The Procter Gamble Company

The Proctor 'gamble Company

Delyth Myfanwy Jenkins

George Endell Deckner

Lynette Anne Makins Holland

Michael Jude Leblanc

Gabor Heltovics

Jane Margaret Warwick

Kenneth Eugene Kyte, Iii

Emma Louise Pretswell

Jennifer Elizabeth Phillips

Karen Lorraine Sutton

Andrew James Peter Shefferd

Gillian Scott Briggs

Karen Fish

The present invention relates to pre-formed devices for delivering benefit agents to the skin, hair or nails. The devices are patches or masks for cosmetic or therapeutic use and comprise a unilamellar, solid gel sheet having at least one surface at least partially coated with a discrete coating composition comprising at least one benefit agent for the skin, hair or nails. The invention also encompasses methods of producing and using such devices. The coating composition allows more efficient delivery of benefit agents to the skin than previously known devices and/or affords greater formulation flexibility.

Cosmetic devices

The invention provides a method for improving release, on a surface, of a fragrance from an entrapment structure of at least one fragrance oil and at least one entrapment material. The method destabilizes the entrapment structure by providing at least one trigger molecule which preferentially associates with the entrapment material; and/or at least one release agent which at least partially disrupts the entrapment structure. The invention also provides a composition for improving release of a fragrance from a surface. The composition comprises at least one fragrance oil; at least one entrapment material, the at least one fragrance oil and the at least one entrapment material being capable, in use, of forming an entrapment structure on the surface. The composition also comprises at least one destabilizing material, which permits formation of the entrapment structure on the surface but which destabilizing material can, in use, destabilize the entrapment structure by providing at least one trigger molecule which preferentially associates with the entrapment material; and/or at least one release agent which partially disrupts the entrapment structure; and at least one compatible solvent which doesn't interfere with the formation of the entrapment structure on the surface. The present methods and compositions can improve fragrance perception, by overcoming the differences in fragrance perception that result from different surface, for example, skin, hydration levels and/or different surface types.

Methods and compositions for improved fragrancing of a surface

Powder cosmetic compositions

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Egham, United Kingdom

Delyth Myfanwy Jenkins