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• the present invention relates to the field of antimicrobial active substances and, in particular, to certain mixtures, preparations and foodstuffs comprising at least two unbranched (straight-chain) 1 ,2-alkanediols and a further preservative and also to products containing such mixtures in an antimicrobially effective quantity.
• agents having antimicrobial properties particularly for the preservation of otherwise perishable products (such as, for example cosmetics, pharmaceutical products or foodstuffs), but also for the immediate cosmetic or therapeutic treatment of micro-organisms that can have a detrimental influence on the human body or on the body of an animal.
• attention may be drawn to micro-organisms that can cause body odour, acne, mycoses or such like.
• the invention relates to antimicrobial mixtures comprising or consisting of:
• mixtures according to the invention can be used in outstanding manner in the form of an antimicrobial active- substance mixture, in particular for the preservation of otherwise perishable articles (see above).
• Euxyl K 400 is a mixture consisting of 80 wt.% 2- phenoxyethanol and 20 wt.% 1 ,2-dibromo-2,4-dicyanobutane
• a combination of 0.25 wt.% 1,2-hexanediol, 0.25 wt.% 1,2-octanediol and 0.05 wt.% Euxyl K 400 (Euxyl K 400 is a mixture consisting of 80 wt.% 2- phenoxyethanol and 20 wt.% 1 ,2-dibromo-2,4-dicyanobutane) exhibited an improved efficacy in relation to Aspergillus niger, the germ was not totally eliminated even after a duration of action of 28 days.
• EP 1 206 933 relates to mixtures of 1,2-octanediol or an analogue and a preservative, in particular iodopropynyl butylcarbamate. This document, however, does not disclose a mixture comprising 1,2-hexanediol, 1,2-octanediol and a further preservative. Studies relating to the efficacy of the disclosed mixtures in relation to Aspergillus niger are likewise not disclosed.
• the mixtures according to the invention display a strongly synergistic efficacy and are distinctly superior to the individually metered preservatives potassium sorbate, parabens and iodopropynyl butylcarbamate or to a mixture of 1 ,2-hexanediol and 1 ,2-octanediol at the same concentration, particularly with regard to the germ-count reduction.
• a CFU value (CFU number of colony-forming units) of 0 was attained only with said mixtures according to the invention.
• mixtures according to the invention comprising (a) 1,2-hexanediol and 1,2-octanediol and also optionally 1 ,2-pentanediol and/or 1 ,2-decanediol and also (b) iodopropynyl butylcarbamate (IPBC).
• IPBC iodopropynyl butylcarbamate
• mixtures according to the invention are not only suitable for the preservation of perishable products such as, for example, cosmetic products, pharmaceutical products or foodstuffs but, by reason of their synergistically intensified antimicrobial efficacy, may also be employed
• Preferred configurations of the processes according to the invention correspond to the preferred configurations of the use according to the invention that have been elucidated above.
• the amount of alkane diol(s) typically is from 0.1 to 10%, preferably 0.4 to 5.0%, based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition.
• the amount of chelating agent typically is from 0.01 to 1%, preferably 0.1 to 0.5%, based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition.
• the amount of the sesquiterpenes typically is from 0.01 to 1%, preferably 0.1 to 0.5%, based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition.
• the amount of the tropolone compounds typically is from 0.0001 to 10%, preferably 0.01 to 4%, based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition.
• the amount of potassium sorbate in particular, is generally in the range of 0.01 to 0.6%, preferably 0.05-0.4%, particularly preferably 0.1-0.2%, based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition.
• the maximum amount of any one parabene is 0.4%, and the maximum amount of any mixture of parabenes is 0.8%.
• the amount of parabene(s) is in the range of 0.01 to 0.4%, more preferably 0.05-0.3%, particularly preferably 0.1- 0.2%, based on the total weight of the cosmetic composition.
• the human skin is colonised by a large number of different micro-organisms, including the micro-organisms already named above, as well as others. Most of these micro-organisms are not pathogenic and are irrelevant to the physiological condition of the skin and to the odour thereof. Others, on the other hand, can have a crucial influence on the healthy condition of the skin.
• the synergistically effective mixtures according to the invention are highly effective not only in relation to the germs already described above but also in relation to Staphylococcus epidermidis, Corynebacterium xerosis, Brevibacterium epidermidis, Propionibacterium acnes and also in relation to Trichophyton and Epidermophyton species, so that they can also be employed as agents for the treatment (combating) of armpit odour and foot odour or body odour in general, as agents for combating acne, as antidandruff agents and for the treatment of mycoses (in particular, dermatomycoses).
