textile care agent individual portions according to the invention contain the fabric softening component (s) in an amount of at least 1% by weight, preferably at least 6% by weight, especially preferably above 10 wt .-%, most preferably above 20 wt .-%, in particular from 30 to 95 % By weight, especially from 40-65 Wt .-%, each based on the entire portion.

When second essential component contain the textile care product individual portions according to the invention one or more vehicles. The carrier materials are preferably organic, more preferably water-soluble. The support materials have a melting point of at least 30 ° C, preferably at least 33 ° C, especially preferably from 35 to 250 ° C, in particular from 37 to 150 ° C, for example above 40 ° C - below 100 ° C on.

The support materials are preferably fusible organic masses capable of are to include the fabric softening components. Especially Preferably, these melts have a high water solubility or water dispersibility.

The support materials are preferably selected from the group of polyalkylene glycols and / or sugars and / or sugar derivatives.

polyalkylene (Polyglycols, polyglycol ethers, INCI Chemical Class: Polymeric Ethers) are well-known, predominantly linear, z. But also branched polyethers which are themselves to polymers with terminal Hydroxy groups. The polyalkylene glycols with higher molecular weights are polymolecular, d. H. they consist of collectives of macromolecules different molecular weights.

Preferred according to the invention are linear or branched, in particular linear, polyalkylene glycols of the general formula HO- [R ²⁴ -O] _c -H, in which R ^{24 is} (CH ₂ ) ₂ , CH ₂ CH (CH ₃ ) and / or (CH ₂ ) ₄ and c is from 2 to more than 100,000 and the ring-opening polymerization of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide and / or tetrahydrofuran can be produced. These are in detail the polyethylene glycols with R ²⁴ = (CH ₂ ) ₂ , the polypropylene glycols with R ²⁴ = CH ₂ CH (CH ₃ ), the polytetrahydrofurans with R ²⁴ = (CH ₂ ) ₄ and the copolymers of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide and / or tetrahydrofuran.

in the Frame of a particular embodiment polyalkylene glycols preferred in the invention have a melting point of at least 30 ° C. The melting point of homologous homopolymeric polyalkylene glycols increases usually with increasing molecular weight and narrower molecular weight distribution to. Additionally takes the melting point of copolymeric polyalkylene glycols usually with to increasing oxygen content, for example in the case of the copolymers from ethylene oxide and propylene oxide usually with increasing proportion of polyethylene glycol. After all As a rule, the melting point of the polypropylene glycols increases increasing tacticity (Stereoregularity) to.

Suitable according to the invention are polyethylene glycols (PEG) with a mean relative molecular weight from 800 to 100,000, usually 1000 to 80,000, preferably 1500 to 70,000 and especially 2000 to 60000.

PEG with molecular weights below 800 are clear, essentially colorless liquids and therefore less according to the invention suitable. From a molecular weight of about 800 PEG are partially crystalline Solids. As the molecular weight increases, PEGs are softened Grow at molecular weights of about 1000 to 2000 to hard waxes Molar masses up to about 20,000 and above. High molecular weight PEG with molecular weights over 100,000 are finally hard Thermoplastics and therefore less suitable according to the invention.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention one or more polyethylene glycols having a molecular weight of at least 1500, preferably 1700 to 50,000, in particular 1800 to 40,000, more preferably from 1900 to 30,000, and most preferably from 2,000 to 6,000 used.

For polyethylene glycols There are different nomenclatures that can lead to confusion. Technically common is the indication of the average relative molecular weight in the connection to the indication "PEG", so that "PEG 200" a polyethylene glycol characterized by a relative molecular weight of about 190 to about 210.

According to INCI nomenclature the abbreviation PEG is hyphenated and follows directly to the hyphen a number corresponding to the number c in the above general formula, where in multiples of a thousand the three zeros "000" are replaced by the letter "M", for example PEG-7M for a PEG with molecular weight 7000.

Commercially available Polyethylene glycols with a molecular weight below 3000 are, for example PEG 800 / PEG-18, PEG-20, PEG 1000, PEG 1200, PEG 1500 / PEG-32, PEG-40, PEG 2000, PEG-55 and PEG-60, where the designations according to the two Nomenclatures for polyethylene glycols corresponding to each other by the sign "/" are placed side by side separately.

Commercially available Polyethylene glycols having a molecular weight of 3,000 to 88,000 are for example PEG 3000, PEG 3350 / PEG-75, PEG 4000 / PEG-90, PEG 4500 / PEG-100, PEG 4600, PEG 6000 / PEG-135, PEG 7000, PEG-150, PEG 8000 / PEG-180, PEG 9000 / PEG-200, PEG 10000 / PEG-240, PEG 12000, PEG 14000, PEG 15000 / PEG-350, PEG-400, PEG 20000, PEG 35000, PEG 50000 and PEG-2M, where the designations according to the two Nomenclatures for polyethylene glycols corresponding to each other by the sign "/" are placed side by side separately.

The polyethylene glycols commercially available, for example, under the trade names Carbowax ^® 8000 (Union Carbide), Emkapol ^® 6000 and Renex ^® PEG 3350 (ICI), Lipoxol ^® (DEA), polyglycol ^® E 4500 (Dow), Pluracol ^® E8000, Pluriol® ^® E12000 and Lutrol ^® E4000 (BASF) available and the corresponding trade names with other numbers, each given the molecular weight of the polyethylene glycol. Sources of supply for the also called cosmetic ingredients according to INCI designated polyethylene glycols can be found in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook. The company Clariant distributes polyethylene glycols, z. PEG 10000 to PEG 35000.

polypropylene glycols (PPG) are over a broad molecular weight range clear, almost colorless liquids or amorphous or crystalline solids, the former less according to the invention are suitable. The previously described INCI nomenclature becomes analog also used to designate polypropylene glycols.

Liquid, viscous polyalkylene glycols usually have molecular weights from 250 (PEG-4) to 4000 (PEG-69), whose low molecular weight representatives are miscible with water, while the higher molecular weight PPG are less water-soluble. The polypropylene glycols are formed by ring-opening polymerization of propylene oxide. They can be prepared as amorphous or stereoregular polymers, with tacticity (stereoregularity) leading to the preferred crystalline PPG.

The Molar masses of the polypropylene glycols are usually according to the invention in the range of about 2000 to 100,000, preferably in the range of 4000 to 50,000, in particular from 6,000 to 40,000, particularly preferred from 8000 to 30,000 and highly preferred from 10,000 to 20,000. Polypropylene glycols are commonly referred to as Di- and trihydroxy-PEG available in a broad molecular weight range. The third hydroxy group originates from the polymerization initiator, if, for example, glycerol is used as initiator for polypropylene glycols whose three hydroxyl groups react during the polymerization and thus lead to branched trihydroxy-PEG.

The Polytetrahydrofurans (PTHF) are also called tetramethylene glycols, Polytetramethylene glycol ethers or polytetramethylene oxides and are by cationic polymerization (ring-opening polymerization) of Tetrahydrofuran at temperatures below 83 ° C accessible polyalkylene ether.

PTHF are strictly linear polyether diols used in engineering processes using fuming sulfuric acid or fluorosulfuric acid as Catalysts are produced. The molecular weights of PTHF, the values can reach up to several millions, according to the invention are usually in the range of about 650 to 100,000, preferably in the range of 1,000 to 50,000, especially from 1,400 to 30,000, more preferably from 2,900 to 20,000 and highly preferred from 4,500 to 10,000.

PTHF are liquids at room temperature or low melting solids of usually crystalline nature. The consistency of PTHF increases with increasing molecular weight from oily to waxy until firmly closed. Amorphous PTHF with molecular weights over 100,000 are rubbery ones Products. Partly crystalline PTHF melt at about 43 ° C. low molecular weight PTHF are soluble in water.

For example, polytetrahydrofurans having molecular weights of 650, 1,000, 1,400, 2,000, 2,900 and 4,500 are commercially available. The Polytetrahydrofurans commercially available are in play, under the trade name polytetrahydrofuran 650 or PolyTHF ^® 4500 (BASF), Terathane ^® 2900 or Teracol ^® 1000 (Du Pont) and Polymeg® ^® 2000 (Quaker Oats) available and the corresponding trade names with other numbers each stated the molecular weight of the polyethylene glycol.

copolymers

at the copolymers are preferably random copolymers and in particular to block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, Ethylene oxide and tetrahydrofuran, propylene oxide and tetrahydrofuran or ethylene oxide, propylene oxide and tetrahydrofuran, preferably from Ethylene and propylene oxide, more preferably block copolymers from ethylene and Propylene oxide. The molecular weights of the copolymers are according to the invention usually in the range of about 2,000 to 100,000, preferably in the range of 3,000 to 50,000, in particular from 4,000 to 40,000, particularly preferred from 6,000 to 30,000 and highly preferred from 8,000 to 20,000.

Statistical copolymers of a ethylene and b propylene oxide units which are preferred according to the invention are, for example, the following copolymers (molecular weight) designated as PEG / PPG-a / b according to the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, where a and b represent average values:
PEG / PPG-125/30 copolymer (7300), PEG / PPG-150/30 copolymer (8400) and PEG / PPG-300/55 copolymer (16400).

Block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide which are preferred according to the invention satisfy the formula HO (CH ₂ CH ₂ O) _e (CH (CH ₃ ) CH ₂ O) _f (CH ₂ CH ₂ O) _{e '} H, in which e and e' represent mean values from 2 to 130 and f stands for means of 15 to 67, and are referred to by the international common name Poloxamer, which is also used in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook. Each poloxamer is identified by a three-digit number. The first two digits, multiplied by 100, indicate the average molecular weight of the polypropylene glycol fraction and the fractional digit multiplied by 10 represent the polyethylene glycol fraction in% by weight, which is from 10 to 80% by weight, preferably at least 30% by weight. in particular at least 40 wt .-%, particularly preferably at least 50 wt .-%, most preferably at least 60 wt .-%, for example 70 or 80 wt .-%, is. The preparation of the poloxamers is carried out in two stages, wherein initially added propylene oxide controlled at propylene glycol and the resulting polypropylene glycol block by subsequent Addition of ethylene oxide is enclosed by two polyethylene glycol blocks.

Particularly preferred block copolymers are, for example, the following types of poloxamer (e, f, e ', molecular weight, partly melting point): poloxamer 185 (19, 30, 19, 3500, 27), poloxamer 215 (24, 35, 24, 4150 34), poloxamer 234 (22, 39, 22, 4200), poloxamer 284 (21, 47, 21, 4600), poloxamer 235 (27, 39, 27; 4650; 29), poloxamer 333 (20, 54, 20 Poloxamer 108 (46, 16, 46, 4950, 48), Poloxamer 402 (13, 67, 13, 5000, 20), Poloxamer 403 (21, 67, 21, 5750, 31), Poloxamer 334 (31, 54, 31, 5900, 32), poloxamer 335 (38, 54, 38, 6500, 30), poloxamer 217 (52, 35, 52, 6600, 48), poloxamer 237 (62, 39, 62, 7700 49), poloxamer 188 (75, 30, 75, 8350, 52), poloxamer 238 (97, 39, 97, 11400, 54), poloxamer 407 (98, 67, 98, 12600, 56), poloxamer 288 (122 , 47, 122, 13000, 58) and poloxamer 338 (128, 54, 128, 14600, 57). Commercially, the poloxamers sold under the trade name Pluronic ^® and Synperonic ^® PE are available, the one letter from the group L, P and F, and a two- or three-digit number is adjusted. The last digit is identical to the last digit of the poloxamer nomenclature and gives the preceding one- or two-digit numbers multiplied by 300 the approximate molecular weight of the polypropylene glycol portion or multiplied by 3 approximately the number formed from the first two digits of the poloxamer nomenclature number ie, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 correspond to the two-digit numbers 10, 12, 18, 21, 23, 28, 33 and 40 at the beginning of the number according to the poloxamer nomenclature in this order. The letters distinguish between liquid (L), pasty (P) and solid (F) poloxamers. For example, the Poloxamer 238 is available as Pluronic ^® F 88 and Synperonic ^® PEF 88.

Another class of suitable block copolymers of ethylene and propylene oxide satisfy the formula HO (CH (CH ₃ ) CH ₂ O) _f (CH ₂ CH ₂ O) _e (CH ₂ CH (CH ₃ ) O) _{f '} H Polyethylene glycol block framed by two polypropylene glycol blocks, while the poloxamers a polypropylene glycol block is bordered by two polyethylene glycol blocks. The preparation is again carried out in two stages, ethylene oxide initially being added in a controlled manner to ethylene glycol and the resulting polyethylene glycol block being enclosed by subsequent addition of propylene oxide from two polypropylene glycol blocks.

Commercially available are these block copolymers such as poloxamers under the trade name Pluronic ^® (BASF), followed by an alphanumeric code consisting of three digits and the letter R between the second and third digits. The meaning of the numbers is identical to the meaning in the poloxamer nomenclature. The inserted letter R (reverse) indicates the inverted structure compared to the poloxamers. Preferred members of this class are the following Pluconic ^® grades (molecular weight, melting point): Pluronic ^® 17R4 (2650; 18), Pluronic ^® 22R4 (3350; 24), Pluronic ^® 25R4 (3600; 25), Pluronic ^® 31 R4 (4150 ; 24), Pluronic ^® 25R5 (4250; 30), Pluronic ^® 10R8 (4550; 46), Pluronic ^® 17R8 (7000; 53), Pluronic ^® 25R8 (8550; 54).

