USOO6479040B1 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 6,479,040 B1 Barone et al. (45) Date of Patent: Nov. 12, 2002 (54) COSMETIC FORMULATION (58) Field of Search .......................... 424/64, 401, 489, 424/502, 63, 78.03, DIG. 5; 514/2, 724, (75) Inventors: Salvatore Barone, Staten Island, NY 770, 783, 847, 944, 952, 963,965 (US); Antonietta Corrigan, Somerville, NJ (US); Mita Mody, Clifton, NJ (US); (56) References Cited Melizza Bautista, Dumont, NJ (US); Ralph Macchio, Sparta, NJ (US); U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS Louis Veltry, Milford, PA (US) 5,165.915 A * 11/1992 Tokubo et al. 6,045,783 A 4/2000 Macchio et al. .............. 424/64 (73) Assignee: Coty Inc., New York, NY (US) * cited by examiner (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this Primary Examiner Frederick Krass patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Assistant Examiner-Clinton Ostrup U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, PA. (21) Appl. No.: 09/777,611 (57) ABSTRACT (22) Filed: Feb. 6, 2001 The present invention includes a cosmetic formulation. The (51) Int. Cl. .......................... A61K 7/00; A61K 7/025; cosmetic formulation comprises a plurality of Spheres hav A61K 7/035; A61K 9/14; A61 K31/715 ing a first desiccated Volume and having a Second hydrated (52) U.S. Cl. ......................... 424/64; 424/401; 424/489; Volume. The hydrated Volume is greater than the desiccated 424/502; 424/63; 424/78.03; 424/DIG. 5; Volume. 514/2; 514/724; 514/770; 514/783; 514/847; 514/944; 514/952; 514/963; 514/965 22 Claims, No Drawings US 6,479,040 B1 1 2 COSMETIC FORMULATION One other embodiment of the present invention includes a lipstick. The lipstick comprises a plurality of Spheres. The Spheres have a first desiccated Volume and a Second BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION hydrated volume. The hydrated volume is greater than the desiccated Volume. For Some embodiments, the lipstick is The present invention relates to a cosmetic formulation Substantially free of moisturizers. and in particular, to a lipstick formulation. Another embodiment of the present invention includes a Cosmetics that color lips are, perhaps, the most widely method for moisturizing lips. The method includes provid used and coveted cosmetics that have ever been invented. ing a lipstick comprising a plurality of Spheres. The Spheres Women who typically do not wear cosmetics, wear lipstick. have a first desiccated Volume and a Second hydrated This has been the case throughout history. Women have been Volume. The hydrated Volume is greater than the desiccated coloring their lips Since at least the time of ancient Egypt. Volume. The method also includes applying the lipstick to From the ancient Egyptians, through Roman times, then lipS So that the Spheres, having a desiccated Volume, are through the period of the Tuscans during the time of the trapped in wrinkles in the lips. The trapped, desiccated Renaissance, and the French aristocracy, women painted 15 Spheres take up transdermal water, and thereby become their lips. hydrated. The water is retained in the trapped spheres. The The Guerlain company produced one of the first commer hydrated Spheres hydrate a user's lips for a time period of at cially successful lipstick products in about 1880. This lip least about 24 hours after color from the lipstick has faded. Stick product was a pomade comprising grapefruit mixed Another embodiment of the present invention includes a with butter and wax. Subsequent lipstick formulations, made method for decreasing wrinkles in lipS and for increasing lip by other vendors, included ingredients that damaged the lips. fullness. The method includes providing a lipstick compris In the early 1900's, a beauty writer cautioned that “the ing a plurality of spheres. The Spheres have a first desiccated texture of the lips is very Sensitive and can hardly Stand volume and a second hydrated volume. The hydrated vol painting, and the formulations destined to redden the lips ume is greater than the desiccated Volume. The method also only Succeed in making the Skin hard and wrinkled, and 25 includes applying the lipstick to lips So that the lipstick robbing it of all delicacy and pliancy.” penetrates wrinkles and So that the Spheres are hydrated by After World War I, lipstick formulations included dried water in the lips thereby increasing the Volume of the and crushed insect bodies, that imparted color to the lipstick, Spheres and increasing lip fullness. as well as beeswax and olive oil. The olive oil went rancid One other embodiment includes a method for making a Several hours after application. Despite these shortcomings, lipstick. The method includes providing a plurality of by 1924, it was estimated that 50 million American women Spheres that have a desiccated Volume and a hydrated used lipstick. During the 1920's, a tube of lipstick cost a volume. The hydrated volume is over 100 times greater than dime. Lipstick sold at this time was sold in a