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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996

Filed:

Oct. 24, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Caroline M Lee, Surrey, GB;

Martin R Green, Cambridge, GB;

Giuseppe Prota, Naples, IT;

Assignee:

Chesebrough-Pond's USA Co., Greenwich, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 59 ; 514529 ; 514549 ; 514552 ; 514679 ; 514685 ; 514721 ; 514734 ; 560220 ; 560259 ; 568325 ; 568331 ; 568638 ; 568660 ; 568729 ;
Abstract

A composition for topical application to the skin in order to promote the repair of photo-damaged or aged skin and/or to reduce or prevent damaging effects of ultra-violet light on skin and/or to lighten the skin comprising a hydrocalchone of general structure: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, represent H, --OH, --OR or --COR (where R is a C.sub.1-20 alkyl group); R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, which may be the same or different, represent H or --COR (where R is as herein before defined). Optional additional ingredients include sunscreens and other skin lightening skin lightening agents, particularly retinol or derivatives thereof.


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