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Section: Formulas/Products > Color Cosmetics

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INOLEX’s LexFeel Vibrant Improves the Spread and Feel of Makeup

With color cosmetics growing in popularity, INOLEX has added a new fluid to its LexFeel ingredient portfolio, to improve color vibrancy and sensory characteristics in makeup formulas.

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Patent Pick: Lashing Out

For those of us who've ever peeled and picked off waterproof mascara, this gel-based invention from L'Oréal brings hope by "lashing out" against such waxy, shellacked residues.

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Patent Pick: True Colors, Revealed

AmorePacific inventors have nothing to hide with their latest patent application for encapsulated pigments, which become visible upon application.

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Patent Pick: Fiber-enhanced Eyelashes

Cosmetic manufacturers have been hard at work innovating the next last-extending, volumizing mascaras. A recent patent application from L'Oréal is clear evidence of this.

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Patent Pick: Stop Color Fade

Ever dyed your hair red? Even if you haven't, it's well-known that red fades the fastest. Of course, they all do eventually. Thankfully Henkel is putting the minds of the experimental hair color community at ease with an approach to reduce color fading.

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Patent Pick: Caught Red-handed

There's no way these inventors will escape, they've been caught "red-handed"— with a new, high-coloring phosphor pigment.

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Patent Pick: Waterproof Color Retention

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's highlight, from Eveready Battery Company, Inc., relates to water-resistant compositions that retain color.

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Patent Pick: Water-resistant Cosmetic

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's highlight is a cosmetic composition including hydrophobic particles and a silicone to impart a fresh skin feel and water resistance.

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Patent Pick: Sugarcane Bagasse

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's technology is a nano-sized sugarcane bagasse fiber for use in nutritional supplements and cosmetic products.

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Patent Pick: Charging Lashes

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's highlight is a mascara from L'Oréal that gives a charging and curling effect to lashes and imparts an intense black.

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Patent Pick: Soft Brilliance in Layers

Hiding wrinkles is one thing; doing it so it appears natural is something entirely different. This patent application out of Korea, however, might strike the perfect balance.

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Patent Pick: What L'Oréal is Hiding

L'Oréal has a lot to hide—a lot of skin imperfections, that is. In a recent patent application, the company describes a cosmetic that camouflages wrinkles without compromising a natural look and feel.

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Patent Pick: Illuminating, Universal Optical Correction

While cosmetics to match skin tone, blur wrinkles or impart radiance are known, LVMH inventors have combined them into one universal fix; starting with an aqueous phase. See how in this new patent application.

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Patent Pick: Starch Breakdown Builds Viscosity

Novamont inventors are building something new from complete destruction: viscosity. A new patent application explains, on a more "granular" level.

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Patent Pick: P&G's Printable Cosmetic Ink

Cosmetics that are "printed" or deposited by a device onto skin are rising in popularity. How might their formulas vary from traditional products? This look at a recent P&G patent provides insight.

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Patent Pick: Making Cosmetics More 'Taste'ful

Most formulators (and hopefully consumers) know cosmetics aren't for eating. And if you've ever grazed your lips with lotion, you know the bitter twinge that ensues. But LVMH inventors aim to improve this encounter by taking the bite out of it.

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Patent Pick: DIY Particle Dispersion

Are you "back at the grind," milling metal oxides for color cosmetics or sunscreens? These inventors are enabling the work do itself, with a self-dispersing particle coating.

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Patent Pick: Vibrating Powder Puff

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's highlight describes a novel powder puff designed for even makeup application.

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