Especially suitable carriers are polyethylene glycols, with a melting point or melting range between 30 and 80 ° C, whose melt is water-soluble is.

Farther Particularly preferred in the context of the present invention are sugars and / or sugar derivatives used as carrier materials.

Of the Term "sugar" denotes in the Under the present invention single and multiple sugars, ie Monosaccharides and oligosaccharides containing 2 to 6 monosaccharides ace are connected to the valley. "Sugars are within the present Invention thus monosaccharides, disaccharides, trisaccharides, tetra-, Penta and hexasaccharides.

monosaccharides are linear polyhydroxy aldehydes (aldoses) or polyhydroxy ketones (Ketoses). You have mostly over a chain length of five (Pentoses) or six (hexoses) carbon atoms. monosaccharides with more (heptoses, octoses, etc.) or fewer (tetroses) C atoms are relatively rare. Some monosaccharides have one size Number of asymmetric C atoms. For a hexose with four asymmetric C atoms results from this a number of 24 stereoisomers. The orientation of the OH group on highest numbered asymmetric C atom in the Fischer projection divides the monosaccharides in D- and L-configured rows. In the naturally occurring Monosaccharides, the D configuration is much more common. Monosaccharides, if possible, form intramolecular Hemiacetal, so that is annular Structures of the pyran (pyranose) and furan type (furanoses) result. Smaller rings are unstable, larger rings only in aqueous solutions resistant. Cyclization gives rise to another asymmetric C atom (the so-called anomeric carbon atom), the number of possible stereoisomers again doubled. This is indicated by the prefixes á u. âausgedrückt. The formation of hemiacetals is a dynamic process that depends on various factors Temperature, solvent, pH value, etc. depends. Mostly there are mixtures of both anomeric forms before, partly as mixtures of furanose and pyranose forms.

in the Under the present invention can be used as sugar monosaccharides For example, the tetroses are D (-) - erythrose and D (-) - threose and D (-) - erythrulose, the pentose D (-) - ribose, D (-) - ribulose, D (-) - arabinose, D (+) - xylose, D (-) - xylulose and D (-) - lyxose and the hexoses D (+) - allose, D (+) - altrose, D (+) - glucose, D (+) - mannose, D (-) - Guiose, D (-) - Idose, D (+) - galactose, D (+) - talose, D (+) - psicose, D (-) - fructose, D (+) - sorbose and D (-) - tagatose. The most important and widely used monosaccharides are: D-glucose, D-galactose, D-mannose, D-fructose, L-arabinose, D- Xylose, D-ribose and the like 2-deoxy-D-ribose.

disaccharides are composed of two simple monosaccharide linked by glycosidic linkage molecules (D-glucose, D-fructose and others). Is the glycosidic Binding between the acetalic carbon atoms (1 for aldoses or 2 in ketoses) of both monosaccharides, so it is in both fixed the ring shape; the sugars do not show mutarotation, react not with ketone reagents and no longer reducing (Fehling-negative: Trehalose or sucrose type). In contrast, binds the glycosidic bond the acetalic carbon atom of a monosaccharide with either of the second, this may still take the open-chain form, and the sugar is still reducing (Fehling-positive: maltose type).

The most important disaccharides are sucrose (cane sugar, sucrose), Trehalose, lactose (milk sugar), lactulose, maltose (malt sugar), Cellobiose (degradation product of cellulose), Gentobiose, Melibiose, Turanose and others.

trisaccharides are carbohydrates composed of 3 glycosidically linked monosaccharides are and for which one occasionally encounters the incorrect name Triosen. Trisaccharides are relatively rare in nature, examples are Gentianose, Kestose, Maltotriose, Melecitose, Raffinose, as well as as an example for Amino sugar-containing trisaccharides streptomycin and validamycin.

tetrasaccharides are oligosaccharides with 4 monosaccharide units. Examples of these Class of connection are stachyose, lychnose (galactose-glucose-fructose-galactose) and secalose (from 4-fructose units).

in the Sacchaodes are preferred as sugars in the context of the present invention from the group glucose, fructose, sucrose, cellulosic, maltose, Lactose, lactulose, ribose and mixtures thereof.

Farther suitable carrier materials in the context of the present invention are waxes. Under "waxing" is a series naturally or artificial understood substances which melt usually above 40 ° C without decomposition and already a little above the melting point, relatively low viscosity and not are thread-pulling. They have a strong temperature-dependent consistency and solubility on.

To the natural one Count waxing for example, vegetable waxes such as candelilla wax, carnauba wax, Japan wax, esparto wax, cork wax, guaruma wax, rice germ oil wax, Sugarcane wax, ouricury wax, or montan wax, animal waxes such as beeswax, shellac wax, spermaceti, lanolin (wool wax), or uropygial fat, Mineral waxes such as Ceresin or Ozokerit (Erdwachs), or petrochemical waxes such as petrolatum, paraffin waxes or microwaxes.

To The chemically modified waxes include, for example, hard waxes such as montan ester waxes, Sassol waxes or hydrogenated jojoba waxes.

Are also suitable Synthetic waxes of lower carboxylic acids and fatty alcohols, such as dimyristyl tartrate, sold under the name Cosmacol ^® ETLP (Condea). Conversely, synthetic or partially synthetic esters of lower alcohols can be used with fatty acids from natural sources. This class of substances includes, for example, ^Tegin® 90 (Goldschmidt), a glycerol monostearate palmitate.

Also The waxes in the context of the present invention are for example calculated the so-called wax alcohols. Wax alcohols are higher molecular weight, water insoluble Fatty alcohols with usually about 22 to 40 carbon atoms. The wax alcohols come, for example, in the form of wax esters high molecular weight fatty acids (Wax acids) as the main ingredient of many natural Waxes before. examples for Wax alcohols are lignoceryl alcohol (1-tetracosanol), cetyl alcohol, Myristyl alcohol or melissyl alcohol.

A another class of substances which is outstandingly suitable as a carrier material aliphatic and aromatic dicarboxylic acids, individually, in mixture melted together or in mixture with other substances and processed according to the invention can be.

Instead of of dicarboxylic acids or in mixture with them also the corresponding anhydrides are used, which in particular with glutaric acid, maleic and phthalic acid is advantageous.

Besides the dicarboxylic acids, carboxylic acids and their salts are also suitable as materials for the production of the melts. Citric acid and trisodium citrate as well as salicylic acid and glycolic acid have proven to be suitable for this class of substances. With particular advantage, it is also possible to use fatty acids, preferably having more than 10 carbon atoms, and their salts as carrier material for the single portion. For example, hexanoic acid (caproic acid), heptanoic acid (capnonic acid), octanoic acid (caprylic acid), nonanoic acid (pelargonic acid), decanoic acid (capric acid), undecanoic acid, etc. are preferred. For the purposes of the present invention, the use of fatty acids such as Dodecanoic acid (lauric acid), tetradecanoic acid (myristic acid), hexadecanoic acid (palmitic acid), octadecanoic acid (stearic acid), eicosanoic acid (arachidic acid), docosanoic acid (behenic acid), tetracosanic acid (lignoceric acid), hexacosanoic acid (cerotic acid), triacotanic acid (melissic acid) and the unsaturated secties 9c Hexadecenoic acid (palmitoleic acid), 6c octadecenoic acid (petroselinic acid), 6t octadecenoic acid (petroselidic acid), 9c octadecenoic acid (oleic acid), 9t octadecenoic acid ((elaidic acid), 9c, 12c octadecadienoic acid (linoleic acid), 9t, 12t octadecadienoic acid (linolaidic acid ) and 9c, 12c, 15c-octadecatreic acid (linolenic acid) It is preferred to use not the pure species, but technical mixtures of the individual acids, as they are accessible from lipid cleavage. Such mixtures are for example coconut oil (about 6 wt .-% Ca, 6 wt .-% C ₁₀ , 48 wt .-% C ₁₂ , 18 wt .-% C ₁₄ , 10 wt .-% C ₁₆ , 2 wt. -% C ₁₈ , 8 wt .-% C _{18 '} 1 wt .-% C _18'' ), palm kernel oil fatty acid (about 4 wt .-% Ca ₈ , 5 wt .-% C ₁₀ , 50 wt .-% C ₁₂ , 15 wt .-% C ₁₄ , 7 wt .-% C ₁₆ , 2 wt .-% C ₁₈ , 15 wt .-% C _{18 '} , 1 wt .-% C _18'' ), tallow fatty acid (ca. 3% by weight C ₁₄ , 26% by weight C ₁₆ , 2% by weight C _{16 '} , 2% by weight C ₁₇ , 17% by weight C ₁₈ , 44% by weight C _18' , 3 wt .-% C _{18 ''} , 1 wt .-% C _{18 '''} ), hardened tallow fatty acid (about 2 wt .-% C ₁₄ , 28 wt .-% C ₁₆ , 2 wt .-% C ₁₇ , 63 wt .-% C ₁₈ , 1 wt .-% C ₁₈ ), technical oleic acid (about 1 wt .-% C ₁₂ , 3 wt .-% C ₁₄ , 5 wt .-% C ₁₆ , 6 wt. -% C _{16 '} , 1 wt .-% C ₁₇ , 2 wt .-% C ₁₈ , 70 wt .-% C _18' , 10 wt .-% C _{18 ''} , 0.5 wt .-% C _{18 '''} ), technical palmitic / stearic acid (about 1 wt .-% C ₁₂ , 2 wt .-% C ₁₄ , 45 wt .-% C ₁₆ , 2 wt .-% C ₁₇ , 47 wt .-% C ₁₈ , 1 wt .-% C _{16 '} ) and soybean oil fumaric acid (about 2 wt .-% C ₁₄ , 15 G % by wt. C ₁₆ , 5 wt.% C ₁₈ , 25 wt.% C _{18 '} , 45 wt.% C _{18 "} , 7 wt.% C _18"' ). The above-mentioned carboxylic acids are technically recovered largely from native fats and oils by hydrolysis. While the alkaline saponification already carried out in the past century led directly to the alkali salts (soaps), today only large amounts of water are used for cleavage, which cleaves the fats into glycerol and the free fatty acids. Examples of industrially applied processes are the autoclave cleavage or continuous high pressure cleavage. The alkali metal loops of the abovementioned carboxylic acids or carboxylic acid mixtures can also be used for the preparation of the melt, if appropriate in a mixture with other materials.

Another particularly preferred carrier material is urea, the diamide of carbonic acid, which is sometimes referred to as carbamide and can be described by the formula H ₂ N-CO-NH ₂ . Urea forms colorless, odorless crystals of density 1.335, which melt at 133 ° C. Urea is soluble in water, methanol, ethanol and glycerol with neutral reaction. Urea, in particular when mixed with other substances, is outstandingly suitable as carrier material for the melt. So z. As polyethylene and -propylene glycols, fragrances, dyes, etc. are melted in high amounts together with the urea and processed for the inventive textile care single portion.

Further suitable materials which are the aforementioned fusible Some substances can be added in high amounts are Silicates, phosphates and / or starches.

The used according to the invention support materials are preferably up to 90 wt .-%, particularly preferably in amounts from 1 - 85 Wt .-%, more preferably from 5 to 80 Wt .-%, in particular from 10 to 75 Gew. -%, extremely prefers from 20 - 70 Wt .-%, in particular 35-60 % By weight, in each case based on the total weight of the textile care portion, in front.

The textile care product individual portions according to the invention can be completely or partially present as a solidified melt, ie parts of the portion can also be produced by other production methods, for example by compaction and / or compression. However, the shaped body preferably forms a uniform appearance in which the area present due to solidified melt is in intimate contact with the parts of the shaped body which are not present through solidified melt. In a preferred However, the shaped bodies are at least 40% by weight, preferably at least 50% by weight, more preferably at least 75% by weight, most preferably at least 90% by weight and in particular entirely, ie completely solidified, melt in front.

Of the Melting point and / or softening point of the textile care product individual portions according to the invention is preferably above 20 ° C, more preferably above of 30 ° C, more preferably above 40 ° C, in particular above 50 ° C, in the Special above 60 ° C.

melting point or softening point may be due to mixtures of the carrier materials be set.

The Textile care agent individual portions according to the invention are in a preferred embodiment no over the Einspülkammer supplied to the washing process, but be directly with the laundry placed in the washing drum. The individual portions according to the invention take over preferably the function of an additive, which is particularly preferred is supplied separately to a laundry detergent to the washing process. Separately means that it physically from the detergent is present separately.

object The invention in a further embodiment is therefore the use the textile care product individual portions according to the invention as an additive in the main wash of a textile washing process.

