Cosmetic Mask Container With Strainer And Liquid Reservoir
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cosmetic mask packaging systems face issues with mask dryness before use, limited mask shape options, and the inability to keep ingredients separate until application, leading to potential loss of efficacy and stability of active ingredients.
Innovation Solution
A container system comprising a container, closure, and strainer that allows a dry cosmetic mask to be saturated with a flowable personal care product just prior to use, ensuring air-tight and liquid-tight sealing, and accommodating multiple mask shapes with separate ingredient application.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If masks are pre-moistened with liquid product and packaged in air-tight, liquid-tight packaging, then the masks remain moist and ready to use, but the masks dry out before reaching the consumer
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the mask and liquid product into separate compartments within the same packaging. The mask remains in a dry state during storage while the liquid product is held in a separate reservoir, eliminating the dry-out problem while maintaining readiness for use.
Solution Approach 2:
The packaging is pre-configured with separate compartments and a liquid delivery mechanism ready for use. When needed, the liquid is automatically or manually delivered to the mask, eliminating the need for manual moistening and ensuring consistent application.
2Device complexity
If a single shape of mask is provided in the container, then the packaging is simple and cost-effective, but the consumer cannot use different mask shapes for different body parts
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging contains multiple separate masks of different shapes, each in its own compartment or stackable arrangement. This allows the consumer to select the appropriate mask shape for different body areas while maintaining a unified packaging structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The single packaging system serves multiple functions: it stores multiple mask shapes, provides separate liquid reservoirs for each mask type, and allows selective use based on different application needs, making the system universally applicable to various skincare requirements.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the mask and liquid personal care preparation are kept separate until use, then ingredient stability and efficacy are maintained, but the consumer experience becomes messy and wasteful
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the mask and liquid product into a single integrated packaging unit with separate compartments. This allows the components to remain separate for stability during storage while enabling convenient combination at the point of use through built-in liquid delivery mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The packaging structure acts as an intermediary that controls the interaction between the mask and liquid. It provides a controlled environment for separation during storage and a controlled mechanism for combination during application, eliminating mess and waste.
4Ease of operation
If reactive skin care agents are impregnated into the mask and then saturated with liquid preparation weeks or months prior to use, then the mask is ready for immediate application, but the efficacy of the active ingredient is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The reactive skin care agent is kept separate from the liquid personal care preparation in distinct compartments. The mask can be impregnated with the reactive agent during manufacturing and stored stably, then saturated with the liquid preparation immediately before use, preserving ingredient efficacy while maintaining convenience.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system prevents mask dryness, allows for convenient use with various mask shapes, and maintains ingredient separation until application, enhancing the efficacy and stability of skin care actives.
Implementation Method 1
ensuring air-tight and liquid-tight sealing
Implementation Method 2
a strainer (3)
Implementation Method 3
allows a dry cosmetic mask to be saturated with a flowable personal care product
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AI summary
A container system for use with a cosmetic mask that allows the cosmetic mask to be treated with a liquid personal care preparation just prior to using the mask. The container system comprises a container (1), a closure (2) and a strainer (3). When the container is in an upright position, a flowable product (P) in the reservoir does not reach to the level of the strainer. The invention includes a kit comprising a container system as described herein, and a set of dry cosmetic masks that have not been exposed to the flowable product (P).