Stick vehicle for skin care substances

Claim 1

A stick vehicle comprising (A) from 15 to 70 percent by weight of an aqueous-alcohol mixture, the aqueous-alcohol mixture consisting essentially of 20 to 70 percent by weight of a polyhydric alcohol having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, 0 to 68.5 percent by weight of a monohydric alcohol with 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and 1.5 to 70 percent by weight of water, with the proviso that the amount of water is at least 1 percent by weight of the total weight of the stick vehicle; (B) from 10 to 70 percent by weight of cyclic polydimethylsiloxane; (C) from 3 to 10 percent by weight of sodium stearate; and (D) from 0.5 to 10 percent by weight of polydiorganosiloxane-polyoxyalkylene copolymer, with the proviso that the amount of copolymer is at least 5 percent of the weight of cyclic polydimethylsiloxane, the copolymer containing at least one polydimethylsiloxane segment and at least one polyoxyalkylene segment, the polydiorganosiloxane segment consisting essentially of R n SiO (4-n)/2 units wherein n has a value of from 0 to 3, inclusive, there being an average value of approximately two R radicals per silicon for all siloxane units in the copolymer, and R denotes a radical selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, vinyl, phenyl and a divalent radical bonding said polyoxyalkylene segment to the polydiorganosiloxane segment, at least 95 percent of all R radicals being methyl; and the polyoxyalkylene segment having an average molecular weight of 1000 to about 5000 and consisting of from 0 to 60 mol percent polyoxypropylene units and from 40 to 100 mol percent polyoxyethylene units, at least one terminal portion of the polyoxyalkylene segment be ing bonded to the polydiorganosiloxane segment, the weight ratio of polydiorganosiloxane segments to polyoxyalkylene segments in the copolymer having a value of from 2 to 8.