Abstract: A process of suppressing body odors comprising applying a substantially anhydrous cosmetic preparation for supressing body odor containing as a deodorant an ester of an aliphatic mono- or di-hydroxycarboxylic acid or an aliphatic mono- or di-hydroxy-dicarboxylic acid having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms with an aliphatic alcohol having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or an alicyclic alcohol having 5 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An aqueous hair dye preparation comprising an oxidation dyestuff combination of a coupling component and a developer component consisting of a tetraaminopyrimidine derivative or a water-soluble acid addition salt thereof, as well as a process for dyeing hair by utilizing this oxidation dyestuff combination.

Abstract: A coated stabilized bleaching assistant suitable for use in pulverulent washing and bleaching compositions comprising drop-shaped to globular-shaped particles having an average diameter of 0.01 mm to 2.5 mm, and at least 70% of which have a diameter within the range of 0.1 mm to 1 mm consisting of 10% to 70% by weight of at least one activator for active oxygen derived from compounds yielding H.sub.2 O.sub.2 in aqueous solution, substantially surrounded by from 30% to 90% by weight of a mixture of (a) from 2 to 10 parts of substantially saturated fatty acids having 12 to 24 carbon atoms, (b) 1 part of aliphatic alcohols having 10 to 20 carbon atoms or their lower alkoxylated products having 1 to 5 alkoxy units, and (c) from 5 to 25% by weight of said mixture of water-soluble sulfates of aliphatic alcohols having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms or their lower alkoxylated products having 1 to 5 alkoxy units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing novel hydroxyether carboxylic acids and their salts containing at least one glycolic acid ether and at least two carboxylic acids as well as to these compounds per se.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of cellulose containing 2,3-dihydroxypropyl ether groups, the so-called glycerol ether of cellulose, together with borate ions comprises reacting alkali cellulose with glycidol of one of its derivatives reacting like glycidol under the reaction conditions, and treating the resulting product with borate ions whereby aqueous solutions of the obtained products are especially low in salt or are highly viscous, as well as the 2,3-dihydroxy propyl ether of cellulose containing borate ions produced by this process, along with an aqueous composition comprising water and a mixture of said 2,3-dihydroxypropyl ether of cellulose and borate ions.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in an extruder with two press screws arranged coaxially in one another in an outer jacket and each carrying a screw thread for feeding various plastic materials, for example, granulated soap, to the press nozzle, where the outer screw is driven while the inner screw is stationary, and where the inner screw is in communication with the charging material in the area of the charging hopper through window-type openings in the outer screw. The said improvement involves a mixing element between the end of the press screws and the extrusion nozzle whereby the two strands being extruded are mixed.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of finely-powdered, water-soluble without formation of lumps, high-molecular weight compounds, preferably modified natural polymers, comprising dry mixing the finely-powdered high-molecular weight compounds to be treated with from 0.2% to 5% by weight of polyglyoxal, heating said dry mixture to from 50.degree. to 150.degree. C, and recovering a product which is finely-powdered and water-soluble without formation of lumps.

Abstract: An odoriferous acetal having the formula ##EQU1## wherein R is a cycloalkyl having from 8 to 12 carbon atoms, R.sub.1 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and methyl, and R.sub.2 is a member selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, allyl and propargyl. These compounds have a woody amber odor and are useful in the preparation of scents.

Abstract: Organic nitrones are stabilizers for anaerobically-setting adhesive compositions wherein the principal adhesive component is a (meth) acrylic acid ester and the catalyst is an organic peroxide. The nitrone improves the storage-stability of the adhesives in contact with air.

Abstract: A process for the oxidative cleavage of vicinal diols having more than 2 carbon atoms in the presence of catalytic amounts of a heavy metal catalyst.

Abstract: Azacycloalkane-2,2-diphosphonic acids having the formula ##EQU1## wherein R is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and n is an integer from 3 to 5; as well as their water-soluble salts. The azacycloalkane-2,2-diphosphonic acids are excellent sequestering agents especially for alkaline earth metal ions. They are stabilizers for percompounds and are useful in the delaying of the setting times for gypsum.In addition, the compound are useful in cosmetic preparations such as toothpastes and mouthwashes where they prevent formation of tartar and plaque and are useful in therapy in the treatment of diseases related to the abnormal deposition or dissolution of difficultly soluble calcium salts in the animal body.

