Transparent Or Translucent Patents (Class 510/147)
  • Patent number: 11904034
    Abstract: Described herein, a transparent soap bar for cleaning the skin including a soap surfactant, a synthetic surfactant, a fragrance component, an amine component, an antioxidant salt, wherein the transparent soap bar has a percent transmittance (% T) value of greater than 40% as measured using the method of Measurement of % Transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Huan Wang, Mingxia Chan, Matthew Clair Ehrman, Anurag Makrandi
  • Patent number: 11879114
    Abstract: Natural green, environmentally friendly solid soap compositions and methods of manufacturing and using the same are provided with easy dispersal in water and self thickening to produce liquid soaps. The natural soap compositions contain potassium fatty acid carboxylates and preferably potassium chloride but may alternately contain potassium bromide or potassium iodide. There is a need for natural, green, environmentally friendly soaps as well as eco green packaging. Recent systems have managed eco packaging but continue to rely on synthetic non-natural fossil fuel based soaps. The inventive natural solid soaps do not require plastic or similar packaging for liquids and can be shipped as a solid bar, granules, powder, etc. and diluted very easily by the end user. Preferably the soaps are small bars that easily fit into a dispenser bottle offering versatility in concentration, lather, and thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: James Arthur McDonell
  • Patent number: 11633072
    Abstract: A container configured to hold a multiphase shampoo composition. The multiphase shampoo composition has a cleansing phase containing a detersive surfactant and a benefit phase containing a gel network. The cleansing phase and benefit phase are visually discrete phases, in physical contact, and form an aesthetic design suspended across at least a portion of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Brown, Pallavi Mohan Keole
  • Patent number: 11104870
    Abstract: A toilet odor prevention tablet and method for automatic flush activation is described, where the toilet odor prevention tablet includes one or more of a plurality of plant-based oils, glycerine, a solid carrier, and one or more of a plurality of essential oils. The method of use for automatic flush activation includes providing a toilet odor prevention tablet, including all natural ingredients, and depositing the toilet bowl odor prevention tablet directly into a toilet tank, where placement of the tablet results in a film that reduces an odor emitting capacity of human excrement and delivers a fresh layer of odor prevention with every flush of a toilet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan Diaz, Daniel Quintana
  • Patent number: 10849837
    Abstract: Present invention is on an anhydrous solid conditioning and styling, composition for keratin fibres, especially human hair. The object of the present invention is a solid anhydrous composition for keratin fibres, especially for human hair, comprising at least one polyol liquid at 20° C. at a concentration 50% or more by weight and at least one fatty acid soap at a concentration of 5% or more by weight, all values calculated to total composition, wherein the composition is free of volatile organic solvents, especially C1-C4 aliphatic alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: KAO GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Nicole Vogel, Christine Cajan
  • Patent number: 9562834
    Abstract: Aqueous solutions that include: (A) an organic polyol having from 2 to 20 carbon atoms and having a flash point of at least 93° C.; (B) a base; (C) a surfactant; and (D) water, where the aqueous solution does not include an organic solvent having a flash point below 23° C. and a boiling point of at least 38° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventors: John J. Nelson, Retha Edwards
  • Patent number: 8772221
    Abstract: Stability enhancement agents for use in a solidification matrices and solid detergent compositions are described. Stability enhancement is provided by a hydratable salt, water and phosphonocarboxylic acid copolymers or phosphonopolyacrylic acid homopolymers binding agents forming a dimensionally stable composition. Preferred phosphonocarboxylic acid copolymers or phosphonopolyacrylic acid homopolymers have phosphono end groups and a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 30,000 grams/mole. The stability enhancement composition for use in a solid detergent and solid detergent compositions are preferably biodegradable and substantially free of phosphorus and NTA-free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Carter Martin Silvernail, Kerrie Walters, Brenda Lynn Tjelta, Lisa M. Sanders, Michael E. Besse
  • Patent number: 8685908
    Abstract: A bar soap comprising a pyrithione source, a soap surfactant, and a pH adjusting agent selected from a group consisting of ammonia solution, triethanolamine, diethanolamine, monoethanolamine, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, soluble carbonate salts, and combinations thereof, wherein the bar soap attains a pH of greater than or equal to 10.7. A process of inhibiting the formation of a discoloration in a bar soap comprising pyrithione sources by adding pH adjusting agent to attain a pH of greater than or equal to 10.7. A process of inhibiting the formation of a discoloration in a bar soap caused by dissolved ferric ions and/or cupric ions and pyrithione sources in the bar, comprising the step of adding from about 0.3% to about 20% soluble carbonate salt during manufacturing of the bar soap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, Juan Wang, Xiaoyong Wang, Chunpeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 8148309
