Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a cleansing and/or care composition for impregnating a pile of absorbent supports. The care and cleansing composition has a relatively high apparent viscosity while having a rheological behavior of the shear-thinning and thixotropic type and comprises at least one care and/or cleansing compound. Thus, during an impregnation under stress, especially under pressure and with prior stirring, the composition becomes sufficiently fluid to enable it to rapidly and homogeneously diffuse into the supports arranged in a pile.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a cleansing and/or care composition for impregnating a pile of absorbent supports. The care and cleansing composition has a relatively high apparent viscosity while having a rheological behavior of the shear-thinning and thixotropic type and comprises at least one care and/or cleansing compound. Thus, during an impregnation under stress, especially under pressure and with prior stirring, the composition becomes sufficiently fluid to enable it to rapidly and homogeneously diffuse into the supports arranged in a pile.

Abstract: A composition for cleaning, in particular for cleansing of the skin and/or mucous membranes, in particular a personal care cleansing composition, to be applied onto tissue paper, in particular toilet paper, and uses thereof. The composition including at least 70% by weight of water, 0.1 to 1% by weight of at least one gelling agent, and 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one surfactant including at least one foaming surfactant, relative to the total weight of the composition.

Abstract: A skin-cleansing article that is activated by moistening with water, followed by a mechanical action so as to obtain a cleansing foam, includes a fibrous substrate and a cleansing composition. The substrate is a pad based on water-jet-entangled cotton fibres with a basis weight of between 100 and 300 g/m2, and the cleansing composition includes at least one surfactant and a humectant such as glycerol, the amount of water on the substrate being less than 25% by weight of the article, and the article having from 0.1 to 1.2 gram of active material of the composition per gram of the substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a cleansing and/or care composition for impregnating a pile of absorbent supports. The care and cleansing composition has a relatively high apparent viscosity while having a rheological behavior of the shear-thinning and thixotropic type and comprises at least one care and/or cleansing compound. Thus, during an impregnation under stress, especially under pressure and with prior stirring, the composition becomes sufficiently fluid to enable it to rapidly and homogeneously diffuse into the supports arranged in a pile.

Abstract: The invention relates to a skin cleansing and/or care article, such as a makeup remover pad based on hydrophilic cotton fibres, intended to apply and/or remove liquid or semi-solid substances to/from the skin, comprising at least two outer layers (10a, 10b) made of an absorbent fibrous material that are joined together and at least one series of yarns (10d) placed between said outer layers (10a, 10b), the thickness of at least one of the outer layers (10b) being less than the average diameter of the yarns so as to create a raised pattern at the surface of the article. Thus configured, the invention is capable of providing a skin cleansing and/or care article having a raised pattern at its surface which is formed not by compression of laps of fibres, but by the presence, under the outer layers of the article, of a series of yarns having a large diameter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a finished product having antibacterial activity comprising treating at least one face of a substrate comprising at least 50% by weight of cellulosic fibers with a composition containing as sole antimicrobial agent, a metal gluconate chosen in the group consisting of zinc gluconate, silver gluconate, copper gluconate or mixtures thereof. The invention relates to the use of metal gluconate salts as antimicrobial agents for the manufacture of substrates based on fibres, especially cellulosic fibres. The invention further relates to substrates based on fibres, especially cellulosic fibres, comprising said metal salts as antimicrobial agents.

Abstract: The invention relates to a product of fibrous materials imparting a sense of freshness on coming in contact with the skin. It is characterized in that it includes, at least in part on the surface, 0.1 g/m2 to 20 g/m2 of an agent including a fatty acid ester or mixture of such esters the carbon chain of which is C10-C14 and of alcohol the carbon chain of which is C10-C14. In particular, the agent can melt at a temperature of 20° C. to 37° C. and includes at least 60% of such ester or esters, the remainder being selected from among solvents, fatty acid esters, fatty alcohols, or mineral oils. Specifically, the agent includes at least the dodecylic ester of dodecanoic acid.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of metal gluconate salts as antimicrobial agents for the manufacture of substrates based on fibres, especially cellulosic fibres. The invention further relates to substrates based on fibres, especially cellulosic fibres, comprising said metal salts as antimicrobial agents.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for depositing, at room temperature, a softening lotion on an absorbent paper product, especially cellulose wadding, which lotion is a liquid at room temperature and is of the type comprising one or more emollient active substances as a dispersion or as an emulsion in a volatile liquid vehicle, especially in water, characterized in that it consists in spraying the lotion by means of a stream of gas under pressure so as to remove at least part of the volatile liquid vehicle in order to form and spray fine droplets of lotion, having a low proportion of volatile liquid vehicle, which are deposited on at least one face of the paper product.

Abstract: The invention concerns a composition for a softening lotion which is liquid at a temperature of at least 5° C. and which is meant to be used in treating an absorbent paper product. In the invention, this composition comprises: (a) from 1 to 10% by wt. of a component essentially containing a quaternary ammonium compound; (b) from 5 to 99% by wt. of an aqueous emollient component which contains, as active substances: (i) one or more saturated linear fatty alcohols having at least 16 carbon atoms, (ii) one or more waxy esters having a total of at least 24 carbon atoms and, where called for, (iii) one or more nonionic and/or amphoteric emulsifiers; and (c) a balance to 100% by wt. of the required amount of a solvent of the type polyol, mineral oil or their mixtures. The invention relates to the manufacture of absorbent paper products.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for depositing, at room temperature, a softening lotion on an absorbent paper product, especially cellulose wadding, which lotion is a liquid at room temperature and is of the type comprising one or more emollient active substances as a dispersion or as an emulsion in a volatile liquid vehicle, especially in water, characterized in that it consists in spraying the lotion by means of a stream of gas under pressure so as to remove at least part of the volatile liquid vehicle in order to form and spray fine droplets of lotion, having a low proportion of volatile liquid vehicle, which are deposited on at least one face of the paper product.

Abstract: The invention concerns in particular a composition for a softening lotion used in fiber treatment. In the invention, the lotion composition is aqueous and liquid at a temperature of at least 5° C. and comprises, as active substances: (a) one or more saturated linear fatty alcohols having at least 16 carbon atoms, and (b) one or more waxy esters having a total of at least 24 carbon atoms. The application of the invention is to the manufacture of fibrous products such as disposable absorbent paper products.

Abstract: The invention concerns a composition for a softening lotion which is liquid at a temperature of at least 5.degree. C. and which is meant/to be used in treating an absorbent paper product. In the invention, this composition comprises: (a) from 1 to 10% by wt. of a component essentially containing a quaternary ammonium compound; (b) from 5 to 99% by wt. of an aqueous emollient component which contains, as active substances: (i) one or more saturated linear fatty alcohols having at least 16 carbon atoms, (ii) one or more waxy esters having a total of at least 24 carbon atoms and, where called for, (iii) one or more nonionic and/or amphoteric emulsifiers; and (c) a balance to 100% by wt. of the required amount of a solvent of the type polyol, mineral oil or their mixtures. The invention relates to the manufacture of absorbent paper products.