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US 8,765,170 · App. 12/361,634 · Granted Jul 1, 2014

Personal care composition in the form of an article

Inventors: Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr. (Liberty Township, OH); Christopher Todd Morrissey (Mason, OH); Lee Arnold Schechtman (Fairfield, OH); Renee Danielle Bolden (Hamilton, OH); Kathleen Mary Kaufman (Cincinnati, OH); Lisa Jo Bartz (Cincinnati, OH); Thomas Edward Dufresne (Morrow, OH); Darren Paul Trokhan (Hamilton, OH); James Merle Heinrich (Fairfield, OH)
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
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Patent No.
US 8,765,170
App. No.
12/361,634
Granted
Jul 1, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

Personal care compositions, especially those personal care compositions in the form of an article that is a porous, dissolvable solid structure.

Claims (8)

1. A process of making a personal care article comprising the steps of:

d. preparing a pre-mix comprising surfactant, water soluble polymer, and optionally plasticizer, wherein said pre-mix has:

i. from about 15% to 40% solids; and

e. aerating said pre-mix by introducing a gas into the pre-mix to form a wet aerated pre-mix;

f. forming the wet aerated pre-mix into a desired one or more shapes to form shaped wet pre-mix; and

g. drying the shaped wet pre-mix to a desired final moisture content to form a flexible porous dissolvable solid structure article

wherein the flexible porous dissolvable solid structure article has a % open cell content of from about 80% to about 100%, a specific surface area of from about 0.04 m 2 /gram to about 0.19 m 2 /gram, and a density of from about 0.06 g/cm 3 to about 0.10 g/cm 3 .

2. The process according to claim 1 further comprising the step of cutting the flexible porous dissolvable solid structure article.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 18, 2009
From: GLENN, ROBERT WAYNE, JR.; MORRISSEY, CHRISTOPHER TODD; SCHECHTMAN, LEE ARNOLD; BOLDEN, RENEE DANIELLE; KAUFMAN, KATHLEEN MARY; BARTZ, LISA JO; DUFRESNE, THOMAS EDWARD; TROKHAN, DARREN PAUL; HEINRICH, JAMES MERLE
To: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61024728 · Jan 30, 2008
Related Publication 20090232873A1 · Sep 17, 2009