    Abstract: A composition and method for a cross-linked acrylic acid polymer based personal cleanser having high clarity is disclosed. Particular compositional ingredients are combined in a specified process such that the final composition comprises a clear, transparent personal cleansing product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Dial Corporation
    Inventors: Chris Luciow, Evangeline Eng
  • Patent number: 7927683
    Abstract: A weak acid bar soap including a body having N-long-chain acyl acidic amino-acid salt, water, and a transparentizing agent and having a shape which has at least base and side; a waterproof protective film attached to lower side surface of said weak acid bar soap. The waterproof protective film is a little bigger than said base of said weak acid bar soap and covers all of said base, extending to a lower part of said side continuously from said base, attached to said lower side surface of said weak acid bar soap to cover at least said lower part of said side, leading edge of said waterproof protective film and said side of said weak acid bar soap are clung tightly to nor make a gap, such that said base and said lower part of said side of said weak acid bar soap are not dissolved by moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Inventor: Yaeko Katayama
  • Patent number: 7833956
    Abstract: A cleansing composition comprising a water-compatible emollient that provides enhanced skin-feel characteristics, as well as viscosity-building properties. The water-compatible emollient is an alkoxylated derivative of glyceryl cocoate containing both propylene oxide and ethylene oxide groups in the molecular structure. The cleansing composition also comprises one or more surfactants, and optional additives, and can be formulated into a body wash, shampoo, facial cleanser, liquid hand soap, dish detergent or car wash detergent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Stepan Company
    Inventor: Irma Ryklin
  • Patent number: 7763576
    Abstract: A solidification matrix includes a polycarboxylic acid polymer, sodium carbonate, and water. Exemplary polycarboxylic acid polymers include a polyacrylic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 100,000, a modified polyacrylic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 1,000 and about 100,000, and a polymaleic acid polymer having a molecular weight of between about 500 and about 5,000. The polycarboxylic acid polymer, sodium carbonate, and water interact to form a hydrate solid. The solidification matrix may be used, for example, in a solid detergent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Ecolab Inc.
    Inventors: Brenda L. Tjelta, Lisa M. Sanders, Michael E. Besse
  • Publication number: 20100125045
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cosmetic or similar toilet preparations in particular to a container for storing and/or use of a cosmetic or similar toilet preparation in solid form, and preferably to a container for storing and/or use of a soap for personal use. It is provided for, according to the invention, that a container (1) which can be separated along a dividing line (4), comprises a layer (6) of a cosmetic or toilet preparation being applied onto said container (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventors: Iryna URSIC, Anna TSYBULSKA
  • Patent number: 7709432
    Abstract: A solid soap composition which comprises as essential ingredients a soap ingredient (a), a specific polyoxyalkylene-modified polysiloxane Co), and a tetrakis(2-hydroxyalkyl)ethylenediamine(c). It is a detergent with which makeup removal and ordinary face washing can be simultaneously conducted at a time. It lathers well and gives a fresh use feeling after washing. It can sufficiently remove not only foundations but acid pigments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: P & PF Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Saito, Daiji Nagahama, Shinya Yamasaki, Takahiro Okuda, Tetsuo Nishina
  • Patent number: 7638471
    Abstract: The invention provides transparent, pH neutral solid bar compositions comprising flipped N-acyl glutamate surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.,
    Inventors: Teanoosh Moaddel, Yury Yarovoy
  • Patent number: 7538077
    Abstract: An extruded personal washing bar providing unique combination of sensory attributes, said bar comprising: a. at least about 40% of a soap, b. from about 0.1% to about 20% of a polyol, c. no more than about 30% water, and d. from about 0.01% to about 3% based on the weight of the bar composition of inclusions dispersed uniformly in bar, said inclusions comprising plate-like solid polymer particles, having a longest edge dimension in the range from about 50 to about 300 ?m, and a thickness such that the ratio of the longest edge dimension to the thickness is in the range from about 1.5:1 to about 15:1, and wherein said personal washing bar is an extruded mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Maiangela Gomes de Oliveira Sichmann, Anelise Pineli
  • Patent number: 7531497
    Abstract: Personal care compositions comprising a cleansing phase and a benefit phase. These products are intended to provide a multi-phase personal care composition that is packaged in physical contact while remaining stable and providing improved in-use and after-use hair and skin benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sanjeev Midha, Robert Lee Wells, Bryan Gabriel Comstock, James Merle Heinrich, Michael Frederick Niebauer
  • Publication number: 20080242572
