Conopco, Inc.

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

Elizabeth Arden Company, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Fd Management, Inc.

Liam Anthony Murray

Diane Marie Keenan

Stuart Harvey Lee

Craig Stephen Slavtcheff

Robert Edward Gott

Josephine Telesca

Michael Statham

Jochen Rainer Schaepers

David Robert Williams

Alan Joel Meyers

Vincent Michael Masotta

Andre Marie Puleo

Lindsay Noelle Krembs

Ewa Urszula Padlo

Rebecca Jeanne Citron

Michael Augustine Brennan

Madeline DeMayo Flynn

Melissa Ann Cline

Richard Steven Hart

A wipe article is provided for cleansing and providing gentle exfoliation. The article is a water-insoluble substrate laden with a fluid cosmetic composition that includes a skin benefit agent delivered in a carrier. The substrate is a woven or non-woven fibrous web with first and second major surfaces, at least one of the major surfaces having formed thereon an array of projections, the array including from at least 2 to about 20 projections per cm. Each projection is formed of a material different than that of the substrate and is raised from the substrate at a highest point thereof a distance from 100 to 2,000 micron. The projections are formed of at least 20 microbeads per projection.

Exfoliating personal care wipe article containing an array of projections

Bathing implement

Cleansing article

A colored article suitable for cleansing skin having the general form of a fibrous bar is described. The article includes a solid or semi-solid lathering composition that at least partially incorporates a continuous fabricated polymeric network. The articles have a substantially red color defined by L*,a*,b* chromaticity values falling within a specific region of the CIE color space and exhibit a low tendency for discoloration in storage and use.

Red colored cleansing article with distributed polymeric network

A process and equipment for manufacture of a swab article is provided wherein a stick is placed onto a conveyor, adhesive is applied to one or both ends of the stick, a portion of cotton coil is attached to the adhesive bearing end, and a shaper bar or similar means forces the cotton to assume a teardrop profile by applying force parallel to the stick, wherein the shaper bar or similar means moves in a direction perpendicular to the stick at a different rate of speed than that of the stick. Differences in the rate of speed reduce tailing of cotton normally associated with drag.

Equipment for production of cotton swabs

A cosmetic product system is provided which includes a cosmetic composition for combating signs of aging, and a test device packaged with the composition. The device includes a mechanism for evaluating progress of the combat against the signs of aging occurring over a period of time within which the composition is applied to an area of skin being monitored.

Cosmetic product with proof device

Process for production of cotton swabs

A test kit and method for visualizing fine lines and wrinkles is provided, the kit including a transparent strip with an adhesive on one surface thereof and an imaging substrate with at least one darkened glossy area for receiving the transparent strip. Written instructions are provided in the kit. These advise a consumer to place the adhesive surface of the strip against a skin area requiring measurement. Thereafter the strip is removed and placed against the darkened area of the substrate. Topographical features of the skin can be viewed through the transparent strip with the transferred skin image onto the blackened background. A cosmetic anti-aging product can be applied to the skin over a period of time. Beneficial changes caused by the product are visualized through the test strip as periodic measurements are taken.

Wrinkle indicator tape strip

An apparatus, mold assembly and related method for manufacturing a personalized lipstick is described, the apparatus including a housing or cabinet, a plurality of different color blends each held within a separate pot fitted with a dispensing system, an ultrasonic wave heating/mixing probe, a mold assembly held within the probe and a transport rail for moving the probe from one station to another within the housing. The lipstick mold assembly includes a sheath containing a solidified base wax formed with a well for receiving color pigments. The method for molding the lipstick includes use of the aforementioned apparatus, providing the mold assembly with a solidified wax, transporting the mold assembly to dosing positions for receiving programmed amounts of the color blends, applying an ultrasonic wave to heat and blend the wax/dosed color blends, transporting the mold assembly within the housing to a cooling station, returning the mold assembly to an operator for demolding and assembling into a suitable lipstick case.

Lipstick machine

A skin color measuring device is provided for use with a kit and method to measure skin shades at point-of-sale. The device includes a hand holdable housing encompassing a spectrophotometer/colorimeter, a logic program for calculating L, a, b values measured by the spectrophotometer/colorimeter and for converting these values into corresponding shades of facial foundation cosmetic products suitable for the measured customer, and a display window formed in the wall of the housing allowing visualization of the logic selected facial foundation products. Kits in the form of a display case are provided which include the skin measuring device and an inventory of different facial foundation products as well as a reader card set for correlating the selected facial foundation products with complementary color cosmetics such as lipsticks, eye shadows, eye liners, blush and lip liners. Also disclosed is a method for evaluating the most suitable facial foundation for a customer and referencing a complementary other color cosmetic product with appropriate shade.

Device, kit and method for selecting personalized color cosmetics

An apparatus and method are described for customizing a cosmetic product at the point of sale to a customer. The apparatus includes a program for receiving external information on at least one of the customer's skin properties and converting the information to a corresponding formula. A formulation unit is provided for preparing the corresponding formula. This unit includes a mechanism for receiving the corresponding formula as a set of operating instructions, reservoirs for containing different cosmetic chemical compositions, pumps and a mechanism for activating the pumps to dose the chemical compositions into a common dosing chamber in a manner determined by the operating instructions. Importantly, the pumps must have pistons capable of reciprocating and rotating motion.

Apparatus and method for customizing cosmetic products

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Monroe, CT, United States of America

Liam Anthony Murray