Abstract: A fabric softening product is a composition or article that is effective for its fabric softening purpose but preferably excludes ecotoxic quaternary ammonia salt, includes, as a fabric softening component, a PEC, which is an ester of pentaerythritol, an ester of an oligomer of pentaerythritol, an ester of a lower alkoxylated pentaerythritol or an ester of a lower alkoxylated pentaerythritol oligomer, with bentonite, which increases its fabric softening effect remarkably. The PEC is preferably a partial higher fatty acid ester of pentaerythritol or a partial higher fatty acid ester of a pentaerythritol oligomer, the bentonite is preferably sodium bentonite or swellable calcium bentonite, the fabric softening composition is a softergent or a non-detersive composition, both of which may be in solid (preferably particulate solid) or liquid state or form (preferably in aqueous suspension or gel), and the fabric softening article is an absorbent material with bentonite and PEC deposited on it or absorbed by it.

Abstract: A particulate fabric softening composition and a particulate fabric softening detergent composition are described, both of which include bentonite powder agglomerated into larger particulate bead or granule form with a normally solid co-melt of a pentaerythritol compound (PEC), such as pentaerythritol ditallowate (PEDT), and a nonionic surfactant, such as a condensation product of a mole of a C.sub.12-15 fatty alcohol with seven moles of ethylene oxide. The fabric softening composition described may be added to wash (or rinse water) but preferably is incorporated in a particulate built synthetic organic anionic and/or nonionic detergent composition to produce a fabric softening detergent composition. The invented detergent compositions are especially suitable for washing laundry in "cold" water, such as water at 40.degree. C.

Abstract: An antistatic particulate laundry detergent composition comprises synthetic organic detergent, preferably sodium linear dodecylbenzene or sodium linear tridecylbenzene sulfonate, inorganic and/or organic builder for the detergent, preferably sodium tripolyphosphate and/or zeolite builder, and higher alkyl or alkylbenzene hydroxyethyl imidazoline of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl or alkylbenzene of 8 to 24 carbon atoms preferably stearyl, which detergent composition is of improved detergency due to the presence therein of the higher alkyl or alkylbenzene hydroxyethyl imidazoline antistat. In preferred detergent compositions of this type bentonite is desirably present for its fabric softening activity, and such activity is improved by the presence of the higher alkyl or alkylbenzene hydroxyethyl imidazoline, which also possesses fabric softening properties.

Abstract: This invention relates to new salts of organic polyisocyanates containing at least one isocyanurate ring carrying a negative charge and at least one non-metal ion having a positive charge, these new salts being organic salts of mono- or polyisocyanurates containing at least two free isocyanate functions.The new organic salts according to this invention may be represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R is a bivalent aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radical which may be substituted, Q is an onium cation substituted by four identical or different radicals which may be aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic possibly substituted radicals, a is the average number of molecular isocyanurate rings which may be equal to zero or to more than zero, b is the number of tetrasubstituted heteroatoms of Q which is of at least 1 and n is the average number of ionic isocyanurate rings which is of at least 1.

Abstract: This invention relates to new salts of 1,3,5-oxadiazines-2,4,6-triones, to new 1,3,5-oxadiazines-2,4,6-triones and to the preparation thereof.