Porous Particle Personal Care Composition for Long-Lasting Skin Blurring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing personal care compositions fail to provide a long-lasting blurring effect on the skin due to the formation of sweat and oil, which reduces the effectiveness of blurring active ingredients over time.
Innovation Solution
A personal care composition combining specific porous particles with film-forming polymers and a cosmetically acceptable water and oil emulsion, where the porous particles have high oil absorption values and are selected from porous silica, cellulose, acrylic polymer, or ethylene/methacrylate copolymer, and the film-forming polymers are chosen from acrylate, methacrylate, or urethane polymers, along with a whitening pigment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If conventional inorganic particulates (talc, silica, kaolin) are used to achieve matte effect, then skin appearance is improved with immediate blurring, but the effect declines over time due to sweat and oil formation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs porous particles with high oil absorption values (50-1500 g/100g) as the core active ingredient. These porous structures absorb excess oil and sweat on the skin surface, maintaining the blurring effect by preventing oil breakdown of the optical matrix. The porosity enables continuous oil uptake throughout the wear period, resolving the contradiction between immediate blurring effect and duration.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates a composite system combining porous particles with film-forming polymers (acrylate, methacrylate, or urethane polymers). This composite structure forms a resilient optical matrix that maintains blurring properties while the porous component manages oil absorption. The combination synergistically provides both immediate visual effect and extended duration by preventing oil-induced breakdown.
2Duration of action of moving object
If high oil absorption porous particles are used to maintain matte finish, then blurring duration is improved, but the composition becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The porous particles serve multiple functions simultaneously: they provide the primary blurring optical effect through light scattering, absorb excess oil and sweat to maintain effect duration, and contribute to the matte finish. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate ingredients, managing composition complexity while achieving extended duration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent optimizes specific parameters of the porous particles, particularly the oil absorption value (50-1500 g/100g) and particle size distribution, to achieve the desired performance. By carefully controlling these parameters, the invention achieves long-lasting effect with a relatively simple composition, as the optimized porous particles perform multiple functions within a narrow parameter range.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The composition achieves a long-lasting blurring effect, improving skin appearance by reducing the visibility of fine lines, wrinkles, pores, and blemish spots, while maintaining a matte finish and resisting rub-off and oil deposition.
Implementation Method 1
wherein the porous particle has oil absorption value in the range of 50 g/100 g to 1500/100 g
Implementation Method 2
wherein the film forming polymer is selected from an acrylate polymer, a methacrylate polymer, a urethane polymer or co-polymers thereof
Implementation Method 3
Components of the cosmetic composition in this mechanism operate as lenses to bend and twist light in a variety of directions
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AI summary
Disclosed is a personal care composition comprising: a) a porous particle; b) a film forming polymer; and c) a cosmetically acceptable carrier which is a water and oil emulsion; wherein the porous particle has oil absorption value in the range of 50 g/100 g to 1500 g/100 g; wherein the porous particle is selected from porous silica, cellulose, acrylic polymer, nylon and ethylene/methacylate copolymer hollow sphere coated with porous silica; wherein the film forming polymer is selected from an acrylate polymer, a methacrylate polymer, a urethane polymer or co-polymers thereof; and wherein the composition comprises whitening pigment in an amount of from 0.001 to 2 wt %.