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a water-soluble detergent printed film comprising a film support and at least one print, being printed thereon and/or therein said film, said film is a water-soluble detergent adapted for effective cleansing of various human body and goods cleaning. The present invention also discloses a method of producing a water-soluble detergent printed film, comprising forming a detergent film; and, printing the same with at least one print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Samuel Icht, Sharon Maayan
  • Patent number: 6911422
    Abstract: A process of imparting transparency or translucency to a liquid or gel type automatic dishwashing detergent product is disclosed. The process includes the steps of providing a liquid or gel type automatic dishwashing detergent composition expressly free from (i) potassium tripolyphosphate and (ii) mixture of sodium tripolyphosphate and potassium tripolyphosphate, adding one or more of potassium sources to the liquid or gel type automatic dishwashing detergent composition, the potassium sources being expressly free of potassium tripolyphosphate, and maintaining a K:Na weight ratio greater than at least about 0.5:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Xiaoqing Song, Peter Robert Foley, Melissa Dee Aquino
  • Patent number: 6838420
    Abstract: A translucent or transparent composition comprising a. about 3 to about 40 wt. % soap, b. about 4 to about 40 wt. % of at least one synthetic surfactant, c. about 14 to about 45 wt. % water, d. from 0 to about 3 wt. % lower monohydric alcohol, e. about 5 to about 60 wt. % of a humectant, f. from 0 to about 5 wt. % of a structurant, g. from 0 to about 10 wt. % of a gellant with the proviso that the structurant and gellant are not 0 at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Amit Sachdev
  • Patent number: 6818603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cleansing bars including: a) a cleansing composition; and b) a plurality of discrete elements having a length to diameter ratio of from about 50 to 1 to about 100,000 to 1. The cleansing bars according to the invention have good grippability, exfoliating and cleansing properties and are capable of providing a significant amount of lather in a relatively short period of time. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the cleansing bar described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Margaret Aleles, David Burwell, Raymond Ip
  • Publication number: 20040186032
    Abstract: Translucent soap compositions comprising soap base and a translucency-enhancing amount of benzoate ester are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: FINETEX, INC.
    Inventors: Miguel A. Leone, Ismail I. Walele
  • Patent number: 6794344
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: The Dial Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Taylor, Ricardo Diez, Michael Slayton
  • Publication number: 20040110653
    Abstract: A bar element intended for personal washing use only once or a few times, after which minimal soap remains on the element. The soap bar element includes an inexpensive, preferably inert, core supporting a relatively thin shell of soap. The core may be formed of any convenient material, such as rigid or foam polyurethane or polystyrene, or of water-soluble or biodegradable material such as oxycellulose polymers. The soap may be any solid soap material. The core may extend through one or more surfaces of the soap shell. The core comprises at least about 25%, and preferably greater than about 80%, by volume of the bar element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: Robert Cushman Brown
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6730643
    Abstract: A transparent soap bar comprising: (iii) from 30 to 60% by weight of the soap bar of total fatty matter wherein from 1 to 15% by weight is the salt of 12-hydroxystearic acid or a precursor thereof; (iv) from 20 to 50% by weight of the soap bar of at least one polyhydric alcohol; and (iii) water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhanraj Kalyansundaram Chokappa, Vinodkumar Ramniranjan Dhanuka, Subhash Shivshankar Mhatre
  • Patent number: 6727211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of cleansing and moisturizing skin using multiphase extruded soap bar achieving hardness of a discontinuous phase is at least two times the hardness of a continuous phase in which it is found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Gregory Jay McFann, Mariangela Gomes De Oliveira Sichmann
  • Patent number: 6723690
    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: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Aronson, Badreddine Ahtchi-Ali, Sergio Roberto Leopoldino, Gregory Jay Mc Fann, Mariangela Gomes De Oliveira Sichmann
  • Patent number: 6720296
    Abstract: A soap assembly comprising a transparent soap, an embedded toy, figurine or the like, and an embedded image layer. The soap assembly could also comprise a transparent soap with an embedded dissolvable image layer. The dissolvable image layer could be a liquid such that the toy, figurine or the like is floating within the image layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Inventor: Mary Kay Bitton
  • Patent number: 6706675
    Abstract: A soap bar composition includes a soap mixture, a polyalkylene glycol, at least one of glycerin and sorbitol, water; and optionally, free fatty acid. The soap bar composition exhibits translucent properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: The Dial Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Demson, James Dalton
  • Publication number: 20040043913
