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Patent Pick: What the 'Gel'?

If you follow our Patent Picks column, you might be thinking "What the gel?" At least that's what I though when yet another gel-based patent application, this time UV protection from L'Oréal, came up in my search.

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Patent Pick: Shiseido Sets Sights on Sun

Whitening may be a preference for skin care actives, especially in the East, but when it comes to sun protection, it's all about transparency. That's where this Shiseido invention is 'clearly' focused.

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Patent Pick: Clear as Blue UV Protection

What do you get when you cross a mylar film with given compounds, polymers and UV light? The answer, in this patent application, isn't clear—it's blue. And it indicates when a sunscreen has run its protective course.

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Patent Pick: Fragrance Duration—A 'Pressing' Issue

The pressure is always on for perfumers to develop means to extend fragrance duration from perfumes as well as personal care products. In this patent application, Unilever inventors take that pressure in a new direction: vapor pressure.

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Patent Pick: 'Grow Your Own' UVB Protection

The plants we grow for food are facing new climatic challenges. Therefore, researchers of the Max-Planck Society sought to improve their chances of survival against UV; and in the meantime, they improved ours.

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Patent Pick: Clover Polyphenol Antioxidant Trio

As luck would have it, Boots inventors found that red clover polyphenols, along with those from a wide selection of other plants, impart antioxidant benefits to protect skin—especially in combination. A recent patent application explains.

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Patent Pick: Advanced, High-SPF Formulation

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's invention, from L'Oréal, is a sunscreen based on an o/w emulsion incorporating surfactants that is stable and provides a very high SPF.

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Patent Pick: Bee Venom Lip Care

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's invention is a bee venom composition to beautify, nourish and protect the lips.

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Patent Pick: Anti-acne Sunscreen with Salicylic Acid

A recent L'Oréal patent application discloses a sunscreen formulation with anti-acne properties thanks to the inclusion of salicylic acid and one additional acne active. The formula reportedly is stable and effective.

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Patent Pick: Water and Sweat to Boost SPF?

Water and sweat are typical antagonists in the life of a sunscreen formula. Inventors from Shiseido have found a way for them to play key supporting roles, in this patent application. The plot thickens.

Study Finds Growth in Beauty-related Nanotechnology Patents

The number of nanotechnology patents related to personal care products has grown 103% in the past seven years, according to an analysis of world patent activity published by the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters.

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Patent Pick: Rubberized Foam Bounces UV Rays Away

LG Household inventors are bouncing around something new: a natural way to incorporate organic UV filters into foam-type formulations. A new patent explains.

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Patent Pick: Fullerene Sunscreens for Next-gen Protection

Simplify, simplify, simplify. Poetic words on life from Thoreau, and a more recent edict from consumers—for product labels, that is. This notion is echoed by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in a new sunscreen patent application.

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Patent Pick: Forces Align for Sun Protection

The sun is ubiquitous across time and space, which is both to our benefit and detriment depending on the dose. For personal care, this is all the more reason to spread sun protection across categories; but balancing the variables is key, as this patent application explains.

The resulting composition is anhydrous, transparent and esthetically pleasing.

Patent Pick: J&J Boosts Sunscreen Transparency, Esthetics

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been issued a patent for identifying a silicone, ethanol and UV filter balance that improves the transparency and esthetics of sunscreens. The key? Miscibility.

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Patent Pick: High-SPF, Low-filter Sunscreen

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's highlight, from Unilever, is a sunscreen composition that provides high protection with low levels of UV filters.

Patent Picks—Wearable, Digitized Skin Care and UV Protection

Patent Picks are compiled by the editors from publicly available sources. This edition features inventions related to digitized skin care.

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Patent Pick: Putting a 'Hex' on UVA and Heat

Sunscreen developers walk a fine line between protection and transparency, mainly due to the laws of physics. The inventors on this patent defy these laws with a transparent, effective and heat-releasing form of hexagonal prism-shaped ZnO particles.

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