Abstract: The invention provides a hair treatment composition such as a shampoo or conditioner suitable for topical application in style hair and in particular to lengthening the hair. The composition comprises an ?-hydroxy acid and/or its salt and a xanthine preferably having the following formula.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 25, 2003
Date of Patent:
January 18, 2011
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
Abstract: A leave on hair care composition comprising a) a wax dispersion; and b) an aqueous oil emulsion wherein the oil phase is a liquid and comprises: i) one or more non-volatile oils, where the dynamic viscosity of any single non-volatile oil or the dynamic viscosity of a blend of non-volatile oils is less than 1000 mPa·s at 35° C. and 5 s-1; ii) an oil dispersible structurant such that the dynamic viscosity of the structured oil phase at 35° C. prior to formation of the emulsion is at least 50,000 mPa·s at a shear rate of 0.5 s-1 and is less than 6,000 mPa·s at a shear rate of 500 s-1.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 28, 2005
Date of Patent:
January 18, 2011
Assignee:
Conopco Inc.
Inventors:
Takahiro Hiraishi, Stuart Keith Pratley, Aart van Vuure
Abstract: A vibrating hair brush for enhanced detangling of hair, comprising a head portion including a motor assembly for operating a vibrating actuator and a plurality of bristles depending from a bristle pad of the head portion, wherein the actuator is disposed for generating a vibrating movement of the bristles in a curvilinear direction generally within a plane parallel to the bristle pad.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 29, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 11, 2011
Assignee:
Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeffrey Silver Taggart, Jeffrey M Kalman, John Richard Nottingham, John Wilford Spirk, Jay Tapper, Rachel Marie Nottingham, Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Richard Skinner, Brian Douglas Wall, Stephen Lee Wire
Abstract: A vibrating hair brush provides enhanced detangling of user's hair. The brush has a bristle pad comprising a plurality of bristles disposed in a brush head. The bristle pad is supported within the brush head by a vibrating motor and isolator assembly disposed for directing a vibratory movement of the motor to a bristle pad movement in a plane generally parallel to a user's scalp. The motor and isolator assembly effectively translate a circular vibratory movement of the offset weight into an elliptical movement of the bristle pad while insulating the vibration caused by the movement of the weight from a handle of the brush.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 2, 2007
Date of Patent:
October 19, 2010
Assignee:
Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Jeffrey Silver Taggart, Jeffrey M. Kalman, John R. Nottingham, John W. Spirk, Jr., Jay Tapper, Rachel Marie Nottingham, Carolyn M. McNeeley, Richard Skinner, Brian Douglas Wall, Stephen Lee Wire
Abstract: A vibrating hair brush provides enhanced detangling of user's hair. The brush has a bristle pad comprising a plurality of bristles disposed in a brush head. The bristle pad is supported within the brush head by a vibrating motor and isolator assembly disposed for directing a vibratory movement of the motor to a bristle pad movement in a plane generally parallel to a user's scalp. The motor and isolator assembly effectively translate a circular vibratory movement of the offset weight into an elliptical movement of the bristle pad while insulating the vibration caused by the movement of the weight from a handle of the brush.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 29, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 5, 2010
Assignee:
Conopco Inc.
Inventors:
Jeffrey Silver Taggart, Jeffrey M Kalman, John Richard Nottingham, John Wilford Spirk, Jay Tapper, Rachel Marie Nottingham, Carolyn Marie McNeeley, Richard Skinner, Brian Douglas Wall, Stephen Lee Wire
Abstract: A hair and/or scalp treatment composition comprising an amino-oxo-indole-ylidene compound of general formula (I): (I) formula should be here in which: R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each, independently, hydrogen or a monovalent organic group selected from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, alkylenearyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, and heterocyclyl.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 27, 2006
Date of Patent:
October 5, 2010
Assignee:
Conopco Inc.
