Porous materials
AssigneeIntrinsiq Materials Global Limited
InventorsLeigh Canham, Qurrat Ul Ain Shabir, Armando Loni
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Abstract
A consumer care composition or a food composition comprising a mesoporous microparticulate material wherein at least some of the pores of the material are loaded with at least one ingredient and the loaded mesoporous microparticulate material is encapsulated by a capping layer is described.
Claims31
A composition comprising a mesoporous microparticulate material wherein the composition is a consumer care composition or a food composition and at least some of the pores of the material are loaded with at least one ingredient and the loaded mesoporous microparticulate material is encapsulated by a capping layer.
Use of a mesoporous microparticulate material, wherein at least some of the pores of the material are loaded with at least one ingredient and the mesoporous microparticulate material is encapsulated by a capping layer, in a food composition, wherein the ingredient is a food ingredient, for improving the bioavailability of said food ingredient and wherein the food ingredient is released on contact with gastrointestinal fluid in the human gastrointestinal tract following ingestion.
Use of a mesoporous microparticulate material in a hair care composition wherein at least some of the pores of the material are loaded with at least one ingredient and the mesoporous microparticulate material is encapsulated by a capping layer wherein the ingredient is a hair care active, for improving the retention of said hair care active ingredient on the hair and/or scalp and/or improving the dissolution of the active on application to the hair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.