Abstract: Mild aqueous detergent, e.g., shampoo, compositions are disclosed based on a mixture comprising anionic surfactant and amphoteric surfactant, such as betaines, present in the composition at a level of from about 0.75 to 1.25 parts by weight per part by weight of anionic surfactant. The compositions also contain one or a mixture of therapeutic agents such as climbazole or a mixture of climbazole and one or more co-therapeutics such as salicylic acid. The combination of mild surfactant system and therapeutic agent serve to prevent or treat mild skin disorders such as scalp itch and scalp irritation when applied to the scalp as a shampoo. Shampoo compositions also preferably contain one or more conditioning agents and suitable suspending agents.

Abstract: Mild aqueous detergent, e.g., shampoo, compositions are disclosed based on a mixture comprising anionic surfactant and amphoteric surfactant, such as betaines, present in the composition at a level of from about 0.75 to 1.25 parts by weight per part by weight of anionic surfactant. The compositions also contain one or a mixture of therapeutic agents such as climbazole or a mixture of climbazole and one or more co-therapeutics such as salicylic acid. The combination of mild surfactant system and therapeutic agent serve to prevent or treat mild skin disorders such as scalp itch and scalp irritation when applied to the scalp as a shampoo. Shampoo compositions also preferably contain one or more conditioning agents and suitable suspending agents.The invention also provides a method for treating dry skin comprising applying certain of the therapeutic agents to dry skin to promote the natural secretion of sebum.

Abstract: Pre-shaped cardiac catheters for mapping and selective ablation of a portion of cardiac circuitry includes a preshaped first curved portion for positioning around the ostium of coronary sinus and a second curved portion for maintaining the first curved portion in its desired position. The method involves introducing a catheter assembly, including a guide-wire and a preshaped catheter, to a location proximal the atrium. As the guide-wire is withdrawn from within the catheter, the catheter assumes its preshaped form at the target location. Alternatively, a catheter assembly, with or without a guide-wire, may be introduced to the target ablation site via a catheter sheath. The catheter includes an array of spaced apart electrodes on at least a portion of the catheter. Each electrode may be activated remotely to a preselected current level for a preselected time interval to ablate a target portion of cardiac circuitry adjacent the electrodes.

Abstract: A locking currency stacker apparatus for use in conjunction with currency validation apparatus having a plunger for transferring currency through a passage into a currency receptacle and either having or adaptable to having pivot means adjacent to one end of the transfer passage which comprises (a) an open currency receptacle having a slideway for a cover adjacent the opening; (b) a separate cover for said receptacle; (c) means for locking said cover on said receptacle and for unlocking same therefrom; (d) means for removably attaching said receptacle to the currency validation apparatus which comprise (1) hook means on said receptacle for engaging pivot means on said validation apparatus and (2) latching means on said receptacle; and (e) an adapter bracket unit which includes cooperating strike means for said latching means and which is attached to the currency validation apparatus; whereby the step of closing said receptacle by seating said cover in the slideways of said receptacle simultaneously locks said

Abstract: A non-toxic, oxidizing-energizing composition suitable for use as an accelerator of the carbohydrate oxidative degradation metabolic process or the direct oxidation of glucose which consists essentially of, by weight, (A) 10% to 95% of flavine-adenine dinucloeotide coenzyme (FAD) and (B) 10% to 95% of at least one coenzyme or enzyme selected from the group consisting of flavine mononucleotide coenzyme (FM), ubiquinone coenzyme (UBQ), uridine 5'-triphosphate coenzyme (UTP), triphosphopyridine nucleotide coenzyme (TPN), diphosphopyridine nucleotide coenzyme (DPN), adenosine triphosphate coenzyme (ATP), uridine diphosphate glucose coenzyme (UDPG), guanosine 5'-triphosphate coenzyme (GTP), glucose oxidase enzyme (GOD) and mixtures thereof; and (C) 0% to less than 50% of an enzyme selected from the group consisting of fructosediphosphate aldolase, phosphofructokinase, hexokinase, glucokinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glucose phosphate isomerase, d-glucose-phosphotransferase and mixtures thereof, said com

Abstract: A stable, high foaming, light duty liquid abrasive-containing dishwashing composition containing about 3% to 15% by weight of a water insoluble, particulate, low density abrasive suspended in an aqueous vehicle comprising at least one water-soluble, anionic sulfated or sulfonated detergent salt containing an alkyl group or alkenyl group having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms in the molecule, a betaine foam booster, about 1-3% by weight of a substantially completely hydrated colloidal clay as a stabilizing agent and, optionally, about 2% to 9% of a C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 alcohol is disclosed. The presence of the abrasive greatly improves the cleaning efficacy in removing baked-on and/or dried-on food residues without significant scratching when used full strength.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making liquid soap, preferably without the need for melting the fatty acid and most preferably without the need for external heating or cooling and to the use of said process in making soap-containing cosmetic products, particularly shave cream in either aerosol or post foaming gel form.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of removing mono-C.sub.12 -C.sub.18 alkyl quaternary ammonium hair conditioners from the hair by washing said hair with a cleaning composition containing a C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 alketh (1-5) sulfate salt as the principal detergent and to cleaning compositions for use in the inventive method.

