Abstract: Hair care compositions which provide improved styling and hair conditioning properties are disclosed. The compositions comprise from about 0.1% to about 10.0% of a specifically-defined silicone copolymer and from about 0.5% to about 99.5% of a carrier suitable for application to hair. These compositions are characterized by the fact that, when dried, the polymer phase separates into a discontinuous phase which includes a silicone macromer and a continuous phase which includes the copolymer backbone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to oil-in-water emulsion compositions useful for topical application to human skin. These compositions comprise from about 5% to about 60% by weight of the total composition of an oil phase having a viscosity from about 3000 cps to about 10,000,000 cps, wherein the oil phase comprises from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight of the total composition of a particulate thickener for the oil phase, and from 0% to about 10% by weight of the total composition of an oil phase emulsifier. These compositions also comprise from about 40% to about 95% by weight of the total composition of an aqueous phase selected from the group consisting of water, water-miscible solvents, and mixtures thereof, wherein the aqueous phase comprises from 0% to about 10% by weight of the total composition of an aqueous phase emulsifier. In these compositions the weight percentages of the oil phase emulsifier and of the aqueous phase emulsifer are not simultaneously zero.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions for topical application comprising a safe and effective amount of a pharmaceutical active, from about 0.1% to about 10.0% of a high molecular weight cationic polymer, from about 0.05% to about 5% of a high HLB non-ionic surfactant, and from about 0.1% to about 25% of an alkoxylated ether. In further embodiments, these compositions also comprise from about 0.01% to about 5% of a low HLB non-ionic surfactant.

Abstract: Disclosed are hair conditioning shampoo compositions, containing a detersive surfactant component, a silicone hair conditioning agent, and water and preferably comprising a suspending agent for the silicone conditioning agent. The detersive surfactant component comprises, at least in part, polyethylene glycol glyceryl fatty ester nonionic surfactant. The compositions hereof provide improved silicone deposition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for treating acne and related pilosebaceous disorders with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and pantothenic acid or a pantothenic acid derivative. This combination of materials is found to be less irritating and drying to the skin than salicylic acid alone.

Abstract: The compositions of the present invention are useful for topical application to human skin. These compositions provide improved skin feel. These compositions can be in the form of leave-on products or products that are rinsed or wiped from the skin after use. These compositions are also useful for conditioning desquamating, and cleansing the skin and for relieving dry skin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to artificial tanning compositions that provide improved color development and good chemical and physical stability. These compositions comprise dihydroxyacetone, certain amino acids or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and a topical carrier, wherein said compositions have a pH value of less than about 4. In other embodiments these compositions comprise dihydroxyacetone, certain amino acids or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and a stabilizing salt selected from the group consisting of metabisulfite salts, sulfite salts, hydrogen sulfite salts, and mixtures thereof, and a topical carrier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions which provide both a skin cleansing and skin moisturizing benefit from the same product. These compositions provide improved lathering and cleansing characteristics, are extremely mild to the skin, and deliver a moisturizing agent to the skin. These compositions comprise at least one anionic surfactant, a dispersed, insoluble oil phase, at least one additional surfactant, an optional suspending agent, and water. This invention also relates to methods for providing combined cleansing and moisturization, and to methods for delivering these compositions as a foam.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for personal cleansing in the form of oil-in-water emulsions. These emulsions have the characteristic of breaking upon contact with the skin to provide improved cleansing efficacy.

Abstract: High SPF value (about 8 or greater) sunscreen compositions having improved photoprotective properties by non-sunscreen mechanism. These compositions comprise allantoin; pantothenol; Vitamin E, its pharmaceutically-acceptable esters, or mixtures thereof; one or more sunscreen agents; and carrier material.

Abstract: Disclosed are hair conditioning shampoo compositions comprisingA liquid hair conditioning shampoo composition comprising:(a) from about 5% to about 50%, by weight, of an anionic surfactant component;(b) from about 0.1% to about 10%, by weight, of a dispersed, insoluble, nonvolatile, nonionic silicone hair conditioning agent;(c) from about 0.05% to about 10%, by weight, of soluble, organic, polymeric cationic hair conditioning agent, said polymeric, cationic hair conditioning agent consisting essentially of one or more cationic, hair conditioning polymers, said cationic hair conditioning polymers having quaternary ammonium or cationic amino moieties, or a mixture thereof, an open chain backbone, and a charge density of about +3.0 meq/gram or less; andThe shampoo compositions hereof can provide excellent overall hair conditioning benefits, in conjunction with excellent cleaning performance, to a variety of hair types including treated hair such as permed and color-treated hair, as well as undamaged hair.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for regulating wrinkles and/or atrophy in mammalian skin comprising treating the skin with a safe and effective amount of salicylic acid and/or additional active component.

Abstract: Provided is a topical personal care composition, having improved drying time, said composition comprising: (a) a polysiloxane-grafted adhesive polymer; (b) a volatile, water insoluble solvent for said polysiloxane-grafted polymer; (c) a nonvolatile drying aid for said polysiloxane-grafted polymer which is soluble in said volatile solvent (b) at 45.degree. C. and is water insoluble at 25.degree. C., and is selected from the group consisting of silicone fluids and waxes having from 1 to about 100 siloxy units, silanes, and silicone resins and mixtures thereof; wherein the weight ratio of said polysiloxane-grafted polymer (a) to said drying aid (c) is about 100:1 or less.

Abstract: Provided hair styling compositions comprising: (a) from about 0.1% to about 15%, by weight, of a silicone grafted adhesive polymer, said polymer being characterized by an organic polymeric backbone having silicone macromers grafted to said backbone; (b) from about 0.5% to about 15%, by weight, of a hydrocarbon solvent selected from the group consisting of C.sub.10 -C.sub.14 branched chain hydrocarbons, and mixtures thereof; (c) a polar solvent phase comprising from about 80% to about 98.9%, by weight of the composition, of a polar solvent selected from the group consisting of water and C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 monohydric alcohols, and mixtures thereof, wherein said composition contains no more than about 15%, by weight, of C.sub.3 monohydric alcohol; wherein said organic polymer backbone is soluble in said polar solvent phase, and said silicone macromers of said hair setting polymer are soluble in said hydrocarbon solvent and insoluble in said polar solvent.