Soap Component Patents (Class 510/152)
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Patent number: 6852681Abstract: The invention relates to perfume-containing bar compositions in which the effect of said perfume(s) (e.g., longevity) is enhanced relative to comparative bars in that perfume-containing bar of the invention, comprise less than about 35% soluble surfactant. The invention further comprises a process for enhancing deposition/longevity of perfume, for example, by controlling the level of soluble active relative to insoluble active and/or by increasing levels of perfume.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Judith Lynne Kerschner, Georgia Shafer, Charles Craig Nunn, Terence James Farrell
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Patent number: 6849585Abstract: The invention relates to soap/free fatty acid bars in which high amounts of free fatty acid (i.e., greater than 35%, preferably greater than 40% and ratio of FFA to soap greater than 1:1) and low levels of synthetic may be used. In the bar, the free fatty acid is believed to form a complex which is believed to act as a structurant, thereby allowing less use of synthetic surfactant. The bar should require less synthetic surfactant. Total amount of unsaturated material in soap and fatty acid should be no higher than 15% In a second embodiment of the invention, the bar may be made by a neutralization process whereby fatty acid is combined with caustic (e.g., lower than 50% caustic) to form soap and free fatty acid in defined amounts or proportions.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Terence James Farrell, Charles Craig Nunn
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Patent number: 6846787Abstract: The invention relates to bar compositions which are structured in such manner (i.e., through specific ternary system) that bars can extrude well and have good properties (e.g., lather), even at low synthetic surfactant level.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Terence James Farrell, Charles Craig Nunn
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Patent number: 6846786Abstract: The present composition comprises bars having small amounts of surfactant and high amounts of sugars which bar maintains good rates of wear and foams adequately. The sugar has unexpectedly been found to structure bars, even when little or no insoluble fatty acid is used, without degrading bar properties. Further, the invention comprises a process for making such bars which are white and consumer desirable.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rajesh Patel, Joseph Oreste Carnali
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Patent number: 6841524Abstract: The present composition comprises bar having small amounts of surfactant and high amounts of sugars which bar maintains good rates of wear and foams adequately. The sugar has unexpectedly been found to structure bars, even when little or no insoluble fatty acid is used, without degrading bar properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Rajesh Patel, Joseph Oreste Carnali, Ritu Verma
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Patent number: 6838420Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 11, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventor: Amit Sachdev
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Patent number: 6821942Abstract: A cleansing composition, comprising (1) at least one foaming surfactant, (2) at least one hydrophobic silica and (3) at least one oxyalkylenated compound in a physiologically acceptable aqueous medium comprising at least 35% by weight of water relative to the total weight of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Laurence Sebillotte-Arnaud, Veronique Guillou
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Patent number: 6818603Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2002Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc.Inventors: Margaret Aleles, David Burwell, Raymond Ip
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Patent number: 6818602Abstract: A soap system for efficiently cleaning a hunter and covering their human scent with an earthy scent. The soap system includes heating a volume of soap to a melting point and then mixing a dirt scent into the melted soap. The mixture is then poured into a mold, hardened, removed and then cut into a plurality of bar members. The bar members are then wrapped with an inner covering and an outer covering. The inner covering is preferably comprised of a non-permeable material. The outer covering is preferably comprised of a camouflage material and design.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Inventor: Kathy J. Haag
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Patent number: 6809071Abstract: A method of producing aerated soap 5 comprising solidifying molten soap 4 having bubbles dispersed therein in a molding unit, wherein a storage tank 61 of the molten soap 4 has a circulating duct 62 forming a loop passing through the storage tank 62, and the circulating duct 62 or the storage tank 61 has connected thereto a feed nozzle 31 for feeding the molten soap 4, whereby the molten soap 4 is fed to the molding unit through the feed nozzle 31 while being circulated in the circulating duct 62.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Takeshi Hasegawa, Yasunori Miyamoto, Tadao Abe, Koichi Hatano
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Patent number: 6809070Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain harsh to the skin cleansing components, such as soap, and a latent acidifier. The latent acidifier reduces the pH of the toilet bar when used for cleansing but does not substantially affect the hardness of the toilet bar. Lather, drag properties, and deposition of benefit agents are substantially improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Thomas Nikolaos Morikis, Richard Loren Mc Manus
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Patent number: 6800601Abstract: A detergent bar is made by (1) applying pressure to a detergent composition to deliver it to a substantially closed mold at a temperature less than 70° C.; (2) ensuring the pressure on the composition at point of entry is greater than 29.4 psi under the action of an injector head for at least part of the time over which the composition enters the mold; (3) cooling in the mold to form bar; and (4) removing.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Lever Brothers Company, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Peter Stewart Allan, John Martin Cordell, Graeme Neil Irving, Suresh Murigeppa Nadakatti, Vijay Mukund Naik, Christine Ann Overton, Frederick Edmund Stocker, Karnik Tarverdi, John Colin Wahlers
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Patent number: 6794344Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: The Dial CorporationInventors: Timothy Taylor, Ricardo Diez, Michael Slayton
