Osmotic Composition for Skin Irritation Treatment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current treatments for skin irritations caused by animal or plant effects, such as insect stings and bites, either only alleviate symptoms without addressing the cause or are expensive, painful, and prone to skin damage.

Innovation Solution

A topical composition containing osmotically and/or hygroscopically active substances, such as salts or sugars, that create a concentration gradient to gently remove foreign substances like secretions or toxins from the skin, thereby treating the cause of irritation without pain or skin damage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If heat treatment is applied to denature the secretion, then the cause of skin irritation is eliminated, but the treatment becomes painful

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveeffectiveness in eliminating causeVSAvoidpain

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the physical-chemical parameters of the treatment from thermal (heat) to osmotic (concentration gradient). Instead of using high temperature to denature toxins, the invention uses a concentration gradient created by osmotically active substances to draw out the secretion, thereby eliminating the harmful thermal effect (pain) while maintaining the therapeutic effect of removing the toxin.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical/thermal system (heat application) with a chemical/osmotic system. The osmotically active substances create a concentration gradient that drives the secretion out through osmosis, substituting the painful thermal denaturation process with a gentle chemical gradient-driven extraction process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If vacuum pump treatment is used to remove secretion, then the cause of skin irritation is eliminated, but the treatment becomes expensive and prone to error leading to skin damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveeffectiveness in eliminating causeVSAvoidskin damage

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical vacuum pump system with a chemical/osmotic system. Instead of using negative pressure to extract secretion, the invention uses osmotically active substances that create a concentration gradient to draw out the secretion through osmosis. This substitution eliminates the risks associated with vacuum therapy (skin damage, equipment errors, high cost) while maintaining effective toxin removal.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces osmotically active substances as intermediaries between the skin and the secretion. These substances mediate the extraction process by creating a concentration gradient that safely draws out the toxin without requiring direct mechanical intervention that could damage the skin.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If pharmacologically active substances are used to alleviate itching, then the symptoms are relieved, but the cause of skin irritation remains

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveitching reliefVSAvoidelimination of cause

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges two previously separate functions into one treatment: symptom relief (cooling effect) and cause elimination (toxin removal). The osmotically active substances provide both the cooling effect that relieves itching and the osmotic gradient that draws out the secretion, thereby simultaneously addressing both symptoms and cause without requiring separate pharmacological interventions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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 composition effectively reduces or eliminates skin irritation by drawing out the irritant substances through osmosis or hygroscopy, providing a painless and non-damaging solution for treating skin irritations caused by animal or plant effects.

Implementation Method 1

the composition containing at least one osmotically and/or hygroscopically active substance... create a concentration gradient to gently remove foreign substances like secretions or toxins from the skin... drawing out the irritant substances through osmosis

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectOsmosis: Osmosis

Implementation Method 2

the composition containing at least one osmotically and/or hygroscopically active substance... drawing out the irritant substances through osmosis or hygroscopy

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHygroscopy: Absorption (physical)

Data Source

PatentUS20240033314A1Composition containing an osmotic substance, and use of the composition

Publication Date: 2024.02.01 NOVIGO GMBH

AI summary

The invention relates to a composition for use in the treatment of skin irritations due to interactions with plants or animals on or in the skin, the composition containing at least one osmotic and/or hygroscopic substance.