Patent ID: 7592002

Claim:
A cosmetic adhesive composition consisting of the saccharide polyhydroxy acid ester produced by a process consisting of: (1) mixing a saccharide, a minimum quantity of water to dissolve said saccharide, and a polyhydroxy lactone, (2) heating to a temperature of 90 to 120 degrees Celsius for 30 to 45 minutes, (3) adding a water-soluble hydroxylic or polyhydroxyl solvent selected from the group consisting of diglycerol, polyglycerol, triglycerol, tetraglycerol, pentaglycerol, hexaglycerol, glycerin, polyethylene glycol, propylene glycol, butylene glycol, methylpropanediol, ethoxydiglycol, and combinations thereof, and (4) allowing the resulting product to cool to room temperature; wherein said saccharide is selected from the group consisting of sucrose, lactose, maltose, trehalose, glucose, erythrose, threose, arabinose, ribose, ribulose, xylose, xylulose, lyxose, allose, altrose, fructose, galactose, gulose, idose, mannose, sorbose, talose, tagatose, and sedoheptulose, and wherein said polyhydroxy lactone is selected from the group consisting of gluconolactone, erythronolactone, isocitric acid lactone, glucooctanolactone, galactonolactone, gulonolactone, sugar lactone, mannonolactone, saccharolactone, glucoronolactone, and ribolactone.