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US 11,419,802 B2Granted
Extruded soap bar containing 12-hydroxystearic acid with enhanced antimicrobial efficacy
AssigneeConopco, Inc.
InventorsAjit Manohar Agarkhed, Nitish Kumar, Amitabha Majumdar, Mruthyunjaya Swamy Mathapathi
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an extruded soap bar composition. It more particularly relates to a soap bar composition which delivers the enhanced antimicrobial benefit to skin while ensuring that the soap bar is easy to extrude. This is achieved by including free fatty acids in the soap bar composition while ensuring that part of the free fatty acid is hydroxy stearic acid.
Claims5
A soap bar composition comprising:
- (i) 45 to 85% total amount of soap by weight of the composition;
- (ii) 2 to 15% of total free fatty acid by weight of the composition;
- (iii) 0.5 to 8% polyhydric alcohol;
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- (iv) 14 to 21% water by weight of the composition,
- wherein the free fatty acid includes 12-hydroxystearic acid, wherein the 12-hydroxystearic acid is present in an amount of 0.3 to 10% by weight of the composition.
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