Personal care composition additive for application on keratin substrates to provide long lasting benefits
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to a personal care composition additive for use on keratin substrates in order to provide long lasting benefits to the keratin substrate such as in conditioning systems, such as 2/1 shampoo's, leave-on and rinse off conditioners, for hair and skin, or for imparting greater water resistance to such personal care compositions as sunscreens or cosmetics.
1. A personal care composition additive for providing prolonged benefit to a keratin surface, comprising:
a) a regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers having a cationic degree of substitution greater than 0.001 wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative is selected from the group consisting of cetyl modified cellulose derivative, lauryl modified cellulose derivative and butyl modified cellulose derivative, wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative having molecular weight in a range of greater than 50,000 Daltons to less than or equal to 800,000 Daltons, and
b) a water miscible, polar solvent,
wherein the concentration of the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers is in a range of from about 0.1 wt % to about 20 wt %.
2. The personal care composition additive of claim 1 , wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative is regular hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose.
3. The personal care composition additive of claim 1 , wherein the substantive polymer regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers has a cationic degree of substitution in a range of from about 0.001 to about 3.0.
4. The personal care composition additive of claim 3 , wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers has a cationic degree of substitution in a range of from about 0.2 to about 3.0.
5. The personal care composition additive of claim 4 , wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers has a cationic degree of substitution in a range of from about 0.4 to about 3.0.
6. The personal care composition additive of claim 1 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is selected from the group consisting of alcohols, polyols, and glycol ethers.
7. The personal care composition additive of claim 6 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is a polyol selected from the group consisting of cyclitol, diols, glycerol, Balsaminol B, butanetriol, balsaminapentaol, cucurbalsaminol, and propylene glycol.
8. The personal care composition additive of claim 6 , wherein the glycol ether is selected from the group consisting of diethylene glycol dimethyl ether, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether, diethylene glycol monohexyl ether, diethylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, diethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol dibutyl ether, ethylene glycol diethyl ether, ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, ethylene glycol monoacetate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether, ethylene glycol monohexyl ether, ethylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol monooctyl ether, ethylene glycol monophenyl ether, ethylene glycol monopropyl ether, triethylene glycol, triethylene glycol dimethyl ether, triethylene glycol monoethyl ether, and triethylene glycol monomethyl ether.
9. The personal care composition additive of claim 1 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is in a mixture with water.
10. The personal care composition additive of claim 9 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is in a mixture in the range of about 10:90 to about 90:10 by weight with water.
11. The personal care composition additive of claim 10 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is in a mixture in the range of about 25:75 to about 75:25 by weight with water.
12. The personal care composition additive of claim 11 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is in a mixture of about 50:50 by weight with water.
13. The personal care composition additive of claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative in the water miscible, polar solvent is about 1.0 wt %.
14. The personal care composition additive of claim 12 , wherein the water miscible, polar solvent is glycerine and wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative is regular hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose having a molecular weight of about 300,000 Daltons.
15. A personal care composition comprising:
a) a personal care composition additive for providing prolonged benefit to a keratin surface, comprising (i) a regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers having a cationic degree of substitution greater than 0.001 wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative is selected from the group consisting of cetyl modified cellulose derivative, lauryl modified cellulose derivative and butyl modified cellulose derivative, wherein the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative having molecular weight in a range of greater than 50,000 Daltons to less than or equal to 800,000 Daltons, and (ii) a water miscible, polar solvent, wherein the concentration of the regular hydrophobically modified cellulose derivative containing cationic monomers in a range of from about 0.1 wt % to about 20 wt %, and
b) a personal care active ingredient.
16. The personal care composition of claim 15 , wherein the personal care composition comprises a hair care product.
17. The personal care composition of claim 16 , wherein the hair care product comprises a conditioning system.
18. The personal care composition of claim 15 , wherein the personal care composition comprises a skin care product.
19. The personal care composition of claim 18 , wherein prolonged benefit provided by the personal care composition additive is selected from the group consisting of perfumes, skin coolants, emollients, deodorants, antiperspirant actives, moisturizing agents, sunscreen active ingredients and hair treatment agent.