Abstract: A shampoo composition containing components (I) to (V) shown below:(I) at least one alkyloylalkyltaurine salt type anionic surfactant of the formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group with an average carbon number of 7 to 19, R.sub.2 is a lower alkyl group with an average carbon number of 1 to 3, and M an alkali metal or an organic amine;(II) at least one betaine type amphoteric surfactant;(III) at least one nonionic surfactant with an HLB of 10 to 16;(IV) at least one surfactant selected from alkylolamide type nonionic surfactants represented by the formula (B): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3 represents an alkyl group or an alkenyl group with an average carbon atom of 7 to 19, m and n are integers, and m+n is 1 to 5, and semi-polar surfactants;(V) at least one cationic high molecular weight compound.

Abstract: A solvent type nail enamel composition comprising (i) a silicone resin having the average composition formula (I):R.sub.a SiO.sub.(4-a)/2 (I)wherein R represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group and a represents a positive number of 0.8<a<1.8, and (ii) a cellulose derivative; a solvent type nail enamel composition wherein the silicone resin has a molecular weight of 250 to 100,000; and a solvent type nail enamel composition wherein the amounts of the silicone resin and the cellulose derivative in the composition are 1% to 50% by weight and 0.5% to 15.0% by weight, respectively.

Abstract: An aerosol composition containing a composite powder and one or more of propane, isobutane, n-butane and a liquefied petroleum gas (i.e., LPG) which is a mixture thereof, a chlorinated hydrocarbon and dimethyl ether.

Abstract: A coloring composition comprising (i) gypsum dihydrate and (ii) at least one coloring agent selected from the group consisting of inorganic pigments, organic pigments, dyestuffs, and natural coloring matters. This coloring composition may be produced by mixing (i) gypsum having, as water of crystallization, 0 to 0.5 mole, based on one mole of the gypsum, of water, (ii) at least one coloring agent selected from the group consisting inorganic pigments, organic pigments, dyestuffs, and natural coloring matters, and (iii) water or an aqueous solvent solution, and after solidification, powdering the resultant solid mixture.The coloring composition can provide a clear color tone when formulated in, for example, cosmetics, and when completely dispersed in, for example, a cosmetic base material.

Abstract: An antipruritic composition for an oral medicine, injection, and external medicine, comprising an effective amount of a chelated zinc (e.g., zinc picolinate) as an antipruritic agent.

Abstract: A hair revitalizing tonic composition comprising (i) an amine oxide and (ii) a compound having a calmodulin inhibitory activity and/or a compound having an activity as a calcium antagonist.

Abstract: A packing material for liquid chromatography bears a polyalkylene polyamine moiety linked through a spacer moiety as the pendant group to a porous silica gel coated with a silicone polymer, and optionally is crosslinked by a crosslinking agent on two or more amino group of the different polyalkylene polyamine moieties, and a process for production thereof. Such a packing material is especially useful in the analysis of sugars.

Abstract: A gel composition or a nail polish comprising at least one cationic surfactant having a propylene oxide chain and/or an ethylene oxide chain, an organic modified clay mineral and a solvent. Addition of the specific cationic surfactant maintains the good thixotropy due to the organic modified clay mineral and restricts the change in viscosity with time and with a slight change in the content of the organic modified clay mineral to a very narrow range.

Abstract: A magnesium aluminometasilicate coated composite powder which comprises magnesium aluminometasilicate, or magnesium aluminometasilicate and at least one other powder coated on a surface of a core powder and which is usable in, for example, a skin treatment agent, decodorant, and oral composition.

Abstract: A mutant strain having a glucose consumption rate is at most 1/4 that of wild type strains is provided. The mutant strain belongs to Escherichia, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, or Serratia; has a glucose consumption rate of at most one fourth that of the corresponding wild type strain, and the feedback repression by biotin is removed. Further, a process for producing biotins using this mutant strain is provided.

Abstract: An oral composition comprising (i) at least one fluoride compound and (ii) at least one 5- or 6-membered, substituted heterocyclic compound which contains 1 to 3 nitrogen atoms as ring hetero atoms, which may contain an oxygen or sulfur atom as a ring hetero atom, and which may be condensed with one or two 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings, or a salt thereof. This oral composition is very effective for preventing carries of the teeth.

