Patent ID: 7862804

Claim:
A regime or regimen for depigmenting/whitening the skin and/or for the anti-browning thereof, comprising topically administering to an area of hyperpigmenation on an individual in need of such treatment, for such period of time as required to elicit the desired response of depigmenting/whitening the skin and/or for the anti-browning thereof, a thus effective amount of at least one C-glycoside compound having the following formula (I): in which: R is: a saturated linear C 1 to C 20 alkyl radical, an unsaturated linear C 2 to C 20 alkyl radical or a saturated or unsaturated and branched or cyclic C 3 to C 20 alkyl radical, with the exception of a substituted phenyl radical; a saturated linear C 1 to C 20 hydrofluoro- or perfluoroalkyl radical, an unsaturated linear C 2 to C 20 hydrofluoro- or perfluoroalkyl radical or a saturated or unsaturated and branched or cyclic C 3 to C 20 , hydrofluoro- or perfluoroalkyl radical; with the proviso that the hydrocarbon chain constituting said radicals may be interrupted by 1, 2, 3 or more heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of: an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a nitrogen atom, and a silicon atom, and with the further proviso that the hydrocarbon chain constituting said radicals may optionally be substituted by at least one radical selected from the group consisting of: â€”OR 4 , â€”SR 4 , â€”NR 4 R 5 , â€”COOR 4 , â€”CONHR 4 , â€”CN, a halogen atom, a C 1 to C 6 hydrofluoro- or perfluoroalkyl radical, a C 3 to C 8 cycloalkyl radical, and/or wherein R 4 and R 5 represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, a saturated linear C 1 to C 30 alkyl, perfluoroalkyl or hydrofluoroalkyl radical, an unsaturated linear C 2 to C 30 alkyl, perfluoroalkyl or hydrofluoroalkyl radical, a saturated or unsaturated and branched or cyclic C 3 to C 30 alkyl, perfluoroalkyl or hydrofluoroalkyl radical, or a C 6 to C 10 aryl radical; X is a radical selected from among the following: wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom or a radical R, wherein R as defined above, and Râ€² 1 is a hydrogen atom, an â€”OH group or a radical R, with the proviso that R 1 may also be a C 6 to C 10 aryl radical; S is a monosaccharide or a polysaccharide having up to 20 sugar units in a pyranose and/or furanose form and of the L and/or D series, with the proviso that said mono- or polysaccharide may be substituted by a necessarily free hydroxyl group and optionally one or more optionally protected amine functional group(s), and the Sâ€”CH 2 â€”X bond is a bond of C-anomeric nature which can be Î± or Î², and the cosmetically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates and isomers thereof, wherein the condition requiring depigmenting/whitening the skin and/or for the anti-browning thereof is not aging.