US Patent Issued to L'OREAL on Sept. 22 for "Compositions and articles for make-up removal" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,925, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to L'OREAL (Paris).

"Compositions and articles for make-up removal" was invented by Catherine Chiou (Saddlebrook, N.J.), Ryuji Hara (Westfield, N.J.) and Jean-Pascal Hirt (Saint Cloud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The makeup removal composition includes at least one branched or linear, liquid alkane with carbon chain length of C11 to C20, at least one polar emollient with molecular weight of 400 g/mol or less, at least one polymeric thickener for water-based system, and at least one surfactant in a water-based emulsion/suspension system comprising oil and water phases, the water phase i...