JPH083596A - Decorative agent for soap and solid soap containing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the decorating agent useful for carrying out decoration with a three-dimensional feeling or three-dimensional decoration without resulting a practical hindrance, comprising crystal of an alkali metal salt or an alkaline earth metal salt or its formed material. CONSTITUTION:This decorative agent for soap comprises crystal of an alkali metal salt or an alkaline earth metal salt or its formed material. When soap is mixed with 0.1-30wt.% of the decorative agent, beautifying effects can be obtained without damaging clearing power of soap.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a soap decoration agent and a solid soap containing the same, and more particularly to a soap decoration agent containing an alkali metal salt or an alkaline earth metal salt and a solid soap containing the same.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Soap is both a cleansing agent and an excellent art material. In recent years, soap flowers have become a subject of cultural schools, and soap as an art material is a remarkable material. Therefore, the artistic decoration of soap is significant from an artistic perspective.

On the other hand, as means for decoratively decorating soap, 1) kneading a coloring agent such as a dye or a pigment into the soap,
2) Knead a pearling agent such as titanium mica to give a pearly luster to change the texture. 3) Decorative soap of 1) or 2) is blended in transparent soap to decorate by the effect of multicolor mixing. , Three types of methods were known.

However, the decoration by the colorant can only provide a flat and shallow decoration, and the decoration by the pearlizing agent has a single tone and the pearling agent itself is insoluble. The agent remains undesirably left on the skin even after washing, and there is a drawback in that controlling the shape of multicolored mixture of colored soaps makes the manufacturing process more difficult, and controlling the manufacturing method limits expression.

Further, in each of the conventional methods 1) to 3), it is difficult to make a three-dimensional expression.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has a three-dimensional effect or three-dimensional decoration that does not hinder soap from being used in practice. An object is to provide a possible soap decorating agent.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] With a deep recognition of such a current situation, the present inventors have earnestly studied for a material capable of three-dimensionally decorating soap, and as a result, have found that alkali metal or alkaline earth The inventors have found that the metal salt shaped article has such a function, and completed the invention.

That is, the present invention relates to a soap decorating agent comprising one or more kinds of crystals or shaped articles selected from alkali metal salts or alkaline earth metal salts.

The present invention further relates to bar soaps containing this soap decorating agent.

The present invention will be described in detail below. (1) Soap decoration agent of the present invention The soap decoration agent of the present invention comprises at least one crystal or shaped product selected from alkali metal salts or alkaline earth metal salts. Here, the modeled object is a model that the creator intentionally designed and created in order to express, and the shape and the manufacturing method are not particularly limited. Examples of such shaped objects include a sphere, a cube, a tetrahedron, an egg shape, and a cloud shape. Of these, a spherical shape is most preferable from the viewpoint of strength during molding. Further, the production method includes a granulation method, a tableting method, a cutting method and the like. Any of these can be used. The size of these decorating agents is not particularly limited, but is 0.001 to 125 mm ³ in a suitable range. More preferably, it is 0.125 to 27 mm ³ . This is 0.1 to 5 mm in diameter and 0.5 in diameter for the spherical shape.
Corresponds to ~ 3 mm. This range is preferable because its shape can be recognized at a glance. Examples of the production method include granulation methods such as a granulation using a spiral quarter or a new marumerizer, or a method of rounding relatively small crystals with a marumerizer. Further, the tableting method is a method in which relatively small crystals are pressure-molded, and various shapes can be created depending on the die used.
Further, the cutting method is a method of forming a comparatively large crystal and shaving the crystal with a knife or a cutter. In the case of manufacturing a comparatively large molded article, a molded article having high strength can be produced, which is preferable. It is also possible to use rock salt or the like as a large crystal. Any of these may be used as the method for producing the decorating agent of the present invention. Further, it is possible to add a colorant or the like to add a color as long as the effect of the invention is not impaired.

In the soap decorating agent of the present invention, the alkali metal salt is a general term for a salt of an alkali metal and an acid, and specific examples thereof include sodium chloride, potassium chloride,
Lithium chloride, sodium bromide, potassium bromide, lithium bromide, sodium iodide, potassium iodide, lithium iodide, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, lithium nitrate, sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, lithium sulfate, sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, Examples thereof include lithium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, potassium hydrogen carbonate, lithium hydrogen carbonate, sodium phosphate, potassium phosphate, lithium phosphate, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, and lithium citrate. Of these, the most preferable is sodium chloride, which has low cost and high safety. All of these are commercially available and are easily available.

In the soap modifier of the present invention, the alkaline earth metal salt is a general term for salts of an alkaline earth metal and an acid. Specific examples thereof include magnesium chloride, calcium chloride and chloride. Strontium, magnesium bromide,
Calcium bromide, strontium bromide, magnesium iodide, calcium iodide, strontium iodide, magnesium nitrate, calcium nitrate, strontium nitrate,
Magnesium sulfate, calcium sulfate, strontium sulfate, magnesium carbonate, calcium carbonate, strontium carbonate, magnesium hydrogen carbonate, calcium hydrogen carbonate,
Strontium hydrogen carbonate, magnesium phosphate, calcium phosphate, strontium phosphate, magnesium citrate,
Examples thereof include calcium citrate and strontium citrate. Of these, the most preferable is magnesium chloride, which has low cost and high safety.

