# US 2014/0154197 A1 · Packaged Antiperspirant Compositions > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0154197 A1 - Document ID: US20140154197A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/090,175 - Filed: 2013-11-26 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-11-26 - Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company - Applicants: The Procter & Gamble Company - Inventors: David Frederick SWAILE; Barbara Marie MODAFARI; Elton Luis MENON; Jody Lynn HOYING; Roland STARK; Sheena Marie MAHRLE - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140154197A1 ## CPC - A45D 40/26: Appliances specially adapted for applying pasty paint, e.g. using roller, using a ball - A45D 40/04: effected by a screw - A61K 8/28: Zirconium; Compounds thereof - A61K 8/342: {Alcohols having more than seven atoms in an unbroken chain} - A61K 8/375: {the alcohol moiety containing more than one hydroxy group} - A61K 8/732: {Starch; Amylose; Amylopectin; Derivatives thereof} - A61K 8/922: {of vegetable origin} - A61Q 15/00: Anti-perspirants or body deodorants (deodorisation of air A61L9/00) - B65B 63/08: for heating or cooling articles or materials to facilitate packaging - A61K 2800/30: Characterized by the absence of a particular group of ingredients - A61K 2800/31: Anhydrous - A61K 2800/87: Application Devices; Containers; Packaging - A45D: HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT (wigs, toupees or the like A41G3/00, A41G5/00; hairdressers' chairs A47C1/04; hair cutting appliances, razors B26B); EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING - A61K: PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES (devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms A61J3/00; chemical aspects of, or use of materials for deodorisation of air, for disinfection or sterilisation, or for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; soap compositions C11D) - A61Q: SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract A packaged antiperspirant product is provided. The packaged antiperspirant product includes an anhydrous antiperspirant composition having from 40% to 60%, by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, of solids. The solids include an antiperspirant active, one or more waxes, and one or more fillers having a total concentration from about 15% to about 35% by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition. The antiperspirant composition also has from about 35% to about 60%, by weight of the composition, of one or more carriers other than water, wherein the one or more carriers comprises a non-volatile silicone fluid. The package includes a container body having an interior chamber storing the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, a dome closing one end of the container body and having a plurality of apertures extending through the thickness of the dome. An elevator and feed screw are disposed within the container body. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A packaged antiperspirant product, comprising: an anhydrous antiperspirant composition, comprising: from about 40% to about 60%, by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, of solids comprising: a) an antiperspirant active, b) one or more waxes, and c) one or more fillers having a total concentration from about 15% to about 35% by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition; and from about 35% to about 60% by weight of the composition, of one or more carriers, wherein the one or more carriers comprises a non-volatile silicone liquid; and a package comprising a container body having an interior chamber with the anhydrous antiperspirant composition stored therein, a dome closing one end of the container body and comprising a plurality of apertures extending through the thickness of the dome, an elevator disposed within the container body for pushing the anhydrous antiperspirant composition toward the dome and a feed screw threadably engaging the elevator for advancing the elevator toward the dome. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition has a low shear rate viscosity such that the anhydrous antiperspirant composition does not leak through the plurality of apertures when the package is inverted and the anhydrous antiperspirant composition is capable of being extruded through the plurality of apertures when the elevator is advanced toward the dome. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition has a low shear rate viscosity from about 25,000 Pa·s to about 90,000 Pa·s as measured by a rheometer at ambient conditions and wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition is expellable through the apertures of the dome without syneresis. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of apertures have a total open area from about 50 mm2 to about 100 mm2. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 4, wherein the each of the plurality of apertures have an open area from about 10 mm2 to about 14 mm2. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 4, wherein the plurality of apertures comprises from about 4 to about 12 apertures and the feed screw provides an elevator travel from about 1.5 mm to about 2.75 mm per full rotation of the feed screw. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition is substantially free of silica having more than 100 meters2 of surface area per gram, cellulose powders and a combination of an organo modified clay and a clay activator. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the solids consist essentially of the antiperspirant active, the one or more waxes, one or more starches, optionally talc, and optionally a fragrance delivery material. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the one or more fillers is selected from the group consisting of tapioca starch, corn starch, oat starch, potato starch, wheat starch, talc, perfume delivery materials and combinations thereof. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein: i) the one or more fillers comprise a hydrophilic starch powder or a clay other than an organo modified clay and the one or more waxes comprises a polar wax and a non-polar wax, or ii) the one or more fillers comprise a hydrophobic powder and the one or more waxes comprises a non-polar wax. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition comprises from about 2% to about 5% by weight of the one or more waxes. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the one or more waxes comprise from about 1.5% to about 3%, by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, of a non-polar wax, and from 0.5% to 2%, by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, of a polar wax. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition has a tack value less than 80 gF. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the one or more carriers further comprises a volatile silicone liquid having a concentration from about 20% to about 40% by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition and wherein the non-volatile silicone liquid has a concentration from 5% to 20% by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The packaged antiperspirant product according to claim 1, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition has a continuous wax structure formed by cooling the antiperspirant composition to below its solidification onset temperature while the antiperspirant composition is stored in the interior chamber of the package. ### Claim 16 A method for making an anhydrous antiperspirant composition, comprising: forming a liquid anhydrous antiperspirant composition, comprising: from 40% to about 60%, by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, of solids comprising: a) an antiperspirant active, b) one or more waxes, and c) one or more fillers having a concentration from about 15% to about 35% by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition; and from about 35% to about 60%, by weight of the composition, of one or more carriers; and pouring the liquid anhydrous antiperspirant composition into a package comprising a container body having an elevator and an interior chamber for receiving the liquid anhydrous antiperspirant composition, wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition is poured into the container body at a temperature greater than about 40 C; and cooling the liquid anhydrous antiperspirant composition stored within the interior chamber of the package to form a solid anhydrous antiperspirant composition. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method according to claim 16, wherein the liquid anhydrous antiperspirant composition is poured into the container body at a temperature from about 40° C. to about 80° C. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The method according to claim 16, wherein the liquid anhydrous antiperspirant composition is cooled from a temperature greater than about 40° C. to room temperature without agitation to form a solid. ### Claim 19 A method for applying an anhydrous antiperspirant composition from a package, comprising: dispensing an anhydrous antiperspirant composition from a package, the anhydrous antiperspirant comprising: from 40% to about 60%, by weight of the anhydrous antiperspirant composition, of solids comprising: a) an antiperspirant active, b) a hydrophobic powder and a non-polar wax or a hydrophilic powder and a combination of a polar wax and a non-polar wax; and one or more carriers; and wherein the package comprises a container body having an interior chamber with the anhydrous antiperspirant composition stored therein, a dome closing one end of the container body and comprising a plurality of apertures extending through the thickness of the dome, an elevator disposed within the container body for pushing the anhydrous antiperspirant composition toward the dome and a feed screw threadably engaging the elevator for advancing the elevator toward the dome; and rubbing the anhydrous antiperspirant composition into the axillia of a male user. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The method according to claim 19, further comprising dispensing the anhydrous antiperspirant composition from the package so as to form noodle heights from the plurality of apertures from 2 mm to about 4 mm.