Vegetable oil adducts as emollients in skin and hair care products

摘要

Certain vegetable oil lipid adducts, either alone or in combination with disproportionated vegetable oils, are disclosed which provide persistent softening effects upon incorporation in skin and hair care preparations. The emollients of the invention include both the water-soluble and water-insoluble salts of the vegetable oil adducts. The certain vegetable oil adducts of the invention are the adducts prepared from vegetable oils containing nonconjugated polyunsaturated fatty acid esters which are conjugated and then modified via Diels-Alder addition with acrylic acid, fumaric acid, or maleic anhydride.