Greaseless cosmetic article for applying make-up to the eyelids

Claim 2

In a cosmetic article for directly applying a greaseless cosmetic, said article comprising a solid support coated with at least one impregnating layer carrying a coating layer containing a cosmetic, the improvement according to which the impregnating layer comprises at least one hydrosoluble polymer deposited in solution on the support, and said coating layer comprising a homogenous mixture containing (a) a product which is thixotropic in aqueous suspension; (b) a polymeric binder capable of forming a gel in an aqueous medium, said binder forming, when mixed with said thixotropic product in an aqueous medium, a thixotropic mixture having a high viscosity; and (c) a mixture of cosmetic powders comprising at least one pigment.

Claim 3

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 1 in which the impregnating layer is a polymer the cloud point of which in hydroethanolic solution is reached at ambient temperature if the water/ethanol ratio by weight of the polymeric solution is less than 1/0.66.

Claim 4

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 2 in which the impregnating polymer is selected from the group consisting of (1) polyvinyl pyrrolidone vinyl acetate copolymers; (2) the quaternary polymers of vinyl pyrrolidone and a copolymerizable vinylic monomer comprising (in molar proportions) 40 to 90% of vinyl pyrrolidone, 5 to 40% acrylate or methacrylate of di (lower alcohol) aminohydroxyalkyl, and 0 to 50% of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable with the vinyl pyrrolidone.

Claim 5

Cosmetic article according to claim 3 in which the impregnating polymer is a polyvinyl pyrrolidone/vinyl acetate polymer in which the impregnating polymer comprises 20 to 35% by weight of polyvinyl pyrrolidone and 75 to 65% by weight of vinyl acetate.

Claim 6

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 1 in which the thixotropic product selected from the group consisting of an aqueous suspension of bentonite and an aqueous suspension of magnesium and aluminum silicates in colloidal form.

Claim 7

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 1 in which the polymeric binder is selected from the group consisting of (1) cellulose ethers containing a quaternary nitrogen and having the formula ##STR4## in which R Cell is the residue of an anhydroglucose, y is a whole number having a value between about 50 and about 20,000, and each radical R, taken individually, represents a substituted group responding to the general formula ##STR5## in which a and b are integers having a value of 2 or 3, c is an integer having a value of 1 to 3, m and p are integers having a value of 0 to 10, n is an integer havig a value of 0 to 3, q is an integer having the values 0 or 1, R' is an element selected from the group formed by ##STR6## with the restriction that q is equal to 0 when R' is hydrogen, R 1 , R 2 and R 3 , taken individually, represent a member selected from the group formed by the alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, cycloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl and alkoxyaryl radicals, with each of the radicals R 1 , R 2 and R 3 containing up to 10 carbon atoms, provided that if the member selected from the group is an alkoxyalkyl radical there are at least two atoms of carbon separating the oxygen atoms from the nitrogen atom and also provided that the total number of the carbon atoms in the radicals represented by R 1 , R 2 and R 3 is between 3 and 12, and in which R 1 , R 2 and R 3 and the nitrogen atom to which they are connected may form a heterocycle selected from the group consisting of pyridine, alphamethyl-pyridine, 2,5-dimethyl-pyridine, 2,4,6-trimethyl-piperidine, N-methyl piperidine, N-ethyl-piperidine, N-methyl-morpholine and N-ethyl-morpholine, X being an anion, and V being an integer equal to the valence of X, the average value of n per anhydroglucose unit of cellulose ether being about 0.01 to about 1, and the average value of m + p + q per anhydroglucose unit of said cellulose ether being about 0.01 to about 4; and (2) carboxyvinyl polymers having a high molecular weight.

Claim 8

Cosmetic article according to claim 1 in which the mixture of powders in the coating layer comprises at least one powder selected from the group formed by talc, rice starch, or corn starch, whether etherified or not.

Claim 9

Cosmetic article according to claim 1 in which the mixture of powders in the coating layer comprises at least one pigment selected from the group consisting of calcium carbonate, titanium oxide and bismuth oxychloride.

Claim 10

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 1 in which the mixture of powders in the coating layer comprises at least one colored pigment.

Claim 11

Cosmetic article according to claim 1 in which the coating layer comprises 1.5% to 4% by weight of polymeric binder in proportion to the total dry weight of the thixotropic product and 0.10% to 0.40% of polymeric binder by weight with respect to the dry total material of the coating.

Claim 12

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 1 in which the coating layer contains a bactericidal and fungicidal preservative.

Claim 13

Cosmetic article according to claim 1 in which the support is a strip of cardboard, wood or plastic material.

Claim 14

Cosmetic article according to claim 12 in which the support is a piece of cardboard in which the piece has the shape of a strip impregnated over almost its entire length with the impregnating polymer.

Claim 15

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 12, in which the support is a stick of plastic material characterized by the fact that the end of the stick which is to receive the coating material is scarified.

Claim 16

Cosmetic article as claimed in claim 1 which comprises 0.03 to 0.06 mg per mm 2 of impregnating layer and 0.3 to 0.4 mg per mm 2 of coating layer, the weights being evaluated after drying the layers and the reference surfaces being measured in comparison with the covered surface of the support.

Claim 17

In a process of making a cosmetic article according to claim 1, said process consisting in coating a solid support with two successive deposited layers the improvement according to which at least part of the solid support is dipped in an impregnating solution containing a hydrosoluble polymer, the impregnating layer is then dried, the impregnating support is then dipped in a suspension of coating material comprising in homogenous mixture a thixotropic product, a polymeric binder capable of forming a gel, and a mixture of cosmetic products comprising at least one pigment, and the coating layer thus deposited is then dried.

Claim 18

Process as claimed in claim 16, in which the impregnating solution is a hydroalcoholic solution.

Claim 19

Process as claimed in claim 16 in which the coating material suspension is an aqueous suspension the viscosity of which lies between 4 and 14 poises.