Patents Assigned to Societe l'Oreal S.A.
  • Manganese compositions for reducing/preventing skin wrinkles and fine lines
    Publication number: 20040096520
    Abstract: A regime/regimen for relaxing and/or slackening human cutaneous and/or subcutaneous tissue, in particular for treating wrinkles and fine lines in the skin, comprising administering to an individual subject in need of such treatment, a thus-effective amount of manganese and/or at least one organic and/or inorganic salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Isabelle Nonotte, Lionel Breton
  • Isolated cathepsin L type cysteine proteases and reducing intercorneocyte cohesion/promoting desquamation therewith
    Patent number: 6737055
    Abstract: Isolated, substantially pure natural or synthetic polypeptides comprising cathepsin L type cysteine proteases, or polypeptide fragments or polypeptide admixtures obtained via proteolysis thereof, are useful for reducing intercorneocyte cohesion and, thus, for promoting desquamation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Societe l'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Bernard, Michel Kermici, Marie-Alix Bernard-Bourboulon
  • Charging/separating cosmetic makeup compositions for keratin fibers
    Publication number: 20040091447
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition for making up keratin fibers, comprising a waxy phase containing at least one aqueous dispersion of wax particles, having a plateau Gp modulus of rigidity of greater than or equal to 4,000 Pa and the wax particles of said waxy phase having a size, expressed as the mean “effective” diameter by volume D[4.3], of less than or equal to 1 &mgr;m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL. S.A.
    Inventors: Karl Pays, Yohann Bichon, Sandrine Olivier
  • Dibenzoylmethane sunscreen compositions photostabilized with amphiphilic block copolymers
    Publication number: 20040091434
    Abstract: Topically applicable photostable sunscreen/photoprotective compositions contain at least one dibenzoylmethane UV-sunscreen and an effective photostabilizing amount therefor of at least one amphiphilic block copolymer which comprises at least one nonionic hydrophilic polymer block and at least one hydrophobic polymer block, formulated into a topically applicable, cosmetically acceptable medium therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Sandrine Chodorowski-Kimmes, Francis Xavier Quinn
  • Use of at least one extract of the genus chrysanthemum for assisting skin and/or hair pigmentation
    Patent number: 6726940
    Abstract: The invention concerns the use in a cosmetic composition or for preparing a pharmaceutical composition of at least a plant extract of the genus Chrysanthemum for stimulating skin and/or hair pigmentation. The invention also concerns a composition containing at least one active principle and an extract of at least a plant of the genus Chrysanthemum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Societe L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Richard Martin, Béatrice Belcour-Castro
  • Sunscreen compositions comprising mineral oxides having hydrophobic coatings and glycoside-substituted polydimethylsiloxanes
    Publication number: 20040076592
    Abstract: Stable, topically applicable cosmetic/dermatological compositions, notably W/O emulsions, well suited for the UV-photoprotection of the skin, lips and/or the hair, and/or for the makeup of the skin and/or the lips, contain a thus effective amount of at least one mineral oxide having a hydrophobic coating thereon, e.g., coated particulates of an oxide of titanium and/or zinc, and, as a stabilizing agent therefor, a thus effective amount of at least one oxyalkylenated polydimethylsiloxane bearing at least one glycoside residue substituent, formulated into a physiologically acceptable medium therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Raluca Lorant, Paula Lennon
  • Admixture of carotenoids and isoflavonoids for treating cutaneous symptoms of aging
    Publication number: 20040071745
    Abstract: Intimate admixtures of at least one carotenoid and at least one isoflavonoid are well suited for treating the undesirable cutaneous signs of skin aging, in particular the determination of the skin and/or of the mucous membranes by inhibiting the activity and/or the expression of collagenases and by increasing the synthesis of collagen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Lionel Breton, Markus Baur, Christel Liviero
  • Photoprotective/cosmetic compositions comprising sulfonic/hydrophobic amphiphilic polymers
    Publication number: 20040071641
    Abstract: Photoprotective cosmetic/dermatological compositions well suited for the UV-photoprotection of human skin and/or hair, comprise (a) particulates of at least one insoluble mineral and/or organic UV-screening agent having a particle size ranging from 5 nm to 5 &mgr;m and (b) a stabilizing amount of at least one amphiphilic polymerizate of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which comprises a sulfonic group, whether in the free acid or in partially or totally neutralized state, and which amphiphilic polymerizate also comprises at least one hydrophobic moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Karl Boutelet, Didier Candau
  • Admixture of extracts of plants of the genus rosmarinus and carotenoids for treating cutaneous symptoms of aging
    Publication number: 20040071798
    Abstract: Intimate admixtures of at least one carotenoid and at least one extract of at least one plant of the genus Rosmarinus are well suited for treating the undesirable cutaneous signs of skin aging, in particular the determination of the skin and/or of the mucous membranes by inhibiting the activity and/or the expression of collagenases and by increasing the synthesis of collagen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Lionel Breton, Markus Baur
  • Admixture of carotenoids having provitamin a activity and carotenoids devoid of provitamin A activity for treating aging symptoms
    Publication number: 20040071744
    Abstract: Intimate admixtures of at least one carotenoid having provitamin A activity and at least one carotenoid devoid of provitamin A activity are well suited for treating the undesirable cutaneous signs of skin aging, in particular the determination of the skin and/or of the mucous membranes by inhibiting the activity and/or the expression of collagenases and by increasing the synthesis of collagen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Lionel Breton, Markus Baur
  • Photoprotective cosmetic compositions comprising inorganic UV-blocking agents
    Publication number: 20040067208
    Abstract: Stable photoprotective cosmetic emulsions, notably water-in-oil emulsions well suited for the UV-photoprotection of the skin, lips, mucous membranes and/or hair, contain at least one aqueous phase, at least one oily phase, an effective UV-photoprotecting amount of at least one coated or uncoated metal oxide UV-blocking agent and an effective stabilizing amount of at least one amphiphilic oligomer or polymer derived from a polyolefin which also comprises at least one polar moiety, formulated into a physiologically acceptable medium therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Paula Lennon, Raluca Lorant
  • Enhancedly-solubilized beta-hydroxy acids and higher potency skin peels formulated therefrom
    Publication number: 20040067243
    Abstract: The solubility in solvent media, notably alcoholic media, of the beta-hydroxy acids (“BHAs”), notably the chemical skin peeling agent salicylic acid, is markedly enhanced by solubilizing same in the presence of at least one alpha-hydroxy acid (“AHA”); higher potency, more concentrated BHA skin peel products are thus formulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Cornell, Hani Fares, Sidney Peter Foltis, Isabelle Hansenne
  • Photoprotective compositions comprising sulfonic/hydrophobic amphiphilic polymers
    Publication number: 20040062728
    Abstract: Photoprotective cosmetic/dermatological compositions well suited for the UV-photoprotection of human skin and/or hair, comprise (a) at least one organic UV-screening agent and (b) an SPF-improving amount of at least one amphiphilic polymerizate of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which comprises a sulfonic group, whether in the free acid or in partially or totally neutralized state, and which amphiphilic polymerizate also comprises at least one hydrophobic moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL, S.A.
