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

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

Kenneth Paul Manzari

Walter Anthony Biercevicz

Michael C Cheney

Brian John Dobkowski

Christy Ann Bridges

Walter Ray Stoeckman

Peter Anthony Divone, Sr

Salvador Pliego

Peter Anthony Divone

Kevin Keating

Robert Avena

An apparatus is described for providing a customized, personal care product to a consumer at a location, typically the point of sale, that is remote from a second location in which a personal care product base composition is prepared. A selection of customizing agents of different classes with a common vehicle is made available to the consumer for custom formulation of a personal care product with the desired attributes. The apparatus typically includes a plurality of product base dispensers, a plurality of fragrance dispensers, and a plurality of customizing agent dispensers that may contain benefit agents, botanical extracts, active ingredients for skin and hair, and the like. A blank vehicle is substituted if insufficient customizing agents are selected. Efficient mixing mechanisms are also described.

Apparatus suitable for preparing a custom personal care composition

A process is provided for preparing a silicone elastomer composition for cosmetic products which includes the steps of feeding the silicone elastomer composition comprising a silicone rubber in a carrier fluid into a reactor, mixing the composition in the reactor, delivering the composition from the reactor into a high pressure pump, pumping the fluid into a device for reducing particles of rubber into smaller sizes and recirculating the resultant size reduced particles back to the reactor. The device for reducing particle size is preferably a high pressure fed homogenizer, most advantageously a sonolator.

Process for preparing silicone elastomer compositions

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West Haven, CT, United States of America

Kenneth Paul Manzari