Abstract: Toilet soap bars, preferably milled and plodded, made from topped, distilled coco fatty acid, which is partially saponified, are superior to tallow-coco soaps and palm oil-palm kernel oil soaps in foaming properties and lather generation, especially in cold water, and are milder to the hands. Yet, such soaps, despite being made entirely from topped, distilled coco fatty acid, are desirably plastic, which improves ease of manufacture and inhibits development of brittleness and any accompanying tendency of soap bars made to crack during drying after use. The invented soaps are milder than the "control" soaps, made from mixtures of coconut oil with tallow or palm kernel oil, which may be due in part to an appreciably lower pH. Despite not containing as much of longer chain higher fatty acid soaps as the "control" bars, the invented bars were considered by an evaluation panel not to slough significantly more than the control bars and not to crack or split any more than the control bars.

Abstract: Toilet soap bars, preferably milled and plodded, made from topped, distilled coco fatty acid, which is partially saponified, are superior to tallow-coco soaps and palm oil - palm kernel oil soaps in foaming properties and lather generation, especially in cold water, and are milder to the hands. Yet, such soaps, despite being made entirely from topped, distilled coco fatty acid, are desirably plastic, which improves ease of manufacture and inhibits development of brittleness and any accompanying tendency of soap bars made to crack during drying ater use. The invented soaps are milder than the "control" soaps, made from mixtures of coconut oil with tallow or palm kernel oil, which may be due in part to an appreciably low pH.

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.