carriers including inorganic salts optical brighteners and bleaching constituents ultraviolet absorbents antistatics germicides preservatives fillers including talc and naturally occurring or synthetic clays further scattering and spreading promoters antisoiling or resoiling inhibitors chelating agents as well as others constituents known to the art but not elucidated hereinabove such constituents as described above include known art compositions including those described in mccutcheon 39 s detergents and emulsifiers north american edition 1991 kirk othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology 33 rd ed vol 22 pp 346 387 such optional constituents may be included in the compositions in an amount which does not undesirably detract from the advantageous features provided by the essential constituents forming the inventive compositions preferably the total weight of such optional constituents is not greater than about 25 of the total weight of the composition more preferably not greater than about 10 by weight of the total weight of the composition according to the invention in accordance with the process of the invention a stain in a fibrous textile is removed by applying a stain removing formulations according to the invention on the textile in the locus of the stained area either by hand or by means of a suitable appliance in a preferred embodiment dried stains are first wetted with water prior to applying the zeolite imide formulation the formulation of the invention is used in an effective stain removing amount in general the formulations may be used in any quantity sufficient to cover the stain the stain is contacted with the invention composition for a time sufficient to allow removal of the desired stain i e up to 24 hours or less zeolite imide compositions.