Patent ID: 7744857

Claim:
An anhydrous antiperspirant composition comprising a) from 0.5 to 50% by weight of a particulate aluminium and/or aluminium/zirconium antiperspirant active; b) from 30 to 95% by weight of a water-immiscible carrier fluid or mixture of carrier fluids; and c) from 0.1 to 40% by weight of a thickener, gellant or structurant for the carrier fluid; in which the carrier fluid comprises an aryl substituted siloxane which satisfies the general formula 1 R 1 R A 2 Si—O—[—SiR 2 R A —O] n —SiR 3 R A 2 in which: n represents an average number of from 0 to 2; R 1 R 2 and R 3 , which may be the same as or different from each other, each represents R 4 or a capping group R C , wherein: R 4 represents diphenylethyl, and R C represents a residue of α-methylstyrene dimer, benzyl alcohol or allyloxy ethanol, with the proviso that not more than 20% of the total occurrences of —R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are R C , and R A represents a methyl group; and wherein at least 30% by weight of the carrier fluid or mixture of carrier fluids is the aryl substituted siloxane, and wherein the anhydrous antiperspirant composition is in the form of a cream, soft solid or stick.