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Patent number: 6790817Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Ecolab Inc.Inventors: Elizabeth J. Gladfelter, Tina O. Outlaw, James L. Copeland, Rhonda K. Schulz, Daniel K. Boche, Jeff W. Peterson
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Patent number: 6770606Abstract: Aerated, ultra low-density cast-dehydrated syndet detergent bars for use in personal wash, fabric wash and hard surface cleaning. A process for preparing aerated, ultra low-density cast-dehydrated detergent bars wherein the air is entrained in the bars after rigidification and shaping the product is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Hari Koduvely, Suresh Murigeppa Nadakatti, Vijay Mukund Naik, Prassana Pathak, Shiju Thomas
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Patent number: 6764991Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2003Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6752998Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides an exothermic composition, which includes at least one zeolite; at least one surfactant; at least one magnesium or calcium halide; and a physiologically acceptable anhydrous medium. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a composition, which includes a means for making the composition exothermic; at least one surfactant; at least one magnesium or calcium halide; and a physiologically acceptable anhydrous medium. Other embodiments of the present invention provide processes for removing make-up from or cleansing the skin or mucous membrane, and articles which include the composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2001Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Delphine Verdrel-Lahaxe, Lien Bui-Bertrand
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Patent number: 6734152Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Inventor: Stephanie Lynn Varner
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Patent number: 6730643Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Dhanraj Kalyansundaram Chokappa, Vinodkumar Ramniranjan Dhanuka, Subhash Shivshankar Mhatre
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Patent number: 6730642Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6727211Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6723690Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 10, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 6720296Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Inventor: Mary Kay Bitton
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Publication number: 20040058831Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Albert Joseph Post, Krishna Kumar Subramanyan, Anthony William Johnson, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Adolf Peter Barth, Petra Meinschien
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Patent number: 6706675Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: The Dial CorporationInventors: Robert Demson, James Dalton
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Patent number: 6696398Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Aberdeen Allen, Jr., Enrique Joel Valencia Garcia
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Patent number: 6693066Abstract: A toilet bar composition is described that contains an amido tertiary amine, amido amine salt, or amido ammonium skin conditioning agent in an amount effective to enhance skin feel and the deposition of hydrophobic emollients without having a deleterious effect on lathering speed, sand, and slip properties.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Michael G. Clarke
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Patent number: 6689728Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: The Dial CompanyInventor: Ricardo Diez
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Patent number: 6664217Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care, USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Albert Joseph Post, Krishna Kumar Subramanyan, Anthony William Johnson, Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Adolf Peter Barth, Petra Meinschien
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Patent number: 6660699Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain harsh to the skin cleansing components, such as soap, and a latent acidifier. The latent acidifier reduces the pH of the toilet bar when used for cleansing but does not substantially affect the hardness of the toilet bar.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USAInventors: Kevin Michael Finucane, Bruce Casbarro, Sudhakar Puvvada, Joseph J. Podgorsky
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Patent number: 6656893Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignees: Shiseido Honecake Industry Co., Ltd., P & PF Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Saito, Daiji Nagahama, Nobuyuki Kishi, Tetsuo Nishina
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Publication number: 20030211955Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain harsh to the skin cleansing components, such as soap, and a latent acidifier. The latent acidifier reduces the pH of the toilet bar when used for cleansing but does not substantially affect the hardness of the toilet bar. Lather, drag properties, and deposition of benefit agents are substantially improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of ConopcoInventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Thomas Nikolaos Morikis, Richard Loren McManus
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Patent number: 6630432Abstract: The invention relates to compositions comprising soap which, when used with at least 3% monoglyceride and or free fatty acid, allows incorporation of desirable &agr;-hydroxy while retaining good ploddability properties. In another embodiment, the invention relates to process for making such bars.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of ConopcoInventors: Terence James Farrell, Charles Craig Nunn, Keith Francis
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Publication number: 20030171232Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Scott H. Freeman, Faith Freeman
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Publication number: 20030166480Abstract: A translucent or transparent composition comprisingType: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventor: Amit Sachdev