    Abstract: A soap bar composition includes a soap mixture, a polyalkylene glycol, at least one of glycerin and sorbitol, water; and optionally, free fatty acid. The soap bar composition exhibits translucent properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Robert Demson, James Dalton
  • Patent number: 6696398
    Abstract: A solid translucent or transparent soap composition comprising a cleansing effective amount of soap and an antidiscoloration effective amount of the benzotriazole 2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-6-dodecl-4-methylphenol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Aberdeen Allen, Jr., Enrique Joel Valencia Garcia
  • Patent number: 6689728
    Abstract: A composition and a method of preparing a solid, transparent/translucent moisturizing/cosmetic/personal cleansing bar having one or more visible soap inserts, wherein a transparent soap matrix surrounding the soap insert has an increased melting temperature of at least 55° C. to prevent melting the soap insert during manufacture, and to reduce deformation during storage and handling, increasing its hardness and durability, and substantially reducing the tendency of the bar to lose weight over time by evaporation of water by exposure to room temperature. The soap insert can have the same composition as the surrounding transparent matrix soap, having less water to provide at least a 3° C. higher melting point, and/or a small percentage of pigment or dye, for easy recycling of defective bars, without the need to separate the soap insert from the surrounding matrix soap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Dial Company
    Inventor: Ricardo Diez
  • Patent number: 6673756
    Abstract: Multiphase soaps in which the individual phases are highly visible when viewed from above and from the side have high stability. Their use permits various scent experiences to be achieved during the washing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Symrise GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen Sonnenberg, Marcus Ohrmann, Theodor Schmidt, Rolf-Günter Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6656893
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent bar soap composition comprising a sodium salt of a fatty acid or a mixed sodium/potassium salt of a fatty acid, at least one amphoteric surfactant selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas (A) to (C), a nonionic surfactant, and at least one glycerin derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignees: Shiseido Honecake Industry Co., Ltd., P & PF Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Saito, Daiji Nagahama, Nobuyuki Kishi, Tetsuo Nishina
  • Publication number: 20030171232
    Abstract: The present invention may be regarded as a decorative soap bar and a method for making same. The decorative soap bar includes a plurality of components that have a mineral-like coating. The components are encased in a non-opaque soap member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Scott H. Freeman, Faith Freeman
  • Publication number: 20030087779
    Abstract: A solid translucent or transparent soap composition comprising a cleansing effective amount of soap and an antidiscoloration effective amount of the benzotriazole 2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-6-dodecl-4-methylphenol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Aberdeen Allen, Enrique Joel Valencia Garcia
  • Publication number: 20030064901
    Abstract: A composition and a method of preparing a solid, transparent/translucent moisturizing/cosmetic/personal cleansing bar having one or more visible soap inserts, wherein a transparent soap matrix surrounding the soap insert has an increased melting temperature of at least 55° C. to prevent melting the soap insert during manufacture, and to reduce deformation during storage and handling, increasing its hardness and durability, and substantially reducing the tendency of the bar to lose weight over time by evaporation of water by exposure to room temperature. The soap insert can have the same composition as the surrounding transparent matrix soap, having less water to provide at least a 3° C. higher melting point, and/or a small percentage of pigment or dye, for easy recycling of defective bars, without the need to separate the soap insert from the surrounding matrix soap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventor: Ricardo Diez
  • Publication number: 20030050202
    Abstract: Disclosed is a kit for making transparent soaps at home and a method for making transparent soaps using the kit, which can be used to conveniently make transparent soaps having various shapes at one time at home. The kit includes an upper plate and a sidewall extending downward from the entire edge of the upper plate. The upper plate has a plurality of mould cavities opened upward. The method includes the steps of preparing a transparent soap composition, melting the transparent soap composition, injecting the molten composition to the kit, solidifying the molten composition and taking the solidified soap out of the kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventor: Byeng-Ro An
  • Publication number: 20030027734
    Abstract: A transparent soap bar comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhanraj Kalyansundaram Chokappa, Vinodkumar Ramniranjan Dhanuka, Subhash Shivshankar Mhatre
  • Patent number: 6514919
    Abstract: Cleansing bar compositions that are efficient and have excellent foam properties and low ocular and skin irritation are disclosed. The compositions include dibenzylidene sorbitol as a gelling agent, a glycol solvent, and a combination of anionic, amphoteric, and nonionic surfactants to provide detergency. The compositions may contain hydroxypropyl cellulose as a solidifying synergist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Danilo L. Lambino, Annabelle J. Personeni, Noble J. Mathew
