Nonionic Surfactant Containing Patents (Class 424/70.31)
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Patent number: 6288137Abstract: The present invention concerns a process for preparing an aqueous composition in the form of a gel at a given temperature. The process is characterized in that an associative water-soluble polymer constituted by a hydrophilic main chain and hydrophobic pendant groups is brought into the presence, in said composition, of at least one surfactant in the form of bilayers when it is in aqueous solution under the same temperature and concentration conditions. Compositions in the form of gels or liquids are thus obtained.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1997Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: LVMH RechercheInventors: Ilias Iliopoulos, Anne Cartalas-Sarrazin, Karine Loyen, Roland Audebert, Alain Meybeck, Jean-François Tranchant
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Patent number: 6287547Abstract: A hair treatment composition which comprises an aqueous solution or an aqueous dispersion of at least one quatenary ammonium salt (A) represented by the general formula (I), (2) or (3): wherein Ra represents an organic group containing 6 to 32 carbon atoms, Rb and Rc are the same or different and each represents an organic group containing 1 to 32 carbon atoms, Rd represents an organic group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and Q− represents an amoni acid anion; wherein X1 represents an ester group; R5 represents an alkyl, alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl group and R6 represents an alkylene, alkenylene or hydroxyalkylene group, the sum of carbon atoms contained in R5 and R6 being 6 to 32, R7 and R8 are the same or different and each represents a group of the formula R5—X1—R6—, an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group containing 2 to 4 carbon atoms, R9 represents an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a hydroType: GrantFiled: October 12, 1999Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Oota, Yoshiyuki Wakahara, Shin Sato, Masahiro Kasai
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Patent number: 6281236Abstract: A skin cream composition containing allantoin and an emulsifier has improved stability coming from the adjustment of the pH to a range of 4.5 to 5.8. The lower pH preserves the stability of the allantoin and the functionality of the emulsifier system is maintained. The emulsifier system can be a nonionic emulsifier or an anionic emulsifier plus beeswax. The acid used to adjust the pH can be an organic acid or an inorganic acid. The composition can further comprise other ingredients such as herbal extracts, chelating agents, preservatives, emollients, solvents, and fragrance.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Alwyn Company, Inc.Inventor: Elliott Farber
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Patent number: 6277361Abstract: Improved conditioning performance from a surfactant-based shampoo composition can be achieved by the inclusion in the shampoo composition of a specific combination of silicones, namely amino functionalised silicone and high viscosity non-amino functionalised silicone. Accordingly, the invention provides an aqueous shampoo composition comprising, in addition to water: i) at least one surfactant chosen from anionic, nonionic, zwitterionic or amphoteric surfactants or mixtures thereof; ii) an amino functionalised silicone; and iii) emulsified particles of an insoluble, non-amino functionalised silicone, in which the viscosity of the silicone itself is at least 500,000 cst, preferably at least 1,000,000 cst.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1999Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Andrew Malcolm Murray
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Patent number: 6277154Abstract: The invention concerns a pre-emulsion for the simple preparation of a hair dyeing composition, comprising a combination of a) 20% to 40% by weight of at least one C12-C14-fatty alcohol ethoxylate with 1 to 5 ethylene oxide groups; b) 15% to 40% by weight of oleic acid; c) 10% to 30% by weight of ethanediol and/or 1.2-propanediol distearate; d) 5% to 20% by weight of glyceryl stearate and/or at least one sugar fatty acid ester; and, e) 0% to 25% by weight of at least one C12-C18-fatty alcohol, each calculated to the total pre-emulsion composition; containing no further emulsifiers or fatty substances, having a maximum water content of 10% by weight, in particular 5% by weight, whereby the pH-value is preferably between 7.1 and 9. This pre-emulsion can be mixed at a low temperature with a customary aqueous composition, comprising at least one oxidation dyestuff precursor, to give a stable hair dyeing emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2000Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Goldwell GmbHInventor: Heribert Lorenz
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Patent number: 6271307Abstract: The use of graft copolymers obtainable by grafting a) polyalkylene oxides with b) at least one monomer selected from the group of b1) C1-C30-alkyl esters of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8-carboxylic acids; b2) vinyl esters of aliphatic C1-C30-carboxylic acids; b3) C1-C30-alkyl vinyl ethers; b4) N—C1-C12-alkyl-substituted amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8-carboxylic acids; b5) N,N—C1-C12-dialkyl-substituted amides of monoethylenically unsaturated C3-C8-carboxylic acids as solubilizer.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1999Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jürgen Huff, Helmut Meffert, Folker Ruchatz
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Publication number: 20010009659Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous hair styling aid comprising a volatile silicone selected from cyclic silicones having the general formula (I):Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 1999Publication date: July 26, 2001Inventors: STUART KEITH PRATLEY, KEITH LESLIE RUTHERFORD
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Publication number: 20010009909Abstract: The invention relates to compositions for washing keratin materials, comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium containing at least one anionic detergent surfactant, at least one oxyethylenated sorbitan ester of a C8-C30 fatty acid with a number of moles of ethylene oxide of less than or equal to 10. These compositions have a weight ratio anionic detergent surfactant agent/sorbitan ester of C8-C30 fatty acid ranging from 0.5 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2001Publication date: July 26, 2001Inventors: Mireille Maubru, Sandrine Decoster, Bernard Beauquey
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Patent number: 6248315Abstract: Disclosed are hair shampoo compositions which provide cleaning and styling performance, and which contain latex polymer particles, water-soluble cationic polymer as a latex deposition aid, organic oil as a latex deposition aid, and typically one or more surfactants, an aqueous carrier and one or more optional ingredients. The organic oil is a hydrocarbon oil or fatty ester, and is present in an amount effective to enhance deposition of the latex polymer particles onto hair in the presence of cationic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sharon Ann Young, Michael Albert Snyder
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Hair styling compositions comprising mineral salt, lipophilic material, and low levels of surfactant
Patent number: 6241971Abstract: The present invention relates to leave-on hair styling compositions comprising from greater than 0.5% to about 5% of a water soluble, non-polymeric mineral salt, from about 0.05% to about 0.5% of a lipophilic material, from about 0.01% to about 0.5% of a surfactant, and an aqueous carrier. The surfactant is selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactants, anionic surfactants, and nonionic surfactants having the formula or R1R2R3Z→O, and mixtures thereof. The compositions comprise less than 0.01% cationic surfactant, less than about 0.2% of a chemical protein modifying agent, less than 0.01% formate, sorbate, salicylate and carbonate compounds, and less than about 0.2% of a polymer having a solubility parameter of from about 8.5 to about 12.0 (cal/cm3)½. Further, the composition has a hair friction index of at least 1.07.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1997Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mary Mora Fox, Dana Hance Wolsing -
Publication number: 20010002254Abstract: A developer composition having a pH of 2.5 to 6.9, for use in oxidative dyeing of hair comprising 0.01-20% of a primary thickening agent which is an aqueous solution of acrylic polymer comprised of A and B monomers wherein the A monomer is selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and mixtures thereof; and the B monomer is selected from the group consisting of a C1-22 alkyl methacrylate, and a C1-22 alkyl acrylate, and mixtures thereof; 0.01-20% of a nonionic surfactant, 0.01-25% hydrogen peroxide, and 65-99.9% water; a hair dye mixture for coloring hair; a two component kit for coloring hair; and a method for coloring hair.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2001Publication date: May 31, 2001Applicant: Revlon Consumer Products CorporationInventors: Dalal Ibrahim Duffer, Teresita Vergaria Imperial
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Patent number: 6231844Abstract: Cosmetic foaming compositions and hair mousse compositions employ a foaming agent comprising a mixture of first and second nonionic surfactants and having a total HLB as measured by the Griffin method of at least 12. The first nonionic surfactant is selected from defined polyoxyethylene alkyl ether surfactants, polyoxyethylene alkenyl ether surfactants, polyoxypropylene polyoxyethylene ether surfactants, and mixtures thereof; and the second nonionic surfactant is selected from defined polyoxyethylene long chain alkyl fatty acid or benzene ether surfactants, polyoxyethylene ether surfactants, polyoxypropylene ether surfactants, and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1997Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Takanori Nambu
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Patent number: 6231843Abstract: The hair cleaning preparation for improving the shine of the hair is an aqueous solution or emulsion which contains water; from 5 to 50 percent by weight of an anionic, nonionic and/or amphoteric surfactant compound; from 2 to 10 percent by weight of a mixture of at least two fruit acids selected from the group consisting of lactic acid, citric acid, maleic acid, tartaric acid, gluconic acid, fumaric acid and succinic acid; from 0.2 to 2 percent by weight of at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of pantothenol, pantothenic acid and esters of pantothenic acid and at least one cosmetic ingredient selected from the group consisting of perfume oils, preservatives and pH buffer substances. This hair cleaning preparation does not contain any oily or greasy ingredients.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1998Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Wella AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans Hoelzel, Manuela Hannich, Gisela Schaefer
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Patent number: 6225485Abstract: What is shown is a high purity adduct of castor oil and a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride, charactered by the absence of free acid anhydride, which is used in personal care products. The adduct is made by a process, without side reactions, which includes (a) reacting castor oil and cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride at a temperature of 75-120° C. for 4 to 24 hours, and then (b) continuing the reaction at room temperature for at least 1 week to react any remaining maleic anhydride. Skin and hair care formulations of such adducts are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventors: Steven H. Bertz, Frank M. Miksza, Elliott Zucker
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Publication number: 20010000467Abstract: The conditioning performance of small particle size emulsified silicone in a surfactant-based shampoo composition can be significantly boosted by the inclusion in the shampoo composition of an amino functionalized silicone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2000Publication date: April 26, 2001Applicant: HELENE CURTIS, INC.Inventor: Andrew Malcolm Murray
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Patent number: 6221347Abstract: The present invention relates to non-washing cosmetic compositions containing, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one nonionic guar gum and at least one non-crosslinked anionic polymer. The invention also relates to a process for the cosmetic treatment of keratin substances, such as the hair or the eyelashes, characterized in that it consists in applying a cosmetic composition as defined above to the keratin substances, and then possibly in rinsing with water.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1996Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Henri Samain, Isabelle Cretois
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Patent number: 6218345Abstract: Personal cleansing compositions comprising a thickening system consisting essentially of hydrophobically modified water-soluble associative polymer and polar oil having a required HLB of at least 12, a nonionic polyhydroxy fatty acid amide surfactant, a water-soluble surfactant other than the polyhydroxy fatty acid amide surfactant, and water, wherein the polar oil has an average carbon chain length of from about 12 to about 16 carbon atoms and wherein the water-soluble surfactants have an average carbon chain of from about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms. These compositions may also comprise a perfume or cosmetic oil, or a hydrotrope. The compositions of the present invention deliver excellent product thickening and rheological attributes, in storage, in dispensing and in use, in combination with good efficacy benefits such as excellent rinsibility, mildness, skin conditioning, skin moisturizing, product stability, cleansing and lathering.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1998Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alan Brooks, Charles Marie Alain Du Reau
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Patent number: 6218346Abstract: Disclosed are hair care compositions and methods for preparing such compositions which provide the benefits of cleaning, conditioning, curl retention, styling and setting properties simultaneously to hair in the application of a single product. The hair care compositions contain fatty alkyl amine salts, long chain quaternary ammonium salts and mixtures thereof of anionic styling polymers in a non-anionic surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system contains nonionic surfactants, semi-polar nonionic surfactants, amphoteric surfactants and mixtures thereof. The styling, setting and conditioning agents are present in the form of fatty alkyl amine salts or fatty quaternary ammonium salts which form anionic styling polymer particulate networks upon dilution in water. These networks are dispersed in the aqueous non-anionic surfactant system and are stabilized and thickened by optional swellable polymer thickening agents.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1997Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Stepan CompanyInventors: Branko Sajic, Y. Kameshwer Rao
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Patent number: 6207141Abstract: A method of imparting improved conditioning properties to hair comprising treating the hair with a conditioning composition comprising a silicone compound having at least one quaternary ammonium moiety and ethoxylated monoalkyl quat.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Raymond Pyles
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Patent number: 6200554Abstract: Disclosed are conditioning shampoo compositions which provide improved hair or skin conditioning performance. These compositions comprise a detersive surfactant, select ethoxylated fatty alcohols having a fatty alcohol moiety containing from about 6 to about 30 carbon atoms and an ethoxylate chain containing from about 5 to about 150 moles of ethoxylation, a nonvolatile conditioning agent, preferably a nonvolatile silicone conditioning agent, having an average particle size of from about 5 um to about 2000 um, and water. The select ethoxylated fatty alcohols provide improved hair or skin conditioning by improving silicone deposition of large particle conditioning agents onto the hair or skin.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1996Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Thean Yeow Yeoh, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Hirotaka Uchiyama, John Gregory Schroeder, Yoshinari Okuyama
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Patent number: 6197338Abstract: The present invention relates to a new type of solid balneological preparations for cosmetic, hygienic and therapeutic use, which has both the properties of a solid bath additive and those of liquid products, and is characterized especially by the addition of lipid components, vesicle forming lipids, tensides and, in some cases, mineral salts. Active components, adjuvants such as stabilizers, adsorbing substances, lubricants as well as smoothing and breakdown promoting agents may also be contained therein.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2000Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Merz & Co. GmbH & Co.Inventors: Eberhard Nürnberg, Kerstin Jerzembek, Rolf D. Beutler, Jürgen Ebinger, Ruth Weis
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Patent number: 6191083Abstract: Personal cleansing compositions comprise a thickening system consisting essentially of associative polymer which is a hydrophobically modified water-soluble associative polymer and polar oil having a required HLB of at least 12, a water-soluble surfactant, optionally a cationic polymeric skin conditioning agent, and water, wherein the polar oil has an average carbon chain length of from about 12 to about 16 carbon atoms and wherein the water-soluble surfactants have an average carbon chain of from about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms. These compositions may also comprise a hydrotrope. These compositions may optionally comprise a perfume or cosmetic oil. These compositions deliver excellent product thickening and rheological attributes, in storage, in dispensing and in use, in combination with good efficacy benefits such as mildness, a moisturized skin feel, rinsibility, skin conditioning, product stability and lather attributes.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Alan Brooks, Charles Marie Alain Du Reau
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Patent number: 6190647Abstract: The hair treatment composition for increasing the formability and luster of hair contains from 0.01 to 10 percent by weight of a copolymer formed from at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer of the formula (I): CH2═CR1R2 (I), wherein R1 is A—(CH2CH2O)x—R3 or COOH group and A is C(═O)O, C(═O)NH or CH2O, x is a number from 1 to 100, R3 is a C8- to C30-alkyl group, R2 is H, a C1- to C30-alkyl group or a CH2—R1 group, with the proviso that at least one of the groups, R1 and R2, contain the A—(CH2CH2O)x—R3 group; and from at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer of the formula (II): CH2═CR4COOR5 (II), wherein R4 and R5 are, independently of each other, H or an alkyl group with 1 to 30 carbon atoms; from 0.01 to 50 percent by weight of a polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight over 500 g/mol and from 0.01 to 20 percent by weight of a nonionic surfactant having an HLB-value under 20.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1998Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Wella AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Karlen, Daniel Chambettaz, Karin Steinbrecht
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Patent number: 6190646Abstract: A microemulsion is prepared containing: a mixture of (1) nitrogenous compounds, (2) from 10-5% by weight of an alkyl or alkenyl phosphoric ester surfactant, the alkyl and alkenyl groups of which contain less than 12 carbon atoms per group and the ester surfactant containing from 1 to 10 alkoxy radicals, (3) from 3 to 20% by weight of at least one cosurfactant, (4) a vegetable oil, an animal oil or a fatty acid and (5) a plasticizer. The microemulsion having a viscosity at 5° C. less than or equal to 200 mPa·sec and is stable at a temperature of −10° C. to +50° C. Further, the microemulsion is useful as a biodegradation accelerator.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Elf AquitaineInventors: Jacques Tellier, Anne Basseres, Pascal Brochette, Alexandre Espert
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Patent number: 6187044Abstract: Compositions and methods are disclosed for filling prostheses for implantation into human soft tissue. The compositions comprise at least one nonionic surfactant, such as a polysorbate, which can be provided to fill a physiologically compatible shell or containment sac of the prosthesis. The liquid compositions of the present invention have a relatively high viscosity and are quickly absorbed from body tissues, metabolized and excreted with no known adverse effect. The compositions can be injected into the physiologically compatible shell either before, during or after the surgical implantation procedure.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Advanced Research and Technology Institute, Inc.Inventor: Barry L. Eppley
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Patent number: 6174522Abstract: Disclosed are aqueous conditioning shampoo compositions containing a surfactant component in a shampoo with a particulate insoluble, dispersed, nonvolatile conditioning agent having a dual particle size range, suspending agent and a deposition polymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Thomas Baravetto, Elizabeth Murphy Schrader, Timothy Woodrow Coffindaffer, Susan Marie Guskey