One Another object of the present invention is a method for producing a single-use textile care product according to the invention, wherein in a first step one or more fabric softening components melted together with one or more carrier component (s) and subsequently in a second step, the melt is allowed to solidify becomes. It is not absolutely necessary that the fabric softening Components are melted with. This is especially special refractory plasticizer components, such as the mineral plasticizer components of the case. In these cases will be the plasticizer components and optionally other additional components in the melt dispersed in it. In the melt, it can therefore also act as a dispersion, which let shape solidifying becomes.

The used according to the method support materials have, as described above, preferably at least one Melting point of 30 ° C, preferably at least 33 ° C, most preferably 35 ° C up to 250 ° C, in particular of 37 ° C up to 150 ° C, for example above 40 ° C below 100 ° C. For very high-melting carriers can in a preferred embodiment the melting temperature by suitable additives, for example Low molecular weight surfactants or polyalkylene glycols reduced become.

In a preferred embodiment the melt is not above 80 ° C, preferably below 70 ° C, especially preferably below 60 ° C and in particular maintained at a temperature between 35 ° C and 55 ° C.

Fusible Melting has the advantage that it is also temperature-sensitive Additives, such as perfumes or enzymes, without impairment their activity work in.

The Forming solidification of the melt is typically carried out in molds, with defined demarcations, allowing solid shaped bodies with different manifestations, as described above, can be obtained.

The for the Forming responsible molding tool points in a preferred Embodiment already a recording volume for the melt, which is dimensioned sufficiently to form a shaped body, the one intended purpose single serving equivalent. The single portion is sufficiently dimensioned for at least a wash in a ordinary Household washing machine.

In a preferred embodiment, the carrier component or the mixture of the carrier components is first melted, and then the mixture or the mixture of the plurality of fabric softening components is added to the melt. In addition to the melt thus prepared, further fabric care components can be incorporated into the melt. However, the additional additional textile care components can also be provided in a second, third or further melt or further administration form. The textile fabric softening component-containing melt is then in given a cavity and allowed to solidify there shaping. The solidification of the melt can be accelerated, for example by supplying cooling air or radiation curing by UV, alpha, beta or gamma rays as the main hardening mechanisms.

In a preferred embodiment the method according to the invention will be one or more additional in a further step Melting phases in the cavity given. The additional Melting phases can while a variety of textile care products or even Mixtures of fabric softener components included.

In a particularly preferred embodiment have the textile care product individual portions according to the invention at least two, preferably three, melt phases. The melting phases are preferably visually distinguishable, preferably they are colored differently. The visual distinctness of the melt phases not only has the for the consumer aesthetically more appealing product form result, but can in the manufacturing process also a useful one Indicator for possibly occurring process disturbances. For example, let while the production then easily recognize which melt phase manufacturing process is flawed.

In a preferred embodiment can the textile care product individual portions according to the invention additionally Contain disintegrating agent. Disintegrating agents can do this in the plasticizer component containing melt phase and / or be present in one of the possibly further melting phases. disintegrator are used to disintegrate the textile care portion to accelerate. The disintegrating agents are also called so-called Tablet disintegrant referred.

Under Tablet disintegrants or disintegrants are used according to Römpp (9. Auflage, Bd. 6, p. 4440) and Voigt "textbook of pharmaceutical technology" (6th edition, 1987, Pp. 182-184) are excipients which are responsible for the rapid disintegration of tablets in water or gastric juice and for ensure the release of the pharmaceuticals in a resorbable form.

These Substances that are also referred to as "explosives" due to their effect increase when water enters their volume, on the one hand increasing the intrinsic volume (swelling), on the other hand also about the Release of gases can create a pressure on the tablet can disintegrate into smaller particles. When disintegration-promoting Systems are used in cleaning and cleaning Detergent moldings often also so-called "shower systems" used. One well-known effervescent system are carbonate / citric acid systems. overflowing Disintegration aids are, for example, synthetic polymers such as polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) or natural polymers or modified Natural substances such as cellulose and starch and their derivatives, alginates or casein derivatives.

One Effervescent system consists of a combination of two or more substances, which release a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen when in contact with water. Preferred effervescent systems consist of one or more acidic Components and one or more sources of carbon dioxide.

Suitable acidic components are, for example, organic acids, in particular - optionally hydroxyl-bearing oligocarboxylic acids such as di- and tricarboxylic acids, for example succinic acid, maleic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, tartaric acid and especially citric acid, and acidic salts of polyvalent inorganic or organic acids, eg. For example, potassium dihydrogen phosphate or sodium hydrogen sulfate, and amidosulfuric (H ₂ N-SO ₂ -OH, obsolete: sulfamic acid, sulfamic acid or sulfamic acid), including those that may be contained in the portions anyway according to the invention. Particularly suitable as CO ₂ -release components are the salts of carbonic acid, ie carbonates and bicarbonates and mixtures thereof, which are mainly used as alkali and alkaline earth metal salts.

Especially Preferred acidic components are amidosulfuric acid, citric acid and Sodium hydrogen sulfate and mixtures thereof. Preferred mixtures consist of amido sulfuric acid and citric acid, preferably in a weight ratio of amidosulfuric acid to citric acid of 100 to 1 to 1 to 100, especially from 50 to 1 to 1 to 20, especially preferably from 20 to 1 to 1 to 10, most preferably from 13 to 1 to 10 to 1 or from 2 to 1 to 1 to 2, for example 12 to 1 or 11 to 1 or 1 to 1. The mixtures of amidosulfuric acid and citric acid are preferred as the sole acid component of the effervescent system used, can but also with sodium bicarbonate and / or one or more further acid components be combined.

Particularly preferred CO ₂ components are sodium carbonate (soda) and sodium bicarbonate nat (sodium bicarbonate) and mixtures of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, in particular sodium carbonate and mixtures of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Mixtures of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate usually have a weight ratio of sodium bicarbonate to sodium carbonate of from 20 to 1 to 1 to 10, in particular from 10 to 1 to 1 to 1, more preferably from 5 to 1 to 3 to 1, most preferably from 5 to 1 to 4 to 1, to, for example 3.6 to 1, 4.4 to 1 or 4.6 to 1.

The higher the bicarbonate content of the CO ₂ component and / or the content of acid or CO ₂ component or effervescent system as a whole, the more the effervescent system generally gushes or foams, and the quicker the textile care product portion usually decomposes ,

Instead of from or in addition to a shower system the fabric care portions one or more swelling disintegration aids usually in an amount of 0, 5 to 10 wt .-%, preferably 3 to 7 wt .-% and in particular 4 to 6 wt .-%.

Preferred swelling disintegrating agents in the context of the present invention are cellulose-based disintegrating agents, so that preferred portions comprise such a cellulose-based disintegrating agent in amounts of from 0.5 to 10% by weight, preferably from 3 to 7% by weight and in particular from 4 to 6 Wt .-% included. Pure cellulose has the formal gross composition (C ₆ H ₁₀ O ₅ ) _n and is formally a β-1,4-polyacetal of cellobiose, which in turn is composed of two molecules of glucose. Suitable celluloses consist of about 500 to 5000 glucose units and therefore have average molecular weights of 50,000 to 500,000. Cellulosic disintegrants which can be used in the context of the present invention are also cellulose derivatives obtainable by polymer-analogous reactions of cellulose. Such chemically modified celluloses include, for example, products of esterifications or etherifications in which hydroxy hydrogen atoms have been substituted. Celluloses in which the hydroxy groups have been replaced by functional groups which are not bonded via an oxygen atom can also be used as cellulose derivatives. For example, alkali celluloses, carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), cellulose esters and ethers and aminocelluloses fall into the group of cellulose derivatives.

The The cellulose derivatives mentioned are preferably not used alone Disintegrating agents used on cellulose basis, but in Mixture with cellulose used. The content of these mixtures Cellulosederivaten is preferably below 50% by weight, more preferably below 20 wt .-%, based on the disintegrating agent based on cellulose. Particularly preferred is cellulose-based disintegrant pure cellulose used, which is free of cellulose derivatives.

The cellulose used as a disintegration aid is preferably not used in finely divided form, but converted into a coarser form, for example granulated or compacted, before it is added to the premixes to be tabletted. Detergents and detergent tablets which contain disintegrating agents in granular or optionally cogranulated form are described in German patent applications DE-A-19709991 and DE-A-19710254 and in international patent application WO-A-98/40463. Further details of the production of granulated, compacted or cogranulated cellulose explosives can be found in these publications. The particle sizes of such disintegrating agents are usually above 200 .mu.m, preferably at least 90 wt .-% between 300 and 1600 .mu.m and in particular at least 90 wt .-% between 400 and 1200 microns. The above and described in more detail in the documents cited coarser disintegration aids, are preferred as disintegration aids and are commercially available, for example under the name of Arbocel ^® TF-30-HG from Rettenmaier available in the present invention.

When another disintegrating agent based on cellulose or as an ingredient This component can be used microcrystalline cellulose. This microcrystalline cellulose is made by partial hydrolysis of Celluloses obtained under such conditions, only the amorphous ones Areas (about 30% of the total cellulose mass) of the celluloses attack and completely dissolve, the crystalline areas (about 70%) but leave undamaged. A subsequent disaggregation of the resulting from the hydrolysis microfine celluloses provide the microcrystalline celluloses, the primary particle sizes of approx. 5 μm and compactable, for example, to granules having an average particle size of 200 microns are.

In a further preferred embodiment, the single-use textile care compositions according to the invention may additionally contain fragrances. The in compacted and pressed systems very difficult incorporation of perfumes and / or perfume oils can be in the erfindungsge Moisturizing textile portions, which are prepared by the process according to the invention, realize very easily. The fact that the fragrances are firmly incorporated in the melt, they are quasi airtight encapsulated in the serving. This has the advantage, in comparison to the known from the prior art compacted or pressed moldings / individual portions that it does not come to fragrance or perfume loss in open packaging, in which the respective dosage form is exposed to the atmosphere.

The Perfumes incorporated in the portions of the invention can be are not subject to any restrictions.

So can as perfume oils or Perfumes, individual perfume compounds, e.g. the synthetic one Products of the ester, ether, aldehyde, ketone and alcohol type be used. Fragrance compounds of the ester type are e.g. Benzyl acetate, phenoxyethyl isobutyrate, p-tert-butylcyclohexyl acetate, linalyl acetate, dimethylbenzylcarbinylacetate (DMBCA), phenylethyl acetate, benzyl acetate, ethylmethylphenylglycinate, Allyl cyclohexyl propionate, styrallyl propionate, benzyl salicylate, cyclohexyl salicylate, Floramat, Melusat and Jasmacyclat. For example, the ethers include Benzyl ethyl ether and ambroxan, to the aldehydes e.g. the linear ones Alkanals with 8 - 18 C atoms, citral, citronellal, citronellyloxyacetaldehyde, cyclamenaldehyde, Lilial and Bourgeonal, to the ketones e.g. the ionone, α-isomethylionone and methyl cedryl ketone, to the alcohols anethole, citronellol, eugenol, Geraniol, linalool, phenylethyl alcohol and terpineol. Prefers However, mixtures of different fragrances are used, the together create an appealing scent.

Perfume oils can also natural Contain fragrance mixtures, as they are accessible from plant sources, e.g. Pine, citrus, jasmine, patchouly, rose or ylang-ylang oil. Also suitable are Muscat sage oil, Chamomile oil, Clove oil, Balm oil, mint oil, Cinnamon leaf oil, lime blossom oil, juniper berry oil, vetiver oil, olibanum oil, galbanum oil and labdanum oil, as well as Orange blossom oil, neroli oil, orange peel oil and sandalwood oil.

The general description of the perfumes used (see above) is general the different substance classes of fragrances dar. To perceptible To be, a perfume must be volatile being, besides the nature of the functional groups and the structure the molecular weight of the chemical compound also plays an important role plays. So most perfumes have molecular weights up to about 200 Dalton, while Molmassen from 300 daltons and above rather an exception. Due to the different volatility changed by fragrances the smell of a compound of several fragrances perfumes or perfume during vaporizing, whereby the odor impressions in "top note", "middle note" body) and "base note" (end note or dry divided out). Because the smell perception to a large extent also on the smell intensity is based, the top note of a perfume or fragrance is not alone from volatile compounds, while the base note for the most part from less volatile, i.e. adherent fragrances.

