Enhanced antiperspirant salts stabilized with calcium and concentrated aqueous solutions of such salts
AssigneeThe Gillette Company
InventorYan-Fei Shen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to enhanced efficacy antiperspirant salts containing calcium and an amino acid or a hydroxy acid and particularly to stabilized aqueous solutions of such salts. The present invention also embraces methods of making these antiperspirant salts and solutions and compositions containing same.
Claims27
A stable antiperspirant composition comprising, in percent by weight, about 5% to about 78% (USP) of an enhanced efficacy aluminum or aluminum-zirconium antiperspirant salt having an HPLC peak 4 to peak 3 area ratio of at least 0.5 with at least 70% of the aluminum contained in said peaks 3 and 4, about 1% to about 85% water, a water soluble amino and/or hydroxy acid in an amount to provide an acid:Al+Zr weight ratio of about 2:1 to about 1:20, and a soluble calcium salt in an amount to provide a Ca:Al+Zr weight ratio of about 1:1 to about 1:28.
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