Personal Care Composition Using Terpene Alcohol and Fluorinated Compound
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional personal care products for fragile skin often require multiple applications and can cause irritation, discomfort, and anxiety due to their harsh nature, failing to provide effective cleansing, cooling, and moisturization simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A personal care composition that incorporates a terpene alcohol component and a partially fluorinated compound, stabilized by an oil phase, which creates an initial foaming action and provides long-term cooling and pain relief, reducing the need for additional products and minimizing skin rubbing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional personal care products are used for fragile skin, then cleansing function is provided, but skin irritation and discomfort occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical and chemical parameters of the cleansing product by incorporating volatile compounds (propanol, butanol) that evaporate at skin temperature, and terpene alcohols that provide gentle surfactant properties. This allows effective cleansing while reducing skin irritation through parameter optimization
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates a composite personal care composition combining multiple functional components: volatile compounds for foaming and cooling, terpene alcohols for gentle cleansing, and moisturizing agents. This composite approach provides comprehensive skin care while minimizing irritation
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate products are applied for cleansing, pain relief, and moisturization, then comprehensive skin benefits are achieved, but application complexity and skin stress increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal personal care composition that performs multiple functions simultaneously: cleansing through terpene alcohols, cooling through volatile compound evaporation, and moisturizing through incorporated emollients. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for multiple separate products
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges traditionally separate skin care functions (cleansing, cooling, moisturizing, pain relief) into a single integrated composition, reducing application steps and minimizing mechanical stress on fragile skin
3Temperature
If volatile fluorinated compounds are incorporated for cooling effect, then cooling and pain relief are provided, but composition stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses terpene alcohols as intermediary substances that mediate between the volatile fluorinated compounds and the aqueous phase. The terpene alcohols solubilize the volatile compounds and control their release, maintaining composition stability while preserving the cooling effect
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 cleanses and moisturizes the skin with minimal rubbing, offering immediate and long-term cooling and pain relief, while maintaining stability and cohesiveness, thus addressing the limitations of conventional products.
Implementation Method 1
A volatile such as an at least partially fluorinated compound... may provide a cooling effect
Implementation Method 2
the at least partially fluorinated compound is stabilized by an oil phase having at least one terpene alcohol component to suspend and incorporate the at least partially fluorinated compound
Implementation Method 3
A foaming personal care composition containing a carrier, an oil phase containing at least one terpene alcohol component, a volatile such as an at least partially fluorinated compound, and a stabilizer... provides an initial self-foaming action
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AI summary
The present disclosure generally relates to a personal care composition containing a carrier, an oil phase having at least one terpene alcohol component, an at least partially fluorinated compound, and a stabilizer. In an exemplary aspect, the at least partially fluorinated compound is stable within the composition of the present disclosure with the introduction of an oil phase having at least one terpene alcohol component to stabilize the at least partially fluorinated compound. Thus, the composition provides an initial foaming action and longer term skin benefits provided by an oil phase contacting a terpene alcohol component. A stabilizing component may also be included to provide further stability to the composition.