Water repellent composition

Claim 1

A SOLID COMPOSITION OF MATTER CAPABLE OF BEING SELF-EMULSIFIED IN HOT WATER TO FORM A WATER REPELLENT BATH, COMPRISING FROM 35 TO 65% BY WEIGHT OF A WATER REPELLENT AGENT CONSISTING OF WAX; FROM 5% TO 20% BY WEIGHT OF A FIXATIVE COMPRISING A WATER SOLUBLE DISSOCIABLE SALT OF AN ACID OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF LOWER FATTY ACIDS CONTAINING 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS HAVING A METAL RADICAL OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALUMINUM AND ZIRCONIUM; FROM 3 TO 6% BY WEIGHT OF A WATER IN OIL EMULSIFIER CONSISTING OF A SORBITOL ESTER OF A HIGHER FATTY ACID CONTAINING 16 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS; FROM 3% TO 6% BY WEIGHT OF AN OIL IN WATER EMULSIFIER CONSISTING OF A POLYOXYETHYLENE SORBITOL ETHER WHICH HAS BEEN ESTERIFIED BY A HIGHER FATTY ACID CONTAINING 16 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS; FROM 0.1 TO 1.5% BY WEGHT OF AN AGENT FUNCTIONING BOTH AS A WATER REPELLENT AND A WATER IN OIL EMULSIFIER AND CONSISTING OF A POLY VALENT SALT OF A LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID CONTAINING 10 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, THE METAL OF SAID SALT BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALUMINUM AND ZIRCONIUM: FROM 1 TO 5% BY WEIGHT OF AN INSOLUBILIZING AND BONDING AGENT OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF POLYVINYL ALCOHOL AND HYDROXY ETHYL CELLULOSE; AND FROM 5 TO 15% BY WEIGHT OF A HYDROSCOPIC MATERIAL WHICH FUNCTIONS AS A HUMECTANT PREVENTING DEHYDRATION OF THE SOLID COMPOSITION OF MATTER AND CONSISTING OF AN ORGANIC POLYOL COMPOUND HAVING FROM 2 TO 6 HYDROXYL GROUPS AND FREE FROM OTHER REACTIVE GROUPS.