Personal care
Personal care products are designed to intercept and capture body exudates, such as urine and menses. Examples of commonly available personal care products include adult care products, such as incontinence pants and pads; child care products, such as diapers and training pants; and feminine care products, such as sanitary pads, panty liners, inter-labial absorbent articles, and tampons. A broad array of topical personal care and personal hygiene products are available for application to human skin to counteract malodors associated with the human body, particularly those malodors resulting from and associated with perspiration. These products include sports and athletic sprays and powders, antiperspirants, foot and body powders, body sprays, and especially deodorants. Personal care products such as razors and toothbrushes often include elastomeric portions, such as elastomeric gripping areas, to improve user comfort and to provide desirable aesthetic qualities. Personal care products, particularly cleansing and conditioning products, have traditionally been marketed in a variety of forms such as bar soaps, creams, lotions, and gels. These formulations have attempted to satisfy a number of criteria to be acceptable to consumers. These criteria include cleansing effectiveness, skin feel, skin mildness and lather volume. Ideal personal cleansers should gently cleanse the skin or hair, cause little or no irritation, and not leave the skin or hair overly dry after frequent use. Many different types of products have been developed by the medical and cosmetics industries over the years to overcome perceived inadequacies in people's appearances and to enhance their looks such as to appear more youthful. Cosmetics are preparations that are applied to the human body for beautifying, preserving, or altering the appearance of, or for cleansing, coloring, conditioning, or protecting, skin, hair, nails, lips eyes or teeth. The skin, hair and nails of the human body comprise collagen and keratin tissues. Environmental influences, such as exposure to ultraviolet radiation, wind, humidity and temperature variation affect this tissue by altering its character by oxidation and physical injuries. To restore the natural qualities of the collagen and/or keratin tissue personal care products have been developed and marketed in great abundance. Since the advent of cosmetic preparations, skilled artisans have devoted considerable time and resources toward improving cosmetic preparation functionality, application systems and methods and containment structures. A particular field of cosmetics that enjoys a high degree of continuing innovation is that of nail care products and associated nail care methods. Personal care products generally contain one or more active ingredients within a carrier formulation. While the active ingredients determine the ultimate performance properties of the product, the carrier formulation is equally critical to the commercial success of the product. The rheology of the carrier (base) largely determines the flow properties of the product, and the flow properties largely determine the manner in which the consumer will apply or use the product. Cleansing products come in many types and forms, but are generally divided into personal care cleansers and household cleansers. The personal care cleansers most commonly thought of by consumers are skin cleansers and shampoos. Removing soil from the skin is a worldwide requirement of the consumer population that has been met by the available skin cleansing products. Human hair requires cleaning, since the hair fibers become soiled, both from environmental contamination as well as contamination and soiling from chemical agents produced by the body. Generally, shampooing is employed to clean the hair by removing excess soil and body oils which have built up on the hair fibers.
Personal care categories
Antiperspirant
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