PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gel-like composition which has no generation of taking off from water and metal elution from a water-swellable clay mineral with the lapse of time, and has excellent usability (such as non-stickiness just before drying).SOLUTION: The gel-like composition contains, in a water phase: (a) a water-swellable clay mineral (b) organic acid in which the pH of a 1 mass% aqueous solution is &ge3 (e.g., amino acid such as L-serine, glycine and glycylglycine) and (c) polyethylene glycol having the mass average molecular weight of 4,000 to 5,000,000 wherein (b) components/(a) components is 0.01 to 1.5 (mass ratio), (c) components/(a) components is 0.2 to 10 (mass ratio), and the pH of the composition is 6.5 to 8.1.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】経時で離水や水膨潤性粘土鉱物からの金属溶出が生じず、使用性(乾燥間際のべたつきがない等)に優れるゲル状組成物を提供する。【解決手段】水相中に(a)水膨潤性粘土鉱物と、(b)1質量%水溶液のpHが3以上の有機酸(例えば、L-セリン、グリシン、グリシルグリシン等のアミノ酸など)と、(c)質量平均分子量が4,000~5,000,000のポリエチレングリコールを含有し、(b)成分/(a)成分が0.01~1.5(質量比)であり、(c)成分/(a)成分が0.2~10(質量比)であり、組成物のpHが6.5~8.1である、ゲル状組成物。【選択図】なし