    Inventors: Karl Boutelet, Didier Candau
  • Photostable photoprotective UV-screening compositions comprising dibenzoylmethane/methyl-benzylidenecamphor/diarylbutadiene compounds
    Publication number: 20040062727
    Abstract: Topically applicable, photostable cosmetic/dermatological UV-screening compositions comprise (a) at least one UV-screening dibenzoylmethane compound, (b) p-methylbenzylidenecamphor, and (c) a methylbenzylidenecamphor photostabilizing amount of at least one 4,4-diarylbutadiene compound, formulated into a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable support therefor; the weight ratio of the 4,4-diarylbutadiene compound(s) to the dibenzoylmethane compound(s) is characteristically greater than 2.5 and the subject compositions are advantageously devoid of any cinnamate sunscreen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventor: Didier Candau
  • Use of carbohydrates to improve skin barrier function
    Publication number: 20040062739
    Abstract: The present invention concerns compositions containing carbohydrate derivatives for enhancing the skin barrier function. The invention further concerns a cosmetic treatment method for enhancing the skin barrier function by applying on the skin compositions comprising carbohydrate derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventor: Bruno Mehul
  • Photoprotective sunscreen compositions comprising 1,3,5-triazine compounds and triesters of benenetricarboxylic acids
    Publication number: 20040062729
    Abstract: Photoprotective cosmetic/dermatological compositions well suited for UV-photoprotecting the skin, lips, hair, eyelashes, eyebrows and/or nails against the damaging effects of UV radiation comprise (i) an effective UV-screening amount of at least one 1,3,5-triazine sunscreen, and (ii) an amount effective to solubilize the totality of said at least one triazine sunscreen (i) of at least one triester of a benzenetricarboxylic acid, formulated into (iii) a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable carrier therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventor: Didier Candau
  • Photostabilized dibenzoylmethane sunscreens immobilized within sol/gel matrices
    Publication number: 20040057918
    Abstract: Photoprotective cosmetic/dermatological compositions well suited for the UV-photoprotection of the skin, hair, nails, eyebrows, eyelashes and/or lips, contain an effective photostable and UV-photoprotecting amount of at least one dibenzoylmethane organic sunscreen immobilized within a matrix prepared via sol-gel process from at least one silicon alkoxide, at least one non-ionic surfactant and water, but in the absence of any organic solvent, formulated into a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable medium therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventor: Sandrine Chodorowski-Kimmes
  • Synergistically high SPF photoprotective UV-screening compositions comprising benzotriazole-substituted silicon/dibenzoylmethane/diarylbutadiene compounds
    Publication number: 20040059119
    Abstract: Topically applicable, enhanced SPF cosmetic/dermatological UV-screening compositions suited for the photoprotection of the skin and/or hair, comprise, (i) at least one UV-screening benzotriazole-substituted silicon compound, as a first screening agent; (ii) at least one UV-screening dibenzoylmethane compound, as a second screening agent; (iii) at least one 4,4-diarylbutadiene compound, as a third screening agent, formulated into a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable vehicle therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventor: Didier Candau
  • Novel epidermis/dermis equivalents and aged skin equivalents shaped therefrom
    Publication number: 20040052772
    Abstract: An aged skin equivalent comprising an epidermis equivalent and an aged dermis equivalent, wherein the aged dermis equivalent comprises glycated collagen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: Societe L'Oreal S.A.
    Inventors: Herve Pageon, Daniel Asselineau, Pierre Tachon
  • Cosmetic composition, method of cosmetic treatment and preparation of a composition for promoting the growth and/or preventing or delaying the loss of hair
    Publication number: 20040052760
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetic composition containing at least one 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase inhibitor and cosmetically acceptable excipients. It also relates to a method of cosmetic treatment for promoting the growth and/or preventing or delaying the loss of hair, and the use of a 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase inhibitor for the preparation of a composition intended for controlling hair loss and/or for promoting hair regrowth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: SOCIETE L'OREAL S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Michelet, Bruno Bernard, Roger Rozot, Christophe Boulle