Soap Component Patents (Class 510/152)
  • Patent number: 6852681
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Judith Lynne Kerschner, Georgia Shafer, Charles Craig Nunn, Terence James Farrell
  • Patent number: 6849585
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence James Farrell, Charles Craig Nunn
  • Patent number: 6846787
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence James Farrell, Charles Craig Nunn
  • Patent number: 6846786
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Patel, Joseph Oreste Carnali
  • Patent number: 6841524
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Patel, Joseph Oreste Carnali, Ritu Verma
  • 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: 6821942
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Laurence Sebillotte-Arnaud, Veronique Guillou
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6818602
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Inventor: Kathy J. Haag
  • Patent number: 6809071
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Hasegawa, Yasunori Miyamoto, Tadao Abe, Koichi Hatano
  • Patent number: 6809070
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Thomas Nikolaos Morikis, Richard Loren Mc Manus
  • Patent number: 6800601
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 6770606
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Koduvely, Suresh Murigeppa Nadakatti, Vijay Mukund Naik, Prassana Pathak, Shiju Thomas
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6752998
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Delphine Verdrel-Lahaxe, Lien Bui-Bertrand
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20040058831
    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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 6693066
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Michael G. Clarke
  • 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: 6664217
    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: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 6660699
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Finucane, Bruce Casbarro, Sudhakar Puvvada, Joseph J. Podgorsky
  • 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: 20030211955
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Thomas Nikolaos Morikis, Richard Loren McManus
  • Patent number: 6630432
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco
    Inventors: Terence James Farrell, Charles Craig Nunn, Keith Francis
  • 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: 20030166480
    Abstract: A translucent or transparent composition comprising
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventor: Amit Sachdev
  • Patent number: 6605586
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Meccaniche Moderne S.R.L. Chemical Plants Division
    Inventor: Carlo Pisoni
  • Patent number: 6599869
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: LG Chemical Ltd
    Inventors: Je-Kwon Goo, Young-Ho Choi, Moon-Jeong Rang, Tae-Seong Kim, Tae-Kyung Huh, Jung-Jin Choi, Ho-Jeong Ahn
  • Publication number: 20030134762
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Unilever Home and Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Finucane, Bruce Casbarro, Sudhakar Puvvada, Joseph J. Podgorsky
  • Patent number: 6589923
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Beiersdorf AG
    Inventors: Andreas Lenuck, Jens Treu, Erich Karcher
  • Patent number: 6586379
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Seipel
  • Publication number: 20030104958
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Michael G. Clarke
  • Publication number: 20030096719
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Takeshi Hasegawa, Yasunori Miyamoto, Tadao Abe, Koichi Hatano
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6559110
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventor: John A. Lopes
  • Patent number: 6544938
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Yury Yarovoy, Michael Massaro, Rajesh Patel
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6541433
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Beiersdorf AG
    Inventors: Michael Schultz, Jens Treu
  • Patent number: 6537953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Beiersdorf AG
    Inventors: Michael Schultz, Jens Treu
  • Patent number: 6537954
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Beiersdorf AG
    Inventors: Michael Schultz, Jens Treu
  • 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