A composition including a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier; about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer; wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles, each individual particle having a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g.

Disclosed is a composition including controlled release particles, wherein each of the controlled release particles includes: (a) a core including at least one hydrophobic active ingredient; and (b) a wall at least partially surrounding the core and including the reaction products of: (i) an organofunctional silane; (ii) an epoxy; (iii) an amine; (iv) an isocyanate; (v) an epoxide curing agent; wherein the controlled release particles are effective to retain the at least one hydrophobic active ingredient upon exposure to water and effective to release the at least one hydrophobic active ingredient in response to friction. A method for preparing the composition is also disclosed.

A fabric softener active composition, comprising as component A at least 50% by weight of a bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium methylsulphate fatty acid ester having a molar ratio of fatty acid moieties to amine moieties of from 1.5 to 1.99, an average chain length of the fatty acid moieties of from 16 to 18 carbon atoms and an iodine value of the fatty acid moieties, calculated for the free fatty acid, of from 0.5 to 50, and as component B a (2-hydroxypropyl)-(1-methyl-2-hydroxyethyl)-dimethylammonium methylsulphate fatty acid ester having the same fatty acid moieties as component A, and wherein the molar ratio of component B to component A is from 0.05 to 0.20.

The present invention relates to treatment compositions containing polymer systems that provide stability and benefit agent deposition as well as methods of making and using same. Such treatment compositions may be used for example as through the wash and/or through the rinse fabric enhancers as well as unit dose treatment compositions.

The present invention uses natural materials, namely corn protein concentrates, as bead materials, providing a greener solution to synthetic beads. The present invention further eliminates the need for solvents and other potentially environmentally dangerous chemicals by producing the beads directly from a corn protein concentrate cake.

A fabric conditioner composition comprising an amino-functional, epoxide group containing silicone polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 400,000 to 900,000 a branched amine functional silicone. The branched amine functional silicone can be of structure R.sub.3SiO(RSi((CH2)aR′)O).sub.m(RSi(OR″)).sub.n(R.sub.2SiO).sub.pSiR.sub.3. The combination of the amino-functional, epoxide group containing silicone polymer and amine functional silicone can to reduce time needed for drying fabric, reducing color fading of fabric during laundering, reducing pilling of fabric, and reducing force needed to iron fabric. ##STR00001##

The invention relates to a fabric treatment composition comprising: a) from 60 to 99 wt. % of polyethylene glycol; b) from 0.1 to 5 wt. % of cationic polymer; and, c) from 0.1 to 10 wt. % of silicone.

Methods of preparing a capsule delivery system having two or more different capsules. Also disclosed are capsule delivery systems and consumer products containing such a capsule delivery system.

A composition including a plurality of particles, the particles including: about 25% to about 94% by weight a water soluble carrier, about 5% to about 45% by weight a quaternary ammonium compound; and about 0.5% to about 10% by weight a cationic polymer, wherein the plurality of particles comprises individual particles; wherein each of the individual particles has a mass from about 1 mg to about 1 g; wherein each of the individual particles has a density less than about 0.98 g/cm.sup.3.

Described herein, are fabric care compositions comprising: an aminofunctional polysiloxance; optionally a thickening agent; and optionally a non-ionic surfactant. Methods of making and using these compositions are also described.