Patent ID: 7807612
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: A61K,A61Q

Abstract:
1. A personal liquid skin or hair cleansing composition comprising: (a) 3 to 45 wt % of fatty acyl isethionate surfactant product wherein said product comprises fatty acyl isethionate as well as free fatty acids and/or fatty soaps in the said product; (b) 0 to 15% wt % of a co-surfactant selected from the group consisting of anionic, amphoteric and nonionic surfactants and mixture thereof, wherein said co-surfactant excludes fatty acyl isethionate present in the product of (a); (c) 4 to 20 wt % C8 to C20 total linear fatty acids/fatty soaps in which fatty acids/fatty soaps with carbon chain length longer than 14 comprise 20 to 70 wt % by wt. of said total linear fatty acids/fatty soaps in the composition, wherein said total linear fatty acids/fatty soaps comprise both the free fatty acids/fatty soaps in the fatty acyl isethionate surfactant product of (a) as well as those found in the composition;