Shiseido Company, Limited

Toshihide Ikeda

Motokiyo Nakano

Yoshiaki Yagita

Michihiro Yamaguchi

Yoshikazu Soyama

Yoshio Okamura

Toshiaki Kobayashi

Minoru Fukuda

Kazuo Tokubo

Yoshiyuki Ogusu

Yutaka Okunuki

Toshio Yoshioka

Fujihiro Kanda

Takeshi Kawaura

Chiaki Tanaka

Shoji Hyodo

Jyunko Suzuki

Teruo Kurosaki

A solvent type nail enamel composition comprising (i) a silicone resin having the average composition formula (I):

Solvent type nail enamel composition

A spherical clay mineral powder or spherical composite powder comprising water-swellable clay mineral with specific surface are of 100 m.sup.2 /g or more is provided, and the composite powder can contain an organic, inorganic or metal powder, an organic substance soluble in an organic solvent or a water-soluble substance, and these spherical powders can be formulated effectively in, for example, cosmetics.

Spherical clay mineral powder, process for production thereof and

A cosmetic suitable for application to the skin (such as eye-shadow, rouge and pressed face powder) is formed by mixing differently colored pigment compositions with binders to form differently colored grains, intermixing the grains and compression-moulding them into a compact, but without destroying the grain structure thereof. The differently colored grains may then separately or simultaneously be applied to the skin with a puff.

Multi-colored pressed cosmetic powder and method of preparing same

Gel composition suitable for use in the preparation of nail enamel is provided. The gel composition contains a chip composition which is prepared by mixing, under heating and compression, organically modified montmorillonite clay, nitrocellulose, and a substance which is capable of swelling the montmorillonite clay and is capable of plasticizing the nitrocellulose. The thixotropic nail enamel prepared from this gel composition has the advantages that a pretty glossy film can be obtained and the gelling state thereof is stable.

Gel composition for nail enamel

Thixotropic nail enamel comprising, a gelling agent, a gel composition containing a chip composition which is prepared by mixing, under heating and compression, organically modified montmorillonite clay, nitrocellulose, and a substance which is capable of swelling the montmorillonite clay and is capable of plasticizing the nitrocellulose is provided. The thixotropic nail enamel has the advantages that the viscosity thereof does not increase with the lapse of time and the gelling state thereof is stable. This gel composition can also delete toluene and xylene, which must be contained in the conventional nail enamel, from the thixotropic nail enamel of the present invention.

Thixotropic nail enamel

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshihide Ikeda