Lever Brothers Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.

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

Conopco, Inc.

Lever Brothers Company

Unilever Patent Holdings B.v.

Unilever Plc

Unilever, N.v.

Unilever IP Holdings B.v.

Unilever Global IP Limited

Unilever Plc, a Company Registered in England and Wales Under Company No. 41424

Graham Andrew Turner

Kevin Ronald Franklin

Jason Shaun Burry

Bruce Steven Emslie

Richard Livesey Evans

Neil Robert Fletcher

Beng Sim Chuah

Simon R Ellis

Kavssery Parameswaran Ananthapadmanabhan

John George Chambers

Georgia L Shafer

Albert Joseph Post

Joseph Muscat

Alexander Gordon James

Francis G Foster

Caroline Alexandra Hall

Gordon Charles Hough

Christopher Francis Smith

Angela Mary Murphy

Daniel Albert Martindale

Sigrun Eriksen

Aneliya Nikolova Zdravkova

Stuart A Emmons

Sarah Jayne Clare

Miyuki Kanda

Howard Allen Ketelson

Sarah Jane Clare

Laura Dimitrova Stoimenof

Kathryn Elizabeth Gransden (nee Rowe)

Michael Massaro

Ian Hopkinson

John Joseph Birmingham

Xiaoying Bian

Ritu Nirula

Sarah Elizabeth Paterson

Vernon Peter Marti

Joseph Muscatt

Susan Welch

Christopher John Little

Clive Roderick Harding

The invention provides an antimicrobial personal cleansing composition comprising: (i) an aqueous continuous phase including one or more anionic cleansing surfactants; (ii) a dispersed phase including dispersed particles of zinc pyrithione (ZPT); (iii) a structuring polymer for the aqueous continuous phase which is selected from crosslinked alkali-swellable acrylic emulsion (ASE) polymers; and (iv) from 3 to 20 wt % niacinamide based on the total weight of the composition, wherein the structuring polymer is selected from crosslinked copolymers of (meth)acrylic acid with one or more C1 to C5 alkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid.

Antimicrobial personal cleansing compositions

The invention relates to an anti-dandruff shampoo comprising: &#x2014;a) from 0.1 to 5 wt. % of an anti-dandruff zinc salt; b) from 1 to 8 wt. % of an alkyl glycinate and/or alkyl carboxyglycinate; c) from 2 to 16 wt. % of an alkyl sulphate and/or an ethoxylated alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant; and, d) from 1 to 10 wt. % of a fatty acyl isethionate product which product comprises 40 to 80 wt. % fatty acyl isethionate and 15 to 50 wt. % free fatty acid and/or fatty acid salt and to the use of a surfactant system comprising components b) to d) to provide an improvement to the skin stratum corneum barrier.

Anti-dandruff shampoo

Hair treatment composition comprising an azole fungicide and zinc gluconate and wherein the composition does not comprise Trichogen&#xae;.

Composition comprising azole fungicide and water soluble metal salt

The invention provides a hand held hair treatment device for the stimulation of hair growth on the scalp, which device comprises:

Scalp treatment device

Spray compositions and particularly anhydrous aerosol compositions containing particulate antiperspirant actives exhibit a tendency for nozzle blockage, impeding discharge of the contents when a polyol humectant, such as glycerol, is blended into its base composition. The problem is overcome or at least ameliorated by preparation of a base composition, suitable for employment in conjunction with a propellant, that contains a low molecular weight (liquid) polyethylene glycol (PEG) as humectant, and particularly a PEG of molecular weight 150 to 500.

Spray compositions

A hair treatment composition comprising a trichogenic material and an anti-dandruff agent.

Hair care composition

Cosmetic compositions in the form of soft solids having in combination an improved resistance to syneresis and retained efficacy and which contain a particulate antiperspirant suspended in a water-immiscible carrier liquid structured by a structurant system are obtainable by employing as carrier liquid a mixture of a hydrocarbon oil and an aromatic ester oil in a weight ratio of from 1:2 to 15:1 and as structurant system from 5.5 to 20% in total of a di or triblock alkylene/arylene block copolymer and an organic wax in a weight ratio to each other of from 5:1 to 30:1.

Cosmetic compositions

Antiperspirant compositions

Antiperspirant formulations

Antiperspirant emulsions which exhibit excellent phase stability even in the presence of an effective concentration of antiperspirant salts in solution and which are thickened are obtainable by dispersing a hydratable polymer and particularly an amphoteric or cationic modified starch in an aqueous emulsion forming a viscous emulsion, often at an elevated temperature, subjecting the emulsion to high shear, thereby reducing the droplet size of the dispersed oil phase, bringing the emulsion to below 40&deg; C. and introducing the antiperspirant, preferably in aqueous solution. The viscous emulsion subjected to high shear mixing desirably has a Sheer Stress of 10 to 500 Pa. The resultant emulsions show good phase stability even when they contain aluminium/ zirconium antiperspirant salts that promote instability and even at elevated storage temperatures such as at 50&deg; C.

A personal care composition in the form of an aqueous liquid comprises:

Personal care composition

A personal care composition in the form of an aqueous liquid comprises: i) a lipid composition comprising three components A, B and C, where A is a molecule having at least two hydrocarbon chains and a polar head group for which ##EQU1## B is a molecule having one long chain and a polar head group; and C comprises a compound capable of assisting the formation of lipid bilayers and stabilizing any lipid bilayers formed in the lipid composition; and the molar ratio of A:B:C is 1.0:1.5 to 6.0:1.1 to 8.0; ii) a surface active agent selected from anionic, nonionic, cationic, zwitterionic, amphoteric surface active agents, soap and mixtures thereof; and iii) a deposition aid. The composition may in the form of for example a shower gel or facial cleanser which is temporarily applied to the skin before being removed such as wiping or rinsing it from the skin.

Aqueous personal care cleanser comprising specific lipid composition

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Graham Andrew Turner