Adhesive-resistant fragrances which can be used in the context of the present invention are, for example, the essential oils such as angelica root oil, aniseed oil, arnica blossom oil, basil oil, bay oil, Champacablütenöl, Edeltannenöl, Edeltannenzapfen oil, Elemiöl, eucalyptus oil, fennel oil, spruce needle oil, galbanum oil, geranium oil, ginger grass oil, guaiac wood oil, Gurjun Balm Oil, Helichrysum Oil, Ho Oil, Ginger Oil, Iris Oil, Cajeput Oil, Calamus Oil, Chamomile Oil, Camphor Oil, Kanaga Oil, Cardamom Oil, Cassia Oil, Pine Needle Oil, Kopaia Balsam Oil, Coriander Oil, Spearmint Oil, Cumin Oil, Cumin Oil, Lavender Oil, Lemongrass Oil, Lime Oil, Tangerine Oil, Melissa Oil, Musk Grain Oil, Myrrh Oil, Clove Oil, Neroli Oil, Niaouli Oil, Olibanum Oil, Origanum Oil, Palmarosa Oil, Patchouli Oil, Peru Balsam Oil, Petitgrain Oil, Pepper Oil, Peppermint Oil, Pimento Oil, Pine Oil, Rose Oil, Rosemary Oil, Sandalwood Oil, Celery Oil, Spik Oil, Star Aniseed Oil, Turpentine Oil, Thuja Oil, Thyme Oil, Verbena Oil, Vetiver oil, juniper Apricot oil, wormwood oil, wintergreen oil, ylang-ylang oil, hyssop oil, cinnamon oil, cinnamon oil, lemon oil, lemon oil and cypress oil. But also the higher-boiling or solid fragrances of natural or synthetic origin can be used in the context of the present invention as adherent fragrances or fragrance mixtures, ie fragrances. These compounds include the following compounds and mixtures thereof: ambrettolide, ambroxan, α-amylcinnamaldehyde, anethole, anisaldehyde, anisalcohol, anisole, methyl anthranilate, acetophenone, benzylacetone, benzaldehyde, ethyl benzoate, benzophenone, benzyl alcohol, benzyl acetate, benzyl benzoate, benzyl formate, benzyl valerate , Borneol, bornyl acetate, Boisambrene forte, α-bromostyrene, n-decyl aldehyde, n-dodecyl aldehyde, eugenol, eugenol methyl ether, eucalyptol, farnesol, fenchone, fenchyl acetate, geranyl acetate, geranyl formate, heliotropin, heptincarboxylic acid methyl ester, heptaldehyde, hydroquinone dimethyl ether, hydroxycinnamaldehyde, hydroxycinnamyl alcohol, Indole, iron, isoeugenol, isoeugenol methyl ether, isosafrole, jasmon, camphor, karvakrol, karvon, p-cresol methyl ether, coumarin, p-methoxyacetophenone, methyl n-amyl ketone, methyl anthranilate, p-methylacetophenone, methylchavikole, p-methylquinoline, methyl-β-naphthyl ketone, methyl-n-nonylacetaldehyde, methyl-n-nonyl ketone, muscone, β-naphthol ethyl ether, β-naphthol methyl ether, nerol, n-nonylaldehyde, nonyl alcohol, n-octylaldehyde, p-oxy-acetophenone, Pentadecanolide, β-phenylethyl alcohol, phenylacetaldehyde dimethyacetal, phenylacetic acid, pulegone, safrole, isoamyl salicylate, methyl salicylate, hexyl salicylate, cyclohexyl salicylate, santalol, sandelice, skatole, terpineol, thymes, thymol, troenan, γ-undelactone, vanilin, veratrumaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, cinnamalcohol, Cinnamic acid, cinnamic acid ethyl ester, cinnamic acid benzyl ester.

To the more volatile Scents count especially the lower-boiling fragrances natural or synthetic origin, used alone or in mixtures can be. Examples of easier volatile Fragrances are diphenyl oxide, limonene, linalool, linalyl acetate and propionate, melusate, menthol, menthone, methyl-n-heptenone, pinene, Phenylacetaldehyde, terpinyl acetate, citral, citronellal.

Prefers contain the portions of perfume in amounts of from 0.1 to 20% by weight, preferably from 0.5 to 5% by weight, in each case based on the entire portion.

In a preferred embodiment contain the portions of the invention additionally Odor absorbers. Odor absorbers according to the invention are a or a plurality of metal salts of an unbranched or branched, unsaturated or saturated, mono- or polyhydroxylated fatty acid having at least 16 carbon atoms and / or a rosin acid with the exception of the alkali metal salts and any mixtures thereof.

A particularly preferred unbranched or branched, unsaturated or saturated, one or more times hydroxylated fatty acid with at least 16 carbon atoms is ricinoleic acid. A particularly preferred rosin acid is abietic acid.

preferred Metals are the transition metals and the lanthanides, especially the transition metals of the groups VIIIa, Ib and IIb of the Periodic Table and lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, most preferably cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc, most preferred Zinc. The cobalt, nickel and copper salts and the zinc salts are Although similar effective, for toxicological reasons However, the zinc salts are to be preferred.

When advantageous and therefore particularly preferred as deodorizing substances use is one or more metal salts of ricinoleic acid and / or abietic acid, preferably zinc ricinoleate and / or zinc abietate, especially zinc ricinoleate.

When other suitable deodorizing substances prove to be suitable The invention also cyclodextrins, and any mixtures the aforementioned metal salts with cyclodextrins, preferably in a weight ratio of 1: 10 to 10: 1, more preferably from 1: 5 to 5: 1 and in particular from 1: 3 to 3: 1. The term "Cylcodextrin" includes all known cyclodextrins, i. both unsubstituted cyclodextrins with 6 to 12 glucose units, especially alpha, beta and gamma cyclodextrins and mixtures thereof and / or derivatives thereof and / or mixtures thereof.

In a further preferred embodiment can the individual portions according to the invention additionally contain one or more nonionic surfactants. The nonionic Surfactants can thereby present in one or possibly further melt phases. It has shown that the addition of nonionic surfactants in the Melting for melting point modification and also for improvement the water solubility or water dispersibility of the carrier substances can contribute.

As nonionic surfactants are preferably alkoxylated, advantageously ethoxylated and / or propoxylated, in particular primary alcohols having preferably 8 to 18 carbon atoms and an average of 1 to 12 moles of ethylene oxide (EO) and / or 1 to 10 moles of propylene oxide (PO) per mole of alcohol, used. Particular preference is given to C ₈ -C ₁₆ -alcohol alkoxylates, advantageously ethoxylated and / or propoxylated C ₁₀ -C ₁₅ -alcohol alkoxylates, in particular C ₁₂ -C ₁₄ -alcohol alkoxylates, having a degree of ethoxylation of between 2 and 10, preferably between 3 and 8, and / or a degree of propoxylation between 1 and 6, preferably between 1.5 and 5. The alcohol radical may preferably be linear or more preferably methyl-branched in the 2-position or contain linear and methyl-branched radicals in the mixture, as they are usually present in Oxoalkoholresten. In particular, however, alcohol ethoxylates with linear radicals of alcohols of natural origin having 12 to 18 carbon atoms, for example of coconut, palm, tallow or oleyl alcohol, and on average 2 to 8 EO per mole of alcohol are preferred. Preferred ethoxylated alcohols include, for example, C _12-14 alcohols with 3 EO or 4 EO, C _{9- 11} alcohol with 7 EO, C _13-15 alcohols containing 3 EO, 5 EO, 7 EO or 8 EO, C _12-18 alcohols with 3 EO, 5 EO or 7 EO and mixtures of these, such as mixtures of C _12-14 alcohol with 3 EO and C _12-18 -alcohol with 5 EO. The indicated degrees of ethoxylation and propoxylation represent statistical averages which may be an integer or a fractional number for a particular product. Preferred alcohol ethoxylates and propoxylates have a narrow homolog distribution (narrow range ethoxylates / propoxylates, NRE / NRP). In addition to these nonionic surfactants, fatty alcohols with more than 12 EO can also be used. Examples include tallow fatty alcohol with 14 EO, 25 EO, 30 EO or 40 EO.

Farther suitable are alkoxylated amines, advantageously ethoxylated and / or propoxylated, especially primary and secondary amines with preferably 1 to 18 C atoms per alkyl chain and on average 1 to 12 moles of ethylene oxide (EO) and / or 1 to 10 moles of propylene oxide (PO) per mole of amine.

Also nonionic surfactants of the amine oxide type, for example N-cocoalkyl-N, N-dimethylamine oxide and N-tallow alkyl-N, N-dihydroxyethylamine oxide, and the fatty acid alkanolamide can be suitable.

When other surfactants are so-called gemini surfactants into consideration. this includes In general, compounds which are two hydrophilic Possess groups and two hydrophobic groups per molecule. These groups are usually separated by a so-called "spacer" This spacer is usually a carbon chain that should be long enough that the hydrophilic groups have a sufficient distance, to be independent can act from each other. Such surfactants are generally characterized by an unusually low critical micelle concentration and surface tension ability to greatly reduce the water out. In exceptional cases however, under the term gemini surfactants not only dimeric but also understood trimeric surfactants.

suitable Gemini surfactants are, for example, sulfated hydroxy mixed ethers according to the German patent application DE-A-4321022 or dimer alcohol bis- and trimer alcohol tris-sulfates and ether sulfates according to the international Patent Application WO-A-96/23768. End-capped dimers and trimeric mixed ethers according to the German Patent application DE-A-19513391 are characterized in particular by their and multifunctionality out. Can be used but also gemini polyhydroxy fatty acid amides or poly-polyhydroxy fatty acid amides, as described in International Patent Applications WO-A-95/19953, WO-A-95/19954 and WO-A-95/19955 to be discribed.

in der R²⁶CO für einen aliphatischen Acylrest mit 6 bis 22 Kohlenstoffatomen, R²⁵ für Wasserstoff, einen Alkyl- oder Hydroxyalkylrest mit 1 bis 4 Kohlenstoffatomen und [Z] für einen linearen oder verzweigten Polyhydroxyalkylrest mit 3 bis 10 Kohlenstoffatomen und 3 bis 10 Hydroxylgruppen steht. Bei den Polyhydroxyfettsäureamiden handelt es sich um bekannte Stoffe, die üblicherweise durch reduktive Aminierung eines reduzierenden Zuckers mit Ammoniak, einem Alkylamin oder einem Alkanolamin und nachfolgende Acylierung mit einer Fettsäure, einem Fettsäurealkylester oder einem Fettsäurechlorid erhalten werden können.Further suitable surfactants are polyhydroxy fatty acid amides of the following formula

in the R ²⁶ CO is an aliphatic acyl radical having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R ^{25 is} hydrogen, an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl radical having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and [Z] is a linear or branched polyhydroxyalkyl radical having 3 to 10 carbon atoms and 3 to 10 hydroxyl groups stands. The polyhydroxy fatty acid amides are known substances which can usually be obtained by reductive amination of a reducing sugar with ammonia, an alkylamine or an alkanolamine and subsequent acylation with a fatty acid, a fatty acid alkyl ester or a fatty acid chloride.

in der R²⁹ für einen linearen oder verzweigten Alkyl- oder Alkenylrest mit 7 bis 12 Kohlenstoffatomen, R²⁷ für einen linearen, verzweigten oder cyclischen Alkylrest oder einen Arylrest mit 2 bis 8 Kohlenstoffatomen und R²⁸ für einen linearen, verzweigten oder cyclischen Alkylrest oder einen Arylrest oder einen Oxy-Alkylrest mit 1 bis 8 Kohlenstoffatomen steht, wobei C_1-4-Alkyl- oder Phenylreste bevorzugt sind und [Y] für einen linearen Polyhydroxyalkylrest steht, dessen Alkylkette mit mindestens zwei Hydroxylgruppen substituiert ist, oder alkoxylierte, vorzugsweise ethoxylierte oder propoxylierte Derivate dieses Restes.The group of polyhydroxy fatty acid amides also includes compounds of the following formula

in the R ^{29 is} a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl radical having 7 to 12 carbon atoms, R ^{27 is} a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl radical or an aryl radical having 2 to 8 carbon atoms and R ^{28 is} a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl radical or a Aryl radical or an oxy-alkyl radical having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, wherein C _1-4 alkyl or phenyl radicals are preferred and [Y] is a linear polyhydroxyalkyl radical whose alkyl chain is substituted with at least two hydroxyl groups, or alkoxylated, preferably ethoxylated or propoxylated derivatives of this residue.

V1 and VII are preferably reduced by reductive amination Sugar, for example glucose, fructose, maltose, lactose, Galactose, mannose or xylose. The N-alkoxy or N-aryloxy-substituted Connections can then, for example, according to the teaching of international application WO-A-95/07331 by reaction with fatty acid methyl esters in the presence of an alkoxide as a catalyst in the desired Polyhydroxyfatty acid amides are transferred.

Preferred nonionic surfactants are one or more ethylene oxide (EO) and / or propylene oxide (PO) alkoxylated, unbranched or branched, saturated or unsaturated C _10-22 alcohols having a degree of alkoxylation of up to 30, preferably ethoxylated C _10-18 fatty alcohols having a degree of ethoxylation of less than 30, preferably 1 to 20, in particular 1 to 12, more preferably 1 to 8, most preferably 2 to 5, for example C _12-14 fatty alcohol ethoxylates with 2, 3 or 4 EO or a mixture of the C _12-14 fatty alcohol ethoxylates with 3 and 4 EO in a weight ratio of 1 to 1 or Isotridecylalkoholethoxylat with 5, 8 or 12 EO, as described for example in the DE 4014055 C2 (Grillo-Werke), to which reference is made in this regard and the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference into this application. The nonionic surfactants may usually be used in amounts of up to 50 wt .-%, preferably from 0.1 to 40 wt .-%, particularly preferably from 0.5 to 30 and in particular from 2 to 25 wt .-%, each based on the entire portion.

