Patent ID: 7179300

Claim:
A cosmetic composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium at a pH ranging from 1.5 to 9, at least one compound chosen from sulfinic acid derivatives of formula (I) below and cosmetically acceptable salts thereof: in which: X, and X′, which may be identical or different, are chosen from a hydrogen atom, monovalent metal ions, and ionic equivalents of divalent metals from groups Ia, IIa, IIb, IVa and VIIIb of the Periodic Table of Elements; Y is chosen from an OH radical, a radical NR 1 R 2 in which R 1 and R 2 , which may be identical or different, are chosen from a hydrogen atom and C 1 –C 6 alkyl radicals; and n and m, which may be identical or different, are chosen from integers ranging from 0 to 2.