Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
74 words
A pearlescent fiber conditioning composition, in stable emulsion or suspension form, which comprises a surfactant, a water insoluble fiber conditioning agent, a long chain saturated primary alcohol or a derivative thereof, of an average of 24 to 45 carbon atoms in such long chain, in sufficient proportion to stabilize the emulsion or suspension and to make it pearlescent, and an aqueous medium, which may include adjuvants and other components of such fiber conditioning compositions.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
74 words
A pearlescent fiber conditioning composition, in stable emulsion or suspension form, which comprises a surfactant, a water insoluble fiber conditioning agent, a long chain saturated primary alcohol or a derivative thereof, of an average of 24 to 45 carbon atoms in such long chain, in sufficient proportion to stabilize the emulsion or suspension and to make it pearlescent, and an aqueous medium, which may include adjuvants and other components of such fiber conditioning compositions.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
83 words
A fiber conditioning composition as claimed in Claim 1 characterised in that it is a hair conditioning composition in which the proportions of surfactant, water insoluble conditioning agent, long chain saturated primary alcohol or derivative thereof and aqueous medium are in the ranges of 1 to 35%, 0.3 to 10%, 0.5 to 10% and 50 to 98%, respectively, with the ratio of contents of the long chain alcohol or derivative thereof to the conditioning agent being in the range of 0.2:1 to 5:1.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
122 words
A hair conditioning composition as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2 characterised in that it is a shampoo and comprises 2 to 35% of water soluble synthetic organic anionic detergent, in which shampoo the water insoluble conditioning agent is selected from the group consisting of silicones, quaternary ammonium salts, amines, anionic/cationic surfactant complexes, polyalkylenes, oxidized polyalkylenes, paraffins, isoparaffins, petrolatums, microcrystalline waxes, C₁₈₋₃₆ fatty acid triglycerides, C₁₈₋₃₆ fatty acids, stearyl stearate, beeswax and mixtures thereof, the long chain saturated primary alcohol or derivative is such an alcohol with at least 80% thereof being of chains of lengths in the range of 20 to 54 carbon atoms, and the percentage of water in the composition is in the range of 60 to 90%.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
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A shampoo as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 characterised in that the synthetic organic anionic detergent is a lipophile sulfate or lipophile sulfonate, the water insoluble conditioning agent is selected from the group consisting of aminosilicones of the formula wherein R¹, R², R³, R⁵, R⁶ and R⁷ are alkyls of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R⁴ is -R⁸ - NH - CH₂CH₂ - NH₂, R⁸ is alkylene of 3 to 6 carbon atoms, x is an average number in the range of 100 to 10,000 and y is an average number in the range of 0 to 10, which is of an amine equivalent in the range of 4,000 to 60,000, and normally solid water insoluble poly-lower alkylenes, and mixtures thereof, and the long chain saturated primary alcohol is of an average of about 24 to 40 carbon atoms.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
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A shampoo as claimed in Claim 4 characterised in that the synthetic organic anionic detergent is a higher fatty alkyl sulfate and/or a higher fatty alkyl lower alkoxy sulfate, the water insoluble conditioning agent includes the aminosilicone, which is of the formula given wherein x is in the range of 300 to 10,000, y is in the range of 0 to 8 e.g. 1 to 8 and the amine equivalent is in the range of 5,000 to 50,000, and the water insoluble conditioning agent includes polyethylene.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
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A shampoo as claimed in Claim 5 characterised in that the higher fatty alkyl(s) of the synthetic organic anionic detergent(s) is/are of 6 to 18 carbon atoms, a quaternary ammonium salt conditioning agent is present, the aminosilicone is one wherein x is in the range of 500 to 10,000, y is less than 5 and the amine equivalent is in the range of 10,000 to 40,000, the polyethylene is of a molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 5,000 and a saturated primary alcohol is present, which is of an average of about 30 carbon atoms, and the proportions of such anionic detergent, quaternary ammonium salt, aminosilicone, polyethylene, saturated primary alcohol and water are in the range of 5 to 35%, 0.0 to 5%, 0.3 to 5%, 0.2 to 2%, 0.5 to 6% and 63 to 80%, respectively, with any balance being of shampoo adjuvants.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
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A process for conditioning fibrous materials which comprises applying to such a material a fiber conditioning proportion of a composition as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 6 and subsequently rinsing such composition from the fibrous material, thereby leaving a conditioned amount of conditioning agent held to such fibrous material.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
52 words
A process for shampooing and conditioning hair which comprises applying to human hair, on the head, a shampooing and conditioning proportion of a shampoo as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 7 and rinsing the shampoo from the hair, thereby leaving on the hair a conditioning amount of conditioning agent.