L'oreal

Loreal Sa

L'or&#xc9;al S.a.

L'or&#xc9;al

L'or&eacute;al

The Joint Stock Company 'l'oreal'

L'institut Jeanne Piaubert

Jean-Louis H Gueret

Jean-Pierre Arraudeau

Nancy Adams

Jean-Claude Contamin

Bruno P Morane

Liliane Ayache

Francoise Lebreton

Yves Hardouin

Jean-Paul C Beck

Montserrat Tugas Casanoves

Bruno R Morane

The present invention relates to a packaging and applicator device () for applying a cosmetic or a care-product composition to the lips, the device comprising: &#x22c5; a container () containing the composition for application to the lips; and &#x22c5; an applicator member () that defines two opposite main application faces () that generally converge towards the distal end of the applicator member, for applying the composition to the user's bottom and top lips simultaneously; a greatest thickness of the applicator member, measured between the two main application faces, being greater than or equal to 4 mm, the greatest width of said main faces lying in the range 4 mm to 15 mm.

Packaging and applicator device for applying a cosmetic composition to the lips

A device () is provided for applying a composition (P) to the eyelashes and/or the eyebrows. The device includes a molded applicator member () including a core () having a longitudinal axis (X) and rows of teeth that are carried by the core (), preferably at least five rows, two teeth belonging to two consecutive rows not being parallel. The outside surface of at least one segment of the core () includes only one toothless portion, or only two toothless portions that are situated substantially opposite each other, or each toothless portion being of angular extent lying in the range 75&#xb0; to 110&#xb0; around the longitudinal axis.

Device for applying a composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows

The present invention relates to an applicator for combing the eyelashes and/or the eyebrows, and/or for applying a cosmetic, makeup, or a care product thereto, the applicator comprising a molded applicator member () that comprises: an inner core that is elongate along a longitudinal axis, and comprising opposite first and second portions that each extend along the longitudinal axis; and a plurality of rows of teeth, the rows extending along the longitudinal axis of the applicator member, with first rows and second rows of teeth extending from the first and second portions of the core respectively; at least half of the teeth of at least two consecutive first rows differing from at least half of the teeth of at least two consecutive second rows in thickness.

Applicator for combing the eyelashes or the eyebrows or for applying a composition thereto

An applicator for applying a cosmetic composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows, the applicator including a molded applicator member including: a core that extends along a longitudinal axis; and teeth that extend from the core, the teeth being disposed in more than four longitudinal rows along the longitudinal axis (X) of the core; the teeth presenting free ends that define an envelope surface of the applicator member, the envelope surface presenting, at least at one point along its length, a cross-section of shape that is flat, having a greatest transverse dimension lying in the range 7 mm to 12 mm, and a thickness lying in the range 3.5 mm to 7 mm.

Applicator for applying a composition to the eyelashes

An applicator for applying a composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows, the applicator including an applicator member, having a core that extends along a longitudinal axis; and at least three rows of applicator elements that are molded with at least one portion of the core, the rows extending longitudinally along the core, and being arranged around the longitudinal axis of the core, the applicator elements being of cross-section that is flat, having a major axis that is oriented substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis (X) of the core, at least two applicator elements having bases that are offset angularly around the longitudinal axis (X) of the core and being superposed, at least in part, when the core is observed along its longitudinal axis (X).

Applicator and a packaging and applicator device including such an applicator

A device for applying to the skin or the lips having a body made of thermoplastic material that is open at at least one end; a metal wall that is shaped by plastically deforming sheet metal, which sheet metal is embedded in the body at the open end, and defines a contact surface with the skin or the lips; and a refrigerant that is suitable for coming into thermal contact with the metal wall.

Device for applying to the skin

The present invention relates to an applicator for applying a composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows, the applicator comprising:

Applicator for applying a composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows

A reservoir and application device including an applicator having a stem and a brush at the end of this stem, the brush presenting a largest transversal dimension between 9 and 14 mm, the brush being at least 30% wider than it is thick in cross section, a reservoir containing the product to be applied, having a wiper member defining a wiper orifice traversed by the brush when it is removed from the reservoir, the diameter of the wiper orifice being between 2.5 and 5.5 mm.

Mascara brush

The present invention relates to an applicator for applying a composition to keratinous fibers, in particular the eyelashes or the eyebrows, the applicator including a stem having a longitudinal axis and including at least one elastically-deformable flexible portion that is suitable for flexing during application and/or wiping; and an applicator element that is fastened to the stem and that includes a twisted wire core and bristles that extend transversally to the longitudinal axis of the stem.

A cosmetic packaging and applicator device that includes a container having an inside space and a wiper member; an applicator having a core and projecting elements, a portion of the inside periphery of the container under the wiper member occupying a total angular extent of at least 90&#xb0; at less than 1.5 mm from the applicator member when in its storage position or while being extracted from the container, the applicator member having at least two locations that are spaced apart along the core longitudinal axis by more than 3 mm and at each of which the difference between the greatest transverse dimension of the applicator member at the location and a smallest inside dimension of the container at the level of the location is less than 3 mm; and a preferential passage for flowing the composition along the applicator member while it is being extracted from the container.

Packaging and applicator device

The present invention relates to a sheet structure for application to a region of the human body, including the face, the structure comprising:

Sheet structure having at least one colored surface

A packaging and applicator device for applying a composition on the eyelashes and/or the eyebrows, that includes a container defining an inside space containing the composition and including a wiper member; and an applicator having a longitudinal axis and having an applicator member with a twisted-core brush carrying bristles, there being 5 to 55 bristles per turn, the diameter of the brush lying in the range 6/100 mm to 40/100 mm along at least a fraction of the applicator member, a plurality of bristles carried by this portion coming to within a distance of less than 1.5 mm from the inside surface of the container under the wiper member in a storage position or while the applicator is being withdrawn along the longitudinal axis of the container.

An applicator for combing and/or for applying a composition including a molded applicator member, that includes an elongate core extending along a longitudinal axis; and at least three rows of teeth connected to the core, the rows extending along the longitudinal axis of the core, having at least one row of long teeth and at least one row of short teeth, the implantation of the rows of teeth being substantially constant around the core over at least a fraction of the length of the applicator member, at least one row of long teeth is disposed on the core in a manner that is different from a row of short teeth, the two rows differing in at least one of the following ways: the spacing of the teeth in the row; the number of teeth in the row; or the thickness of the teeth measured perpendicularly to their long direction.

Applicator for combing the eyelashes and/or eyebrows or for applying a composition thereto

An applicator for applying a cosmetic composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows, the applicator having an applicator member having a core; and applicator elements that extend from the core, having ends that define an envelope surface, the applicator elements including first and second applicator elements; the first applicator elements having free ends that are wide relative to the free ends of the second applicator elements having a maximum length that is greater than the maximum length of the first applicator elements; the envelope surface having a non-circular cross-section over at least a fraction of the length of the applicator member, or presenting at least two disjoint portions that are defined by the first applicator, elements.

An applicator for eyeliner having a stem and an applicator endpiece carried by the stem, the endpiece being of elongate shape along a longitudinal axis and including a flexible zone that deforms while the applicator is in use and that has first and second dimensions dand drespectively along first and second axes that are perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the endpiece, the first and second dimensions dand dbeing substantially equal; the endpiece including a head extending the flexible zone, the head being connected to the remainder of the endpiece solely via the flexible zone, the head being flat in a plane containing the longitudinal axis and the second axis, and measured parallel to the second axis having a maximum width that is greater than the second dimension d.

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Paris, France

Jean-Louis H Gueret