Package For Dispensing A Personal Care Product

a personal care and product technology, applied in the direction of packaged goods, carpet cleaners, packaging foodstuffs, etc., can solve the problems of no well-known shaving cream lathering aid currently available for consumer purchase, messy application method, waste of product portion that does not get transferred from users' fingers,

US20090263174A1Inactive Publication Date: 2009-10-22THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
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US · United States
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Publication Date
2009-10-22
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Abstract

A package for dispensing a liquid personal care product, the package comprising: a body for grasping with a user's hand; an applicator comprising an applicator base and a skin-contacting portion extending from the applicator base to a first height; a dispensing conduit through which a liquid personal care product is dispensable from the body, wherein the dispensing conduit comprises a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the proximal end comprises an inlet that is in fluid communication with the body, wherein the distal end extends from the applicator base to a second height that is less than the first height; and a flow-restricting member associated with the dispensing conduit.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

[0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 072,521, filed Mar. 31, 2008.FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention is directed to packages for dispensing a liquid personal care product.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0003] Liquid personal care products are available in a wide variety of packages, including bottles, jars, tubes, and cans. Liquid personal care products meant for application to the skin are traditionally dispensed from a container onto users' hands and then applied to the skin by hand. Examples of such products include lotion, facial cleanser, and shaving cream. This application method however can be messy, and that portion of the product that does not get transferred from users' fingers is wasted.

[0004] Few liquid personal care products on the market have applicators or lathering aids. While patents relating to brush attachments for shaving cream in traditional aerosol cans do exist, there ar...

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[0023]The present invention may be understood more readily by reference to the following detailed description of illustrative and preferred embodiments. It is to be understood that the scope of the claims is not limited to the specific ingredients, methods, conditions, devices, or parameters described herein, and that the terminology used herein is not intended to be limiting of the claimed invention. Also, as used in the specification, including the appended claims, the singular forms “a,”“an,” and “the” include the plural, and reference to a particular numerical value includes at least that particular value, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. When a range of values is expressed, another embodiment includes from the one particular value and / or to the other particular value. Similarly, when values are expressed as approximations, by use of the antecedent basis “about,” it will be understood that the particular values form another embodiment. All ranges are inclusive and ...