Abstract: A spherical clay mineral powder or spherical composite powder comprising water-swellable clay mineral with specific surface are of 100 m.sup.2 /g or more is provided, and the composite powder can contain an organic, inorganic or metal powder, an organic substance soluble in an organic solvent or a water-soluble substance, and these spherical powders can be formulated effectively in, for example, cosmetics.

Abstract: A transparent composition containing a phospholipid, at least one cationic or nonionic surfactant, an oily component, and water.

Abstract: A hair revitalizing tonic having an excellent hair loss prevention and hair revitalizing effect comprising (1) an amine oxide or (2) an amine oxide and an anionic surfactant formulated therein.

Abstract: A photoacoustic cell, including a light guide having a fiber portion consisting of a bundle of a number of optical fibers and a covering portion by which the side surface of the fiber portion is covered, the covering portion of the light guide extending beyond the fiber portion in a manner that when a first end of the light guide is brought into contact with the surface of a material to be measured, a closed space is defined by the end surface of the fiber portion, by the inner wall of the covering portion, and by the surface of the material to be measured; a pipe having a first end that is open in the closed space and a second end that penetrates through the covering portion and is open toward the outside of the covering portion; and a microphone that is coupled to the second end of the pipe, and a photoacoustic measuring device including this photoacoustic cell.

Abstract: A packing material for liquid chromatography, comprising a spherical clay mineral powder which comprises a naturally occurring or synthetic water-swellable clay mineral, a clay mineral having foreign cations substantially substituted for interlayer ions inherently present in the naturally occurring or synthetic water-swellable clay mineral, or a calcined product thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are acicular magnetic metal particles containing iron as the main ingredient the surfaces of which are coated with a polymer formed from at least one of silicone compounds represented by the following formula (I):(R.sup.1 HSiO).sub.a (R.sup.2 R.sup.3 SiO).sub.b (R.sup.4 R.sup.5 R.sup.6 SiO.sub.1/2)c (I)wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 respectively represent a hydrogen atom or hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms which hydrocarbon group may be substituted by at least one halogen atom, a and b are respectively 0 or integers of not less than 1, and c is 0 or 2, provided that when c is 0, the sum of a and b is an integer of not less than 3 and which have a coercive force of not less than 1400 Oe, a saturation magnetization of not less than 100 emu/g, a major axial diameter of not more than 0.25 .mu.m and an S.F.D. of not more than 0.38, and a process for producing the acicular magnetic metal particles containing iron as the main ingredient.

Abstract: A column packing material comprising a porous support coated with a silicone polymer having an Si--R bond, wherein R is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and an Si--R' bond, wherein R' is a hydrophilic group having one or more of polyoxyalkylene group or hydroxyl group at the terminal end, of which column packing material is produced by:modifying a porous support by bonding hydrocarbon groups to the porous support;eliminating a part of the hydrocarbon groups from the modified porous support; andmodifying the porous support by bonding hydrophilic groups thereto.

Abstract: A composite powder wherein an organic or inorganic core powder is substantially completely covered with one or more types of organic, inorganic, or metallic powders having an average particle size one-fifth or less of the average particle size of the above core powder by means of mixing and compression. The composite powder may be manufactured by mixing and compressing the above core powder and coating powder using a ball mill or other mixer charged with a ball shaped mixing medium of an average diameter of 5 mm or less. This composite powder may be used in, for example, skin treatment agent, makeup type cosmetics, sunburn preventing cosmetics, deodorants.

Abstract: A percutaneous absorption promoting agent comprising (A) at least one anionic surfactant and one or two or more of surfactants having a nitrogen atom in the molecule other than anionic surfactants, (B) one or two or more of anionic surfactants and one or two or more of nonionic surfactants not having a nitrogen atom in the molecule, (C) one or two or more of surfactants selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactant and semi-polar surfactants and at least one nonionic surfactant having a nitrogen atom in the molecule, (D) one or two or more of surfactants selected from the group consisting of nonionic surfactants, amphoteric surfactants, semi-polar surfactants and cationic surfactants having a nitrogen atom in the molecule, and one or two or more of nonionic surfactants not having a nitrogen atom in the molecule, or (E) an amine oxide as the active ingredient, and a dermatological preparation containing these percutaneous absorption promoting agent and drug components.