Abstract: The present invention provides a novel polymer that can impart a moisturized feeling to the hair and skin after use.

Abstract: The outer face of a distal end part having a discharge opening 1c at the distal end of an applicator 100 is a sloped face 1a, so that skin or another surface to be coated can be coated favorably, and when a moving body 6 advances as far as it can, an elastic body 9 provided to the distal end of the moving body 6 hits a sloped face 1b that is the inner face of the distal end part having the discharge opening 1c at the distal end of the applicator 100, and elastically deforms along said sloped face 1b, and an application material L that could not be pushed out with a conventional piston and would remain in a substantially hoof-shaped (sloped cylindrical) space (a space including the sloped face 1b within the applicator distal end) can be completely pushed out by the elastic body 9, leaving almost none behind, so that all of it can be consumed.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mascara applicator capable of being fitted to the curved bases of eyelashes to lift up eyelashes, providing voluminousness to the eyelashes by adhering a mascara to the bases of the eyelashes, widely applying the mascara so that the eyelashes expand in the form of a fan, properly and widely applying the mascara to detailed parts such as the tail and inner corner of the eye, as well as lower eyelashes, and also obtaining an all direction expansion mascara application result.

Abstract: The emulsified external skin preparation of the present invention is characterized by comprising a polyglycerol derivative represented by formula (1): wherein, m+2 represents the average polymerization degree of polyglycerol and 1?m?4; R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; AO is an oxyalkylene group having 3 to 4 carbon atoms; and n is the average addition mole number of the oxyalkylene group and 1?m n?200. In a water-in-oil type external skin preparation, and especially in that containing a polar oil or a silicone oil, emulsion stability is improved. In an oil-in-water type external skin preparation, feeling in use and emulsion stability are improved. Especially, in an oil-in-water type external skin preparation containing hydrophobized powder, powder dispersion stability is improved as well as feeling in use and emulsion stability.

Abstract: There is provided a therapeutic agent for treating osteoarthritis, which is a drug comprising hyaluronan as an active ingredient. The hyaluronan is preferably a tetrasaccharide including two units, with a single unit being -D-glucuronic acid-?-1,3-D-N-acetylglucosamine-?-1,4- (HA4).

Abstract: The present invention provides water-in-oil type emulsion sunscreen cosmetics that achieve an excellent UV blocking effect, and have excellent effects in the prevention and inhibition of discoloration (discoloration to red). The water-in-oil emulsion sunscreen cosmetic according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: (a) octocrylene; (b) hydrophobized zinc oxide; (c) cationic surfactant; and (d) silica.

Abstract: A first subject of the present invention is an insoluble powder characterized in that a zeta-potential is a negative value. It is preferable that barium sulfate is a main ingredient in the insoluble powder. It is preferable that an average primary particle diameter is 3 to 100 ?m, and an aspect ratio is 3 to 250 in the insoluble powder. It is preferable that the insoluble powder is a metal-doped barium sulfate powder obtained by reacting a barium ion and a sulfate ion in the presence of a metal ion. It is preferable that the metal ion is one or more selected from the group consisting of a lithium ion, a sodium ion and a zinc ion in the insoluble powder. A second subject of the present invention is a skin barrier function recovering powder, or a skin roughening preventing and improving powder, which comprises the aforementioned powder. A third subject of the present invention is a skin external composition characterized in that a content of the aforementioned powder is 1 to 40% by weight.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antioxidant and a whitening agent having high safety, and a external preparation for skin using the same. The antioxidant and whitening agent comprise, as an effective component, one or more extracts from Basidiomycetes selected from the group consisting of Pleurotus abalonus, Pholiota squarrosa, Onnia orientalis, Astraeus hygrometricus and Pleurotus nebrodensis . These extracts have a free radical capturing ability and are useful for suppressing skin oxidation and for preventing and improving skin aging. In addition, the extracts have a tyrosinase activity inhibiting action and can suppress the melanin generation. Since the fruit bodies of these Basidiomycetes have been used for edible purpose and have high safety, they can be used preferably for an external preparation for skin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for selecting a perfume ingredient that can enhance a preference therefor by continuous use from among arbitrary perfume ingredients; a perfume composition and a preference-enhancing agent that can give a high preference therefor and enhance the preference by continuous use; and a hair cleanser that can offer excellent use texture and improve the use texture by continuous use. A method for selecting a perfume ingredient comprising; conducting the following evaluation (A) and/or (B) on arbitrary perfume ingredients and making a selection with the evaluation result as an indicator: (A) an evaluation of an impression of the “density” of a fragrance on first exposure and an evaluation of an impression of the “density” of the fragrance after two or more exposures; and (B) an evaluation of an impression of the “cheerfulness” of a fragrance on first exposure and an evaluation of an impression of the “cheerfulness” of the fragrance after two or more exposures.

Abstract: A laminated material on which information is recorded is provided. The laminated material includes a microsphere fixing layer in which many transparent microspheres are arranged and buried with parts thereof exposed, a reflection layer disposed at almost the focus positions of the transparent microspheres, and a transparent resin layer provided at least partially on a surface of the microsphere fixing layer, where the transparent microspheres are exposed. The transparent resin layer shifts the focus positions of the transparent microspheres to reduce the retroreflectance of the portions where the transparent resin layer is provided. The information is recorded with the use of a difference in retroreflectance between the portions where the transparent resin layer is provided and portions where the transparent resin layer is not provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composite powder, cosmetics containing the same, and the production method of the same. When blended into cosmetics, the above-described composite powder corrects skin surface unevenness and imperfections in skin color, renders a natural finish, and have durability in finished makeup. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the composite powder of the present invention comprises flaky substrate powder and barium sulfate particles or zinc oxide particles that adhere to the surface, in protrusions, of the substrate powder.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to discover that a perfume can change a person's temperature sense and humidity sense, to identify a perfume component that can change temperature sense, and to provide a perfume composition for controlling temperature sense that contains this perfume component, and to a sense control method or sense control article such as an aromatic or a cosmetic that is beneficial for controlling temperature sense, and to a perfume map for selecting a perfume suited to controlling temperature sense. The perfume composition is characterized in that a perfume component that changes the temperature subjectively sensed by a person (temperature sense) is contained, and that the perfume component that changes the temperature sense is a perfume component identified on the basis of a temperature image obtained from test subject assessment.

Abstract: An eyelash cosmetic according to present invention, by blending (a) wax and/or (b) resin, and (c) hollow powder, can impart a voluminous feeling and, at the same time, perform excellent curling effect and curl retaining effect, and excellent usability such as easiness eyelash coating, and easiness overlaying, and also perform excellent uniformity of finishing, water resistance and oil resistance after coating.

Abstract: A texture word map is produced by selecting a plurality of texture words to express the makeup textures; classifying the plurality of selected texture words into two types; producing a texture word map by arranging one characteristic in the ordinate and the other characteristic in the abscissa and arranging positional correlations of the texture words one another in the coordinates of the ordinate and the abscissa. A texture image map is produced by overlapping individual images on the texture word map and makeup with a texture is done based on the texture image map.