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US 10,300,092 B2Granted
Bee bloom compositions, methods of extraction and uses thereof
AssigneeKANE, Penny Coleen
InventorsPenny Colleen Kane, Ronald Duncan Mathison
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Abstract
The present invention relates to purified compositions of bee bloom, methods of preparing the purified compositions of bee bloom and the use of bee bloom in the reducing and treatment of inflammation.
Claims7
A topical anti-inflammatory composition comprising an effective amount of a beeswax bloom extract,
- wherein said extract is obtained by extracting beeswax bloom powder with aqueous ethanol,
- wherein the extract comprises at least one crude protein, at least one long chain fatty acid, and at least one peptide,
- wherein the extract comprises at least 1.5 times more C16:0 fatty acids than in beeswax expressed as mg/g, and at least 10 times more crude protein than in beeswax expressed as mg/g, and
- wherein said composition is formulated as a topical cream, ointment, gel, spray, lotion, shampoo or mousse.
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A method of producing a beeswax bloom extract comprising:
- (a) obtaining a beeswax bloom powder;
- (b) suspending the beeswax bloom powder in aqueous ethanol to obtain a beeswax bloom solution;
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- (c) removing particulate matter from the beeswax bloom solution to obtain said extract,
- wherein the extract comprises at least one crude protein, at least one long chain fatty acid, and at least one peptide, and
- wherein the extract comprises at least 1.5 times more C16:0 fatty acids than in beeswax expressed as mg/g, and at least 10 times more crude protein than in beeswax expressed as mg/g.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.