A nail polish remover base comprising less than 79% acetone or less than 81% ethyl acetate combined with water or a mixture of a water and ethanol to produce a 100% by weight of the base. The base can be combined with vegetable or animal protein, perfumes, surfactants and coloring agents to produce a final nail polish remover.
I unexpectedly discovered that uses of enamel removal solvents of the ethyl acetate and acetone types in amounts substantially below those amounts formally considered efficacious result in superior bases for lacquer removers. Specifically, I have found that amounts of ethyl acetate in the range of 60-81% combined with 19-35% water and alcohol combinations result in a superior nail polish remover base which does not have drying effects on the skin or cause whitening of the nails. I also have found that with acetone based lacquer removers, a superior polish remover base is formed when 60-84% acetone is combined with 21-35% water to form a nail polish remover base. Preferably my new base contains less than about 70% acetone or ethyl acetate and up to about 30% water, ethanol, isopropanol or mixtures thereof.
Accordingly, a principal object of this invention is to provide novel nail polish remover bases which utilize substantially more water and less solvent and to minimize the dehydration of skin and nails to which they are applied. Another object of this invention is to provide a nail polish remover base which has economic advantages and which result in an efficacious product without skin drying or nail whitening properties.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,824,662 of which I am the inventor and which is assigned to the assignee of this application describes a lacquer remover having a hydrolyzed soy protein in combination with 82-88% ethyl acetate or 85-90% acetone and a surfactant.
I also am aware of U.S. Pat. No. 4,485,037 which claims to lower water removal activity of acetone base nail polish removers by adding collagen in combination with an acid addition salt of amidized trialkylamine cationic surfactant.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,032,464 describes a creamy nail lacquer remover containing a chelating agent, a suitable humectant, such as propylene glycol, 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-benzophenone-5-sulfonic acid, a collagen-derived protein-fatty acid condensation product and a carboxy vinyl polymer. This material too has an acetone base.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,765,257 shows a combination of solvent and sulfonated mineral oil in which the solvent includes acetone, butyl acetate, dibutyl phthalate and butyl acetyl ricinoleate.
This invention involves a base for nail polish removers which contains less than 79% acetone or less than 81% ethyl acetate as a main solvent and the remainder of the solvent base comprises water or a mixture of water and ethanol or isopropanol in the case of ethyl acetate. To this base are conventionally added conditioners which may be a water soluable amine salt of a fatty acid amide of a hydrolyzed soy protein or an amidized hydrolyzed collagen derivative which renders the hydrolyzed collagen anionic, a surfactant, and suitable perfumes and coloring agents, viscosity raising agents, emolients, etc.
Conventionally a film forming material, such as nitrocellulose, is incorporated into nail polish removers to inhibit moisture loss from the nails. It is another object of this invention to obviate the necessity for using such added expensive ingredients.
These and other objects and advantages will become apparent hereinafter.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to nail polish remover base formulation in which reduced amounts of lacquer solvent are mixed with increased amounts of water and/or ethyl alcohol or isopropanol to produce a base to which other ingredients can be added and in which the final composition has substantially reduced skin and nail moisture removal characteristics.
The invention also consists in the parts and the arrangements and combinations of parts and ingredients hereinafter described and claimed.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
In all of the examples and discussion which follow, all percentage figures are percent-by-weight of the finished formulation.
The nail enamel removers of this invention are primarily of two types, as follows:
1. Ethyl Acetate Base
Ethyl Acetate 65-81%
Ethanol, isopropanol, water 19-35%
The evaporated total solids of all conditioners is about 2.5/3.5%
2. Acetone Base
Acetone 65-79%
Water 35-21%
Conditioners 0.20/0.50%
The evaporated total solids of all conditioners is about 0.15/0.25%
The foregoing bases are combined with a mixture of a surfactant and aminomethylpropanol salt of isostearic amide of hydrolyzed soy isolate protein in the amounts and of the types described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,824,662 which is herein incorporated by reference. Preferably about 0.05 to about 0.25% soy protein salt is added to the solvent, and about 0.1 to about 0.3% surfactant are used.
