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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2004
Richard Loren MC Manus, Shelton, CT (US);
Michael Charles Cheney, Trumbull, CT (US);
Alessandro Luigi Spadini, Stamford, CT (US);
Bijan Harichian, Warren, NJ (US);
Philip Edward Miner, Newton, CT (US);
Richard Loren Mc Manus, Shelton, CT (US);
Michael Charles Cheney, Trumbull, CT (US);
Alessandro Luigi Spadini, Stamford, CT (US);
Bijan Harichian, Warren, NJ (US);
Philip Edward Miner, Newton, CT (US);
Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, a division of Conopco, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Abstract
A personal care product is provided which includes a composition a quaternary ammonium salt wherein a cation of the salt is a dihydroxypropyltri(C–Calkyl)ammonium monosubstituted polyol in a carrier. The cation should have a molecular weight no higher than about 450 and the salt have a Tno higher than about 10° C. Particularly preferred are hydroxypropyltrimonium sorbitol salts. These salts operate as humectants to moisturize both in high and low relative humidity environments.