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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1996
Jue-Chen Liu, Neshanic, NJ (US);
Jonas C Wang, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Mohammed Yusuf, Edison, NJ (US);
Norihiro Yamamoto, Koriyama, JP;
Satoshi Kazama, Sukagawa, JP;
Christopher R Stahl, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Jean P Holland, Doylestown, PA (US);
Kamran Mather, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
Margaret A Aleles, Gladstone, NJ (US);
Sachio Hamada, St-Germain-en-Laye, FR;
Curtis A Cole, Langhorne, PA (US);
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Inc., Skillman, NJ (US);
Abstract
Skin care compositions comprising an oil-in-water emulsion base containing retinoids and possessing good physical and chemical stability. More particularly, said skin care compositions contain (a) an emulsifier system selected from the group consisting of: (i) a mixture of glyceryl stearate and polyethylene glycol 100 stearate; (ii) cetearyl alcohol and cetearyl glucoside; (iii) a mixture of a polyethylene glycol ethers of stearyl alcohol; and (iv) a mixture of sorbitan stearate and polysorbate 60; (b) a co-emulsifier selected from the group consisting of cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol and mixtures thereof; (c) an oil phase present in the amount of from about 5 to about 20 percent by weight of the total emulsion composition which contains (i) a light, dry absorbable oil and (ii) substantive, emollient oils or waxes, wherein the light, dry absorbable oil and the substantive oil or wax are present in a ratio of from about 1:3 for about 10:1.