In addition, the foregoing bases can be combined with an amidized hydrolyzed collagen derivative which renders the hydrolyzed collagen anionic, preferably in the amount of 0.01% to about 0.15% as shown and described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,485,037 which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
In addition to the aforementioned ingredients, 0.2 to about 0.3% of a desired perfume or fragrance can be added to the composition and about 0.1-0.3% of a suitable coloring material can be incorporated into the composition.
Following are specific examples of the invention.
EXAMPLE 1
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Composition Characteristics
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Acetone 70.0% Color - Optional
Water 29.3% Opacity/Clarity
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
0.25% Polish Removal - Good
Surfactant 0.25% Whitening of Nails - None
Perfume 0.20% Drying of Skin - None
Sp. Gravity 0.8786%
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EXAMPLE 2
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Composition Characteristics
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Ethyl Acetate 60.0% Color - Optional
Water 10.0% Opacity/Clarity
Ethanol/Isopropanol
26.0% Polish Removal - Good
Hydrolyzed Soy Protein
0.05% Whitening of Nails - None
Surfactant 0.25% Drying of Skin - None
Perfume 0.40%
Sp. Gravity 0.895%
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It is clear from the foregoing Examples that the use of acetone and ethyl acetate solvents in a nail polish remover base at levels substantially below those previously thought necessary results in an efficacious product which also has no drying of the skin or whitening of the nails of the user.
In addition to the nail enamel remove bases, the final nail remove composition comprises a mixture composed of a surfactant, cocamidopropyl dimethylamine propionate used at the 0.10% to 0.30% level and aminomethylpropanol salt of isosteric hydrolyzed soy protein used at the 0.05% to 0.25% level depending on the type of solvent base employed.
The hydrolyzed soy proteins hereinbefore described are only water soluble and compatible with up to 50% aqueous alcohol. They are not compatible with conventional mail polish removers without further treatment.
To achieve compatibility with aqueous acetone, a further processing step, amidization of the protein is required. This can be substantially represented by the following formula: ##STR1## where: R'=Fatty Acid of 5-22 carbons (preferably isostearic acid--18 carbons)
R=Side-chain groups characteristic of amino acids in soya protein
n=Integer from 10 to 40
The conversion of accessible primary amine groups of hydrolyzed soya protein (including the sidechain or epsilon amino groups, such as Arginine and Lysine--a key essential amino acid) to amide groups, imparts an anionic charge to the hydrolyzed soy protein. This enables it to form stable salts with bases: organic amines, such as alkyl and hyroxyalkyl amines of 1-4 carbon atoms, e.g., trimethylamine, diethylamine, etc; and alkanolamines of 1-4 carbon atoms, such as, ethanolamine, propanolamine, aminomethylpropanol, etc. The exact nature of the amine which forms the salt is not critical, as long as the salt formed is cosmetically acceptable and is soluble in aqueous acetone.
The preferred product is a salt of a fatty acid amide of hydrolyzed soy protein, i.e., the aminomethylpropanol salt of isotearic amide of hydrolyzed soya isolate protein. This product is available from Brooks Industries Inc., 70 Tyler Place, South Plainfield, N.J. 07080, under the trademark of "Etha-Soy Iso" as a light yellow clear liquid with a solids content of 27-35% (after drying for 16 hours at 105.degree. C.), a pH 7.0-9.5 (10% aqueous solution at 25.degree. C.), a specific gravity of 0.830-0.880 (at 25% C.), and an acid value of 35.0-50.0.
The hydrolyzed soya protein has an average molecular weight of 1000 to 4000.
This invention is intended to cover all changes and modifications of the examples of the invention herein chosen for purposes of the disclosure which do not constitute departures from the spirit and scope of the invention.
