Mild skin cleansing aerosol mousse with skin feel and moisturization benefits
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsRobert R. Schmidt, Raymond H. Fortna, Harold H. Beyer
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Abstract
A mild skin-cleansing aerosol mousse-forming emulsion providing benefits in leaving the skin after washing feeling not taut and dry, but moisturized, soft and smooth. The product also provides abundant rich creamy foam. The cleansing mousse emulsion comprises: A. 88% to 97% of a concentrate containing by weight of the concentrate: 1. from 3% to 20% of a mild nonsoap anionic or amphoteric surfactant; 2. a polymeric skin feel aid at 0.05% to 5%; 3. a moisturizer at 10% to 60%, preferably glycerin; 4. the balance water; and B. from 3% to 12% of a propellant by weight of the total emulsion.
Claims19
A skin-cleansing emulsion mousse-forming product having a pressurized dispenser equipped with a dispensing head and valve and containing therein a foam-forming emulsion consisting essentially of;
- A. 88% to 97% of a concentrate containing by weight of the concentrate consisting essentially of:
- 1. from 3% to 20% of a mild nonsoap surfactant selected from the group consisting of mild anionic and mild amphoteric surfactants selected from the group consisting of:
- alkyl glyceryl ether sulfonate (AGS);
- anionic acyl sarcosinates;
- methyl acyl taurates;
- N-acyl glutamates;
- acyl isethionates;
- alkyl sulfosuccinate;
- alkyl phosphate ester;
- ethoxylated alkyl phosphate esters;
- protein condensates;
- mixtures of ethoxylated alkyl sulfates and alkyl amine oxides;
- betaines;
- sultaines;
- and mixtures thereof;
- wherein the alkyl chains for said surfactants are from about C.sub.8 to about C.sub.22 ;
- 2. a polymeric skin feel aid at 0.05% to 5% wherein said polymer is selected from the group consisting of cationic and nonionic polysaccharides;
- cationic and nonionic homopolymers and copolymers derived from acrylic and/or methacrylic acid;
- cationic and nonionic cellulosic resins;
- cationic copolymers and dimethyldiallylammonium chloride and acrylic acid;
- cationic homopolymers of dimethyldiallylammonium chloride;
- cationic polyalkylene and ethoxypolyalkylene imines, and mixtures thereof;
- 3. from 10% to 60% of a moisturizer selected from the group consisting of sodium pyrrolidone carboxylic acid, sodium lactate, hexadecyl, myristyl, isodecyl, or isopropyl esters of adipic, lactic, oleic, stearic, isostearic, myristic and linoleic acids, and their corresponding alcohol esters, sodium isostearoyl-2-lactylate and sodium capryl lactylate, glycerin, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, sorbitol, polyethylene glycol and propylene glycol ethers of methyl glucose, polyethylene glycol and propylene glycol ethers of lanolin alcohol, lactic acid, L-proline, other free fatty acids, and mixtures thereof;
- and wherein when said moisturizer is selected from the group consisting of only said glycerine, said sorbitol, said polyethylene glycol and mixtures thereof, said level of moisturizer is present at at least 12% of said concentrate;
- 4. balance water;
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- B. from 3% to 12% of a propellant by weight of the total emulsion said cleansing product being formulated to provide a pH in use within the range of from about 5 to about 6.
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