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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2018
Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Stephen Paul Maguire, Liverpool, GB;
Joseca Santos Alincastre, Shanghai, CN;
Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for demonstrating the cleansing efficacy of a personal care product or a component thereof, the method comprising: (i) selecting a first portion of a porous article capable of allowing a gas to pass through its pores, wherein the porous article is connected to a source of said gas and immersed in a liquid while the source releases said gas which flows out of said pores to generate gas bubbles; (ii) treating the first portion of the porous article with contaminants; (iii) treating the first portion of the porous article with the personal care product or the component thereof, wherein a second portion of the porous article is selected in step (i); the second portion is also treated with contaminants in step (ii); and the second portion is treated with a comparative or placebo product in step (iii); and wherein following step (iii) the method comprises a step (iv) of assessing a change of the treated first portion relative to untreated article and/or relative to the treated second portion, the change is the amount of gas bubbles released from the porous article.