  • Patent number: 6479441
    Abstract: A process for inhibiting the formation of surface haze on finished transparent soap bars involving the steps of: (a) providing a finished transparent soap bar; (b) providing a coating component selected from the group consisting of water, a C1-C8 aliphatic alcohol, a polyol, and mixtures thereof; (c) applying the coating component onto the finished transparent soap bar to form a coated transparent soap bar; and (d) immediately packaging the coated transparent soap bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Cognis Corporation
    Inventor: J. Matthew White
  • Patent number: 6462003
    Abstract: A transparent solid soap or transparent soap material which comprises mainly of a salt of the fatty acid, is obtained by saponifying fatty acid or animal/vegetable oil with alkali, wherein 1) the alkali is sodium hydroxide and organic amine, and a molar ratio of sodium hydroxide to organic amine is from 1:0.8 to 1:2, and 2) a quantity of the alkali is 2 to 3 saponifying equivalents to the fatty acid or the animal/vegetable oil. The transparent solid soap and the transparent soap material according to the present invention can be easily produced without requiring a fine control of moisture content, and a maturing period till reduction in weight is settled, and, besides, good in stabilities of transparency and of weight with a passage of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Pola Chemical Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Shimosato, Masanori Okada
  • Patent number: 6462002
    Abstract: A monohydric alcohol-free, transparent, moisturizing bar soap having a high humectant solvent content. The formulation includes: (i) from about 38% to about 96% of one or more humectant solvents and (ii) from about 3% to about 20% of insoluble and/or soluble fatty acid soaps, with at least about 3% insoluble fatty acid soap. The weight ratio of humectant solvent to insoluble fatty acid soap ranges from about 3:1 to about 23:1. The bar soap has a standardized wear rate of less than about 15% and a hardness of from about 30 to about 100 hardness units. The transparent solid bar soap may be manufactured by a “hot pour” process with conventional batch mixing equipment designed for relatively moderate temperatures; accordingly, the bar soap may be packaged for final consumer use in the mold in which it was formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Access Business Group International LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Saxena, William M. Luke
  • Patent number: 6455478
    Abstract: A soap assembly comprising a transparent soap, an embedded toy, figurine or the like, and an embedded image layer. The soap assembly could also comprise a transparent soap with an embedded dissolvable image layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Inventor: Mary Kay Bitton
  • Publication number: 20020132743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent bar soap composition comprising a sodium salt of a fatty acid or a mixed sodium/potassium salt of a fatty acid, at least one amphoteric surfactant selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas (A) to (C), a nonionic surfactant, and at least one glycerin derivative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Saito, Daiji Nagahama, Nobuyuki Kishi, Tetsuo Nishina
  • Publication number: 20020128163
    Abstract: Cleansing bar compositions that are efficient and have excellent foam properties and low ocular and skin irritation are disclosed. The compositions include dibenzylidene sorbitol as a gelling agent, a glycol solvent, and a combination of anionic, amphoteric, and nonionic surfactants to provide detergency. The compositions may contain hydroxypropyl cellulose as a solidifying synergist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Danilo L. Lambino, Annabelle J. Personeni, Noble J. Mathew
  • Patent number: RE38946
    Abstract: A small toy or figurine is located inside a transparent body of soap. The soap fully surrounds and encapsulates the small toy. The small toy is completely visible within the body of soap. The body of soap is shaped like a figurine or is in another form which may complement or conform to the shape of the inner toy. A clear or colored plastic container whose shape matches the shape of the body of soap serves as a container for the soap and may also serve as a soap dish. The body of soap is placed inside the plastic container. The small toy incased within the body of soap is visible from outside the plastic container once the body of soap is placed inside the plastic container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Inventor: Mary K. Bitton
  • Patent number: RE45998
    Abstract: A mold and a process for preparing a customized hot pour product formed of a hot pour material. The process comprises the steps of providing a mold having a top part with a pour space and a base part, applying hot pour material into the mold through the pour space and allowing the hot pour material to cool, removing the top part of the mold to provide a first exposed surface, and releasing the base part to provide a second exposed surface. The mold may be customized to include inserts, removable members, projections, recesses, and combinations thereof in the base part and/or top part, thereby providing for a hot pour product with one or more exposed surfaces that are embossed, debossed, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Cosmetic Group USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfred E. Booth