US Patent:
20130025617, Jan 31, 2013
Inventors:
Kevin M. Sheran - Philadelphia PA, US
Larry W. Steffier - Cherry Hill NJ, US
Gary Iannece - Bordentown NJ, US
George M. Lein - Elkton MD, US
Assignee:
MYCONE Dental Supply Co., Inc. - Cherry Hill NJ
International Classification:
A61K 8/81
A45D 29/00
A45D 31/00
A61Q 3/02
Abstract:
A method of preparing colored ultraviolet (UV)-curable compositions useful for adornment of natural and artificial nails and artificial nail extensions comprising dispersing a pigment in an organic liquid to form a pigment concentrate, the organic liquid comprised of one or more organic chemicals selected from solvents, ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and ethylenically unsaturated oligomers; and mixing the dispersed pigment concentrate with a radiation-curable nail gel composition comprising one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers, one or more ethylenically unsaturated oligomers, or mixtures thereof, and, optionally, one or more photo accelerators, fillers, inhibitors, plasticizers, non-reactive polymers, adhesion promotors, and/or photoinitiator(s) to form a resultant mixture, wherein if photoinitiator(s) is/are not present in the nail gel composition the photoinitiator(s) is/are added to the resultant mixture of the pigment concentrate and radiation-curable nail gel composition.