Personal care compositions with improved hyposensitivity

Abstract

The present invention provides personal care compositions comprising a carrier and a mixture of essential oil components having specific levels of eucalyptol, terpene materials and auxiliary fragrance materials. The compositions herein gentle to skin and have a fragrance and activity similar if the composition were made using the pure extracted essential oil.

1 . A personal care composition comprising: 
 a) from about 0.01% to about 15% of a eucalyptol;    b) from about 0.01% to about 10% of a terpene material comprising □-pinene, □-pinene, □-phellandrene, para-cymene and mixtures thereof;    c) from about 0.0001% to about 0.01% of a auxiliary fragrance material comprising amyl cinnamal, benzyl alcohol, cinnamyl alcohol, citral, eugenol, hydroxy-citronellal, isoeugenol, amylcin-namyl alcohol, benzyl-salicylate, cinnamal, coumarin, geraniol, hydroxy-methylpentylcyclohexanecarboxaldehyde, anisyl alcohol, benzyl cinnamate, farnesol, 2(4-tert-butylbenzylpropionaldehyde), linalool, benzyl benzoate, citronellol, hexyl cinnam-aldehyde, limonene, methyl heptin carbonate, 3-methyl-4-(2,6,6-tri-methyl-2-cyclohexen-1-yl)-3-buten-2-one, and mixtures thereof; and    d) a carrier.    
     
     
         2 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  wherein the auxiliary fragrance material comprises limonene, linalool, benzyl alcohol, geraniol and mixtures thereof.  
     
     
         3 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  wherein the composition is in the form of a topical composition.  
     
     
         4 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  wherein the composition is selected from the group consisting of a liquid, viscous liquid, gel, paste, and combinations thereof.  
     
     
         5 . The personal care composition according to  claim 3  wherein said topical composition is a leave-on product.  
     
     
         6 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  comprising from about 0.0001% to about 0.005% auxiliary fragrance material.  
     
     
         7 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  wherein the carrier comprises water, petrolatum, and mixtures thereof.  
     
     
         8 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  comprising from about 1% to about 99.9799% carrier.  
     
     
         9 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  having a viscosity of from about 1 mPa·s to about 100 Pa·s at 25° C.  
     
     
         10 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  wherein the ratio of terpene material to auxiliary fragrance material is from about 1:1 to about 1:10000.  
     
     
         11 . The personal care composition according to  claim 1  in the form of an emulsion.