Abstract: Process and agent for fatting or lubrication of leather and furs based on the salts of sulfonated chlorinated products of higher fatty acids or of esters of higher fatty acids, said fatty acids having from 8 to 24 carbon atoms, especially natural fats and oils or tallow fatty acid methyl ester, having a chlorine content of 20% to 45% by weight and essentially free of olefinic double bonds and having an SO.sub.3 content of from 40 to 150 mol percent based on the chlorinated product, which agent and the leather and furs so treated are extraordinarily resistant to the effect of light, to oxidation and to acids.

Abstract: Organic hydrazones (compounds which contain the =N--N=C= structure) are accelerators for aerostable anaerobically-setting adhesive compositions. They can be used with stabilizers. Preferred hydrazones are acetophenone hydrazone, methyl ethyl ketone hydrazone, methyl isobutyl ketone hydrazone. These provide rapid setting times with good ultimate strength, and have little adverse effect upon the storage stability of the compositions when access of molecular oxygen is permitted. Diacetyl hydrazone provides best ultimate strength.

Abstract: Organic sulfonyl hydrazones are accelerators for aerostable, anaerobically-setting adhesive compositions. They provide rapid setting of the adhesive with formation of bonds of good strength, and have little adverse effect upon the storage stability of the compositions when access of molecular oxygen is permitted.

Abstract: A hair cosmetic preparation for the shampooing and treatment of hair contains readily soluble, hardenable polycondensation products, the polycondensation products being reaction products of water-soluble polyamines with polyoxyalkylene glycol derivatives, which in turn is reacted with a bifunctional compound which contains more than one epoxide and/or .alpha.-halo-.beta.-hydroxy alkyl groups in the molecule, and gives the hair treated therewith excellent, lasting combability, and also softness and body.

Abstract: Organic hydrazines are accelerators for aerostable, anaerobically-setting adhesive compositions. They can be used with stabilizers. Preferred hydrazines are aryl hydrazines which carry electronegative groups, for example 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine.

Abstract: Anti-inflammatory cyclic 2-furfural-acetals of the formula ##SPC1##In which X is hydrogen, a lower alkyl preferably having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or nitro, Z is an alkylene of the formula--CR.sub.1 R.sub.2 --CR.sub.3 R.sub.4 --(CR.sub.5 R.sub.6).sub.m --(CR.sub.7 R.sub.8).sub.n --(CR.sub.9 R.sub.10).sub.p --,in which R.sub.1 to R.sub.6 are, independently of one another, hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 26 carbon atoms, hydroxyalkyl, or aryl, R.sub.7 to R.sub.10 are independently of one another, hydrogen or lower alkyl preferably having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 or R.sub.1 and R.sub.5 may, together with their associated carbon atom, represent a carbocyclic ring system with 5 to 8 carbon atoms, and m, n and p are 0 or 1, as used in cosmetic preparations for the prevention and control of inflammation, and methods for the prevention and control of inflammation.

Abstract: Liquid phosphate-free, regulated-foam washing agent compositions comprising:A. from 15% to 60% by weight of a mixture of ethylene oxide adducts to aliphatic organic compounds having from 12 to 30 carbon atoms and a replaceable hydrogen atom with degrees of ethoxylation of 2 to 6 and 8 to 20 where the ratio of the 2 to 6 ethoxylated compound to the 8 to 20 ethoxylated compound in the mixture is from 1:5 to 2:1,B. from 0.2% to 8% by weight of foam inhibitors selected from the group consisting of non-surface-active foam inhibitors, soap and mixtures thereof in a weight ratio of non-surface-active foam inhibitors to soap of from 1:2 to 1:4,C. from 0.

Abstract: At least water-emulsifiable plant growth regulators, especially for inhibiting the growth of sucker shoots of tobacco plants, consisting of fatty acid polyoxyethylene glycol ester mixtures obtained by ethoxylating fatty acids having from 6 to 12 carbon atoms with from 4 to 8 mols of ethylene oxide per mol of fatty acid; as well as the process of inhibiting the undesired growth of plants, particularly the growth of sucker shoots of tobacco plants, by the application of aqueous solutions or emulsions of the above plant growth emulsifiers to the plants.

Abstract: Organic disulfonamides are accelerators for aerostable, anaerobically-setting adhesive compositions. They provide rapid setting of the adhesive with formation of bonds of good strength, and have little adverse effect upon the storage stability of the compositions when access of molecular oxygen is permitted.