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

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

Ramesh Surianarayanan

Pushker Sona

Prem Chandar

John Brian Bartolone

Michael James Barratt

Yan Zhou

Govindarajan Raman

Mridula Kini

Sushama Shripad Wagh

Lalitagauri Rajwade

A high skin friction cosmetic composition that can provide the consumer-desired sensory properties of traditional vanishing creams, stable at low pH, containing solid asymmetric particles and an anionic emulsifier having pKa values of less than about 4.5. The composition preferably further includes an acidic skin benefit agent. A method of controlling or preventing an oily skin appearance and/or feel especially in the facial area, by applying to the skin the inventive composition is also disclosed.

Low pH, high skin friction cosmetic creams

Improved skin compositions which are capable of reducing oil and grease secretion from the skin comprising a combination of niacinamide and a C -C alkyl or alkenyl ester of salicylic acid formulated in a specific carrier such as a vanishing cream base are disclosed.

Skin composition

A cosmetic skin lightening composition for topical application to human skin comprising (A) 5-25% by weight fatty acids, (B) 0.1-10% by weight fatty acid soap and (C) 0.05-10% by weight alkali or alkaline earth metal salt of .alpha.-hydroxy carboxylic acid and/or .alpha.-acyloxy carboxylic acid.

Skin lightening composition

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Mumbai, India

Ramesh Surianarayanan