Product comprising a plant for medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic use
AssigneesSchweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc., SWM Luxembourg s.a.r.l.
InventorsPhilippe Ragot, Esther Pons, Bernard Mompon, Cedric Rousseau
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a product for at least one of medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic use. The product comprises a fibrous plant product and a plant extract which is applied thereto. Further, the invention relates to a corresponding method for producing said product and its use in at least one of medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic products or applications or treatments. The plants used may be all plants comprising one or more substances of interest to achieve a desired medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic effect.
Claims25
A reconstructed plant product for medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatological use, the reconstructed plant product comprising an effective amount of a fibrous plant residue and a plant extract,
- wherein the fibrous plant residue comprises fibrous residue from a tea (Camillia sinensis) plant and the plant extract comprises at least one substance extracted from the tea plant, and
- wherein the reconstructed plant product is obtained from the following process:
- mixing one or more plant components with a solvent to form a plant extract and a fibrous plant residue;
- separating the plant extract from the fibrous plant residue and refining the fibrous residue to produce a fibrous pulp and transferring the fibrous pulp to a papermaking process to produce an insoluble paper-like sheet product;
- concentrating, purifying or aromatizing the plant extract;
- applying the plant extract to the insoluble paper-like sheet product;
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- drying the insoluble paper-like sheet product after the plant extract has been applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.