In addition, the Portions of the invention optionally contain amphoteric surfactants. In addition to numerous mono- to tri-alkylated amine oxides constitute the betaines significant class dar.

in der R³⁰ für Alkyl- und/oder Alkenylreste mit 6 bis 22 Kohlenstoffatomen, R³¹ für Wasserstoff oder Alkylreste mit 1 bis 4 Kohlenstoffatomen, R³² für Alkylreste mit 1 bis 4 Kohlenstoffatomen, g für Zahlen von 1 bis 6 und X¹ für ein Alkali- und/oder Erdalkalimetall oder Ammonium steht. Typische Beispiele sind die Carboxymethylierungsprodukte von Hexylmethylamin, Hexyldimethylamin, Octyldimethylamin, Decyldimethylamin, Dodecylmethylamin, Dodecyldimethylamin, Dodecylethylmethylamin, C_12-/14-Kokosalkyldimethylamin, Myristyldimethylamin, Cetyldimethylamin, Stearyldimethylamin, Stearylethylmethylamin, Oleyldimethylamin, C_16/18-Talgalkyldimethylamin sowie deren technische Gemische.Betaines are known surfactants which are predominantly produced by carboxyalkylation, preferably carboxymethylation of aminic compounds. Preferably, the starting materials are condensed with halocarboxylic acids or their salts, in particular with sodium chloroacetate, wherein one mole of salt is formed per mole of betaine. Furthermore, the addition of unsaturated carboxylic acids, such as acrylic acid is possible. For nomenclature, and in particular for the distinction between betaines and "real" amphoteric surfactants, reference should be made to the contribution of U.Ploog in Soaps Oils-Fette-Wachse, 108, 373 (1982). Further reviews on this topic can be found, for example, by A. O'Lennick et al. in HAPPI, Nov. 70 (1986), S. Holzman et al. in tens. Surf.Det. 23, 309 (1986), R.Bibo et al. in Soap Cosm. Chem. Spec., Apr. 46 (1990) and P. Elis et al. in Euro Cosm. 1, 14 (1994). Examples of suitable betaines are the carboxyalkylation products of secondary and in particular tertiary amines which follow the formula (VIII),

in the R ³⁰ for alkyl and / or alkenyl radicals having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, R ^{31 is} hydrogen or alkyl radicals having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R ^{32 is} alkyl radicals having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, g is a number from 1 to 6 and X ^{1 is} an alkali and / or alkaline earth metal or ammonium. Typical examples are the carboxymethylation products of hexylmethylamine, hexyldimethylamine, octyldimethylamine, decyldimethylamine, dodecylmethylamine, dodecyldimethylamine, Dodecylethylmethylamin, C _{12- / 14} -Kokosalkyldimethylamin, myristyldimethylamine, cetyldimethylamine, stearyldimethylamine, stearyl, oleyl, C _16/18 tallow alkyl dimethyl amine and technical mixtures thereof.

in der R³³ für einen Alkylrest mit 5 bis 21 Kohlenstoffatomen, R³⁴ für eine Hydroxylgruppe, einen OCOR³³- oder NHCOR³³-Rest und n für 2 oder 3 steht. Auch bei diesen Substanzen handelt es sich um bekannte Stoffe, die beispielsweise durch cyclisierende Kondensation von 1 oder 2 Mol Fettsäure mit mehrwertigen Aminen, wie beispielsweise Aminoethylethanolamin (AEEA) oder Diethylentriamin erhalten werden können. Die entsprechenden Carboxyalkylierungsprodukte stellen Gemische unterschiedlicher offenkettiger Betaine dar. Typische Beispiele sind Kondensationsprodukte der oben genannten Fettsäuren mit AEEA, vorzugsweise Imidazoline auf Basis von Laurinsäure oder wiederum C_12/14-Kokosfettsäure, die anschließend mit Natriumchloracetat betainisiert werden.Further suitable suitable starting materials for the betaines to be used according to the invention are also imidazolines which follow the formula (IX),

in which R ^{33 is} an alkyl radical having 5 to 21 carbon atoms, R ^{34 is} a hydroxyl group, an OCOR ³³ or NHCOR ³³ radical and n is 2 or 3. These substances are also known substances which can be obtained, for example, by cyclizing condensation of 1 or 2 moles of fatty acid with polyhydric amines, such as, for example, aminoethylethanolamine (AEEA) or diethylenetriamine. The corresponding carboxyalkylation products are mixtures of different open-chain betaines. Typical examples are condensation products of the abovementioned fatty acids with AEEA, preferably imidazolines based on lauric acid or again C _12/14 coconut fatty acid, which are subsequently betainized with sodium chloroacetate.

Furthermore, the textile care product portion according to the invention one or more customary auxiliaries and additives, in particular from the group of builders, enzymes, bleach, bleach activators, electrolytes, pH adjusters, complexing agents, perfume carriers, fluorescers, dyes, foam inhibitors, Vergrau inhibitors, anti-wrinkling agents, antimicrobial agents, germicides, fungicides, antioxidants, antistatic agents, ironing aids, UV absorbers, optical brighteners, anti redeposition agents, pearlescers, color transfer inhibitors, anti-shrinkage agents, corrosion inhibitors, preservatives, repellents and impregnating agents, hydrotropes and swelling and anti-slip agents.

In a preferred embodiment can the portion of the invention optionally in addition or more complexing agents.

complexing (INCI chelating agents), also called sequestering agents, are ingredients, to complex and inactivate the metal ions their adverse effects on the stability or appearance of the means, for example, cloudiness, to prevent. On the one hand, it is important to deal with many Ingredients incompatible calcium and magnesium ions to complex the water hardness. The complexation of the ions of heavy metals such as iron or copper delayed the oxidative decomposition of the finished agents.

Suitable are, for example, the following complexing agents designated according to INCI, in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook described in more detail are: Aminotrimethylene Phosphonic Acid, Beta-Alanine Diacetic Acid, Calcium Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Cyclodextrin, Cyclohexanediamine Tetraacetic Acid, Diammonium Citrate, Diammonium EDTA, Diethylenetriamine Pentamethylene Phosphonic Acid, Dipotassium EDTA, Disodium Azacycloheptane Diphosphonates, Disodium EDTA, Disodium Pyrophosphate, EDTA, Etidronic Acid, Galactic Acid, Gluconic Acid, Glucuronic Acid, HEDTA, Hydroxypropyl Cyclodextrin, methyl cyclodextrin, pentapotassium triphosphate, Pentasodium Aminotrimethylene Phosphonates, Pentasodium Ethylenediamine Tetramethylene Phosphonates, Pentasodium Pentetates, Pentasodium Triphosphates, Pentetic Acid, Phytic Acid, Potassium Citrate, Potassium EDTMP, Potassium Gluconate, Potassium Polyphosphate, Potassium Trisphosphonomethylamine Oxides, Ribonic Acid, Sodium Chitosan Methylene Phosphonates, Sodium Citrate, sodium diethylenetriamine pentamethylene phosphonate, sodium Dihydroxyethylglycinate, Sodium EDTMP, Sodium Gluceptate, Sodium Gluconate, Sodium Glycereth-1 Polyphosphate, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Sodium Metaphosphate, Sodium Metasilicate, Sodium Phytate, Sodium Polydimethylglycinophenolsulfonates, sodium trimetaphosphates, TEA-EDTA, TEA polyphosphates, tetrahydroxyethyl, ethylenediamines, tetrahydroxypropyl Ethylenediamine, tetrapotassium etidronate, tetrapotassium pyrophosphate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tetrasodium etidronate, Tetrasodium pyrophosphate, Tripotassium EDTA, Trisodium Dicarboxymethyl Alaninate, Trisodium EDTA, Trisodium HEDTA, Trisodium NTA and Trisodium Phosphate.

preferred Complexing agents are tertiary Amines, especially tertiary Alkanolamines (amino alcohols). The alkanolamines have both amino as well as hydroxy and / or ether groups as functional groups. Especially preferred tertiary Alkanolamines are triethanolamine and tetra-2-hydroxypropylethylenediamine (N, N, N ', N'-tetrakis- (2-hydroxypropyl) ethylenediamine).

One particularly preferred complexing agent is the etidronic acid (1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid, 1-hydroxy-ethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid, HEDP, acetophosphonic, INCI Etidronic Acid) including their salts. In a preferred embodiment, the portion according to the invention contains accordingly as a complexing agent etidronic and / or one or more of their salts.

In a particular embodiment contains the portion of the invention a complexing agent combination of one or more tertiary amines and one or more other complexing agents, preferably one or more complexing acids or their salts, in particular triethanolamine and / or tetra-2-hydroxypropylethylenediamine and etidronic acid and / or one or more of their salts.

The Portion according to the invention contains Complexing agent in an amount of usually 0 to 20% by weight, preferably 0 to 15% by weight, in particular 0 to 10% by weight, especially preferably 0 to 8 wt .-%, most preferably 0 to 6 wt .-%.

In a further preferred embodiment contains the portion of the invention optionally one or more enzymes, in particular cellulases.

The portions may further optionally contain UV absorbers which are applied to the treated textiles and improve the light fastness of the fibers and / or the light resistance of the other formulation ingredients. Under UV absorber are organic substances (sunscreen) to understand that are able to absorb ultraviolet rays and the absorbed energy in the form of longer-wave Radiation, eg heat to give off again. Compounds having these desired properties include, for example, the non-radiative deactivating compounds and derivatives of benzophenone having substituents in the 2- and / or 4-position. In addition, substituted benzotriazoles, such as the water-soluble benzenesulfonic acid-3- (2H-benzotriazol-2-yl) -4-hydroxy-5- (methylpropyl) monosodium salt (Ciba ^® Fast H), 3-phenyl-substituted acrylates (cinnamic acid derivatives) , optionally with cyano groups in the 2-position, salicylates, organic Ni complexes and natural substances such as umbelliferone and the body's urocanic acid suitable. The biphenyl and, above all, stilbene derivatives described, for example in EP-A-0728749 and commercially Tinosorb FD ^{® ®} or Tinosorb FR ex Ciba than. Suitable UV-B absorbers are 3-benzylidene camphor or 3-benzylidene norcamphor and its derivatives, for example 3- (4-methylbenzylidene) camphor, as described in EP-A-0693471; 4-aminobenzoic acid derivatives, preferably 4- (dimethylamino) benzoic acid 2-ethylhexyl ester, 4- (dimethylamino) benzoic acid 2-octyl ester and 4- (dimethylamino) benzoic acid amyl ester; Esters of cinnamic acid, preferably 2-ethylhexyl 4-methoxycinnamate, propyl 4-methoxycinnamate, isoamyl 4-methoxycinnamate, 2-ethylhexyl 2-cyano-3,3-phenylcinnamate (octocrylene); Esters of salicylic acid, preferably 2-ethylhexyl salicylate, 4-isopropylbenzyl salicylate, homomenthyl salicylate; Derivatives of benzophenone, preferably 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone, 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-4'-methylbenzophenone, 2,2'-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone; Esters of benzalmalonic acid, preferably di-2-ethylhexyl 4-methoxybenzmalonate; Triazine derivatives such as 2,4,6-trianilino (p-carbo-2'-ethyl-1'-hexyloxy) -1,3,5-triazine and octyl triazone as described in EP-A-0818450 or dioctyl Butamido Triazone (Uvasorb HEB ^®); Propane-1,3-diones such as 1- (4-tert-butylphenyl) -3- (4'-methoxyphenyl) propane-1,3-dione; Ketotricyclo (5.2.1.0) decane derivatives as described in EP-A-0694521. Also suitable are 2-phenylbenzimidazole-5-sulfonic acid and its alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium, alkylammonium, alkanolammonium and glucammonium salts; Sulfonic acid derivatives of benzophenones, preferably 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone-5-sulfonic acid and its salts; Sulfonic acid derivatives of 3-benzylidene camphor, such as 4- (2-oxo-3-bomylidenemethyl) benzenesulfonic acid and 2-methyl-5- (2-oxo-3-bomylidene) sulfonic acid and salts thereof.

As a typical UV-A filter in particular derivatives of benzoylmethane are suitable, such as 1- (4'-tert-butylphenyl) -3- (4'-methoxyphenyl) propane-1,3-dione, 4-tert-butyl 4'-methoxydibenzoylmethane (Parsol 1789), 1-phenyl-3- (4'-isopropylphenyl) -propane-1,3-dione and also enamine compounds as described in DE-A-19712033 (BASF). Of course, the UV-A and UV-B filters can also be used in mixtures. In addition to the soluble substances mentioned, insoluble photoprotective pigments, namely finely dispersed, preferably nano-metal oxides or salts, are also suitable for this purpose. Examples of suitable metal oxides are in particular zinc oxide and titanium dioxide and, in addition, oxides of iron, zirconium, silicon, manganese, aluminum and cerium and mixtures thereof. As salts silicates (talc), barium sulfate or zinc stearate can be used. The oxides and salts are already used in the form of the pigments for skin-care and skin-protecting emulsions and decorative cosmetics. The particles should have an average diameter of less than 100 nm, preferably between 5 and 50 nm and in particular between 15 and 30 nm. They may have a spherical shape, but it is also possible to use those particles which have an ellipsoidal or otherwise deviating shape from the spherical shape. The pigments can also be surface-treated, ie hydrophilized or hydrophobized. Typical examples are coated titanium dioxides, for example Titandioxid T 805 (Degussa) or Eusolex ^® T2000 (Merck). Suitable hydrophobic coating agents are in particular silicones and in particular trialkoxyoctylsilanes or simethicones. Preferably, micronized zinc oxide is used. Further suitable UV photoprotective filters can be found in the review by P.Finkel in SÖFW-Journal 122, 543 (1996).

