A salt-like, hydrophobic structured
silicate is disclosed. The cation of the salt-like structured
silicate is a low-molecular organic cation or a combination thereof with an NH4<+>, H3O<+>,
alkali metal,
alkaline earth metal, earth
metal and / or
transition metal ion. The anion of the salt-like structured
silicate is an island, ring, group, chain, band, layer or tectosilicate, or a combination thereof. The structured silicate is produced by (a) reacting a structured silicate whose cation is an NH4<+>, H3O<+>,
alkali metal,
alkaline earth metal, earth
metal and / or
transition metal ion or a combination thereof, and whose
ion is an island, ring, group, chain, band, layer or tectosilicate, or a combination thereof, in an
aqueous dispersion with a low-molecular organic cation; by (b) adding to and intensively blending with the aqueous structured silicate dispersion a hydrophobic compound from the group of waxes and
metal soaps, in a quantity
ranging from 0.2 to 200 % by weight of the salt-like structured silicate in step (a), before, during and / or after step (a) is carried out; and by (c) optionally removing,
drying and isolating in the form of a
powder the salt-like, hydrophobic structured silicate produced during step (b).