sliding tube. the desiccated volume. The method also includes Suspend The first American lipstick in a sliding tube was designed ing the plurality of spheres in an oil or a Silicone. The about 1915 by Maurice Levy. 35 method further includes adding coloring agents to the plu These early lipstick formulations were not indelible. From rality of spheres in an oil. about the 1920's to the 1990s, lipstick technology was Another embodiment includes a lipstick formulation. The directed to developing indelible, long lasting formulations, lipstick comprises a phase comprising a wax, an alcohol, and new colors, as well as new methods of packaging and lanolin. The lipstick also comprises a phase comprising applying lipstick. The Krog et al. U.S. Pat. No. 6,045,782, 40 castor oil and a phase comprising castor oil and a plurality which issued Apr. 4, 2000, describes an anhydrous cosmetic of spheres. The Spheres have a first desiccated Volume and Stick for improved transfer resistance. The Stick composition a second hydrated volume. The hydrated volume is at least included up to 70% of a volatile solvent and up to 40% of about one-hundred times greater than the desiccated Volume. a polymeric organosiloxane emulsifier. The emulsifier con The lipstick also includes phases comprising mica and a tained at least one hydrophilic radical and at least one 45 fragrance. lipophilic radical. Other lip products were also developed One other embodiment of the present invention includes over this period. These other products included lip liner, one other lipstick formulation. The lipstick formulation which was used to line lips in an attempt to make them comprises a wax, a triglyceride, a polydecene, an oil and a appear larger. plurality of Spheres. The plurality of Spheres have a desic During World War II, lipstick was introduced for use on 50 cated volume and a hydrated volume. The hydrated volume the battlefield. This lipstick included a sunscreen. Since is at least about 100 times greater than the desiccated about the 1990's, lipstick formulations have been considered Volume. The lipstick formulation also includes a coloring not only in the context of imparting beauty to a user but also agent and an antioxidant. in terms of providing a protection against disease or in 55 DETAILED DESCRIPTION augmenting a healthy, youthful appearance. The Lukas et al. In one method aspect, the present invention includes a patent which issued Aug. 9, 1988, describes a lipstick method for increasing moisture in lips for a period of time formulation that includes an antiherpetically active combi nation of at least one Sulphated polysaccharide or Sul up to at least about 24 hours after application of a lipstick. phatized polymer and a polyethylene glycol mixture. In particular, the method of the present invention increases 60 moisture in lips for hours after the lipstick applied to lips has worn away. The method includes providing a lipstick com SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION prising a plurality of Spheres. The Spheres comprise polyg One embodiment of the present invention includes a lyceryl dioleate, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether, Veg cosmetic formulation. The cosmetic formulation comprises etable oil polyethylene glycol esters, propylene glycol a plurality of spheres. The Spheres have a first desiccated 65 monolaurate, Silyl Sililic anhydride and wheat powder, volume and a second hydrated volume. The hydrated vol pentaerythrityl, tetraiSOStearate, Silica dimethylsilylate, and ume is greater than the desiccated Volume. acacia Senegal. US 6,479,040 B1 3 4 For some embodiments, the lipstick formulation is Sub binds covalently with keratin chains by disulfide bridges Stantially free of moisturizers, Such as guanidine, glycolic between the Sulphated amino-acids of the wheat protein and acid, glycolate SaltS Such as ammonium and quaternary alkyl those of the keratin. ammonium, lactic acid and lactate Salts, aloe Vera in any of The spheres have a dry matter content of about 70 to 90% its variety of forms, polyhydroxy alcohols Such as Sorbitol, and a viscosity of 100 to 5000 cps. The spheres are present glycerol, hexanetriol, propylene glycol, butylene glycol, in cosmetic formulations in concentrations that range from heXylene glycol, polyethylene glycols, Sugars and Starches, about 0.01 to 1.5% by weight. The spheres are added to the Sugar and Starch derivatives, hyaluronic acid, lactamide oil phase of a cosmetic formulation with intense mechanical monoethanolamine, acetamide monoethanolamine and mix Stirring. tures thereof. The lipstick is applied to lips. Even though the The Spheres have a Sufficiently Small diameter to pen lipstick is Substantially free of conventional moisturizers, etrate the interstices in the horny layer of the skin. The the user's lips are moisturized by the lipstick and remain dehydrated spheres Swell and fill a volume several hundreds moisturized for at least up to about 24 hours after application of times greater than their original size.