L'oreal

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.

Janet Wangari-Talbot

Kelly Marie George

Zane Miller

Destenee Green

Ying Sun

Patricia Brieva

Ramine Parsa

Wen-Hwa Ting Li

Ali Fassih

Devin Garcia

Marisa DeVita Dufort

I-Chien Liao

Ya-Ping Hu

Kun Qian

Jyotsna Paturi

Qian Zheng

Charbel Bouez

Anne-Sophie Brillouet

Robert Wayne Yates

Dianne Rossetti

Devin L Garcia

Marisa Devita Dufort

A method for improving skin comprising reducing the barrier function of skin, and applying a skin treatment composition to the skin. The skin treatment composition may include about 0.1 to about 25 wt. % of acetyl trifluoromethylphenyl valylglycine; about 0.5 to about 30 wt. % of a polyol; about 0.1 to about 30 wt. % of a silicone, fatty compound, or a mixtures thereof, wherein the skin treatment composition is an emulsion, and all weight percentages are based on the total weight of the skin treatment composition.

Methods and compositions for improving skin

An apparatus is provided for lip conditioning, including a mouthpiece having an opening configured to press against a portion of tissue or lips of a user; and a chamber configured to receive the portion of the tissue or lips of the user through the opening, wherein the apparatus is configured to generate suction within the chamber, and to apply a negative pressure to a portion of tissue or lips of a user.

Lip-enhancement device and method

A lip conditioning device for providing enhanced tissue therapy to lip tissue of a user, the device including a mouthpiece having a chamber with a distal end configured to create a seal with a portion of lip tissue of a user; a base portion, connected to the mouthpiece, including a controller in communication with a power source, and a suction device configured to remove air within the chamber; and a set of controls, in communication with the controller, configured to control a mode of operation of the tissue therapy.

Multi-action lip-enhancement device

Low pH compositions for topical administration to skin are provided. They comprise a buffering agent having a pKa of about 2.8 to about 4.2 and a cosmetically acceptable active ingredient having a pKa within about 1 unit of the pKa of the buffering agent. The composition has a pH of about 3.3 to 4 and a buffer capacity of at least about 0.15. A method of increasing the topical delivery of a cosmetically acceptable active ingredient having a pKa of about 2.8 to about 4 is also provided.

Topical delivery of skin compositions having low pH

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Hillsborough, NJ, United States of America

Janet Wangari-Talbot