Abstract: Translucent soap cakes, which preferably are transparent, are made from mixed tallow and coconut oil soaps (or equivalents), lanolin soap and/or lanolin fatty acids and/or lanolin and/or other suitable derivative(s) thereof, and mixtures thereof, and water. Soap cakes or tablets of improved translucency (transparency) result when the lanolin soap, lanolin fatty acid, lanolin or suitable derivative thereof, or any mixture thereof is mixed at elevated temperature with substantially all of other soap cake components, except perfume (and possibly some other relatively minor constituents), and the resulting mixture is partially dried at elevated temperature, worked, extruded, cut into blanks and pressed to shape. The translucent soap cakes resulting, which may preferably be superfatted and contain a suitable antibacterial component, lather well, are of stable translucency on storage and are desirably mild to the skin.

Abstract: A container especially suited for detergents and resistant to downward pressures due to stacking during storage and transportation. The contours of the container are constructed with segments of an inverted catenary, especially at the shoulders of the container. A handle is located in such a manner that the contour of the catenary segment is unbroken as far as possible.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling dispenser containers with a liquid or pasty product, having a filling station with a filling tube, which is inserted into the dispensing container by movement of the filling tube with respect to the dispensing container and a prechamber containing a filling product connected to the filling tube, characterized in that a telescopic tube coaxially reciprocatable with respect to the filling tube is provided in the latter, the upper end of tube being connected to the prechamber and being fixed to a piston which is sealingly guided with respect to filling tube, the lower end of which is movable through an opening in a bottom plate closing the lower end of the filling tube and that a restoring spring is provided between the piston and the bottom plate whose spring tension is less than the sum of the filling pressure of the filling product and frictional forces of telescopic tube.

Abstract: A detergent laundry bar, based on sodium higher fatty alcohol sulfate, which is resistant to breakage on handling, includes sodium higher fatty alcohol sulfate in which the higher fatty alcohol is of about 10 to 18 carbon atoms, water soluble builder salt for the sodium higher fatty alcohol sulfate, water insoluble particulate material which may also possess building properties, water and a higher fatty acid of 10 to 18 carbon atoms, with the proportion of higher fatty acid being such as to aid in overcoming the tendency of such laundry bars to crack, chip and break on handling. The water soluble builder salt will normally include an inorganic phosphate builder salt, such as sodium tripolyphosphate, and the water insoluble particulate material will normally include calcium carbonate and/or bentonite, and/or talc, usually being constituted of two or three of such materials. Preferably a higher fatty acid alkanolamide and a higher fatty alcohol will also be present.

Abstract: A deodorant body cleansing composition in the form of a liquid or solid opaque bar, comprising a detergent and a specific carbohydrate capable of reducing the odor-causing bacterial population on the body (skin and/or hair), without the use of antimicrobials. The essential deodorant agent which is a group of carbohydrates specifically effective against the odor-causing bacteria on the skin and/or hair, are mannose, glucose, and oligomers thereof, i.e. dimers, trimers, and tetramers.

Abstract: Translucent soap cakes, which preferably are transparent, are made from mixed tallow and coconut oil soaps (or equivalents), lanolin soap and/or lanolin fatty acids and/or lanolin and/or other suitable derivative(s) thereof, and mixtures thereof, and water. Soap cakes or tablets of improved translucency (transparency) result when the lanolin soap, lanolin fatty acid, lanolin or suitable derivative thereof, or any mixture thereof is mixed at elevated temperature with substantially all of other soap cake components, except perfume (and possibly some other relatively minor constituents), and the resulting mixture is partially dried at elevated temperature, worked, extruded, cut into blanks and pressed to shape. The translucent soap cakes resulting, which may preferably be superfatted and contain a suitable antibacterial component, lather well, are of stable translucency on storage and are desirably mild to the skin.

