Textile conditioning compositions with low content of cationic materials

Claim 1

A textile conditioning composition comprising: (a) from about 0.3% to about 4% of a cationic surfactant selected from the group consisting of: (1) non-cyclic quaternary ammonium salts having at least one C 12-30 alkyl chain in the molecule, (2) C 8-25 alkyl imidazolinium salts, and (3) mixture thereof; (b) from about 2% to about 10% of a substantially water-insoluble nonionic textile conditioning agent selected from the group consisting of: (1) C 10-26 fatty acid esters of mono- or polyhydroxy alcohols containing 1 to 12 carbon atoms, (2) esters of fatty alcohols having from 12 to 24 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain and mono- or polycarboxylic acids having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain, whereby the total number of carbon atoms in the ester is equal to or greater than 16, and (3) mixtures thereof; and (c) from about 0.05% to about 0.5% of a polymeric cationic salt comprising guar gum which has been rendered cationic by attaching a cationic group to it at one or more of its reactive hydroxyl or carboxyl sites; wherein the weight ratio of (a)+(c) to (b) is less than 10:1.