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US 9,750,667 B2Granted
Cleansing bar
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsSteve Misner, Long Pan, Diana Scala, Regina Hourigan, Ravi Subramanyam, Dennis Fletcher, Patricia Hall-Puzio, Shamim Ansari, Derek Le
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Abstract
A cleansing bar comprising at least one member chosen from clay and talc, wherein a total amount of clay and talc is present in an amount that is greater than any other material in the cleansing bar, at least one cleanser chosen from soap and surfactant, and a binder present in an amount to structure the cleansing bar into a bar.
Claims15
A cleansing bar comprising:
- clay, wherein a total amount of clay is present in an amount that is greater than any other material in the cleansing bar, and the total amount of clay is at least 40 weight % of the cleansing bar, wherein the clay is at least one clay chosen from kaolin, kaolinite, dickite, halloysite, nacrite, smectite, montmorillonite, nontronite, illite, bentonite, attapulgite, palygorskite, sepiolite, hormite, pyrophyllite, chlorite, and aluminosilicates, and wherein the clay excludes talc,
- a cleanser consisting essentially of a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is present in an amount of 5 to 25 weight % of the cleansing bar,
- at least one of palm kernel oil and hydrogenated soybean oil, and
- at least one binder chosen from paraffin, polymethylene wax, and polyethylene wax, present in an amount to structure the cleansing bar into a bar and present in an amount of at least 1 weight % of the cleansing bar,
- wherein either soap is not present in the cleansing bar or soap is present in an amount of less than 0.5 weight % of the cleansing bar.
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A method of removing bacteria from skin comprising washing skin with a cleansing bar comprising:
- clay, wherein a total amount of clay is present in an amount that is greater than any other material in the cleansing bar, and the total amount of clay is at least 40 weight % of the cleansing bar, wherein the clay is at least one clay chosen from kaolin, kaolinite, dickite, halloysite, nacrite, smectite, montmorillonite, nontronite, illite, bentonite, attapulgite, palygorskite, sepiolite, hormite, pyrophyllite, chlorite, and aluminosilicates, and wherein the clay excludes talc,
- a cleanser consisting essentially of a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is present in an amount of 5 to 25 weight % of the cleansing bar,
- at least one of palm kernel oil and hydrogenated soybean oil, and
- at least one binder chosen from paraffin, polymethylene wax, and polyethylene wax, present in an amount to structure the cleansing bar into a bar and present in an amount of at least 1 weight % of the cleansing bar,
- wherein either soap is not present in the cleansing bar or soap is present in an amount of less than 0.5 weight % of the cleansing bar.
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A method of inhibiting bacterial growth on skin comprising washing skin with a cleansing bar comprising:
- clay, wherein a total amount of clay is present in an amount that is greater than any other material in the cleansing bar, and the total amount of clay is at least 40 weight % of the cleansing bar, wherein the clay is at least one clay chosen from kaolin, kaolinite, dickite, halloysite, nacrite, smectite, montmorillonite, nontronite, illite, bentonite, attapulgite, palygorskite, sepiolite, hormite, pyrophyllite, chlorite, and aluminosilicates, and wherein the clay excludes talc,
- a cleanser consisting essentially of a surfactant, wherein the surfactant is present in an amount of 5 to 25 weight % of the cleansing bar,
- at least one of palm kernel oil and hydrogenated soybean oil, and
- at least one binder chosen from paraffin, polymethylene wax, and polyethylene wax, present in an amount to structure the cleansing bar into a bar and present in an amount of at least 1 weight % of the cleansing bar,
- wherein either soap is not present in the cleansing bar or soap is present in an amount of less than 0.5 weight % of the cleansing bar.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.