Abstract: The present invention is a water-in-oil emulsion having a high content of water and relatively high amounts of skin-moisturizing agents and a cosmetic or dermatological stick including the water-in-oil emulsion. The present invention also includes methods of moisturizing the skin using the water-in-oil emulsion. The water-in-oil emulsion is solid at room temperature and comprises a fatty phase with at least one oil component and at least one wax component, an aqueous phase with a skin-moisturizing agent in addition to water, a water-in-oil emulsifier having the general structure A-B-A?, where A? and A? represent the same or different hydrophobic inorganic groups and B is a hydrophilic group.

Abstract: A process for preparing a sprayable self-tanning oil-in-water microemulsion having an oil droplet diameter in a range of from about 10?1 ?m to about 10?2 ?m. The process comprises changing a pH of a mixture comprising an aqueous phase, an oil phase, from 0.5% to 6% by weight of dihydroxyacetone and from 0.1% to 5% by weight of one or more emulsifiers A whose lipophilicity is pH-dependent to effect a phase inversion which results in the microemulsion.

Abstract: Substrate impregnated with a cosmetic preparation containing one or more fatty acid salts.

Abstract: A cosmetic preparation comprising one or more labile ingredients, and one or more pregelatinized, crosslinked starch derivatives.

Abstract: Sprayable oil-in-water emulsions, in particular O/W microemulsions, comprising inorganic pigments [lacuna] emulsifiers, the lipophilicity of which is dependent either on the pH or on the temperature, and an effective amount of dihydroxyacetone.

Abstract: The present invention is a cosmetic preparation-containing composition and methods of making thereof. The composition comprises a water-insoluble substrate impregnated with a cosmetic preparation comprising one or more pregelatinized, crosslinked starch derivatives. In one embodiment, the composition is a wipe that can appear either wet or dry.

Abstract: The present invention is a water-in-oil emulsion having a high content of water and relatively high amounts of skin-moisturizing agents and a cosmetic or dermatological stick including the water-in-oil emulsion. The present invention also includes methods of moisturizing the skin using the water-in-oil emulsion. The water-in-oil emulsion is solid at room temperature and comprises a fatty phase with at least one oil component and at least one wax component, an aqueous phase with a skin-moisturizing agent in addition to water, a water-in-oil emulsifier having the general structure A-B-A′, where A′ and A′ represent the same or different hyrdrophobic inorganic groups and B is a hydrophilic group.

Abstract: The present invention is a cosmetic or dermatological formulation, comprising iminodisuccinic acid or a salt thereof and a polyol, and a method of applying same to the skin to moisturize the skin. The present invention also includes methods of increasing the skin-moisturizing properties of polyols by using iminodisuccinic acid or a salt thereof.

Abstract: Sprayable oil-in-water emulsions, in particular O/W microemulsions, comprising inorganic pigments [lacuna] emulsifiers, the lipophilicity of which is dependent either on the pH or on the temperature, and one or more insect repellents.

Abstract: Multicistronic expression units allow the equimolar expression of the genes located in the corresponding cistrons. These expression units are particularly suitable for the recombinant production of proteins composed of two or more polypeptide subunits.

Abstract: Cosmetic or dermatological light protection formulations in the form of W/O emulsions, comprising(a) one or more light protection filter substances which are solid under normal conditions and(b) one or more W/O emulsifiers chosen from the group of substances of the general structural formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 independently of one another are chosen from the group which consists of: H, branched or unbranched, saturated or unsaturated fatty acid radicals having from 8 to 24 carbon atoms, in which up to 3 aliphatic hydrogen atoms may be substituted by hydroxyl groups, and n is a number from 2 to 8.

Abstract: The recombinant production of PDGF-AB in mammalian cells is disclosed by means of a bicistronic vector system in which an IRES sequence is located between the first and second cistrons and in which the B chain coding gene is located in the first cistron. The disclosed expression unit allows the equilmolar expression of the A and B polypeptide chains.

Abstract: The recombinant production of PDGF-AB in mammalian cells is disclosed by means of a bicistronic vector system in which an IRES sequence is located between the first and second cistrons and in which the B chain coding gene is located in the first cistron. The disclosed expression unit allows the equimolor expression of the A and B polypeptide chains.