SOAP BAR COMPOSITION

This invention relates to a laundry composition in a solid shaped form for direct application to fabric. Although several approaches at providing laundry soap bars which are firm and have good cleaning performance while maintaining desired sensorial properties have been known, it is still desired to provide improved laundry soap bar composition with good firmness and cleaning performance when such compositions have low TFM and with minimal levels or no synthetic surfactant, while maintaining good user properties.It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a low TFM soap bar composition with higher water content in which the relatively high-water content is maintained in the finished bar composition and the bar composition is stable and suitable for consumer use.The present inventors have found that by incorporating a balanced combination of silicate structuring agent, hydroxyalkyl alkyl cellulose and fatty acid soap, it is possible to prepare a soap bar composition with lower soap content and higher water content while still maintaining satisfactory bar properties. The low TFM laundry soap bar also provides good cleaning performance.