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Patent number: 6605586Abstract: A process for the direct production of soap having the desired concentration of fatty acid from neutral fats by reacting, at a temperature higher than 100° C. and under pressure, an aqueous solution of an alkaline hydroxide or mixture of alkaline hydroxides having a quantity in moles equal to that of the fatty acids contained in the fat and/or oil and a quantity of water equal to that required to obtain the desired concentration of fatty acids in the final soap and heated at a temperature sufficient to obtain a clear solution, with the fat and/or oil previously heated at a temperature at least equal to that of the aqueous solution of the alkaline hydroxide.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Meccaniche Moderne S.R.L. Chemical Plants DivisionInventor: Carlo Pisoni
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Patent number: 6599869Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination soap bar composition containing monoglyceride sulfonates and a method for manufacturing the same. A combination bar composition containing monoglyceride sulfonates of the present invention comprises fatty acid based toilet bars and monoglyceride sulfonates of the following General Formula 1: where R is an alkyl having 7 to 21 carbon atoms, and M is sodium, potassium, triethanolamine, or ammonium. A combination bar composition containing monoglyceride sulfonates of the present invention has good general physical properties such as soap softness, etc. and very good moisturization properties and feel during usage even after repeated uses.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: LG Chemical LtdInventors: Je-Kwon Goo, Young-Ho Choi, Moon-Jeong Rang, Tae-Seong Kim, Tae-Kyung Huh, Jung-Jin Choi, Ho-Jeong Ahn
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Publication number: 20030134762Abstract: Mild toilet bar compositions are described that contain harsh to the skin cleansing components, such as soap, and a latent acidifier. The latent acidifier reduces the pH of the toilet bar when used for cleansing but does not substantially affect the hardness of the toilet bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Michael Finucane, Bruce Casbarro, Sudhakar Puvvada, Joseph J. Podgorsky
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Patent number: 6589923Abstract: Shaped soap product comprising talc, one or more fatty acids having 12-22 carbon atoms in the form of their alkali soaps and one or more refatting substances with the simultaneous absence of alkyl (oligo)glycosides.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Beiersdorf AGInventors: Andreas Lenuck, Jens Treu, Erich Karcher
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Patent number: 6586379Abstract: A soap bar composition containing: (a) an alkyl/alkenyl oligoglycoside; (b) an olefin sulfonate; and (c) a starch component, and wherein the soap bar composition is subtantially free of free fatty acids or their salts.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbHInventor: Werner Seipel
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Publication number: 20030104958Abstract: A toilet bar composition is described that contains an amido tertiary amine, amido amine salt, or amido ammonium skin conditioning agent in an amount effective to enhance skin feel and the deposition of hydrophobic emollients without having a deleterious effect on lathering speed, sand, and slip properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2001Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Michael G. Clarke
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Publication number: 20030096719Abstract: A method of producing aerated soap 5 comprising solidifying molten soap 4 having bubbles dispersed therein in a molding unit, wherein a storage tank 61 of the molten soap 4 has a circulating duct 62 forming a loop passing through the storage tank 62, and the circulating duct 62 or the storage tank 61 has connected thereto a feed nozzle 31 for feeding the molten soap 4, whereby the molten soap 4 is fed to the molding unit through the feed nozzle 31 while being circulated in the circulating duct 62.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Inventors: Takeshi Hasegawa, Yasunori Miyamoto, Tadao Abe, Koichi Hatano
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Publication number: 20030087779Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2001Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventors: Aberdeen Allen, Enrique Joel Valencia Garcia
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Patent number: 6559110Abstract: A bar soap preparation having enhanced antibacterial and microbial properties which contains between 0.1 weight % and 95 weight % of at least one anionic surfactant; and at least one acidifying agent present in an amount sufficient to impart a pH of below 5.0. The bar soap provides microbial protection resulting from its rapid microbicidal action.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Inventor: John A. Lopes
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Patent number: 6544938Abstract: The present invention relates to the composition comprising soap and alkoxylated triglyceride wherein said bars have improved sensory properties (e.g., reduced drag and stickiness; and enhanced slipperiness) relative to identical bar with non-alkoxylated triglyceride.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Yury Yarovoy, Michael Massaro, Rajesh Patel
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Publication number: 20030064901Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventor: Ricardo Diez
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Patent number: 6541433Abstract: Shaped soap product comprising talc, one or more fatty acids having 12-22 carbon atoms in the form of their alkali soaps and one or more nonionic surfactants with the simultaneous absence of alkyl (oligo)glycosides.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Beiersdorf AGInventors: Michael Schultz, Jens Treu
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Patent number: 6537953Abstract: Shaped soap product comprising talc, one or more fatty acids having 12-22 carbon atoms in the form of their alkali soaps and one or more amphoteric surfactants with the simultaneous absence of alkyl (oligo)glycosides.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Beiersdorf AGInventors: Michael Schultz, Jens Treu
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Patent number: 6537954Abstract: Shaped soap product comprising talc, one or more fatty acids having 12-22 carbon atoms in the form of their alkali soaps and one or more anionic surfactants with the simultaneous absence of alkyl (oligo)glycosides.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Beiersdorf AGInventors: Michael Schultz, Jens Treu
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Publication number: 20030027734Abstract: A transparent soap bar comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Dhanraj Kalyansundaram Chokappa, Vinodkumar Ramniranjan Dhanuka, Subhash Shivshankar Mhatre