IP Library Granted Patent US 7,455,848
Granted Patent B2
US 7,455,848 · App. 10/323,217 · Granted Nov 25, 2008

Skin care composition containing an anionic polymer

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Patent No.
US 7,455,848
App. No.
10/323,217
Filed
Dec 18, 2002
Granted
Nov 25, 2008
Kind
B2
Art Unit
1615
USPC
424/730
Abstract

A cosmetically acceptable composition for treating skin comprising about 0.1 to about 20 weight percent, based on polymer solids, of an anionic polymer composed of from about 10 to about 80 mole percent of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid or a base addition salt thereof and from about 90 to about 20 mole percent of one or more anionic or nonionic monomers.

Claims (13)

1. A method of treating skin, wherein said treatment imparts lubricity or silkiness to the skin, comprising applying a cosmetically acceptable composition to the skin comprising about 0.1 to about 20 weight percent, based on polymer solids, of an anionic polymer, wherein the anionic polymer is composed of from about 10 to about 80 mole percent of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid or a base addition salt thereof and from about 90 to about 20 mole percent of one or more anionic monomers or nonionic water soluble monomers.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said anionic polymer is composed of about 10 to about 80 mole percent of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid or abase addition salt thereof and from about 90 to about 20 mole percent of one or more anionic monomers.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said anionic monomers are selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and styrene sulfonic acid.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said anionic polymer is composed of about 10 to about 80 mole percent of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid or a base addition salt thereof and from about 90 to about 20 mole percent of one or more nonionic water soluble monomers.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said anionic polymer is acrylarnide/2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt copolymer.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said anionic polymer has a molecular weight of from about 20,000 to about 5,000,000 g/mol.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein said anionic polymer is methacrylic acid/2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt copolyiner or acrylic acid/2-aerylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt copolymer.

8. The method of claim 2 wherein said anionic polymer is methacrylic acid/2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid sodium salt copolymer.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein said cosmetically acceptable composition comprises from about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent, based on polymer solids, of the anionic polymer.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said cosmetically acceptable composition further comprises one or more cosmetically acceptable excipients.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said excipients are selected from the group consisting of water, saccharides, surface active agents, humectants, petrolatum, mineral oil, fatty alcohols, fatty ester emollients, waxes and silicone-containing waxes, silicone oil; silicone fluid, silicone surfactants, volatile hydrocarbon oils, quaternary nitrogen compounds, amine functionalized silicones, conditioning polymers, rheology modifiers, antioxidants, sunscreen active agents, di-long chain sniffles from about C 10 to C 22 , long chain fatty amines from about C 10 to C 22 , fatty alcohols, ethoxylated fatty alcohols and di-tail phospholipids.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said cosmetically acceptable composition is selected from the group consisting of mascara, eye firming gels, shaving gels, shaving creams, aftershaves, sunscreens, after sun gels, hand and body lotions and creams, soothing gels, liquid soaps, bar soaps, bat oil bars, facial washes, body washes, hand or mechanical dishwashing compositions, shower gels, bubble baths, deodorants and anti-perspirants.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said cosmetically acceptable composition is selected from the group consisting of facial washes and body washes.