The UV absorbers can in amounts of from 0.01% to 5% by weight, preferably from 0.03% to 1 wt .-%, are used.

In Another preferred embodiment of the invention are the individual portions of the invention in a partial or complete wrapping from water-soluble and / or water-dispersible material. Especially preferred lie the moldings Completely wrapped with a water-soluble Polymer film before.

The Packaging of solid detergent and cleaner portions in water-soluble Servings will in DE-A-10233564, whose contents are completely in this application is included.

• a) Auflegen einer wasserlöslichen und/oder wasserdispergierbaren Folie auf ein Form(en)-werkzeug, Tiefziehen und/oder Eindrücken der Folie;
• b) Einbringen der ganz oder teilweise als erstarrte Schmelze vorliegenden Textilpflegemittel-Einzelportion;
• c) Auflegen einer weiteren wasserlöslichen und/oder wasserdispergierbaren Folie auf die Textilpflegemittel-Einzelportion in der/den Form(en);
• d) Versiegeln und optionales Schneiden der Folien.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the water-soluble and / or water-dispersible coating is applied to the textile care product portion by the following method:

• a) applying a water-soluble and / or water-dispersible film to a mold (s) tool, deep drawing and / or pressing the film;
• b) introducing the single or full-length textile care agent present as a solidified melt;
• c) applying a further water-soluble and / or water-dispersible film to the single-use textile care product in the mold (s);
• d) sealing and optional cutting of the films.

in this connection can the molds are designed as individual units, it is but also possible and for reasons the process economy preferred to use molds that have a variety of shapes exhibit. about these forms becomes water-soluble and / or in step a) of the process water-dispersible film, the following by deep drawing and / or impressions the film into the mold with a cavity for receiving the textile care single portion is provided.

alternative The film can be heated during deep drawing and / or pressing to this process facilitate. Here are preferred methods in which the deformation the water-soluble Film by the introduction of the textile care single portions in step b) by heating the film and / or applying a vacuum is supported.

alternative can to step b) filling the not yet solidified melt be displayed. This process variant has the advantage of making it a denser concern of the film the shaped body comes.

A Another alternative to step b) is the introduction of particulate and / or compacted and / or pressed textile care ingredients together with the already solidified melt or not yet solidified melt of textile care single portions. Prefers it is, however, that at least 40 wt .-%, preferably at least 50% by weight, more preferably at least 75% by weight, most preferably at least 95% by weight, and in particular all constituents which are present in Step b) are introduced into the molds as a solidified melt or still to be solidified melt.

The Film can also be obtained by dosing the individual portion according to the invention in step b) are pressed into the mold. Here, the Sink the film into the mold either because of the mass of the composition, But the dosing can also by pushing in the Portion in the form, for example by a stamp using a tubular one Dosierers, supported become.

If the metered into the form Textilpflegemittelportion flush with the mold top completes arises the sealed seam "brim" on one end the portion. Here can be used to seal a simple plate which, however, has the disadvantage that on the film, the the surface the portion covered, the heat influence is suspended.

alternative However, the seal can also be configured so that they the lateral surface the portion runs along. In this case, the portion is out of shape, and the over the part of the portion protruding out of the mold becomes one with another Foil occupied. The seal can not now with a plate-shaped sealing tool take place, but takes place with an annular tool. This method has the advantage that the lowering of the annular sealing tool the upper foil additionally punishes stressed. In addition, the heat effect towards the portion opposite a heating plate significantly reduced.

Of the Term "annular sealing tool" is not on circular "rings" in the narrower sense limited. Rather, this term also includes rectangular or square, oval, triangular or others in completely irregular shapes. The annular Sealing tool only needs the shape of the portion to be sealed be adapted so that it over the portion slipped can be. Ideally, it lies over the entire surface of the Portion close to the lateral surface at.

at This variant of the method, it is aesthetically disadvantageous that the sealing seam protrudes. Once she is the aesthetic appearance of the product, to another could they suggest to the consumer that the wrapping should be used before the application of the Product would have to be removed. This can be eliminated by a further process step, in which they are with an annular Sealing tool to the lateral surface the portion is created and sealed.

Therefore, another embodiment does not include a protruding seal. This is either applied to the lateral surface that it is not or only barely recognizable, or it is a method for introducing the textile care portion in the envelope applied that recognize no protruding seal leaves.

A further process variant for the production of coatings with no or barely recognizable seam therefore provides the sealed seam while the seal on the lateral surface to seal the portion. This method is done by that the portion (s) in step b) after the introduction of the care agent portion in the molds) flush with the mold top closes / close, where the portions) during of the sealing step d) is raised, causing the sealed seam to the lateral surface the portions) is sealed.

in this connection is the top film, which is on the mold, in the bottom film and Portion, with an annular sealing tool, the on its inside was brought to sealing temperature on the Pressed on the top of the mold, the portion is passed out of the mold through the sealing tool pushed out, the sealing tool outside of the lateral surface of the Portion pressed is welded and upper and lower film together. there creates a barely visible seam.

A Another variant of the method provides for the textile care product individual portions according to the invention initially either according to the methods disclosed above or conventional Wrapping method of the prior art in water-soluble films to package and preferably shrink the foil packaging afterwards. This shrink film is a film that has been stretched and attached warming contracted again. It is possible, very close to the surface of the Portion of serving serving to create.

One preferred method is that the water-soluble and / or water-dispersible Film in steps a) and c) are pre-stretched films which are in Step d) or subsequently Shrink it down to the portion.

in principle all packing methods known from the prior art can be used, such as the Rotary-Die method. Preferred methods are those that create a close concern of the enclosure to the molding. Preferably the distance between the Textilpflegemittel- single serving and the water-soluble Serving over the the whole area the packaged portion 0.1 to 1000 microns, more preferably 0.05 to 500 μm, more preferably 1 to 250 microns and in particular 2.5 to 100 microns.

The Textilpflegemittelportionen invention have in a preferred embodiment a wrapping from water-soluble and / or water-dispersible material. This can be a single one Material or a blend of different materials. In preferred Fabric care agents according to the invention includes the water-soluble wrapping one or more materials from the group (optionally acetalized) Polyvinyl alcohol (PVAL) and / or PVAL copolymers, polyvinylpyrrolidone, Polyethylene oxide, polyethylene glycol, gelatin, cellulose and theirs Derivatives, in particular MC, HEC, HPC, HPMC and / or CMC, and / or Copolymers and mixtures thereof. If necessary, the wrappings Plasticizers known to those skilled in the art for increasing the flexibility of the material be mixed.

in the Within the scope of the present invention are polyvinyl alcohols as water-soluble polymers particularly preferred.

Commercially available polyvinyl alcohols (Abbreviation PVAL, occasionally also PVOH), which as white-yellowish powder or granules with degrees of polymerization in the range of about 100 up to 2500 (molecular weights of about 4000 to 100000 g / mol) are offered, have degrees of hydrolysis of 98-99 or 87-89 mol%, so they still contain a residual content of acetyl groups. The polyvinyl alcohols are characterized from the manufacturer by specifying the degree of polymerization the starting polymer, the degree of hydrolysis, the saponification number or the solution viscosity.

polyvinyl alcohols are dependent soluble in the degree of hydrolysis in water and a few highly polar organic solvents (Formamide, dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide); of (chlorinated) Hydrocarbons, esters, fats and oils are not attacked. Polyvinyl alcohols are classified as toxicologically harmless and are at least partially biodegradable biologically. The water solubility can be by post-treatment with aldehydes (acetalization), by Complexation with Ni or Cu salts or by treatment with dichromates. boric acid od. Borax decrease. Polyvinyl alcohol is largely impermeable to gases such as Oxygen, nitrogen, helium, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, however, leaves Pass water vapor.

In the context of the present invention preferred coated textile care single portions are characterized in that the water-soluble coating comprises polyvinyl alcohols and / or PVAL copolymers whose degree of hydrolysis is 70 to 100 mol%, preferably 80 to 90 mol%, particularly preferably 81 to 89 mol% and in particular 82 to 88 mol% is.

Preference is given to using polyvinyl alcohols of a certain molecular weight range, wherein textile-care agent portions according to the invention are preferred in which the water-soluble coating comprises polyvinyl alcohols and / or PVAL copolymers whose molecular weight is in the range from 3,500 to 100,000 gmol ^-1 , preferably from 10,000 to 90,000 gmol ^-1 preferably from 12,000 to 80,000 gmol ^-1 and in particular from 13,000 to 70,000 gmol ^-1 .

Of the Degree of polymerization of such preferred polyvinyl alcohols is between about 200 to about 2100, preferably between about 220 to about 1890, more preferably between about 240 to about 1680 and especially between about 260 to about 1500th

According to the invention preferred Textilpflegemittelportionen are characterized in that the water-soluble wrapping Polyvinyl alcohols and / or PVAL copolymers comprises, the average Degree of polymerization between 80 and 700, preferably between 150 and 400, more preferably between 180 to 300, and / or their molecular weight ratio MW (50%) to MW (90%) between 0, 3 and 1, preferably between 0.4 and 0.8 and in particular between 0.45 and 0.6.

The polyvinyl alcohols described above are widely available commercially, for example under the trade name Mowiol ^® (Clariant). In the present invention, particularly suitable polyvinyl alcohols are, for example, Mowiol ^® 3-83, Mowiol ^® 4- 88, Mowiol ^® 5-88 and Mowiol ^® 8-88.

Further polyvinyl alcohols which are particularly suitable as material for the water-soluble coating are shown in the following table:

Further as a material for the water-soluble envelope suitable polyvinyl alcohols are ELVANOL ^® 51-05, 52-22, 50-42, 85-82, 75-15, T-25, T-66, 90-50 (trademark of Du Pont), ALCOTEXY 72.5, 78, B72, F80 / 40, F88 / 4, F88 / 26, F88 / 40, F88 / 47 (trademark of Harlow Chemical Co.), Gohsenol ^® NK-05, A-300, AH-22, C -500, GH-20, GL-03, GM-14L, KA-20, KA-500, KH-20, KP-06, N-300, NH-26, NM11Q, KZ-06 (Trademark of Nippon Gohsei KK ). Also suitable are ERKOL types from Wacker.

A further preferred group of water-soluble polymers which can serve as a coating according to the invention are the polyvinylpyrrolidones. These are, for example, sold under the name Luviskol ^® (BASF). Polyvinylpyrrolidones [poly (1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinones)], abbreviation PVP, are polymers which are prepared by free-radical polymerization of 1-vinylpyrrolidone by solution or suspension polymerization processes using free-radical initiators (peroxides, azo compounds) as initiators , The ionic polymerization of the monomer provides only low molecular weight products. Commercially available polyvinylpyrrolidones have molecular weights in the range of about 2500-750000 g / mol, which are characterized by the specification of the K values and - K value-dependent - glass transition temperatures of 130-175 ° have. They are called white, hygroscopic powder or as aqueous. Solutions offered. Polyvinylpyrrolidones are readily soluble in water and a variety of organic solvents (alcohols, ketones, glacial acetic acid, chlorinated hydrocarbons, phenols, etc.).

Also suitable are copolymers of vinylpyrrolidone with other monomers, in particular vinylpyrrolidone / Vinylester copolymers, as are marketed, for example under the trademark Luviskol ^® (BASF). Luviskol ^® VA 64 and Luviskol ^® VA 73, each vinylpyrrolidone / vinyl acetate copolymers are particularly preferred non-ionic polymers.

Suitable shell materials are also the vinyl ester polymers. Vinyl ester polymers are vinyl ester-accessible polymers. Of these, the vinyl acetate polymers (R = CH ₃ ) with polyvinyl acetates by far the most important representatives of the greatest technical importance.

The Polymerization of the vinyl ester takes place radically according to different Process (solution polymerization, Suspension polymerization, emulsion polymerization, bulk polymerization).

Further suitable water-soluble polymers are the polyethylene glycols (polyethylene oxides), which are referred to as PEG for short. PEG are polymers of ethylene glycol which are of the general formula (X) H- (O-CH ₂ -CH ₂ ) _i -OH (X) satisfy, where i can assume values between 5 and> 100,000.

PEGs are technically prepared by anionic ring-opening polymerization of ethylene oxide (oxirane) usually in the presence of small amounts of water. They have depending on the reaction Molar masses in the range of about 200 to 5,000,000 g / mol, according to Polymerization degrees of about 5 to> 100,000.

The can be used according to the invention, polyethylene glycols solid at room temperature are called polyethylene oxides, Designation PEOX, designated. Have high molecular weight polyethylene oxides an extremely low one Concentration of reactive hydroxy end groups and therefore show only still weak glycol properties.

