Colgate Palmolive Company

The Mennen Company

Robert J Bianchini

Wilson Lee

Makarand Shevade

Peter Hilliard, Jr

Kathy J Potechin

Peter R Hilliard

Kathy Potechin

Adriana Urrutia Gutierrez

Joseph James Albanese

Steven Louis Fantano

Francis J Bala, Jr

Disclosed is a clear cosmetic gel composition in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion, and methods of forming and of using the composition. The composition has a water-based phase containing water, a cosmetically active ingredient, and at least one coupling agent; and an oil-based phase containing a material having a refractive index in the range of 1.40-1.50, silicone fluids and an alkoxylated, alkyl substituted siloxane surface active agent (e.g., dimethicone copolyol). The composition has a refractive index in a range of 1.4026 to 1.4150. Where the cosmetically active ingredient is an antiperspirant active ingredient, the composition can be an antiperspirant gel (e.g., soft gel) composition. In the refractive index range of the present invention, increased amounts of, e.g., antiperspirant active ingredient, and other high-refractive-index materials providing cosmetic benefits, can be incorporated in the water and oil phases of the composition while still achieving a clear composition. The composition can also include polypropylene glycols (e.g., tripropylene glycol), as part of the water-based phase, to provide a composition having reduced tackiness and reduced whitening (decreased residue); this composition is also mild (reduced skin irritation potential) relative to comparable commercial products.

Clear cosmetic gel composition

Disclosed is a solid cosmetic composition (e.g., a cream composition) containing an active cosmetic material (e.g., a deodorant active, an antiperspirant active, a sunscreen, an insect repellent and/or an anti-fungal agent) and a silicone gel material. The silicone gel material includes (a) a volatile silicone material and (b) an organopolysiloxane material as a gelling agent, able to form a gel after being mixed with the volatile silicone material. The organopolysiloxane material can be a reaction product of a vinyl-terminated siloxane polymer and a hydride cross-linking agent. The composition can be formed by mixing the active cosmetic material and silicone gel material at ambient temperature. The compositions do not need particulate or clay thickeners or waxy gelling agents.

Cosmetic cream composition containing silicone gel material

Disclosed is a solid (e.g., cream, such as semi-solid or soft solid) cosmetic composition containing an active cosmetic material (e.g., a deodorant active, an antiperspirant active, a sunscreen, an insect repellent and/or an anti-fungal agent), volatile (e.g., cyclomethicone) and linear chain (e.g., dimethicone and/or phenyl trimethicone) silicone materials, and at least one gelling agent. The at least one gelling agent includes hexanediol-behenyl beeswax, and is included in the composition in an amount sufficient to provide the solid composition. By incorporating the hexanediol-behenyl beeswax as a gelling agent, conventional gelling agents such as fatty alcohols and hydrogenated castor oil need not be incorporated in the composition. When an antiperspirant active material is incorporated in the solid composition containing hexanediol-behenyl beeswax as a gelling agent, a solid antiperspirant composition that is efficacious and leaves no visible (white) residue, can be achieved.

Solid cosmetic composition containing hexanediol-behenyl beeswax as

The invention comprises a cosmetic composition which is a translucent to clear stick having low tack. The cosmetic sticks are formed by combining (a) from 5.0-50.0 weight percent of a silicone fluid phase which comprises at least one hydroxy functionalized silicone fluid, at least one stabilizing agent and, optionally at least one additional silicone material; (b) from 40-95 weight percent of a gellant/solvent phase which comprises a mixture of dibenzylidene sorbitol and at least one solvent such as a polyhydric alcohol (for example, propylene glycol); and (c) an effective amount of at least one active ingredient.

Cosmetic compositions with DBS and functionalized silicones

Disclosed is a non-aqueous composition for reducing body malodor, containing an antiperspirant active material, volatile silicone material, non-volatile emollient material (e.g., non-volatile silicone emollient material), and a thickening agent, the thickening agent including a gelling agent which is a solid plasticizer. Illustrative gelling agents are hydroxy polyester and polydimethylsiloxanyl beeswax. Other beeswax derivatives whose free fatty acids have been reacted with silicone materials can also be used as the gelling agent for compositions of the present invention. The compositions of the present invention can be formulated as antiperspirant creams by incorporating appropriate amounts of antiperspirant active material and thickening agent in the composition, and can be used to reduce axillary perspiration. Compositions of the present invention have good rheological and viscoelastic properties.

Non-aqueous antiperspirant composition

Disclosed is a low residue antiperspirant solid stick composition containing, in addition to an antiperspirant active material, volatile and non-volatile silicone materials, dimethicone copolyol and high-melting-point and low-melting-point waxes. The composition not only has low visible (white) residue after application and after drying, but also has good cosmetic properties, superior antiperspirancy and is easy to manufacture.

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Belle Mead, NJ, United States of America

Robert J Bianchini