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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2020
Calcean Minerals and Materials, Llc, Gadsden, AL (US);
Anthony Myers, Gadsden, AL (US);
Alyson Myers, Gadsden, AL (US);
Harold Meherg, Culver City, CA (US);
Patrick Soon-Shiong, Culver City, CA (US);
Nant Holdings IP, LLP, Culver City, CA (US);
Calcean Minerals and Materials, LLC, Gadsden, AL (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are personal care and/or cosmetic compositions, comprising a carrier and oolitic aragonite beads having an average diameter between 10 nm to 10 mm. Also disclosed herein are methods of reducing plastic contamination and/or pollution comprising making a cosmetic or personal care composition, wherein at least a portion to all (100%) of the plastic microbeads in the cosmetic or personal care composition are replaced with oolitic aragonite. Also disclosed herein are a milling system and milling methods for producing oolitic aragonite particles having a clean top size in which the particles are screened to remove any oversized particles. Additional uses include drug-loaded aragonite particles for therapeutic drug delivery and chromatography media.