Abstract: A stable hair rinse composition which provides softness, shine, ease of combing, fly-away control (static control) and ease of styling and is easy to wash out with conventional anionic alkyl ether polyethenoxy sulfate-based shampoos without deposit or build-up consisting essentially of effective amounts of distearyl or ditallow quaternary ammonium compound, a C.sub.7 -C.sub.17 alkylamido C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 alkyl di-14 C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 alkyl amine, propylene glycol, mineral oil, a C.sub.8 -C.sub.18 alkanol and cyclomethicone in an aqueous vehicle.

Abstract: A liquid dishwashing detergent composition for hand washing of dishes in cold water includes a synthetic organic nonionic detergent, a cationic surface active agent, a water soluble C.sub.21 dicarboxylic salt and an aqueous medium. The proportion of the combination of nonionic detergent and cationic surface active agent is a detersive proportion, useful to remove fatty deposits on dishes, and the proportion of the C.sub.21 dicarboxylic salt is sufficient to improve the detersive action in cold water of the combination of nonionic detergent and cationic surfactant so that the composition better removes fatty deposits on dishes being washed.

Abstract: An aerosol antiperspirant composition in the form of a substantially stable water-in-oil emulsion is disclosed which consists of 25% to 50% by weight of a liquefied, normally gaseous propellant and 50% to 75% of a base consisting essentially of, by weight, 4 to 20% of at least one water-soluble, astringent salt having antiperspirant efficacy; 0.5 to 5% of a water-in-oil emulsifier; 10% to 25% of a propellant-soluble emollient-stabilizer agent consisting of a water-insoluble, organic, liquid emollient and a water-insoluble organic liquid having a boiling point in the range of 35.degree. C. to 155.degree. C., the weight ratio of emollient to organic liquid being in the range of 0.8:1 to 3:1, and 55% to 78% of water. In preferred compositions, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 hydrocarbon propellants are employed.

Abstract: A hair-conditioning shampoo based on anionic washing-active substances and containing from 0.1 to 4% by weight of a polycationic guar derivative, from 0.5% to 5% by weight of a hardenable cationic polycondensation product, from 1 to 4% by weight of a hydrophilic fatty acid ester and from 0.1 to 1.0% by weight of a polyvinyl pyrrolidone gives particularly good wet-combability values and improves the hair-cosmetic properties of hair after drying.

Abstract: A continuous extraction apparatus and a continuous extraction process for extracting an extractable component of a liquid or particulate feed material with an immiscible liquid solvent for the extractable component thereof, which apparatus and process are both especially useful for extracting glycerine from soap, utilize an extraction column with oscillatably movable contact promoting means therein which move in a horizontal plane and have openings therein through which the immiscible feed and the extracting liquid, in different phases, may pass during oscillations, at which time the contact promoting means make repeated contacts with the different phases to renew contact surfaces of the liquids and to bring them into intimate contact with each other, whereby extraction of extractable material from the feed by the extracting liquid is promoted.

Abstract: An improved germicidal hard surface cleaning composition containing a quaternary ammonium germicide, detergent, builder salts and a binary solvent system comprising a saturated terpene hydrocarbon and a non-aqueous polar solvent is described. The binary system provides improved cleaning action for removal of greasy soil from porous and non-porous hard surfaces and does not interfere with the germicidal activity of the quaternary ammonium salt.

Abstract: A high foaming, nonionic surfactant based, light duty, liquid detergent with desirable cleansing properties and mildness to the human skin comprising four essential surfactants:1. a water soluble nonionic surfactant as the major active ingredient, in an amount in excess of 50% by weight of the total surfactant content;2. a supplemental amount of a water soluble, foaming, anionic surfactant excluding the ethoxylated alkyl ether sulfates;3. a lesser amount of a water soluble, foaming zwitterionic betaine surfactant; and4. a minor amount of a fatty acid alkanolamide foam stabilizer; dissolved in an aqueous vehicle.

Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition containing a binary solvent system comprising a saturated terpene hydrocarbon and a non-aqueous polar solvent in combination with surfactants and builder salts. The binary system provides synergistic cleaning action for removal of greasy soil from porous and non-porous hard surfaces.

Abstract: A continuous extraction apparatus and a continuous extraction process for extracting an extractable component of a liquid or particulate feed material with an immiscible liquid solvent for the extractable component thereof, which apparatus and process are both especially useful for extracting glycerine from soap, utilize an extraction column with oscillatably movable contact promoting means therein which move in a horizontal plane and have openings therein through which the immiscible feed and the extracting liquid, in different phases, may pass during oscillations, at which time the contact promoting means make repeated contacts with the different phases to renew contact surfaces of the liquids and to bring them into intimate contact with each other, whereby extraction of extractable material from the feed by the extracting liquid is promoted.

Abstract: The improvement in a light duty detergent composition containing anionic sulfonated surfactants or mixtures of anionic sulfonate and nonionic surfactants is disclosed which comprises the inclusion therein of an effective amount of a low molecular weight organic diamine diacid salt selected from the range wherein the mole ratio of mono-anionic detergent to organic diamine diacid salt is from 0.8:1 to 9:1 and sufficient to improve soft water foaming and degreasing properties. These compositions are especially suitable for dishwashing.