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US 2011/0253158 A1Published application
Methods For Improving Skin Quality
OwnerKarl Shiqing Weiinventor
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Abstract
A skin treatment regimen for delivery of a rinse-off personal skin care composition is provided. The rinse-off personal skin care composition includes varying ratios of a lathering agent to a hydrophobic benefit agent. The rinse-off personal skin care composition can be applied to skin of a user in phases over and/or in a treatment cycle. Each of the phases of the treatment cycle can include a ratio of the varying ratios that can be different such as higher or lower than a ratio of adjacent phase.
Claims10
A method for improving the quality of skin, comprising:
- dispensing from a personal care article a personal care composition that comprises a hydrophobic benefit agent,
- applying the personal care composition to a user's skin together with water,
- rinsing the personal care composition from the user's skin, wherein a portion of the hydrophobic benefit agent is deposited and remains on the user's skin after rinsing.
- repeating the steps of applying and rinsing on at least a once daily basis over a time interval of successive days, the time interval of use sufficient to permit detection of measurable improvement in at least one skin property selected from (i) reduction of visual dryness, a reduction in trans-epidermal water loss, increased skin hydration, increased elastic extension, increased elastic recovery, increased firmness and (ii) reduction in total protein, an increase in the amount of one or more of Keratin 1, Keratin 10 and Keratin 11, and a decrease in cytokine expression.
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