Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Live hair or scalp treating compositions – Polymer containing
Patent
1997-05-29
1999-10-19
Page, Thurman K.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Live hair or scalp treating compositions
Polymer containing
424 7021, 424 7022, 424401, 510101, 510121, 510159, 510507, A61K 706, C11D 350
Patent
active
059684917
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to cleansing compositions. In particular it relates to mild personal cleansing compositions with good skin feel attributes and foaming properties suitable for simultaneously cleansing and conditioning the skin and/or the hair and which may be used, for example, in the form of foam bath preparations, shower products, skin cleansers, hand, face and body cleansers, shampoos, etc.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Mild cosmetic compositions must satisfy a number of criteria including cleansing power, foaming properties and mildness/low irritancy/good feel with respect to the skin, hair and the ocular mucosae. Skin is made up of several layers of cells which coat and protect the keratin and collagen fibrous proteins that form the skeleton of its structure. The outermost of these layers, referred to as the stratum corneum, is known to be composed of 250 .ANG. protein bundles surrounded by 80 .ANG. thick layers. Hair similarly has a protective outer coating enclosing the hair fibre which is called the cuticle. Anionic surfactants can penetrate the stratum corneum membrane and the cuticle and, by delipidization destroy membrane integrity. This interference with skin and hair protective membranes can lead to a rough skin feel and eye irritation and may eventually permit the surfactant to interact with the keratin and hair proteins creating irritation and loss of barrier and water retention functions.
Ideal cosmetic cleansers should cleanse the skin or hair gently, without defatting and/or drying the hair and skin and without irritating the ocular mucosae or leaving skin taut after frequent use. Most lathering soaps, shower and bath products, shampoos and bars fail in this respect.
Certain synthetic surfactants are known to be mild. However, a major drawback of most mild synthetic surfactant systems when formulated for shampooing or personal cleansing is poor lather performance compared to the highest shampoo and bar soap standards. Thus, surfactants that are among the mildest, such as sodium lauryl glyceryl ether sulfonate, (AGS), are marginal in lather. The use of known high sudsing anionic surfactants with lather boosters, on the other hand, can yield acceptable lather volume and quality but at the expense of clinical skin mildness. These two facts make the surfactant selection, the lather and mildness benefit formulation process a delicate balancing act.
Despite the many years of research that have been expended by the toiletries industry on personal cleansing, the broad mass of consumers remain dissatisfied by the mildness of present day cleansing compositions, finding, for example, that they have to apply a separate cosmetic lotion or cream moisturizer to the skin after using a shower or bath preparation in order to maintain skin suppleness and hydration and to counteract the delipidizing effect of the cleanser.
It is known from the art that inclusion of oils in bathing compositions can provide post-use skin feel benefits. However incorporation of oils at levels sufficient to deliver consumer noticeable benefits has until now proved to be a challenge, particularly with respect to the delivery of creamy, stable good lather characteristics in the presence of oil and avoiding unpleasant `slimey`/`greasy` water feel or oily appearance during use while still delivering a desirable after-use soft skin feel. A further difficulty associated with combining high levels of oil with conventional detergent systems has been the acheivement of a stable system in which the oil can be released into the water during use It has now been found that personal cleansing compositions having excellent lather volume, stability and feel characterisitcs in combination with good skin feel attributes both for in use feel and after use feel as well as improved product stability can be formed by the use of a mixed stabilising system in combination with certain nonionic surfactants with auxiliary surfactants and dispersible oils in particular levels and ratios.
Thus a need exists for personal cleans
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Little Darryl C.
Page Thurman K.
Seidlech Brian K.
The Procter & Gamble & Company
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