An objective of the invention is to increase the ultraviolet protection power of an ultraviolet scattering agent, thereby providing an oil-in-water emulsion sunscreen cosmetic that can achieve high ultraviolet protection power and that has excellent emulsion stability. The sunscreen cosmetic according to the present invention comprises (A) an acrylic copolymer having phosphoric acid groups; (B) a hydrophobically treated ultraviolet scattering agent; and (C) 0.3% by mass or more of a water phase thickener; wherein the ultraviolet scattering agent is dispersed in an oil phase.

The present invention relates to a composition comprising: (a) at least one cationic polysaccharide; (b) at least one antioxidant; and (c) water, wherein the (b) antioxidant has at least one negatively chargeable and/or negatively charged moiety selected from the group consisting of a sulfuric group, a sulfate group, a sulfonic group, a sulfonate group, a phosphoric group, a phosphate group, a phosphonic group, a phosphonate group, a phenolic hydroxyl group, a carboxylic group, and a carboxylate group. The composition according to the present invention can include a relatively larger amount of antioxidant.

The present application relates to compositions corn-sing a bioactive lipophilic compound, an oil and at least one solubilizing agent that is a compound of Formula (I), to emulsions comprising such compositions and to uses thereof. The present application also relates to methods of preparing such emulsions. The methods comprise heating such compositions to form a homogeneous melt and combining the homogeneous melt with water to obtain the emulsion.

To provide an oil-in-water type emulsified cosmetic comprising a pigment grade hydrophobically treated particle and a hydrophobically treated microparticle, which is capable of uniformly applying particles subjected to hydrophobization treatment on the surface of the skin and exhibiting a good tone-up effect and the like.

The oil-in-water type emulsified cosmetic of the present disclosure comprises a dispersion medium comprising water, and an oil droplet dispersed in the dispersion medium, wherein the dispersion medium comprises a nonionic surfactant, a polyhydric alcohol, and a pigment grade hydrophobically treated particle having an average particle diameter of 300 nm or more, wherein the oil droplet comprises an oil content , a nonionic surfactant, and a hydrophobically treated microparticle having an average particle diameter of 200 nm or less, and wherein the oil content comprises a volatile oil.

A pilling-resistant cosmetic composition is in the form of an oil in water emulsion that includes a water phase and an oily phase, and includes at least one cosmetically acceptable polymeric thickener selected from the group consisting of crosspolymers, gums, taurate based polymers, carbomers, polyacrylates, and combinations thereof, at least one ethoxylated agent in liquid form at ambient temperature in a range from about 20° C. to about 28° C. and has an HLB from about 8.5 to about 16; and at least one oil. The pilling-resistant cosmetic composition resists pilling when applied by rubbing or smoothing on a keratinous substrate.

A composition comprising at least one dispersed fatty phase, and at least one continuous aqueous phase, and comprising: a) at least one hydrophobic gelling agent selected from ester of dextrin and fatty acid; b) at least one amphiphilic crosslinked copolymer; c) at least one anionic terpolymer, linear or branched, of at least one monomer (1) carrying an acid function in free form, partially or totally salified by a nonionic monomer (2) selected from N,N-dimethylacrylamide and 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate, and at least one monomer (3) polyoxethylenated alkyl acrylate of formula (III) wherein in formula (III): R1 represents a hydrogen atom, R represents a linear or branched C.sub.8-C.sub.16 alkyl radical, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 10; and d) at least one hydrophobic particles chosen from hydrophobic silicas, hydrophobic cellulose, starch, talc, silicone resin powders, hollow hemispherical silicone particles, polyamide powders, hydrophobic pigments, or a mixture thereof. ##STR00001##

A method of moisturizing skin of a person is disclosed. The method can include topically applying to the skin of the person a composition comprising an effective amount of an aqueous, alcoholic, or aqueous-alcoholic extract from Parkia biglobosa, wherein the composition moisturizes the skin.

The present disclosure provides solid molded formulations comprising an emulsion gel comprising a gel matrix, water and lipophilic droplets comprising one or more emulsifiers and lipophilic material, the lipophilic droplets being dispersed within the gel matrix, wherein the gel matrix is formed of at least one gel forming material that is water insoluble at a temperature below 40° C.; the at least one gel forming material is present at a concentration higher than 1% by weight out of the total weight of the solid molded composition; the lipophilic material is present at a concentration of at least 5% by weight out of the total weight of the solid molded composition; at least 80% of the emulsifiers are solid at room temperature; and the said at least one gel forming material, one or more emulsifiers, lipophilic material and water provide together said solid molded composition with a discrete shape that is deformable upon shearing against a surface. Also disclosed are methods of producing the formulations.

An oil-in-water-type emulsion cosmetic comprising (1) water, (2) an organic UV filter, (3) a thermo-thickening polymer and (4) an anionic surfactant, wherein component (3) is (3a) a cellulosic thermo-thickening polymer or (3b) a triblock polyoxyalky-lene-based thermo-thickening polymer, and component (4) is selected from an alkyl phosphoric acid ester of 12 to 22 carbon atoms, an amide of alkylcarboxylic acid having 12 to 22 carbon atoms and an amino acid, and a monoester of a polycarboxylic acid and a glyceride of an alkylcarboxylic acid having 12 to 22 carbon atoms.

A cosmetic having excellent properties in transparency, spreadability, smoothness, skin compatibility and safety is prepared using a synthetic talc that is flake-like particles containing 2:1-type laminar crystals of silicate which have a basic structure of an octahedron sheet sandwiched between two tetrahedron sheets. The flake-like particle has a mean volume particle diameter of 0.5 to 100 μm, and 0.3° or less of half width at half maximum of peak present at 2θ equal to 9.4°±1° when measured by unoriented powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD) using CuKα rays, and the cosmetic is substantially free of Mg.sub.3Si.sub.2O.sub.5(OH).sub.4.