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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2015
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., Skillman, NJ (US);
Anne-Sophie Brillouet, Pennington, NJ (US);
Marisa DeVita Dufort, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Ali Fassih, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Devin L. Garcia, Middlesex, NJ (US);
Ya-Ping Hu, Somerset, NJ (US);
Wen-Hwa Ting Li, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Ramine Parsa, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Jyotsna Paturi, Skillman, NJ (US);
Dianne Rossetti, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Ying Sun, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Janet Wangari-Talbot, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Robert Wayne Yates, Warminster, PA (US);
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., Skillman, NJ (US);
Abstract
Low pH compositions for topical administration to skin are provided. They comprise a buffering agent having a pKa of about 2.8 to about 4.2 and a cosmetically acceptable active ingredient having a pKa within about 1 unit of the pKa of the buffering agent. The composition has a pH of about 3.3 to 4 and a buffer capacity of at least about 0.15. A method of increasing the topical delivery of a cosmetically acceptable active ingredient having a pKa of about 2.8 to about 4 is also provided.