Unilever Home and Personal Care Usa, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Chesebrough-pond's USA Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.

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Unilever Home & Personal Care Usa, a Division of Conopco, Inc.

Euan Stuart Reid

Ezat Khoshdel

Keith Leslie Rutherford

Ralph B Nielsen

Damian A Hajduk

Mingjun Liu

Jean M J Frechet

Jonathan David Hague

Robert John Carswell

Gerald Adams

David A Hitchen

Anthony Moretta

James Bernard Cooper

Yvonne Christine Plant

Deborah J Forster

Abid Nadim Khan-Lodhi

Christophe M Finel

This invention relates to a fabric care composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer and a textile compatible carrier, a method of treating fabric with such a composition as part of a laundering process and the use of a thermoplastic elastomer or a composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer to improve the crease recovery properties and/or elasticity and/or shape retention of a fabric.

Fabric care composition comprising a block copolymer having a methoxyethyl acrylate core polymer and an alkyl methacrylate flanking polymer

Cosmetic or personal care compositions, such as for styling hair, comprise a thermoplastic elastomer which is a block copolymer comprising a core polymer having a backbone comprising at least a proportion of C&#x2014;C bonds and two or more flanking polymers. Each flanking polymer is covalently bound to an end of the core polymer and the core polymer and/or at least one of the flanking polymers is a copolymer derived from two or more monomers. The compositions comprise a cosmetically acceptable diluent or carrier.

Cosmetic and personal care compositions

Cosmetic or personal care compositions, such as for styling hair, comprise a thermoplastic elastomer which is a block copolymer comprising a core polymer having a backbone comprising at least a proportion of C&mdash;C bonds and two or more flanking polymers. Each flanking polymer is covalently bound to an end of the core polymer and the copolymer is soluble at a level of at least 1% by weight in water at 25&deg; C. The compositions comprise a cosmetically acceptable diluent or carrier.

Cosmetic or personal care compositions, such as for styling hair, comprise a thermoplastic elastomer which is a block copolymer comprising a core polymer having a backbone comprising at least a proportion of C&mdash;C bonds and two or more flanking polymers. Each flanking polymer is covalently bound to an end of the core polymer and the core polymer and/or at least one of the flanking polymers is a copolymer derived from two or more monomers. The compositions comprise a cosmetically acceptable diluent or carrier.

A process for making a polysiloxane block copolymer which is built up from units of the formula &lsqb;A&rsqb; &lsqb;B&rsqb;, in which A is a polymeric block built up from radically polymerisable monomer, and B is a polysiloxane block, the process comprising the steps of polymerising a radically polymerisable monomer in the presence of an atom transfer radical initiator to form an polymer which is end-functionalized with a leaving group capable of nucleophilic substitution by nucleophilic end-groups on a polysiloxane, and reacting the polymer with a polysiloxane having nucleophilic end-groups so that a polysiloxane block copolymer is formed via a nucleophilic displacement reaction between the end-groups on the polysiloxane and leaving groups on the polymer respectively. Also provided is a cosmetic and personal care composition, such as a hair styling composition, comprising the polysiloxane block copolymer as described above.

Polysiloxane block copolymers in topical cosmetic and personal care compositions

A transparent conditioning composition for hair comprises a stable transparent dispersion of: (i) a substantially water-insoluble quaternary ammonium material having two C.sub.12-28 alkyl or alkenyl groups connected to the quaternary ammonium head group via at least one ester linkage, and (ii) a solubilising agent comprising at least one surfactant, preferably cationic surfactants.

Hair conditioning composition

A method is provided for treating hair with an active ingredient such as an anti-dandruff and/or sunscreen agent by delivery within a cationic liposomal dispersion. The dispersion is pre-prepared with inclusion of the active ingredient, and then incorporated into the final hair treatment composition.

Liposomes for deposition on hair

A shampoo composition comprising in addition to water

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Euan Stuart Reid