Further as water-soluble shell material According to the invention, gelatin is also suitable, these preferably being used together with other polymers becomes. Gelatine is a polypeptide (molecular weight: about 150.00 to> 250,000 g / mol), the primarily by hydrolysis of the skin and bones of animals Collagen is obtained under acidic or alkaline conditions. The amino acids Composition of the gelatin largely corresponds to that of collagen, from which it was obtained and varies depending on its provenance. The use of gelatin as the water-soluble coating material is in particular in pharmacy in the form of hard or soft gelatin capsules extremely far common. In the form of slides, gelatin is because of their compared to the above-mentioned polymers of high price only small Use.

Further water-soluble polymers suitable for coating according to the invention are described below:
Cellulose ethers, such as hydroxypropylcellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose and methylhydroxypropylcellulose, as sold, for example, under the trademarks Culminal ^® and Benecel ^® (AQUALON). Cellulose ethers are characterized by the average degree of substitution DS or the molar degree of substitution MS, which indicate how many hydroxyl groups of an anhydroglucose unit of the cellulose reacted with the etherifying reagent or how many moles of the etherifying agent were attached on average to an anhydroglucose unit. Hydroxyethylcelluloses are water-soluble from a DS of about 0.6 or an MS of about 1. Commercially available hydroxyethyl or hydroxypropyl celluloses have degrees of substitution in the range of 0.85-1.35 (DS) and 1.5-3 (MS), respectively. Hydroxyethyl and - propylcelluloses are marketed as yellowish-white, odorless and tasteless powders in widely varying degrees of polymerization. Hydroxyethyl and propylcelluloses are soluble in cold and hot water as well as in some (hydrous) organic solvents but insoluble in most (anhydrous) organic solvents; their aqueous solutions are relatively insensitive to changes in pH or electrolyte addition.

preferred care agent portions according to the invention are characterized in that the water-soluble coating hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC), which has a degree of substitution (average number of methoxy groups per anhydroglucose unit of cellulose) of 1.0 to 2.0, preferably 1.4 to 1.9, and a molar substitution (average number of hydroxypropoxyl groups per anhydroglucose unit the cellulose) from 0.1 to 0.3, preferably from 0.15 to 0.25, having.

Further polymers which are suitable according to the invention are water-soluble amphopolymers. Amphoteric polymers, ie polymers which contain both free amino groups and free -COOH or SO ₃ H groups in the molecule and are capable of forming internal salts, are zwitterionic polymers which contain quaternary ammonium groups in the molecule. COO ^- - or -SO ₃ ^- groups, and summarized those polymers containing -COOH or SO ₃ H groups and quaternary ammonium groups. An example of an amphopolymer which can be used according to the invention is that under the name Amphomer ^® available acrylic resin, which is a copolymer of tert-Butylaminoethylmethacrylat, N- (1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl) acrylamide and two or more monomers selected from the group of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and their simple esters. Likewise preferred amphopolymers are composed of unsaturated carboxylic acids (eg, acrylic and methacrylic acid), cationically derivatized unsaturated carboxylic acids (eg, acrylamidopropyltrimethylammonium chloride), and optionally other ionic or nonionic monomers, as described, for example, in German Offenlegungsschrift 39 29 973 and the cited prior art can be found there. Terpolymers of acrylic acid, methyl acrylate and methacrylamidopropyltrimonium as they are available under the name Merquat ^® 2001 N commercially, are inventively particularly preferred amphopolymers. Other suitable amphoteric polymers are for example those available under the names Amphomer ^® and Amphomer ^® LV-71 (DELFT NATIONAL) octylacrylamide / Methylmethacrylatltert.-butylaminoethyl methacrylate / 2- hydroxypropyl methacrylate copolymers.

• • – Vinylacetat/Crotonsäure-Copolymere, wie sie beispielsweise unter den Bezeichnungen Resyn^® (NATIONAL STARCH), Luviset^® (BASF) und Gafset^® (GAF) im Handel sind. Diese Polymere weisen neben Monomereinheiten der vorstehend genannten Monomere auch Monomereinheiten der allgemeinen Formel (XI) auf [-CH(CH₃)-CH(COOH)-]_j (XI)
• • – Vinylpyrrolidon/Vinylacrylat-Copolymere, erhältlich beispielsweise unter dem Warenzeichen Luviflex^® (BASF). Ein bevorzugtes Polymer ist das unter der Bezeichnung Luviflex^® VBM-35 (BASF) erhältliche Vinylpyrrolidon/Acrylat-Terpolymere.
• • – Acrylsäure/Ethylacrylat/N-tert.Butylacrylamid- Terpolymere, die beispielsweise unter der Bezeichnung Ultrahold^® strong (BASF) vertrieben werden.
• – Pfropfpolymere aus Vinylestern, Estern von Acrylsäure oder Methacrylsäure allein oder im Gemisch, copolymerisiert mit Crotonsäure, Acrylsäure oder Methacrylsäure mit Polyalkylenoxiden und/oder Polykalkylenglycolen. Solche gepfropften Polymere von Vinylestern, Estern von Acrylsäure oder Methacrylsäure allein oder im Gemisch mit anderen copolymerisierbaren Verbindungen auf Polyalkylenglycolen werden durch Polymerisation in der Hitze in homogener Phase dadurch erhalten, dass man die Polyalkylenglycole in die Monomeren der Vinylester, Ester von Acrylsäure oder Methacrylsäure, in Gegenwart von Radikalbildner einrührt. Als geeignete Vinylester haben sich beispielsweise Vinylacetat, Vinylpropionat, Vinylbutyrat, Vinylbenzoat und als Ester von Acrylsäure oder Methacrylsäure diejenigen, die mit aliphatischen Alkoholen mit niedrigem Molekulargewicht, also insbesondere Ethanol, Propanol, Isopropanol, 1-Butanol, 2-Butanol, 2-Methy-1-Propanol, 2-Methyl-2- Propanol, 1-Pentanol, 2-Pentanol, 3-Pentanol, 2,2-Dimethyl-1- Propanol, 3-Methyl-1- butanol; 3-Methyl-2-butanol, 2-Methyl-2-butanol, 2- Methyl-1-Butanol, 1-Hexanol, erhältlich sind, bewährt. Insbesondere können die auf Polyethylenglycole gepfropften Vinylacetatcopolymeren und die auf Polyethylenglycole gepfropften Polymeren von Vinylacetat und Crotonsäure eingesetzt werden.
• • – Gepfropfte und vernetzte Copolymere aus der Copolymerisation von – a) mindestens einem Monomeren vom nicht-ionischen Typ, – b) mindestens einem Monomeren vom ionischen Typ, – c) von Polyethylenglycol und – d) einem Vernetzter. Das verwendete Polyethylenglycol weist ein Molkeulargewicht zwischen 200 und mehrerem Millionen, vorzugsweise zwischen 300 und 30000, auf. Die nichtionischen Monomere können von sehr unterschiedlichem Typ sein und unter diesen sind folgende bevorzugt: Vinylacetat, Vinylstearat, Vinyllaurat, Vinylpropionat, Allylstearat, Allyllaurat, Diethylmaleat, Allylacetat, Methylmethacrylat, Cetylvinylether, Stearylvinylether und 1-Hexen. Die nicht-ionischen Monomeren können gleichermaßen von sehr unterschied-lichen Typen sein, wobei unter diesen besonders bevorzugt Crotonsäure, Allyloxyessigsäure, Vinylessigsäure, Maleinsäure, Acrylsäure und Methacrylsäure in den Pfropfpolameren enthalten sind. Als Vernetzer werden vorzugsweise Ethylenglycoldimethacrylat, Diallylphthalat, ortho-, meta- und para-Divinylbenzol, Tetraallyloxyethan und Polyallylsaccharosen mit 2 bis 5 Allylgruppen pro Molekül Saccharin eingesetzt. Die vorstehend beschriebenen gepfropften und vernetzten Copoymere werden vorzugsweise gebildet aus: – i. 5 bis 85 Gew.-% mindesten eine Monomeren vom nicht-ionischen Typ, – ii. 3 bis 80 Gew.-% mindestens eines Monomeren vom ionischen Typ, – iii. 2 bis 50 Gew.-%, vorzugsweise 5 bis 30 Gew.-% Polyethylenglycol und – iv. 0,1 bis 8 Gew.-% eines Vernetzers, wobei der Prozentsatz des Vernetzers durch das Verhältnis der Gesamtgewichte von i), ii) und iii) ausgebildet ist.
• • – Durch Copolymerisation mindestens eines Monomeren jeder der drei folgenden Gruppen erhaltene Copolymere: – i. Ester ungesättigter Alkohole und kurzkettiger gesättigter Carbonsäuren und/oder Ester kurzkettiger gesättigter Alkohole und ungesättigter Carbonsäuren, – ii. ungesättigte Carbonsäuren, – iii. Ester langkettiger Carbonsäuren und ungesättigter Alkohole und/oder Ester aus den Carbonsäuren der Gruppe ii) mit gesättigten oder ungesättigten, geradkettigen oder verzweigten C_8-18- Alkohols.

Water-soluble anionic polymers suitable according to the invention include:

• • - vinyl acetate / crotonic acid copolymers, as are commercially available, for example under the names Resyn ^® (National Starch), Luviset.RTM ^® (BASF) and Gafset ^® (GAF). In addition to monomer units of the abovementioned monomers, these polymers also have monomer units of the general formula (XI) [-CH (CH ₃ ) -CH (COOH) -] _j (XI)
• • - vinylpyrrolidone / vinyl acrylate copolymers, obtainable for example under the trade name Luviflex ^® (BASF). A preferred polymer is that available under the name Luviflex VBM-35 ^® (BASF) vinylpyrrolidone / acrylate terpolymers.
• • - acrylic acid / ethyl acrylate / N-tert.Butylacrylamid- terpolymers are sold for example under the name Ultrahold ^® strong (BASF).
• - Graft polymers of vinyl esters, esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid alone or in admixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid, acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with polyalkylene oxides and / or polyalkylene glycols. Such grafted polymers of vinyl esters, esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid alone or in admixture with other copolymerizable compounds on polyalkylene glycols are obtained by homogeneous-phase polymerization by reacting the polyalkylene glycols in the monomers of vinyl esters, esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, in The presence of free radical initiator stirs. Suitable vinyl esters are, for example, vinyl acetate, vinyl propionate, vinyl butyrate, vinyl benzoate and as esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid those with aliphatic alcohols of low molecular weight, ie in particular ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol, 2-methyl 1-propanol, 2-methyl-2-propanol, 1-pentanol, 2-pentanol, 3-pentanol, 2,2-dimethyl-1-propanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol; 3-methyl-2-butanol, 2-methyl-2-butanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol, 1-hexanol, are proven. In particular, the vinyl acetate copolymers grafted onto polyethylene glycols and the polymers of vinyl acetate and crotonic acid grafted onto polyethylene glycols can be used.
• Grafted and crosslinked copolymers from the copolymerization of a) at least one monomer of the nonionic type, b) at least one monomer of the ionic type, c) of polyethylene glycol and d) a crosslinker. The polyethylene glycol used has a molecular weight of between 200 and several million, preferably between 300 and 30,000. The nonionic monomers may be of very different types, and among these, preferred are: vinyl acetate, vinyl stearate, vinyl laurate, vinyl propionate, allyl stearate, allylaurate, diethyl maleate, allyl acetate, methyl methacrylate, cetyl vinyl ether, stearyl vinyl ether and 1-hexene. The non-ionic monomers may likewise be of very different types, among which particularly preferably crotonic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, maleic acid, acrylic acid and methacrylic acid are contained in the graft polyamides. The crosslinkers used are preferably ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, diallyl phthalate, ortho-, meta- and para-divinylbenzene, tetraallyloxyethane and polyallyl sucrose having 2 to 5 allyl groups per molecule of saccharin. The grafted and crosslinked copolymers described above are preferably formed from: i. From 5% to 85% by weight of at least one nonionic type monomer, ii. From 3 to 80% by weight of at least one ionic-type monomer, iii. 2 to 50 wt .-%, preferably 5 to 30 wt .-% polyethylene glycol and - iv. 0.1 to 8 wt .-% of a crosslinking agent, wherein the percentage of crosslinking agent by the ratio of the total weights of i), ii) and iii) is formed.
• Copolymers obtained by copolymerization of at least one monomer of each of the following three groups: i. Esters of unsaturated alcohols and short-chain saturated carboxylic acids and / or esters of short-chain saturated alcohols and unsaturated carboxylic acids, - ii. unsaturated carboxylic acids, - iii. Esters of long-chain carboxylic acids and unsaturated alcohols and / or esters of the carboxylic acids of group ii) with saturated or unsaturated, straight-chain or branched C _{8-18 -alcohol} .

Under short-chain carboxylic acids or alcohols are to be understood as those having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, optionally the carbon chains of these compounds divalent hetero groups such as -O-, -NH-, -S- may be interrupted.

Further, preferably usable according to the invention as a wrapper Polymers are cationic polymers.