• the respective proportion of the (a) 1 ,2-diols and/or (b) preservatives to be used in accordance with the invention in mixtures according to the invention may lie below the antimicrobially effective quantity, considered separately, if the available total quantity of these substances is sufficiently high in order to obtain an antimicrobial action of the overall mixture. This holds, in particular, for the action in relation to Aspergillis niger.
• the usage concentration of the synergistically effective mixtures according to the invention also lies within the range between 0.01 wt.% and 30 wt.% and, particularly preferably, within the range between 0.1 wt.% and 5 wt.%, in each instance relative to the total mass of the cosmetic or pharmaceutical product that comprises the mixture.
• the synergistically effective mixtures may in this connection find application (a) prophylactically or (b) when required.
• the 1 ,2- alkanediols to be employed in accordance with the invention may be present both as an appropriate 2S-configured enantiomer and as a 2R-configured enantiomer and also in the form of arbitrary mixtures of these 2S-configured and 2R- configured enantiomers.
• the pure enantiomers or non-racemic mixtures of these enantiomers are also suitable for the purposes according to the invention.
• compositions that contain a mixture according to the invention, in particular to the extent that they are employed against germs causing body odour, are applied, as a rule, topically in the form of solutions, creams, lotions, gels, sprays or such like.
• an oral (tablets, capsules, powders, drops) intravenous, intra-ocular, intraperitoneal or intramuscular application or an application in the form of an impregnated dressing is sensible.
• the cosmetic and/or dermatological/keratological formulations containing the synergistic mixtures according to the invention may otherwise be composed as usual and may serve for treating the skin and/or the hair along the lines of a dermatological treatment or along the lines of a treatment within the field of grooming cosmetics. But they may also be employed in make ⁇ up products in the field of decorative cosmetics. If the mixtures according to the invention are employed as active substances for the preservation of organic material then a further preservative or several further preservatives may advantageously be employed in addition.
• preservatives such as benzoic acid, its esters and salts, propionic acid and its salts, salicylic acid and its salts, formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde, 2-hydroxybiphenyl ether and its salts, 2-zinc sulfidopyridine- N-oxide, inorganic sulfites and bisulfites, sodium iodate, chlorobutanol, 4- ethylmercury(ll)-5-amino-1,3-bis(2-hydroxybenzoic acid), its salts and esters, dehydroacetic acid, formic acid, 1 ,6-bis(4-amidino-2-bromophenoxy)-n-hexane and its salts, the sodium salt of ethylmercury(ll)-thiosalicylic acid, phenylmercury and its salts, 10-undecylenic acid and its salts, 5-amino-1 ,3-
• the mixtures according to the invention are to be employed chiefly for the purpose of inhibiting the growth of undesirable micro-organisms on or in animal organisms, here too a combination with further antibacterially or antimycotically active substances is advantageous in many cases.
• further active substances in addition to the large group of classical antibiotics, are, in particular, the products that are relevant to cosmetics, such as triclosan, climbazole, octoxyglycerin, Octopirox (1-hydroxy-4-methyl-6-(2,4,4- trimethylpentyl)-2(1H)-pyridone, 2-aminoethanol), chitosan, famesol, glycerol monolaurate or combinations of the stated substances, which are employed, inter alia, for countering armpit odour, foot odour or scaling.
• mixtures according to the invention may advantageously be combined, particularly in cosmetic preparations, with auxiliary substances such as, for example:
• the mixtures according to the invention may also be employed particularly advantageously in combination with antihidrotic active substances (antiperspirants) for the purpose of combating body odour.
• Antiperspirants antiperspirants
• Aluminium salts such as aluminium chloride, aluminium chlorohydrate, aluminium nitrate, aluminium sulfate, aluminium acetate etc. find application above all by way of antihidriotic active substances.
• zinc compounds, magnesium compounds and zirconium compounds may also be advantageous.
• substantially the aluminium salts and - to a somewhat lesser degree - aluminium/zirconium -salt combinations have proved worthwhile. Worth mentioning in addition to these are the partially neutralised, and hence more cutaneously compatible but not quite so effective, aluminium hydroxychlorides.
• the cosmetic and/or dermatologically effective mixtures according to the invention are applied in sufficient quantity onto the skin and/or onto the hair in the conventional manner for cosmetics and dermatics.
• Particular advantages in this regard are offered by cosmetic and dermatological preparations that contain a mixture according to the invention and that additionally act as sunscreen agents.
• These preparations advantageously contain at least one UVA filter and/or at least one UVB filter and/or at least one inorganic pigment.
• the preparations may be present in various forms, such as are conventionally employed, for example, for sunscreen preparations.
