Conopco, Inc.

Conopeo, Inc.

Ningning Li

Joseph Muscat

Cheryl Anne Taylor

Marine Pauline Charlotte Saint-Georges

Arash Mohajer Moghadam

An antimicrobial personal cleansing composition comprises: (i) an aqueous continuous phase including cleansing surfactant, (ii) a dispersed phase including dispersed particles of zinc-containing antimicrobial agents; and (iii) a solubilised oily liquid conditioning agent for skin and/or hair; which is light mineral oil having a kinematic viscosity of 3 to 5 cS (mm&#xb7;s) at 40&#xb0; C. and is solubilised in wormlike micelles in the aqueous continuous phase via the incorporation of an inorganic electrolyte and a linker molecule of formula R(X), wherein R is a C-Caryl ring or a C-Cmono-, di- or trivalent alkyl or hydroxyalkyl chain; n is 1 to 3 and each X is independently selected from &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;COOH and &#x2014;COOMgroups, where M is an alkali metal, ammonium or alkanolammonium cation; and in which the level of solubilised oily liquid conditioning agent is 0.45 to 3% by weight based on the total weight of the composition.

Antimicrobial personal cleansing compositions

The invention provides a personal cleansing composition comprising: (i) an aqueous continuous phase including cleansing surfactant; (ii) one or more oily liquid conditioning agents for skin and/or hair wherein the agent is solubilized in wormlike micelles in the aqueous continuous phase via the incorporation of at least one inorganic electrolyte and at least one linker molecule; (iii) one or more cationic deposition polymers which are selected from cationic polygalactomannans having a mean charge density at pH7 from 0.2 to 2 meq per 10 gram; and (iv) a hair substantive cationic conditioning polymer which is a homopolymer of (3-acrylamidopropyl) trimethyl ammonium chloride.

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