The wrapping the care agent portions of the invention can be next to the water-soluble Caring agent or water-dispersible polymer other ingredients which in particular the processability of the starting materials to the serving improve. In particular, plasticizers and release agents are used here call. About that can out Colorants and / or fragrances and optical brighteners incorporated in the water-soluble envelope be there to be aesthetic and / or to achieve technical effects. Leave as plasticizer according to the invention in particular hydrophilic, high boiling liquids use, where appropriate, even at room temperature solids as a solution, Dispersion or melt can be used.

The water-soluble wrappings can in turn, still contain disintegrating agents, due to their swelling accelerate the disintegration of the film. Moreover, these substances can perform a "wicking" function, which a penetration of the cladding on contact with water accelerates and thus the swelling of the Swellable disintegrants contained in the portion.

The water-soluble wrapping can from the above materials or mixtures thereof obtained by injection molding or blow molding. The to water can both from the melt as well as from a solution with followed by Drying done. Other methods for shaping plastic processing are suitable. For reasons the process economy However, it is preferred that the water-soluble coating of the washing according to the invention or detergent portions formed from a film material whose thickness is 10 to 100 μm, preferably 20 to 75 microns and in particular 30 to 50 μm, is.

The fabric care agent portions may be packaged after manufacture, with the use of particular packaging systems having proven particularly useful, as these packaging systems in particular increase the shelf life of the ingredients. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the fabric care tablets are combined with a packaging system containing the fabric care article (s), the packaging system having a moisture vapor transmission rate of 0.1 g / m ² / day to less than 20 g / m ² / day when the packaging system stored at 23 ° C and a relative equilibrium moisture content of 85%.

berechnen, wobei A die Fläche des zu testenden Materials in cm², x die Gewichtszunahme des Calciumchlorids in g und y die Expositionszeit in h bedeutet.The packaging system of the combination of fabric care article (s) and packaging system preferably has a moisture vapor transmission rate of 0.1 g / m ² / day to less than 20 g / m ² / day when the packaging system is at 2 ° C and a relative equilibrium moisture content of 85% is stored. The temperature and humidity conditions mentioned are the test conditions specified in DIN standard 53122, with minimum deviations permissible according to DIN 53122 (23 ± 1 ° C, 85 ± 2% relative humidity). The moisture vapor transmission rate of a given packaging system or material can be determined by further standard methods and is also described, for example, in the ASTM standard E-96-53T (Test for Measuring Water Vapor Transmission of Materials in Sheet Form) and TAPPI Standard T464. 45 ("Water Vapor Permeability of Sheet Materials at High Temperature Humidity"). The measuring principle of common methods is based on the water absorption of anhydrous calcium chloride, which is stored in a container in the appropriate atmosphere, the container is sealed at the top with the material to be tested. From the surface of the container, which is closed with the material to be tested (permeation surface), the increase in weight of the calcium chloride and the exposure time, the moisture vapor transmission rate can be:

where A is the area of the material to be tested in cm ² , x is the weight gain of calcium chloride in g and y is the exposure time in h.

The relative equilibrium moisture, often referred to as "relative humidity", in the measurement of moisture vapor transmission rate in the present invention is 85% at 23 ° C. The absorption capacity of air for water vapor increases with the temperature up to a respective maximum content, the so-called saturation content, and is expressed in g / m ³ . For example, 1 m ^{3 of} air at 17 ° C is saturated with 14.4 g of water vapor; at a temperature of 11 ° C saturation is already present with 10 g of water vapor. The relative humidity is the percentage expressed ratio of the actually existing water vapor content to the saturation content corresponding to the prevailing temperature. For example, if air at 17 ° C contains 12 g / m ^{3 of} water vapor, then the relative humidity is (12 / 14.4) x 100 = 83%. If this air is cooled off, the saturation (100% RH) is reached at the so-called dew point (in the example: 14 ° C.), ie, upon further cooling, a precipitate forms in the form of mist (Tau). Hygrometers and psychrometers are used to quantify moisture.

The relative equilibrium humidity of 85% at 23 ° C can be for example, in laboratory chambers with moisture control depending on device type to +/- 2% r. L. set exactly. Also over saturated solutions of certain salts form in closed systems at a given temperature constant and well-defined, relative humidities on the Phase equilibrium between partial pressure of water, more saturated solution and bottombody based.

combinations from textile care product tablets and packaging system of course on your part in secondary packaging, For example, cardboard boxes or trays are packed, with the secondary packaging no further requirements have to be made. The secondary packaging is therefore possible but not necessary.

Packaging systems preferred in the present invention have a moisture vapor transmission rate of from 0.5 g / m ² / day to less than 15 g / m ² / day. Depending on the embodiment of the invention, the packaging system encloses one or more textile care product tablets. It is preferred to either design a shaped body such that it comprises an application unit of the textile care agent portion, and to individually package this shaped body, or to pack the number of shaped bodies in a packaging unit, which in total comprises an application unit. Of course, two or more shaped bodies according to the invention may have different compositions in one package. In this way, it is possible to spatially separate certain components, for example to avoid stability problems.

The The above-described packaging system can be made of a variety of Materials exist and assume any, external forms. For economic reasons establish and for reasons however, the ease of processing is packaging systems preferred in which the packaging material is light in weight has, is easy to work with and is inexpensive. In preferred combinations the packaging system consists of a single-bag sack or bag or laminated paper and / or plastic film.

there can the textile care product moldings unsorted, d. H. as a loose bed, be filled in a bag of the materials mentioned. It is, however, aesthetic establish and for sorting the combinations in secondary packaging, which Washing and / or Cleaning tablets one by one or several sorted into sacks or bags to fill. For individual Application units of the washing and / or cleaning agent tablets, the to be in a sack or bag has become in the art the term "flow pack. "Such" flow packs "can then - again preferably sorted - optional in Umpackungen be packed, what the compact supply form of the molding underlines.

The preferably used as packaging system bags or bags of single-layer or laminated paper or plastic film can be designed in a variety of ways, such as inflated bag without center seam or bags with center seam, which closed by heat (heat fusion), adhesives or adhesive tapes become. Single-layered bag materials are the known papers which may optionally be impregnated, as well as plastic films which may optionally be coextruded. Plastic films, which in the context of the present invention as Verpa can be used, for example, in Hans Domininghaus "The Plastics and their properties", 3rd edition, VDI-Verlag, Dusseldorf, 1988, page 193 indicated. The figure 111 shown there also provides clues to the water vapor permeability of the materials mentioned.

in the Particularly preferred combinations of the present invention contained as a packaging system a bag or bag of single-layered or laminated plastic film having a thickness of 10 to 200 μm, preferably from 20 to 100 μm and in particular from 25 to 50 microns.

Even though it possible is, in addition to the films or papers mentioned also wax-coated Papers in the form of cardboard boxes as a packaging system for the washing and / or detergent tablets it is preferred in the context of the present invention to use if the packaging system does not have wax-coated cardboard boxes Includes paper. The term "packaging system" characterizes this in the context of the present invention always the primary packaging the shaped body, d. H. the packaging in contact with the mold surface directly on its inside is. To an optional secondary packaging No requirements are made, so here all the usual Materials and systems can be used.

preferred have shaped bodies according to the invention a relative equilibrium moisture content of less than 30% 35 ° C on.

The relative equilibrium moisture content of the textile care portion can be standard Methods are determined, taking in the context of the present investigations following procedure selected became: a water-impermeable 1 liter jar with one Lid, which has a closable opening for insertion of samples, was filled with a total of 300 g detergent and / or detergent tablets and 24 h at a constant 23 ° C kept to a steady temperature of vessel and substance to ensure. The water vapor pressure in the room over the moldings can then with a hygrometer (Hygrotest 6100, Testoterm Ltd., England). The water vapor pressure is now every 10th Minutes measured until two consecutive values no deviation show (equilibrium moisture). The o. G. Hygrometer allowed a direct display of the recorded values in% relative humidity.

Also preferred embodiments are in which the packaging system is designed resealable. Also combinations, where the packaging system has a micro perforation to realize with preference.

In a further preferred embodiment The present invention relates to the single-portion textile care compositions according to the invention in the packaging systems together with conventional ones from the prior art known detergents. These so called kits are in one preferred embodiment designed such that in a part of the packaging system a or a plurality of single-portion textile care agents according to the invention are housed while in another part the ones for the washing process detergent located. Another The subject of the present invention is therefore a kit containing one or more single-use textile care agent and additionally one Laundry detergent.

The Detergent can be present in any imaginable form, So, for example, in liquid, pasty, gelatinous, solid, pressed, compacted or granular. In a preferred embodiment the detergent is also in portioned form, that is in one Single dose before that for a wash is sufficient. For example, the portioned detergent in the form of tablets, extrudates and / or with powder or liquid detergent filled water-soluble Bags are present. The kit according to the invention preferably contains the portions according to the invention physically separate from the detergent before. Especially preferred the kits contain portions according to the invention next detergent tablets and / or filled with liquid detergent water-soluble Pouches.

The inventive kits offer for give the consumer the benefit of having to buy both the detergent as well as the intended as an additive textile care individual portion receives. Another Advantage of the kit according to the invention is that the detergent formulations offered optimal to the single-use textile care products also contained in the kit can be matched.

Table 1

table 1 shows the composition of a single-use textile care product according to the invention. The amounts are given in weight percent (wt .-%), respectively based on the entire single portion.

A single-use textile care composition according to the invention in accordance with the composition listed in Table 1 was prepared as follows:
The polyethylene glycol wax flakes (PEG 3000) are melted at 65 ° C. Subsequently, dye, perfume oil and bentonite powder are added successively with stirring.

The thus prepared polymer dispersion is 20 minutes at high speed touched, until a homogeneous product is created. The melted product will follow in a heart-shaped Mold poured and allowed to solidify. The weight of the single serving is 26 g.

The Pre-fabricated single-use fabric care is given a wash test subjected. Washing program: 95 ° C - cooking program, Load: 3.5 kg textiles and 6 test cotton cloths á 60 g

When Detergents were 109 g of a commercial washing powder (Persil powder) in the dispenser given.

The Single-use textile care product according to the invention was along with the laundry placed in the washing drum.

To About 20 minutes, the portion was completely dissolved. The test cloths showed a very good soft feel and a good scent impression both in wet as well as dried laundry.

Of the Washing was at 30 ° C; Fine washing program repeated. After about 1 hour was the single serving Completely solved. Soft touch and fragrance impression of the test textiles showed in damp and dry laundry very good results.

Claims (17)

A single-part textile care product comprising a) one or more fabric softening components, preferably one or more nonionic fabric softening components, and b) one or more carrier substances, characterized in that the portion is wholly or partially present as a solidified melt. Portion according to claim 1, characterized that the fabric softening component (s) in an amount of at least 1 wt .-%, preferably at least 6 wt .-%, particularly preferably above 10% by weight, most preferred above 20% by weight, in particular from 30 to 95% by weight, especially from 40 to 65% by weight, in each case based on the entire portion, is present / present. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the fabric softening component (s) selected is / are from the group of nonionic fabric softening components, preferably pentaerythritol esters, alkyloligosaccharides, silicone oils, in particular selected from the mineral fabric softening components, particularly preferred selected from the group of bentonites, in particular selected from any mixtures of different nonionic fabric softening components. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the carrier material has a melting point of at least 30 ° C, preferably at least 33 ° C, more preferably from 35 to 250 ° C, especially from 37 to 150 ° C, for example from above 40 ° C below 100 ° C having. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the carrier materials are selected from the group of polyalkylene oxides and / or sugars and / or sugar derivatives. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that they have at least 2, preferably 3, melt phases exhibit. Portion according to claim 6, characterized the melt phases are visually discernible, preferably different colored are. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that they additionally disintegrating agents contains. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that they are in a partial or complete enclosure water-soluble and / or water-dispersible material. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the distance between the textile care agent single portion and the water-soluble Serving over the the whole area the packaged portion 0.1 to 1000 microns, more preferably 0.05 to 500 μm, more preferably 1 to 250 microns and in particular 2.5 to 100 microns is. Serving according to one or more of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the water-soluble coating polyvinyl alcohols (PVAL) and / or PVAL copolymers whose degree of hydrolysis is from 70 to 100 Mol%, preferably 80 to 90 mol%, particularly preferably 81 to Is 89 mole% and especially 82 to 88 mole%. Process for the preparation of a single-use textile care product according to one or more of claims 1 to 8, characterized that a) one or more fabric softening components together with one or more carrier component (s) melted and then b) the melt is allowed to solidify by molding. Method according to claim 12, characterized in that that the solidification of the melt takes place in a mold, the already a recording volume for has the melt that is sufficiently dimensioned to a moldings form, which corresponds to a proper individual portion. Kit containing a single-use textile care product according to one or more of claims 1 to 11 and additionally a Laundry detergent. Kit according to claim 14, characterized in that in the kit, the portions according to any one of claims 1 to 11 are physically separated of the detergents present. Kit according to claim 14 or 15, characterized that the portions next to detergent tablets and / or with liquid detergent filled water-soluble Pouches are present. Use of a single-use textile care composition according to one or more of claims 1 to 11 as an additive in the main wash of a textile washing process.