Cosmetic cream

Claim 1

A COSMETIC CREAM HAVING PLASTIC TO CREAMY CONSISTENCY AT 60* TO 100* F., EASILY SPREADABLE TO A THIN COLORLESS FILM WHEN RUBBED ON HUMAN SKIN AND EASILY REMOVABLE THEREFROM BY RUBBING WITH WATER, WHEREBY A CREAMY LATHER IS FORMED, SAID CREAM BEING A HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE COMPRISING AT LEAST 35 PER CENT BY WEIGHT OF MINERAL OIL, FROM 15 TO 40 PER CENT BY WEIGHT OF PETROLATUM, FROM 15 TO 30 PER CENT BY WEIGHT OF AN ALCOHOLIC HYDROXYL-BEARING FIRMING AGENT MELTING ABOUT 120* F. AND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF HIGH MOLECULAR SATURATED NORMAL PRIMARY ALIPHATIC ALCOHOLS MONOAMIDES OF SUBSTANTIALLY SATURATED FATTY ACIDS OF ABOUT 14 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS WITH ALKYLOLAMINES OF 2 TO 4 CARBON ATOMS AND MONOESTERS OF SUBSTANTIALLY SATURATED FATTY ACIDS OF ABOUT 12 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS WITH SATURATED ALIPHATIC POLYDRIC ALCOHOLS OF 2 TO 3 CARBON ATOMS, FROM 3 TO 8 PER CENT BY WEIGHT OF AN ORGANIC NONIONIC EMULSIFYING AGENT HAVING BALANCED LIPOPHILIC AND HYDROPHILIC PROPERTIES AND HAVING THE FORMULA RXY (Z) W WHERE R IS A MONOVALENT HYDROCARBON RADICAL OF ABOUT 10 TO 30 CARBON ATOMS, X STANDS FOR A BIVALENT STRUCTURAL ELEMENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF -O-, -S-, -COO-, -CONH-, -CON(CH3)-, AND -CON(C2H4OH)-, Y IS THE POLYVALENT RESIDUE AFTER REMOVING ONE HYDROXYL GROUP AND AT LEAST ONE ACTIVE HYDROGEN ATOM FROM A SATURATED ALIPHATIC POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL OF 2 TO 6 CARBON ATOMS, Z IS THE MONOVALENT RESIDUE REMAINING AFTER REMOVING ONE HYDROXYL GROUP FROM A POLYALKYLENE GLYCOL OF AT LEAST 10 CARBON ATOMS THERE BEING 2 TO 3 CARBON ATOMS IN EACH ALKYLENE UNIT THEREOF, AND W IS AN INTEGER FROM 1 TO 5, AND FROM 0.5 PER CENT TO ABOUT 2.0 PER CENT WATER SAID CREAM CONSISTING OF ROOM TEMPERATURE OF A PLURALITY OF PHASES ONE OF WHICH IS LIQUID AND CONSTITUTES AT LEAST 50 PER CENT BY WEIGHT OF THE CREAM, MINERAL OIL CONSTITUTING AT LEAST 50 PER CENT OF THIS PHASE, AND ANOTHER OF WHICH PHASES IS SOLID AND COMPRISES PREDOMINANTLY A MIXTURE OF MINERAL WAX AND HIGHER ALCOHOL IN FINELY DISPERSED MICROCRYSTALLINE FORM.