A NOVEL PERSONAL WASH BAR

摘要

A solid moisturising personal washbar with the characteristics of a moisturising cosmetic composition is desired. Previous attempts to provide such a solid moisturising personal washbar have met with only partial success because of the limited amount of the moisturising cosmetic composition which may be incorporated into thesolid personal wash bar before it becomes unsuitable for conventional soap bar manufacture as its hardness decreases and its stickiness increases. The aforementioned drawback has been addressed by providing asolid moisturising personal wash bar comprising a continuous phase and a discontinuous phase, the discontinuous phase in the form of a plurality of discrete domains having a longest dimension of 100 to 20000 microns,wherein the continuous phase is a solid personal wash composition comprising one or more surfactants, the discontinuous phase is a solid anhydrous moisturising cosmetic composition comprising a first fatty acid material, a first organic base and an emollientand/or humectant, wherein the degree of neutralisation of the first fatty acid material is 8-60%, preferably 10-50%, most preferably 15-35%.