Kao Corporation

Yoshinori Tamura

Juri Sata

Tadashi Moriyama

Yasuhiro Doi

Yuichi Hioki

Keiko Hasebe

Masaki Inoue

Tomoko Uchiyama

Ryosuke Fujii

Hiroshi Sonohara

Hiroyuki Yamada

Masahiro Mori

Masatoshi Kamei

Hiromoto Mizushima

Muneo Aoyagi

Chikako Matsumoto

Masafumi Shonaka

Kaoru Omae

Juri Okamoto

Chikako Ikeda

The present invention is an efficacy-enhancing agent composition for amino acid-based agrochemicals, containing, in a specific ratio, specific three quaternary ammonium salts having an ester group, and a specific fatty acid.

Efficacy-enhancing agent composition for amino acid-based agrochemicals

The present invention is a sticking agent composition for agrochemicals, which includes a specific fatty acid triglyceride having an acyl group with 8 or more and 18 or less carbon atoms, a specific fatty acid with 12 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, a polyoxyalkylene sorbitol fatty acid ester, and water.

Sticking agent composition for agrochemical

The present invention is an efficacy-enhancing agent composition for amino acid-based agrochemicals, which contains 3 kinds of specific quaternary ammonium salts having an ester group in a specific mass ratio.

Provided is a low odor hair conditioning composition which is free of oily and greasy feel upon finish, and can impart good manageability and moisturized feel. Specifically provided is a hair conditioning composition including a component (A): a compound represented by a general formula (1) RO&#x2014;(PO)/(EO)&#x2014;R(1), where Rrepresents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, an average addition mole number 'n' represents a number of 1.5 to 3.0, an average addition mole number 'm' represents a number of 0 to 1.0, and Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and a component (B): a surfactant other than the component (A), wherein a content of ROH, where Rrepresents a straight or branched, alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 12 carbon atoms, is 80 ppm or less.

Hair conditioning composition

Provided is a hair treatment composition capable of imparting good manageability and excellent hair feel to the hair upon finishing permanent wave or hair dye treatment. The hair treatment composition has the following components (A) and (B): (A) a compound represented by the following formula (1): RO&#x2014;(PO)(EO)&#x2014;R(1) wherein Rrepresents a linear or branched Calkyl or alkenyl group, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, n represents an average addition mole number and is from 1.5 to 5.0, m represents an average addition mole number and is from 0 to 1.0, and Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and (B) at least one selected from keratin reducing agents, oxidizing agents, alkaline agents, and dyes for hair dye, wherein a content of an ROH wherein Rrepresents a linear or branched Calkyl or alkenyl group is 300 ppm or less.

Hair treatment composition

The present invention provides a thickening/foam-promoting agent having thickening/foam-promoting properties and a low odor, and a detergent composition containing the agent. The thickening/foam-promoting agent is composed of the following component (A): (A) a compound represented by the following formula (1):RO&#x2014;(PO)/(EO)&#x2014;R&#x2003;&#x2003;(1), wherein Ris a linear alkyl or an alkenyl group having 8 to 10 carbon atoms, PO is a propyleneoxy group, EO is an ethyleneoxy group, an average added molar number n is a number of 1.5 to 3.0, an average added molar number m is a number of 0 to 1.0, and Ris a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, wherein the content of an alcohol of the formula (1), when n=0, m=0 and Ris a hydrogen atom, is not more than 3000 ppm, and the detergent composition contains the component (A) and a surfactant (B).

Thickening/foam-promoting agent

Provided is a detergent composition having components (A) and (B): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), and (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=1; components (A), (B) and (B): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=1, and (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=2; components (A), (B) and (B): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), (B) a phosphate monoester (2) wherein n=1, and (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=2; components (A) and (C): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), and (C) a phosphate monoester (3); or a phosphate-based surfactant produced by reacting a compound obtained by adding to an alcohol an alkylene oxide of 2 to 4 carbon atoms, with phosphoric acid, a polyphosphoric acid or PO:  The detergent composition is mild to the skin, is high in versatility, and has a good foaming property in weak acidic water or in hard water.

Detergent composition comprising a sub-stoichiometric alkoxylated phosphate ester

Provided is a detergent composition having components (A) and (B): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), and (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=1; components (A), (B) and (B): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=1, and (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=2; components (A), (B) and (B): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=1, and (B) a phosphate monoester (2), wherein n=2; components (A) and (C): (A) a phosphate monoester (1), and (C) a phosphate monoester (3); or a phosphate-based surfactant produced by reacting a compound obtained by adding to an alcohol an alkylene oxide of 2 to 4 carbon atoms, with phosphoric acid, a polyphosphoric acid or PO:  The detergent composition is mild to the skin, is high in versatility, and has a good foaming property in weak acidic water or in hard water.

Detergent compositions comprising a mixture of phosphate esters

Described in the present invention are a dispersion which comprises, as a dispersoid, (a) 5 to 40 wt. % of an amphipatic lipid containing, in the molecule thereof, at least one hydroxy and amide group, and (b) 2 to 55 wt. % of a surfactant in an aqueous medium; a washing-away type cosmetic composition comprising the dispersion; and a washing-away type cosmetic composition comprising (A) 0.01 to 10 wt. % of an amphipatic lipid which contains, in the molecule thereof, at least one hydroxy and amide group and having a melting point not less than 30&deg; C. and (B) 5 to 95 wt. % of a surfactant. The dispersion according to the present invention is useful as a component of a washing-away type cosmetic composition having both an emulsion-like or pearl-lustrous appearance and low skin irritation. The washing-away type cosmetic composition according to the present invention has an emulsion-like or pearl-lustrous appearance and is mild to the skin owing to reduced adsorption, to the skin, of the surfactant contained in the composition.

Amphipatic lipid dispersion

A germicidal-disinfectant detergent composition comprising (a) a cationic germicide, (b) a metal chelating agent and (c) at least one surfactant selected from anionic surfactants, nonionic surfactants and amphoteric surfactants is described. Excellent detergency and germicidal action are provided.

Germicidal-disinfectant detergent composition

Germicidal composition

Described is a detergent composition comprising (A) a sulfate ester surfactant, (B) at least one surfactant selected from amphoteric surfactants, amine oxide surfactants, alkanol amide surfactants and amide amino-acid surfactants, (C) a cationic bactericide and (D) a metal chelating agent, the weight ratio of said (A) to (B) being 1-50 and the content of said (C) being 0.2 wt. % to 5 wt. %. The detergent composition according to the present invention has excellent detergency, foamability and foam durability and at the same time, has high bactericidal effects because it can be mixed stably with a cationic bactericide.

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Wakayama, Japan

Yoshinori Tamura