Combined personal cleansing and moisturizing compositions
AssigneeRichardson-Vicks Inc.
InventorsSusan C. Wivell, George E. Deckner
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Abstract
The present invention relates to compositions which provide both a skin cleansing and skin moisturizing benefit from the same product. These compositions provide improved lathering and cleansing characteristics, are extremely mild to the skin, and deliver a moisturizing agent to the skin. These compositions comprise at least one anionic surfactant, a dispersed, insoluble oil phase, at least one additional surfactant, an optional suspending agent, and water. This invention also relates to methods for providing combined cleansing and moisturization, and to methods for delivering these compositions as a foam.
Claims17
A personal cleansing and moisturizing composition comprising:
- (a) from about 1% to about 10% of at least one anionic surfactant,
- (b) from about 0.4% to about 15% of a long chain C16-22 suspending agent selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol long chain esters, alkanolamides of long chain fatty acids, long chain esters of long chain fatty acids, glyceryl long chain esters, lone chain esters of long chain alkanolamides, and mixtures thereof,
- (c) from about 0.1% to about 10% of a dispersed, insoluble, oil phase,
- (d) from about 1% to about 10% of at least one additional surfactant selected from the group consisting of nonionic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, amphoteric surfactants, and mixtures thereof, and
- (e) the remainder water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.