Patent ID: 8765170
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: A61K,A61Q

Abstract:
1. A process of making a personal care article comprising the steps of: d. preparing a pre-mix comprising surfactant, water soluble polymer, and optionally plasticizer, wherein said pre-mix has: e. aerating said pre-mix by introducing a gas into the pre-mix to form a wet aerated pre-mix; f. forming the wet aerated pre-mix into a desired one or more shapes to form shaped wet pre-mix; and g. drying the shaped wet pre-mix to a desired final moisture content to form a flexible porous dissolvable solid structure article wherein the flexible porous dissolvable solid structure article has a % open cell content of from about 80% to about 100%, a specific surface area of from about 0.04 m 2 /gram to about 0.19 m 2 /gram, and a density of from about 0.06 g/cm 3 to about 0.10 g/cm 3 .