Brush/roller applicator for skin care

Abstract

A skin care applicator having a handle, brush, and roller is disclosed. The roller may be retained by upper and lower retainers engaged with each to hold the center of the roller in place between the retainers. The engagement of the retainers could be a threadable engagement between threads of each retainer and a user the ability to threadably disengage the two to remove and clean the roller. The lower retainer could have an inner surface extending away from the handle outwardly and concavely, and the upper retainer could have aperture and an inner surface extending away from the aperture outwardly and concavely. The lower retainer could include an aperture and be a mirror image of the upper retainer. Where the roller is a sphere, the lower retainer may be shaped as an outer surface of a hemisphere. IN some embodiments, the skin care product is a solid oil

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A skin care applicator, comprising:
 a handle; and   a roller at one end of the handle retained between a first retainer engaged with a second retainer to hold the center of the roller in place between the first and second retainers, such that
 the roller is not inhibited from spinning about its center. 
   
     
     
         2 . The skin care applicator of  claim 1 , wherein the handle is linearly shaped. 
     
     
         3 . The skin care applicator of  claim 1 , wherein the engagement of the first retainer with the second retainer is a threadable engagement between threads of each. 
     
     
         4 . The skin care applicator of  claim 1 , wherein the retained roller is removable from the applicator by disengaging the first retainer from the second retainer, thereby
 facilitating a person's unobstructed access to and removal of the roller.   
     
     
         5 . The skin care applicator of  claim 4 , wherein the disengagement of the first retainer from the second retainer is a threadable disengagement between threads of each. 
     
     
         6 . The skin care applicator of  claim 1 , wherein
 an inner surface of the first retainer extends away from the handle outwardly and concavely until terminating at a first side; and   an inner surface of the second retainer extends away from an aperture of the second retainer outwardly and concavely until terminating at a second side, such that
 the roller extends through the aperture, and 
 the first side engages the second side. 
   
     
     
         7 . The skin care applicator of  claim 6 , wherein the engagement between the first and second retainers holding the center of the roller in place between the first and second retainers ends with an engagement of the first and second sides. 
     
     
         8 . The skin care applicator of  claim 6 , wherein the inner surface of the second retainer extends beyond the second side and includes threads for engaging threads of the first retainer. 
     
     
         9 . The skin care applicator of  claim 8 , wherein the engagement between the first and second retainers holding the center of the roller in place between the first and second retainers ends with a threadable engagement of the first and second sides. 
     
     
         10 . The skin care applicator of  claim 6 , wherein the first retainer includes an aperture from which it extends. 
     
     
         11 . The skin care applicator of  claim 7 , wherein
 the roller is comprised of a spherical surface; and   the inner surface of the first retainer is shaped as an outer surface of a hemisphere to engage approximately half of the spherical surface of roller.   
     
     
         12 . The skin care applicator of  claim 11 , wherein the width of the first retainer at the first side and the width of the second side are approximately equal the diameter of the roller. 
     
     
         13 . The skin care applicator of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a brush at a second end of the handle.   
     
     
         14 . The skin care applicator of  claim 13 , wherein the brush is adapted to receive an application of a skin care product. 
     
     
         15 . The skin care applicator of  claim 14 , wherein the skin care product is a solid comprised of an oil. 
     
     
         16 . The skin care applicator of  claim 14 , wherein the brush is adapted to apply the skin care product to an area of a person's skin. 
     
     
         17 . The skin care applicator of  claim 15 , wherein the brush is adapted to apply the oil to an area of a person's skin. 
     
     
         18 . The skin care applicator of  claim 16 , wherein the roller is adapted to massage the skin care product about the area of the person's skin. 
     
     
         19 . The skin care applicator of  claim 17 , wherein the roller is adapted to massage the oil about the area of the person's skin. 
     
     
         20 . The skin care applicator of  claim 13 , wherein bristles of the brush are comprised of synthetic fibers and the roller is comprised of pink quartz.