Patented Feb. 26, 1929. 1703,602 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. BORIs N. SOKOLOFF, OF RIDGEFIELD, NEW JKRSEY. TOILET AND DETERGENT COMPOSITION. No Drawing. Application fled May 20, 1985. Serial to. 31888. This invention relates to solid and semi of the procedure that only four ingredients: solid stable, toilet and detergent composi water, soap, borax and petroleum products tions containing as essential ingredients are necessary, but coloring matter of suitable soap, water, borax and mineral oil or one of nature, and perfumes, may be added when 60 the 'unctuous by-products of petroleum, desired without affecting the... process or known as petroleum jellies. composition. Heretofore compositions of soap with min The ingredients are used in following rela eral oil, commercially known as naphtha tive amounts: - soaps, and compositions of soap with petro Soap, 40 parts by weight. . . O leum jelly, known as cold-cream soaps, and Borax, from 5 to 30 parts by weight. compositions of soap with borax, commer Water, from 40 to 145 parts by weight. cially known as borax soaps, have been pre Petroleum products, from 10 to 40 parts pared. The commercial grades of such by weight. soaps contain only relatively very small The soap is preferably neutral tallow or 70 15 amounts of either borax or of petroleum castile or marseille grades; but any neutral products, and are essentially soaps rather soap may be used according to the kind of than detergent compositions of which the finished product that is desired. If a semi constituents other than the Soap are pre Solid product is desired any laundry soap dominating ingredients. When it was de may be used, but if a solid toilet soap is the 75 20 sired to increase the relative amount of desired product, castile or marseille soap is borax, it was found necessary to introduce a the best ingredient. correspondingly high amount of caustic Any commercial grade of boraxis suitable; soda, as is the case with a product called it being important only to have it as free Boro-soap, which has a high content of as possible from caustics. 80 caustic soda. The attempts to introduce into Any of the numerous petroleum products soap a high amount of petroleum products may be used in my compositions, beginning were up to the present, successful only for with benzine or gasoline and including all the introduction of a comparatively high of the unctuous by-products, such as min percentage of mineral oils of very low vis eral grease and petroleum jellies. The 30 cosity, such as gasoline, benzine and naphtha. proper selection of the mineral oil distillate . And in all known compositions the combina depends upon the final product desired: when tion of soap, borax and mineral oil, was a laundry detergent is desired, kerosene achieved by the addition of several ingredi should be selected, for semi-solid composi ents which are either harmful, like caustics tions, similar to vanishing or cold-creams, 90 85 and ammonia, or useless, like rosin and cream white mineral oil solely, or in combination of taltar. - with white petroleum jelly should be used, My invention permits the making of com and for hard products to take the place of positions containing active and harmless ele toilet Soap, petroleum jelly is most suitable. ments only by a procedure: described here The relative amount of borax rises with 95. 40 after. The order in which the component the amount of petroleum products desired, ingredients of my compositions are added is and the amount of water is to certain extent essential for obtaining a stable product with governed by the amount of borax used, but high contents of the active ingredients. as long as the point of saturation of the borax The procedure is as follows: A. solution is not passed, the relative amount 00 45 Borax is mixed with water and boiled of water may be varied to produce either a until fully dissolved; dry soap is then added soft or hard final product. to borax solution and heated to the boiling A specific composition of my product is point with continual stirring, until the soap as follows: . is completely dissolved. Then mineral oil, or Dry soap, 12 parts by weight. 05 50 petroleum jelly, or both are added with stir Borax, 2 parts by weight. ring and continuous heating, until a homog Petroleum jelly, 5 parts by weight. enous product results. The resulting mass Water, 20 parts by weight. is allowed to cool down to about 75° F. then The product made by my process and hav stirred briskly again and poured out into ing the above stated specific composition is 10 55 forms or moulds. as hard as usual grades of toilet soap and It is seen from the foregoing description may be used as such. It may be moulded, 2 1,703,602 ressed, powdered, faked or granulated, as from running and permit simultaneous wash ard soaps are; and coloring matter and per ing of differently colored fabrics, without fumes may be added to the ingredients or the danger of interchange of colors. 20 finished product. This application is a continuation in part The compositions made of ingredients and of my applications Serial Number 68408, by the process described above are not only filed January 2, 1924, and Serial Number harmless to the skin and textiles, but very 26,636, filed July 17, 1924. useful, in that respect, in that they contain claim: 25 a high amount of mineral oil or unctuous A detergent composition in the form of a 0 petroleum products which act beneficially on solid, homogeneous, stable body comprising, the skin and protect the fibres of textiles from as essential ingredients, about 12 parts by excessive saponification of fatty or oily sub weight of soap, 2 parts by weight of borax, stances contained in the fibres, and essential 5 parts by weight of petroleum jelly, and 20 30 for the preservation of their wearing quali parts by weight of water, substantially as 5 ties; on the other hand the same mineral oil described. ingredients in combination with borax and in the absence of free alkali protects the dyes BORIS N. SOKOLOFF.