Abstract: Personal care or cosmetic oil in water emulsions include an oil emulsifier and a combination of a Xanthan polysaccharide and a polyglucomannan polysaccharide to provide enhanced stability even at low emulsifier stabilizer levels. The emulsifier stabilizer system provides stable emulsions without dominating system rheology, particularly viscosity. Thus, the emulsions can have a low viscosity suitable for formulation as milks or thin lotions, or can be thickened, desirably by thickening agents other than the Xanthans and/or polyglucomannan, to provide emulsion creams or gels. This enables the system to be used very flexibly in end use applications. The emulsifier is desirably a non-ionic emulsifier and particularly is a combination of a low HLB and a high HLB emulsifier and can be formulated with conventional alcohol ethoxylate surfactants or from non-EO surfactants e.g. sucrose ester high HLB surfactants and citrate or sorbitan ester low HLB surfactants.

Abstract: The present invention provides adjuvants, for use in vaccine formulation, comprising a water-in-oil emulsion, characterised in that said emulsion comprises a polymeric emulsifier which is a block copolymer having a general formula A-COO-B-OOC-A, in which B is the divalent residue of a water-soluble polyalkylene glycol and A is the residue of a oil-soluble complex mono-carboxylic acid. Such polymeric emulsifier, as well as the preparation thereof, has been disclosed in GB 2002400 and WO9607689. Preferably in the blockcopolymers of formula A-COO-B-OOC-A, component B is derived from polyethylene glycol and components A are derived from polyhydroxystearic acid, preferably from poly(12-hydroxy-stearic acid). Most preferred emulsifiers used in the adjuvants according to the invention are Arlacel P135, a PEG 30 Dipolyhydroxystearate. Another, similar, emulsifier for use with the invention is ATLOX® 4912.