Inventors:
Ranjit Bhogal, Jasveen Chugh, Helen Meldrum
Abstract: Antiperspirant compositions containing suspended antiperspirant actives in a water-immiscible carrier leave visible deposits on skin or clothing unless the actives are masked. The carrier mixture in compositions herein comprise an alkylsiloxane which is substituted by a group R4 of formula —CH2—C(Ph) (RB)—R5-Ph in which RB represents H or methyl and R5 represents an alkylene group containing 0 to 3 carbons, and in which the proportion of aryl carbon atoms is at least 60% of all carbon atoms in the molecule. Preferably, the substituent comprises diphenylethyl. Optionally, the siloxane can be capped by the residue of a substituted vinyl group other than R4 or an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl alcohol.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2004
Date of Patent:
June 29, 2010
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA a division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Denise Marie Beachy, Kevin Ronald Franklin
Abstract: Hair treatment compositions comprise: at least one polymer comprising at least two hydrogen-bonding moieties, which may be the same or different, covalently bonded to each other by at least one polymeric, oligomeric or monomeric linker, each moiety having at least 3 groups capable of forming a hydrogen bond with the same moiety or a different moiety; and from 0.1 to 50% by weight of the total composition of a hair conditioning agent and/or a cosmetically acceptable surfactant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 12, 2002
Date of Patent:
June 15, 2010
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Julie Hutchison Cooper, Michael Douglas Eason, Ezat Khoshdel, Brodyck James Royles
Abstract: A hair treatment composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of composite particles, said particles comprising: i) a clay with a net surface charge, and ii) a charged organic molecule comprising at least 6, preferably at least 11, more preferably at least 17 carbon atoms, wherein the charge on the charged organic molecule is opposite to the net surface charge of the clay, said hair treatment composition further comprising one or more suitable hair treatment ingredients.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2002
Date of Patent:
April 6, 2010
Assignee:
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Takeshi Arai, Mark Edward Baker, Colin Christopher Giles
Abstract: In cosmetic dispensers for fluids, such as for example deodorants or antiperspirants comprising a bottle, a flow regulator in a housing mounted on the bottle and a cap rotatably mounted on the bottle or particularly onto the flow regulator housing, there is a risk that the housing can part from the bottle or be moved out of alignment by fitting or removal of the cap. This problem can be ameliorated or eliminated by employing a plurality of sets of anti-rotation elements at or adjacent to the mouth of the bottle around its periphery, each set comprising a peg and a socket. Preferably, the housing is bifurcated inward of the flow regulator, one wall extending within the bottle and the other wall extending out side the wall, and desirably the bottle wall is of reduced wall thickness in the overlap so that the exterior of the bottle surface and housing surface can be flush at their line of contact.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 19, 2005
Date of Patent:
March 9, 2010
Assignee:
Conopco, Inc.
Inventors:
Roger Anthony Baines, Paul Haigh, Paul Nicholas Pay, Reginaldo Alexandre Tavares da Silva, Mark Geoffrey Somers
Abstract: An improved housing for a roll-on has an inward end, an outward end and a side-wall having an interior surface extending from the inward to the outward ends, the outward end defining an aperture sufficiently narrow to retain the roller and permit a segment of the roller to extend outside the housing, and a spider mounted laterally within the housing on the interior surface of the side-wall at or adjacent to the inward end which spider is resiliently biased towards the roller and has a means for providing localised contact with the roller and providing a parallel spacing between the spider and roller. Especially desirably, the roller is a spherical ball.
Abstract: Doses of cosmetic fluid dispensed from a roll-on dispenser can fluctuate significantly between successive applications. This problem can be alleviated by perturbing flow within the roll-on housing, such as air flow, by forming flow perturbators on the interior side-wall of the housing. These perturbators can alternatively or additionally comprise lateral beads or notching an interior sealing ring. The dispenser housing preferably also includes a spider normally located between the roller and the bottle interior, and preferably a resilient spider having an facing surface parallel with the roller that can control the depth of liquid film adhering to the roller, which when the roller is a ball means a concave upper face of similar radius of curvature to that of the ball.
Inventors:
Michael James Webster, Gilbert Rodney Balaram, Adrian Barclay Caroen, Lori Brazil Gery, Gareth Frederick Jones, Richard Paul McNabb, Ellen Rinaldi