The present invention is directed to a personal care composition comprising from about 10% to about 25% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.1% to 10% of sulfur; wherein the sulfur has a mean particle size (D50) of from about 5 μm to about 150 μm; from about 0.05% to about 10% of one or more stabilizing polymers; and from about 0.01% to about 4% of a suspending wax.

The present invention is directed to a personal care composition comprising from about 12% to about 25% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.01% to 10% of one or more soluble scalp health active; from about 0.1% to about 4% of a thickening polymer wherein the thickening polymer is selected from the group consisting of homopolymers based on acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or other related derivatives, alkali swellable and hydrophobically-modified alkali swellable acrylic copolymers or methacrylate copolymers, soluble crosslinked acrylic polymers, associative polymeric thickeners and mixtures thereof; from 0.01% to 0.8% of a cationic polymer; wherein the personal care composition has a pH of about 4.5 to about 6 and wherein the personal care composition has a Haze value less than or equal to 25.

PROBLEM: To provide a cosmetic composition that has a moisturizing effect that gives lasting moisture to a skin, an effect that prevents or improves aging symptoms, such as wrinkles and sags, and similar effect.

SOLUTION: Nicotinamide mononucleotide is contained in a cosmetic composition.

The present invention relates to an Achillea essential oil comprising at least the following compounds, each preferably present in a proportion of at least 5% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the essential oil: artemisia ketone and chrysanthenone (two combined isomers). The invention also relates to a cosmetic composition comprising the said Achillea essential oil and to its cosmetic use as antidandruff agent or as deodorant active agent.

The present invention relates to propanediol monoacetate mononitrate as well as the use thereof as antimicrobial agent, in particular for cosmetic applications.

The invention provides an antimicrobial personal cleansing composition comprising: (i) an aqueous continuous phase including one or more anionic cleansing surfactants; (ii) a dispersed phase including dispersed particles of zinc pyrithione (ZPT); (iii) a structuring polymer for the aqueous continuous phase which is selected from crosslinked alkali-swellable acrylic emulsion (ASE) polymers; and (iv) from 3 to 20 wt % niacinamide based on the total weight of the composition, wherein the structuring polymer is selected from crosslinked copolymers of (meth)acrylic acid with one or more C1 to C5 alkyl esters of (meth)acrylic acid.

The present invention relates to a novel composition and methods of preparation thereof. More specifically, the compositions are useful as personal care products, as wound healing compositions, as a disinfectant and also for nosocomial infections.

A non-aqueous hair leave-on composition directed to an aqueous hair leave-on composition for hair frizz reduction comprising from about 0.15% to about 12.0% of a moisture control material or mixture of moisture control materials wherein the moisture control material is selected from one or more of the Class II groups a, b, c, d, e, f and g and wherein the moisture control material of Class II is weakly to non-acidic and further wherein the moisture control material of Class II has protein binding higher than 10 and molecular volume lower than 1500 and log P higher than 0.5 and pKa of 5 or higher and hydrogen-binding higher than 4; and wherein, the non-aqueous carrier is selected from a group consisting of a) hydrocarbons b) silicone fluid c) non-hydrocarbons volatile organic solvents or mixtures thereof.

The present invention is directed to a hair care composition comprising from about 8 to about 17% of one or more surfactants and from about 0.04 to about 0.18% of salicylate salts or acids.

The present invention is directed to hair care composition comprising from about 8 to about 17% of one or more surfactants; from about 0.01% to about 10% of one or more surfactant soluble antidandruff agents; from about 0.01% to about 5% of one or more polyacrylate or polyacrylamide based thickening polymer; from about 0.02-0.25% salicylate salts or acids; from about 0.02-0.25% benzoate salts or acids wherein there is a weight ratio of about 1:1 to 12.5:1 for the salicylate salts or acids to benzoate salts or acids.