	US 12,378,502 B2
	Softening agent
Ryuuya Arata, Wakayama (JP); Takako Igarashi, Wakayama (JP); and Yuya Kitagawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to KAO CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/568,953
Filed by KAO CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 22, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/024846 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 11, 2023, PCT Pub. No. WO2022/270531, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-103530 (JP), filed on Jun. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0287410 A1, Aug. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. C11D 3/00 (2006.01); C11D 3/20 (2006.01); C11D 3/34 (2006.01); D06M 11/05 (2006.01); D06M 13/144 (2006.01); D06M 13/256 (2006.01); D06M 101/06 (2006.01)

CPC C11D 3/0015 (2013.01) [C11D 3/2013 (2013.01); C11D 3/3472 (2013.01); D06M 11/05 (2013.01); D06M 13/144 (2013.01); D06M 13/256 (2013.01); D06M 2101/06 (2013.01); D06M 2200/50 (2013.01)]

10 Claims

1. A softening agent comprising:

a component (A) which is sodium di(2-propylheptyl) sulfosuccinate; and

a component (B) which is at least one alcohol selected from the 1-heptanol, 1-octanol, 1-nonanol, 1-decanol, 1-undecanol, 1-dodecanol, 1-tridecanol, and 1-tetradecanol,

wherein a proportion of the component (A) relative to a total of 100 parts by mass of the components (A) and (B) is 50 parts by mass to 90 parts by mass, and a proportion of the component (B) relative to the total of 100 parts by mass of the components (A) and (B) is 10 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass.