Composite (e.g., Having Segments Of Different Color, Solubility, Composition, Etc.) Patents (Class 510/146)
  • Patent number: 11653811
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a sodium and potassium soap sponge and method of making it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Taikone Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Lung
  • Patent number: 11479743
    Abstract: Disclosed are a natural soap composition having elasticity, viscoelasticity and ductility without containing polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and borax, and a method of preparing the same. The soap composition does not contain a plastic material (PVA), borax, a fungicide, a plasticizer or the like, unlike conventional plastic clay toys, and is thus environmentally friendly and safe, and has a cleaning effect. In addition, the composition has the advantages of better elasticity, viscoelasticity and ductility than general soaps or other elastic soap compositions. In addition, even after the composition is molded into a particular shape, it can be transformed into a variety of shapes, can be used as a toy owing to the maximized tactile stimulation thereof, and provides effects such as psychological stability, stress relief and sensory development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Ji Min Son
  • Patent number: 10071052
    Abstract: A system for treating and preventing multiple forms of acne includes applying a solution to the skin to assist maintaining the skin's natural acidic mantle of 4.0 to 6.5, preserve moisture transport properties, and maintain specialized lipid content, allowing the skin to function normally, and assisting the skin to heal wounds caused by acne and associated bacterial infections. The method steps include one or more of the following: applying the formulation with surfactants incorporated therein to the skin as a cleanser, rinsing with water; applying the solution, with or without surfactants, and allowing the solution to air dry; repeating the applications and allowing them to air dry throughout the day; and repeating the cleansing and rinsing steps and applying the solution and allowing to air dry before retiring. One or more of the method steps may be repeated on a continual basis, typically daily, for an extended period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: AVADIM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen T. Woody
  • Patent number: 9932544
    Abstract: The present invention provides a starch-based moldable play composition, including: corn starch; mineral oil; propylene glycol; glyceryl stearate; sodium laureth sulfate; sodium chloride; potassium sorbate; phenoxyethanol; water; fragrance; and pigment dye, selected from the group consisting of yellow 3, yellow 4, red 14, red 17, blue 1, blue 2, and titanium dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Inventor: Abraham E. Safdieh
  • Publication number: 20150086659
    Abstract: A wet wipe that exhibits a novel combination of properties and methods for making such wet wipes are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas James KLOFTA, Steven Lee BARNHOLTZ, Christopher Scott CAMERON, Mario CASTILLO, Randall Glenn MARSH, Pamela Marie MORISON, Wendy QIN, Jeffrey David TURNER
  • Publication number: 20140329428
    Abstract: The personal care compositions of the present invention are in the form of an Article comprising a dissolvable fibrous web structure. The fibers of the dissolvable fibrous web structure comprise a surfactant; a water soluble polymeric structurant; and a plasticizer. Additionally the ratio of the water soluble water soluble polymeric structurant to the active agent in the fiber is 3.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, JR., Rajeev Chhabra, William Maxwell Allen, JR., Jonathan Paul Brennan
  • Patent number: 8697621
    Abstract: A surfactant product includes a first effervescent material and a second effervescent material. Each effervescent material is capable of effervescence on contact with water, wherein the rate of effervescence of the first effervescent material is greater than the rate of effervescence of the second effervescent material. The first and second effervescent materials are distinct from each other and at least one of the effervescent materials envelops the other of the effervescent materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Cosmetic Warriors Ltd.
    Inventors: Helen Elizabeth Ambrosen, Mark Constantine, Margaret Joan Constantine, Noriko Miura, Jack Contantine
  • Patent number: 8680032
    Abstract: The invention relates to microencapsulated colorant granules consisting of a core (A) and a shell (B), whereby the core (A) has a diameter of between 1 and 1000 micrometer and comprises a) a colorant (I), b) microcrystalline cellulose, c) a polyol; and whereby the shell (B) has a thickness of between 1 to 500 micrometer and comprises d) a polymer selected from the group consisting of polycarboxylic acids, vinyl polymers, styrene-(meth)acrylic copolymers, cellulose and cellulose derivatives. The invention further relates to cleansing compositions, such as hand soaps, containing said microencapsulated colorant granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Clariant Finance (BVI) Limited
    Inventors: Angela Lachmann, Harald Oswald, Sambit Roy, Sharmad Chandratre
  • Patent number: 8563494
    Abstract: An iridescent continuous phase soap bar with an ordered layered microstructure containing soap, water and specific ethoxylated alcohols is described. The phenomena of continuous phase iridescence in a soap bar is characterized as blue hue which intensity depends on the viewing angle and on the background color used for its observation by the user. In a preferred embodiment, the iridescent soap bar is prepared with mixing equipment capable of creating intensive mass shearing conditions and which generate high compression and extensional forces on the processed soap mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriela Wis-Surel, Teanoosh Moaddel
  • Patent number: 8536104
    Abstract: The hand soap bar with tether is a bar of hand soap having a built-in tether. The tether includes an elastic band that can be attached to a user's wrist. An anchor member is encased in the soap bar. One end of the tether is attached to the anchor member. An elastic loop defines the other end of the tether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventor: Hector Roman-Barcelo
  • Patent number: 8440605
    Abstract: The proposed process of the present application passes a concentrated surfactant in a lamellar phase though a high-shear device diluting the concentrated surfactant in a lamellar phase to an isotropic phase without encountering the highly viscous middle phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Geoffrey Marc Wise
  • Patent number: 8324142
    Abstract: A hollow bath soap bar including a multi-cell frame. Top and bottom covers are fixed respectively to the top and bottom edges of the frame and multiple internal cells of varying configurations formed by at least two partition walls disposed within the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Inventor: Robert George Snyder
  • Patent number: 7989410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of obtaining enhanced perfume bloom, e.g., bars providing enhanced perfume impact. By selecting specific bar compositions (e.g., with low TFM and specific starch-polyol structuring system), it has been unexpectedly found that bloom is actually increased upon dilution of such bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Conopco, INc.
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Georgia Shafer, Yury Yarovoy, Ricardo-Neri Da Silva, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino
  • Patent number: 7985720
    Abstract: A multicolored cleansing bar includes at least one cleansing material, wherein the cleansing bar includes a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers includes at least a red layer, an orange layer, a yellow layer, a green layer, a blue layer, and a purple layer. A method for improving a child's hygiene includes (1) providing a child with a multicolored cleansing bar including a cleansing material and having a plurality of colors, and (2) having the child wash or bathe with the cleansing bar, wherein the child is motivated to wash or bathe with the cleansing bar in order to see the appearance of the cleansing bar change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Inventors: Bruce Elliot Kramer, Joy Elizabeth Belin
  • Patent number: 7981852
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhanced perfume retention, e.g., bars providing enhanced retention. By selecting specific bar compositions (e.g., with low TFM and specific starch-polyol structuring system), it has been unexpectedly found that retention of perfume during dry bar storage is actually increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Georgia Shafer, Ricardo-Neri Da Silva, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino
  • Patent number: 7919443
    Abstract: An exfoliating scrub bar for various parts of the body is made from natural ingredients that exfoliate the skin gently and effectively. The scrub bar comprises powdered or crushed nuts; powdered or crushed oats; and glycerin. The combination of ingredients allows a person to gently exfoliate different parts of the body depending on the location and/or skin sensitivity. The scrub bar provides the user with an effective tool for exfoliation that allows for the removal of dead skin cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Inventor: Irena Anna Domaradzki
  • Patent number: 7915209
    Abstract: An application for an individual liquid-filled soap includes a thin, breakable, solid soap outer shell and a liquid contained within the thin, solid soap outer shell. The liquid is either liquid soap or a soap-compatible liquid such as lanolin, hand cream, antibacterial soap, and antibacterial cream or a combination of these ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Inventor: Linda Skaggs
  • Publication number: 20100311629
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing water-insoluble substances from substrate surfaces by means of a solid dry carrier comprising hydrophobin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heiko Barg, Thomas Subkowski, Marvin Karos, Claus Bollschweiler
  • Patent number: 7829515
    Abstract: The invention relates to method of signaling temperature and/or benefit agent release using bar compositions comprising thermochromatic pigment or dye. In a preferred embodiment, the pigment is introduced in the form of a separate domain (e.g., separate chips) which separate chip or chips is combined with a surfactant-containing chips to form the final bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Marie Nixon Lee, Michael Augustine Brennan, Vivek Subramanian
  • Publication number: 20100256033
    Abstract: A cleansing composition including a sarcosine based surfactant is disclosed. Desirably, the cleansing composition contains a sarcosinate surfactant. Additional cleansing surfactants that are nonionic, anionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, or combinations thereof, may also be incorporated into the cleansing composition. The cleansing composition may be used in combination with a product, such as a personal care product, to improve aesthetic properties of that product such as glide across the skin. As such, the cleansing product has a coefficient of friction of less than about 0.40. More particularly, cleansing compositions may be incorporated into or onto a substrate, such as a wipe substrate, an absorbent substrate, a fabric or cloth substrate, or a tissue substrate, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Karen Marie Menard, Stacy Averic Mundschau, Rhiannon Lynn Thoresen, Brian Michael Langolf, Andrew Robert Kischnick
  • Patent number: 7732392
    Abstract: A soap bar comprising at least two different portions wherein the portions have a difference in solubility of at least 1.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth Volz, Melissa Kuzmich
  • Publication number: 20100113317
    Abstract: An extruded and stamped personal washing bar comprising an artisan crafted appearance having top and bottom stamped faces bounded by a parting line or edge band and a horizontal plane intersecting the parting line or edge band, said bar further comprising an outer surfactant phase and a substantially contiguous inner vein comprising a thermoplastic mass, wherein said inner vein is located between the top and bottom stamped faces of the bar and wherein a projection of the inner vein onto the horizontal plane intersecting the parting line or edge band has a maximum width that is at least 20% of a maximum width of the bar in said horizontal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Pedro Marques da Silva, Katia Cristina Baquete
  • Patent number: 7700528
    Abstract: A method of stabilizing a multiphase composition is described. The composition comprises a structured surfactant phase, a benefit phase and a perfume comprising perfume raw materials. The method comprises a step of selecting at least 70% of the perfume raw materials that have a ClogP of greater than 1.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Karl Shiqing Wei, Rebecca Ann Taylor, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Zerlina Gudzar Dubois
  • Patent number: 7683019
    Abstract: An extruded and stamped personal washing bar comprising an artisan crafted appearance having top and bottom stamped faces bounded by a parting line or edge band and a horizontal plane intersecting the parting line or edge band, said bar further comprising an outer surfactant phase and a substantially contiguous inner vein comprising a thermoplastic mass, wherein said inner vein is located between the top and bottom stamped faces of the bar and wherein a projection of the inner vein onto the horizontal plane intersecting the parting line or edge band has a maximum width that is at least 20% of a maximum width of the bar in said horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro Marques da Silva, Katia Cristina Baquete
  • Patent number: 7670998
    Abstract: A cosmetic product (1) for conditioning hair, the cosmetic product having the form of a solid and comprising at least one hair conditioning ingredient. Cocoa butter, cetearyl alcohol (and) sodium lauryl sulfate and glyceryl stearate (and) PEG 100 stearate are used to form the solid and the at least one hair conditioning ingredient is a known hair conditioning ingredient, such as lanolin and cetrimonium bromide. The solid cosmetic product may combined in a bar or a small shape (3) with shampoo (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Cosmetic Warrior Limited
    Inventors: Helen Ambrosen, Mark Constantine, Margaret Constantine
  • Patent number: 7659236
    Abstract: The invention relates to bar compositions comprising thermochromatic pigment or dye signaling temperature and/or benefit agent release. In a preferred embodiment, the pigment is introduced in the form of a separate domain (e.g., separate chips) which separate chip or chips is combined with a surfactant-containing chips to form the final bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine Marie Nixon Lee, Michael Augustine Brennan, Vivek Subramanian
  • Patent number: 7651988
    Abstract: A cleanser composition suitable for use with oral appliances, which provides a sensory signal to the user. The sensory signal is such that the user believes the signal to indicate that cleansing of the oral device if occurring or, alternatively, that cleansing action has ceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Charles V. Dullea, Stanley J. Lech, Naresh I. Mehta, Stuart Wilensky
  • Publication number: 20090324660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal-care article for dispensing and or applying a personal-care product that comprises a package and a personal-care product. The package comprises at least one chamber, a dispensing orifice, a first zone proximate to the dispensing orifice and a second zone distal to the dispensing orifice, wherein the first zone and the second zone are both located in the at least one chamber. The personal-care product comprises a first personal-care composition substantially disposed within the first zone and the second personal-care composition substantially disposed within the second zone. The first composition comprises a first fragrance releaseably associated with a suppressing agent and the second composition comprises a second fragrance releaseably associated with a suppressing agent; wherein the first fragrance is different from the second fragrance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Cetti, Christopher Dean Putman, Andres Ernesto Velarde, Karen Lehnhoff, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Julien Claude Plos, Timothy Alan Scavone, Steven Edward Witt, Joyce Marie Benjamin, Cynthia Louise Crisp
  • Patent number: 7612031
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a health-and-hygiene appliance comprising a dispersible component and a releasable component. Some or all of the releasable component is not homogeneously distributed throughout the dispersible component. Instead, the releasable component is disposed adjacent or proximate to the dispersible component, as would occur if the dispersible component was coated, sprayed, injected, deposited, printed, or otherwise associated with a formed dispersible component. One example of such an appliance is a cleansing product in which, on exposure to liquid, such as water, the dispersible component disperses or disintegrates, thereby releasing, and making available, all or substantially all of the releasable component, in this case a soap, cleanser, or other formulation. The releasable component may be released prior to, concurrent with, and/or after dispersal or disintegration of the dispersing component. The appliance can be sized for convenient handling by a caregiver or user—e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Lang, Brendon F. Ribble
  • Publication number: 20090258043
    Abstract: The invention relates to dispersions comprising water, lipophilic phase and emulsifier, characterized in that the emulsifier is present in an amount of less than or equal to 3% by weight based on the total weight of the dispersion, and in that the emulsifier comprises at least one acylglutamate. The dispersions of the invention are suitable for cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical preparations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Cognis IP Management GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Eskuchen, Caroline Goget, Rolf Kawa
  • Publication number: 20090253602
    Abstract: A solid moisturising personal wash bar with the characteristics of a moisturising cosmetic composition is desired. Previous attempts to provide such a solid moisturising personal wash bar have met with only partial success because of the limited amount of the moisturising cosmetic composition which may be incorporated into the solid personal wash bar before it becomes unsuitable for conventional soap bar manufacture as its hardness decreases and its stickiness increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Natasha Pfeiffer Campbell, Shiping Zhu
  • Patent number: 7544409
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and an article for performing the method of monitoring a surfactant. A preferred embodiment of the invention, an article comprises a substrate having an image and a surfactant thereon. The substrate is formed from various known fabrics or materials capable of absorbing and retaining a substantial quantity of the surfactant. During use, as the surfactant is dissipated, the image changes in appearance thereby indicating the quantity of surfactant remaining on the substrate. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the method and article of the present invention is effective for encouraging and making washing enjoyable for children and includes the use of an epidermal surfactant, such as soap, detergent, or other active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: SpencerHall, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald S Copland, Mike E Crowley, Jonathan B. Hall
  • Patent number: 7517846
    Abstract: The invention is a solid chemical concentrate system of at least two cooperative shapes. The first shape is an inwardly curved bar having an inner opening. The second shape is an insert which is capable of interlocking with the bar by insertion into the bar inner opening. The solid chemical concentrate provides chemical systems having active constituents which may be the same, different but compatible or functionally and chemically incompatible combined within one matrix to provide at least one substantially continuous surface. The system may also comprise an aqueous soluble or dispersible polymeric film cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth J. Gladfelter, Tina O. Outlaw, James L. Copeland, Rhonda K. Schulz, Daniel K. Boche, Jeff W. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20090062169
    Abstract: An iridescent continuous phase soap bar with an ordered layered microstructure containing soap, water and specific ethoxylated alcohols is described. The phenomena of continuous phase iridescence in a soap bar is characterised as blue hue which intensity depends on the viewing angle and on the background color used for its observation by the user. In a preferred embodiment, the iridescent soap bar is prepared with mixing equipment capable of creating intensive mass shearing conditions and which generate high compression and extensional forces on the processed soap mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Gabriela Wis-Surel, Teanoosh Moaddel
  • Publication number: 20090029891
    Abstract: A soap device is provided. Such soap device includes a soap bar member manufactured from a first predetermined material and having a first predetermined size and a first predetermined shape. A depressed area is operably disposed in such soap bar member at a predetermined location thereon for receiving and housing at least one predetermined piece of soap. The depressed area has a second predetermined size and a second predetermined shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Matthew S. Callahan
  • Publication number: 20080280799
    Abstract: A soap bar comprising at least two different portions wherein the portions have a difference in solubility of at least 1.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Elizabeth Volz, Melissa Kuzmich
  • Publication number: 20080280798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of preparing bar toilet soap, composed of multiple phases, at least one of them being an opaque phase and at least one being a translucent phase. The translucent phase and the opaque phase(s) are mixed during the process, wherein the translucent phase is incorporated into the opaque phase during the extrusion of this second phase, giving rise to a toilet soap in which one of the phases predominate and the other appears as stripes dispersed in the first one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: NATURA COSMETICOS S.A.
    Inventors: Nancy Sayuri Kanegae Aramaki, Simone Flauto, Tadeu De Oliveira Marin Chicol
  • Publication number: 20080261843
    Abstract: The invention relates to bar compositions comprising thermochromatic pigment or dye signaling temperature and/or benefit agent release. In a preferred embodiment, the pigment is introduced in the form of a separate domain (e.g., separate chips) which separate chip or chips is combined with a surfactant-containing chips to form the final bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc, d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Christine Marie Nixon Lee, Michael Augustine Brennan, Vivek Subramanian
  • Patent number: 7427585
    Abstract: Framed soap compositions contain water and the following ingredients (A) to (D): (A) from 25 to 60 wt. % of a fatty acid soap containing not greater than 20 wt. % of insolubles; (B) from 0.1 to 5 wt. % of sodium chloride; (C) from 0.1 to 5 wt. % of sodium sulfate; and (D) from 5 to 30 wt. % of a polyol. These compositions solidify fast upon production, and have a high hardness after production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Kuroda
  • Patent number: 7417015
    Abstract: A soap bar comprising at least two different portions wherein the portions have a difference in solubility of at least 1.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Colgate - Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth Volz, Melissa Kuzmich
  • Patent number: 7381693
    Abstract: An article that is especially suitable for cleansing skin is described which includes a foamable composition having the form of an elastic semi-solid gel and a fibrous layer made up of a continuous network of bonded fibers. The weight ratio of the foamable composition to the fibrous layer is in the range from about 30 to 1 to about 2000 to 1 and the foamable composition at least partially encompasses the fibrous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, divison of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Diane Marie Keenan, Gregory Aaron Grissett, Filomena Augusta Macedo, David Robert Williams
  • Patent number: 7354891
    Abstract: A process for preparing—a cleansing composition having pearlescence, which contains adding an ingredient (B) which has been molten beforehand, or an aqueous liquid in which the molten ingredient (B) is contained, to a suspension of an ingredient (A) and cooling the resultant mixture to cause the ingredient (B) to deposit; and the cleansing composition. The process makes it possible to economically produce cleansing compositions which have pearlescence, excellent in the stability of their pearlants, and superb long-term storage stability under acidic conditions and high-temperature conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Arai
  • Patent number: 7348299
    Abstract: An article especially suitable for cleansing skin having the general form of a fibrous cleansing bar is described which includes a hydrous lathering composition that at least partially incorporates a fabricated polymer network that is exposed either before or during use. The fibrous cleansing bar exhibits an enhanced release of hydrophobic organic benefit agents used to deliver sensory, skin care or other functional benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Diane Marie Keenan, Andre Marie Puleo, Melissa Ann Cline
  • Patent number: 7056873
    Abstract: A lavatory cleansing block has two parts co-extruded together, the first part containing a chlorine releasing bleach and the second part containing component such as a perfume or colorant which need not be bleach resistant. Migration of components is avoided if there is no common hydrophobe in the two parts. The perceived performance of the perfume is enhanced by its juxtaposition with the bleach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Jeyes Group Limited
    Inventors: Ian Sidgwick, Steve Balls, Russell Norman, Brian D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 6852260
    Abstract: A process for preparing a cleansing bar having well-defined platelet striations therein which comprises extruding a cleansing bar composition having platelets therein to form a cleansing bar using an extruder having a perforated barrier across the cross section of the extruder, wherein the perforated barrier is located at a sufficient distance downstream from the spider to allow well-defined platelet striations to be observed in the finished cleansing bar with the human eye. The perforated barrier is located at a distance from the spider equal to at least about 60%, preferably at least about 70%, of the distance from the spider to the extruder cone outlet of the extruder. Generally, a standard extruder cone length from spider to cone outlet is about 483 mm to about 560 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Liem Vu, Matthew Edstrom, Armando San Juan
  • Patent number: 6790817
    Abstract: The invention is a solid chemical concentrate system of at least two cooperative shapes. The first shape is an inwardly curved bar having an inner opening. The second shape is an insert which is capable of interlocking with the bar by insertion into the bar inner opening. The solid chemical concentrate provides chemical systems having active constituents which may be the same, different but compatible or functionally and chemically incompatible combined within one matrix to provide at least one substantially continuous surface. The system may also comprise an aqueous soluble or dispersible polymeric film cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth J. Gladfelter, Tina O. Outlaw, James L. Copeland, Rhonda K. Schulz, Daniel K. Boche, Jeff W. Peterson
  • Patent number: 6764991
    Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain synthetic surfactants, moisturizers and exfoliant particles where 25% or more of the particles have a major axis length of between 100 and 600 microns. The combination of the mild surfactants, moisturizers, and exfoliants provide the user with simultaneous moisturization and exfoliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, divsion of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Albert Joseph Post, Krishna Kumar Subramanyan, Anthony William Johnson, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Adolf Peter Barth, Petra Meinschien
  • Publication number: 20040097387
    Abstract: A soap bar that exhibits antibacterial effectiveness includes, by weight, at least about 45% soap having alkyl chain lengths of 8-10 carbon atoms, water, and free fatty acid such that the pH of a 10% aqueous solution of the soap bar is no greater than about 9.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Timothy Taylor, Ricardo Diez, Michael Slayton
  • Patent number: 6734152
    Abstract: A soap that contains glacier silt that is harvested in its natural form from areas previously occupied by glaciers. Glacial silt is one of the finest materials known. This silt is as fine or finer than talcum powder. The silt is heated to 400 degrees, sifted for a uniform consistency, and blended into cleaning compositions (soaps) used for human skin. Applied to human skin, the composition acts as mild pumice. Glacier silt is distinctive from other abrasives or pumices because the silt, in its natural form, is made up of very fine particles and is essentially undetectable when being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Inventor: Stephanie Lynn Varner
  • Patent number: 6730642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making a multiphase personal wash bar having artisan crafted appearance. The bars are made by combining the second solid mass phase to a first continuous phase wherein the hardness of the second phase is at least twice the hardness of noodles forming the continuous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Gregory Jay Mc Fann, Mariangela Gomes de Oliveira Sichmann