Abstract: A translucent antibacterial soap is made by a process which includes dissolving a normally solid antibacterial material which is resistant to heat and alkali, e.g., 2,4,4'-trichloro-2'-hydroxy diphenyl ether (THDE), in a mixture of components for making such translucent antibacterial soap, which components include soaps of higher fatty acids in liquid form, such as with water in kettle soap, and converting said mixture to transparent soap cakes, preferably by a process which includes partially drying the mixture, working it and extruding it to bar form, which bar may be cut to length and pressed into the final desired translucent antibacterial soap cakes.Preferably, the antibacterial compound, in powder form, is dissolved in a superfatting agent, such as mixed tallow fatty acids and coconut oil fatty acids and/or lanolin fatty acids, and then admixed at elevated temperature with the soaps of higher fatty acids that are a major constituent of the soap cakes to be made.

Abstract: A dispenser comprising a container having a neck provided with an outlet spout. A dip tube nozzle by use of a finger button is slidably mounted in the container and has a delivery opening alignable with the spout. Serrated teeth are formed on the container and dip tube and a piston is movably mounted on the dip tube for being depressed downwardly to force product up the dip tube. The piston is retained in the lowered position by the serrated teeth engaging a flexible disc while the dip tube is returned to a raised position by a suitable spring.

Abstract: Enzyme particles are coated or at least partially coated with a salt of a lower alkyl siliconic acid and/or polymerization product(s) thereof which may be formed from such acid on storage. The coated enzyme particles are useful as components of heavy duty fabric softening laundry detergent compositions, such as those which contain bentonite to soften laundry. The coating material, which may be more simply referred to as the siliconate, assists in stabilizing the enzyme when such is incorporated in detergent compositions, helps to prevent adherence of the coated particles to container or compartment walls and can aid in controlling the foaming activity of the built synthetic organic detergents.

Abstract: Sodium perborate particles are coated or at least partially coated with a salt of a lower alkyl siliconic acid and/or polymerization product(s) thereof which may be formed from such acid on storage. The coated sodium perborate particles are useful as components of heavy duty fabric softening laundry detergent compositions, such as those which contain bentonite to soften laundry. The coating material, which may be more simply referred to as the siliconate, assists in stabilizing the sodium perborate when such is incorporated in detergent compositions, helps to prevent adherence of the coated particles to container or compartment walls and can aid in controlling the foaming activity of the built synthetic organic detergents.

Abstract: A particulate built synthetic organic detergent composition which includes a synthetic organic detergent which is an anionic detergent, a nonionic detergent or a mixture thereof, and a building proportion of a water soluble and/or water insoluble builder, includes a dispensing assisting proportion of a siliconate. The detergent composition described preferably also includes bentonite as a fabric softening agent. Also described is a method of making the heavy duty laundry detergent composition which includes spray drying a crutcher mix of the synthetic organic detergent(s) and the builder(s) to particles of desired size and applying to the surfaces of such particles a dispensing assisting proportion of a siliconate.

Abstract: A process for the elimination of wet surface cracking in dual extruded soaps including the steps of extruding two streams of plodded soap from a single cone dual extrusion nozzle, cutting the two streams of plodded soap at right angles to the extrusion axis to form plodder soap blanks or billets of a predetermined size, rotating the plodder soap blanks or billets 90.degree. on the extrusion axis, introducing the rotated plodder soap blanks or billets into a soap press having movable die elements so that the transverse faces of the plodder soap blanks or billets are in registry with the movable die elements, pressing the rotated plodder soap blanks or billets on their transverse faces to form pressed soap bars, and removing pressed soap bars. The process provides soap bars having an essentially laminar or parallel stress pattern.

Abstract: A dispenser for extruding a major portion of a first pasty material and a minor portion of a second pasty material which comprises an elongated tubular container forming a first product containing chamber opened at one end to receive a product dispensing piston and closed at the other end with a delivery head including a product delivery channel arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis of the dispenser and communicating the contents of the first product containing chamber to a discharge port, a second product containing chamber which is open at one end to the first product containing chamber and which has a connecting orifice which connects the second product containing chamber to the product delivery channel, and bearing surfaces adapted to accept a piston drawing assembly, a product dispensing piston transversely disposed in the elongated tubular container including a stop spring to restrain outward motion of the piston, and a piston drawing assembly including a shaft adapted to engage the piston stop spr