Jade Sphere Composite Powder for Cosmetic Lumping and Skin Feel

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Solution Overview

Problem

Jade powder particles in cosmetic compositions exhibit poor skin feel due to coarse surfaces and can cause a white cast and lumping, leading to degraded whiteness and applicability issues.

Innovation Solution

A composite powder, referred to as jade sphere, is created by uniformly impregnating jade powder particles in a porous polymer using a one-step spray drying or electro-spraying process, where the jade powder is dispersed in a solution with a dissolved porous polymer, enhancing cosmetic durability and preventing lumping.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If jade powder particles are used in cosmetic compositions, then blue light-blocking and skin whitening effects are achieved, but coarse surface texture causes poor skin feel and lumping

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecosmetic performanceVSAvoidskin feel
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses porous polymer particles as a carrier matrix to embed jade powder particles. The porous structure allows for uniform distribution of jade particles while the polymer matrix smooths the coarse surface texture, preventing lumping and improving skin feel while maintaining the cosmetic benefits of jade powder

Inventive Principle:
Principle #31Porous materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite material system consisting of porous polymer particles combined with jade powder particles. This composite structure integrates the functional properties of jade (blue light-blocking, whitening) with the textural benefits of porous polymer (smoothness, anti-lumping), resolving the contradiction between cosmetic performance and skin feel

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Manufacturing precision

If a two-step coating process is used to manufacture composite powder, then powder characteristics are preserved, but the manufacturing procedure becomes complicated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepowder characteristicsVSAvoidmanufacturing procedure
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the dispersion and coating steps into a single spray drying process. The jade powder is dispersed in a polymer solution, and spray drying simultaneously forms the porous polymer matrix and embeds the jade particles, achieving composite powder formation in one step rather than requiring separate coating operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses spray drying parameters (atomization, hot air temperature, drying time) to control the formation of porous polymer particles and the embedding of jade powder. By optimizing these parameters, the process achieves uniform particle formation and proper jade particle distribution without requiring multiple processing steps

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

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

The jade sphere improves skin feel, spreadability, and whiteness by preventing lumping and enhancing blue light-blocking and sebum absorption, resulting in improved cosmetic performance and user experience.

Implementation Method 1

a porous polymer having an average pore diameter of 15 to 800 nm, more preferably 250 to 600 nm, and a porosity of 40 to 85%, more preferably 50 to 75%

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCapillary action: Capillary Action

Implementation Method 2

spraying a material in a dissolved state, which is composed of a raw material powder, a solvent, and a binder, using a spraying unit such as a nozzle or a rolling disk and instantly drying the dissolved material with hot wind

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAtomization:

Implementation Method 3

instantly drying the liquid raw material through direct contact with a hot air current

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectEvaporation: Evaporation

Implementation Method 4

injecting a polymer solution having certain electrical conductivity and viscosity through a capillary tube and applying an electrostatic force to the polymer solution

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectrostatic force: Electrostatics

Implementation Method 5

the electro-spraying includes powdering the polymer solution in a single step

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectrohydrodynamics: Electrohydrodynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3318243B1Composite powder in which jade powder particles are impregnated in porous polymer, cosmetic composition containing same and manufacturing method for same
Publication Date: 2020.04.29 AMOREPACIFIC CORP
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a composite powder of jade powder and a porous polymer, and more specifically relates to a composite powder (jade sphere) in which jade powder particles are impregnated in a porous polymer, the composite powder being produced by spraying, in one step, a dispersion in which jade powder has been dispersed in a solution that dissolves porous polymers, and to a cosmetic composition containing the composite powder, and to a manufacturing method for the composite powder.