	US 12,447,118 B2
	Hair treatment compositions
Colin Christopher David Giles, Wirral (GB); Thomas Richard Pointon, Warrington (GB); Benjamin Jesukumar Rajapandian, Chester (GB); Glyn Roberts, Wirral (GB); and Rongrong Zhou, Wirral (GB)
Assigned to Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/767,142
Filed by Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/078190 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 7, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/069533, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19201916 (EP), filed on Oct. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0370318 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A61K 8/365 (2006.01); A61K 8/81 (2006.01); A61Q 5/02 (2006.01); C11D 1/65 (2006.01)

CPC A61K 8/365 (2013.01) [A61K 8/8147 (2013.01); A61Q 5/02 (2013.01); C11D 1/65 (2013.01)]

11 Claims

1. A composition consisting of:

i) 0.02 wt % to 20 wt % by weight of the total composition of an alkali metal salt of an aldonic acid, which is sodium gluconate;

ii) 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % by weight of the total composition of citric acid;

iii) a surfactant, selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant and a cationic surfactant;

iv) optionally a co-surfactant selected from a nonionic surfactant, amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactant or mixtures thereof;

v) optionally a cationic polymer or a mixture thereof;

vi) optionally a suspending agent;

vii) optionally a fatty alcohol;

viii) optionally a silicone conditioning agent or mixtures thereof;

ix) optionally a fragrance, dye, pigment, pH adjusting agent, pearlescer, opacifier, viscosity modifier, preservative, antimicrobial, or a mixture thereof; and

XX) water;

wherein the composition has a pH of from 3 to 5.