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).