Thin Emulsion Base Using Plant Juice and Alkanes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing skin care products with synthetic emulsions often lack stability, effectiveness, and can cause adverse skin reactions, while natural emulsifiers struggle to provide both stability and cosmetic benefits.
Innovation Solution
A thin emulsion base comprising a plant juice aqueous phase, an alkane texture enhancing oil phase, and a lipid emulsifier, with specific compositions and ratios to achieve stability and cosmetic properties, including a solvent with 6-20% carbohydrate content, an alkane texture enhancer mix of C12 alkanes, and a lipid emulsifier mix of polyglyceryl esters and phosphatidylglycerol.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If synthetic emulsifiers are used to produce emulsions, then storage stability and unctuousness are improved, but adverse skin reactions and skin damage occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the chemical composition parameters by replacing synthetic emulsifiers with natural lipid-based emulsifiers (plant oils, animal fats, or their derivatives). This parameter change maintains emulsion stability while eliminating harmful synthetic components that cause skin reactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses composite material systems combining multiple natural ingredients including plant juices (aloe vera, grape, lemon, apple), plant oils (coconut oil, olive oil, sunflower oil), and natural emulsifiers. This composite approach creates synergistic effects that provide both stability and skin compatibility.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If natural emulsifiers are used to produce emulsions, then skin compatibility is improved, but storage stability and unctuousness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple natural ingredients into a unified emulsion system. By combining plant juices, plant oils, and natural emulsifiers in specific ratios, the formulation achieves both skin compatibility and storage stability that individual natural ingredients cannot provide alone.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite material system where plant oils and natural emulsifiers work synergistically. The plant oils provide unctuousness and skin compatibility, while the natural emulsifiers ensure stable emulsion formation and storage, overcoming the limitations of single natural ingredients.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If natural emulsifiers are used to produce emulsions, then skin compatibility is improved, but spreading power and texture quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent optimizes the molecular structure parameters of the emulsion by selecting plant oils with appropriate chain lengths and natural emulsifiers with suitable HLB values. This parameter optimization ensures the emulsion has both skin compatibility and excellent spreading power and texture.
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 solution provides a stable, non-sticky, and cosmetically effective emulsion base that maintains stability for at least 90 days at 40°C, offering a milky-white appearance and smooth texture, free from synthetic additives and preservatives.
Implementation Method 1
emulsions are obtained by using suitable emulsifiers by means of which either emulsions of the oil-in-water type or emulsions of the water-in-oil type can be produced
Implementation Method 2
Because emulsions represent a mixture of two or more materials that are not miscible in each other, they are inherently unstable
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AI summary
This invention provides for a thin emulsion base for cosmetic products with low to medium viscosity. The bases are excipients that provide stability to cosmetic products. The thin emulsion bases of this invention are from non-synthetic and non-petroleum based products and comprise over 80% juice derived solvents with the balance being a combination of alkane texture enhancers and lipid emulsifiers.