Toilet soap bars imparting improved moisturing and skin feel characteristics

Claim 1

A toilet soap which, when applied to the skin, reduces transpirational water loss and imparts a good skin feel, said soap comprising (a) from about 60% to 95% by weight of an anhydrous soap base composition consisting essentially of salts of fatty acids having from 12 to 18 carbon atoms, said salts being selected from the group consisting of alkali metal, ammonium or alkanolamine; (b) from about 5% to 25% moisture; (c) from about 0.02% to 5% of a polyoxyethylene polymer of the formula H (OCH 2 CH 2 ) n OH where n has an average value from 2000 to 90,000; and (d) from about 0.1% to 15% of a polymeric material selected from the group consisting of (1) polypropoxylated materials of the formula ##STR5## where n has an average value of from 9 to 50, and R is a hydrocarbon radical having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, (2) polypropoxylated materials of the formula ##STR6## where n has an average value of from 9 to 50, R is a hydrocarbon radical having from 7 to 35 carbon atoms, and y is 0 or 1, (3) polyethoxylated materials of the formula ##STR7## where n has an average value from of 9 to 50, R is a hydrocarbon radical having from 3 to 35 carbon atoms, and y is 0 or 1, and (4) mixtures thereof,