In the present invention, only one of these alkali metal salts or alkaline earth metal salts can be used, or two or more kinds of them can be mixed to form a shape, a multilayer shape can be formed, or a eutectic can be formed. You can also model. These salts have excellent optical properties, as can be seen from the fact that sodium chloride and potassium bromide are used as cells for infrared spectroscopy.
The present invention utilizes this optical characteristic.

(2) Soap of the present invention The soap of the present invention contains such a soap decorating agent. Here, the inclusion means a state in which soap and a soap decorating agent coexist, and the coexisting state is not particularly limited, and, for example, these two types of constituent elements may be present uniformly. Either of them may exist locally only inside, may exist uniformly only inside, or may be semi-embedded on the surface.

The preferred content of such a soap decorating agent is 0.1 to 30% by weight, depending on the form of the soap decorating agent and the form of the soap. This is because if the amount is too small, the aesthetic effect of the decoration is impaired, and if the amount is too large, the detergency of the soap is impaired, which is not practical. A more preferable content is 1 to 20% by weight.

In addition to these essential constituents, the bar soap of the present invention may contain optional components usually used in bar soaps. The optional components include alcohols such as ethanol, glycerol and cetanol, sugars such as sucrose and honey, fragrances, chelating agents, preservatives, antioxidants, ultraviolet absorbers and coloring agents.

The solid soap of the present invention is not particularly limited in its dosage form and manufacturing method. That is, the solid soap can be roughly classified into transparent soap and cloudy soap in its dosage form, and frame kneading soap and mechanical kneading soap according to its manufacturing method, but any type of soap is possible as the solid soap of the present invention. Is.

The thus-obtained soap of the present invention is beautiful and practical, and therefore very useful as an artistic material or as an ordinary detergent.

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The present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to examples, but it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to these examples.

Example 1 Production Example of Soap Decorating Agent Sodium chloride (500 g) was granulated while being moistened with hydrous ethanol using a spiral quarter, dried, and sieved to obtain a true spherical particle having an average particle size of 1.5 mm. A soap decorating agent was obtained.

Example 2 Production Example of Soap Decorating Agent 20 g of sodium chloride was packed in a rabbit-shaped mold,
Pressurized at 200 Kg / cm ² to obtain a rabbit-shaped soap decorating agent.

Example 3 Preparation of Neat Soap A neat soap was prepared based on the formulation shown below. That is, the following ingredients were kneaded in a kneader at 80 ° C. and cooled to room temperature to obtain neat soap. Hereinafter, the numerical values represent parts by weight. Hydrogenated coconut oil 36 Sodium hydroxide 6.2 Ethanol 18 EDTA 0.02 Sucrose 15 Glycerin 7.5 BHT 0.03 Perfume 2 Water 15.25

Example 4 Production Example of Soap (Machine Kneading Soap) 800 g of the neat soap of Example 3 was put on a pelleter,
After making it into a pellet and passing the cono pellet through three rolls,
200 g of the soap decorating agent of Example 1 was added and sprinkled, and the mixture was applied to a pressure molding machine and pressure-molded into soap. This soap was an artistically beautiful soap in which transparent foamy spheres were distributed in a transparent soap material.

Example 5 Soap production example (mechanical soap) In the same manner as in Example 4, 700 g of neat soap was used.
Then, from 300 g of the soap decorating agent of Example 1, an artistically beautiful soap having transparent foam-like spheres distributed in a transparent soap material was obtained.

Example 6 Example of production of soap (mechanically kneaded soap) According to the same procedure as in Example 4, 900 g of neat soap was used.
From 100 g of the soap decorating agent of Example 1, an artistically beautiful soap having transparent foam-like spheres distributed in a transparent soap material was obtained.

Example 7 Production Example of Soap (Frame Kneading Soap) 1 g of the soap decorating agent of Example 1 was drawn to the bottom of the frame, 99 g of neat soap of Example 3 heated and dissolved at 80 ° C. was poured, and cooled. After being solidified and removed from the frame, a beautiful soap was obtained in which spherical transparent balls were semi-embedded in the upper part of the soap.

Example 8 Example of production of soap (frame kneading soap) 40 g of neat soap of Example 3 heated and dissolved at 80 ° C
Was poured into the frame, the soap decorating agent of Example 2 was placed in the center, and 40 g of the neat soap of Example 3 which had been further dissolved was poured into the frame to cool and solidify to remove it from the frame to obtain a transparent rabbit-embedded soap. It was

Example 9 Evaluation of Detergency With respect to the soaps of Examples 4 to 8 and the neat soap itself of Example 3 which were pressure-molded, the detergency was evaluated by using 5 expert panelists. The evaluation standard is +: excellent,
±: Normal, −: Inferior. The results are shown in Table 1. From this, it can be seen that the soap decorating agent of the present invention does not impair the detergency in a suitable content range.

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[Table 1]

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According to the soap decorating agent of the present invention, a three-dimensional or three-dimensional soap can be decorated without impairing the cleaning effect.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A soap decorating agent comprising one or more crystals or shaped articles selected from alkali metal salts or alkaline earth metal salts. 2. The alkali metal is sodium chloride,
The soap decorating agent according to claim 1. 3. The soap decorating agent according to claim 2, wherein the property of sodium chloride is a shaped product whose shape can be visually recognized. 4. The shape of the molded article has a diameter of 0.1 mm to 5 mm.
The soap modifier according to claim 3, which has a spherical shape. 5. A solid soap containing the soap modifier according to claim 1. 6. The soap according to claim 5, wherein the content of the soap modifier is 0.1 to 30% by weight.