• they may be, for example, a solution, an emulsion of the water-in-oil (VWO) type or of the oil-in-water (O/W) type, or a multiple emulsion, for example of the water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) type, a gel, a hydrodispersion, a solid stick or even an aerosol.
• VWO water-in-oil
• O/W oil-in-water
• W/O/W water-in-oil-in-water
• preparations that contain a mixture according to the invention may advantageously be combined with substances that absorb UV radiation, the total quantity of the filter substances amounting to, for example, 0.01 wt.% to 40 wt.%, preferably 0.1 wt.% to 10 wt.%, in particular 1.0 wt.% to 5.0 wt.%, relative to the total weight of the preparations, in order to make cosmetic preparations available that protect the hair or the skin from ultraviolet radiation.
• compositions contain one or more grooming, animal and/or vegetable, fats and oils such as olive oil, sunflower oil, refined soybean oil, palm oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil, almond oil, borage oil, evening-primrose oil, copra oil, shea butter, jojoba oil, sperm oil, beef tallow, neafs-foot oil and lard and also optionally further grooming constituents such as, for example, fatty alcohols with 8-30 C-atoms.
• grooming, animal and/or vegetable, fats and oils such as olive oil, sunflower oil, refined soybean oil, palm oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil, almond oil, borage oil, evening-primrose oil, copra oil, shea butter, jojoba oil, sperm oil, beef tallow, neafs-foot oil and lard and also optionally further grooming constituents such as, for example, fatty alcohols with 8-30 C-atoms.
• Grooming substances that can be combined excellently with the synergistic mixtures according to the invention furthermore also include
• ceramides N- acylsphingosines (fatty acid amides of sphingosine) or synthetic analogues of such lipids (so-called pseudo-ceramides) which clearly improve the water-retaining capacity of the horny layer phospholipids, for example soya lecithin, egg lecithin and cephalins
• Vaseline, paraffin oils and silicone oils include, inter alia, dialkylar ⁇ l siloxanes and alkylar ⁇ l siloxanes such as dimethyl polysiloxane and methyl phenyl polysiloxane and also the alkoxylated and quatemised derivatives thereof.
• Cosmetic preparations that contain mixtures according to the invention may also contain anti-oxidants, in which case use may be made of all the anti-oxidants that are suitable or customary for cosmetic and/or dermatological applications.
• Cosmetic preparations that contain mixtures according to the invention may also contain anti-inflammatory or anti-erythematic or antipruritic active substances.
• use may be made of all the anti-inflammatory or anti-erythematic or antipruritic active substances that are suitable or customary for cosmetic and/or dermatological applications.
• Cosmetic preparations that contain mixtures according to the invention may also contain active substances having a skin-lightening or skin-tanning action. According to the invention, in this connection use may be made of all the skin- lightening or skin-tanning active substances that are suitable or customary for cosmetic and/or dermatological applications. Cosmetic preparations that contain mixtures according to the invention may also contain anionic, cationic, non-ionic and/or amphoteric surfactants, particularly if crystalline or microcrystalline solids, for example inorganic micropigments, are to be incorporated into the preparations.
• the test consequently consists of the contamination of the preparation, if possible in its final ratio, with a prescribed inoculum of suitable micro-organisms, of the storage of the inoculated preparation at a certain temperature, of the taking of samples from the container at certain time-intervals, and of the determination of the number of micro-organisms in the samples so taken.
• the preserving properties are sufficient if, under the conditions of the test, an unambiguous diminution - or, where appropriate, no increase - of the germ count in the inoculated preparations results after the prescribed times at the prescribed temperatures.
• Experimental details of the test procedure are described in the European Pharmacopoeia (ISBN 3-7692-2768-9; Supplement 2001 to the 3 rd Edition, pages 421 -422, Chapter 5.1.3).
• the initial germ count (CFU/g; "0 value”) in the different series of tests was within the range from 250 000 to 320 000.
• mixtures according to the invention were incorporated into separate C7W emulsions, in defined quantity in each instance.
• a mixture of 1 ,2-hexanediol and 1 ,2-octanediol (active substance A) was incorporated into a separate O/W emulsion.
• active substance A (1 ,2-hexanediol + 1,2-octanediol; quantitative ratio 1 :1), which was tested for comparison purposes in a dosage of 0.5 wt.%, enabled no such significant reduction of the number of colony-forming units (CFU) in the case of Aspergillus niger.
• Tables A - D Test for sufficient preservation in respect of (i) an active-substance combination A consisting of 1 ,2-hexanediol and 1 ,2-octanediol (reference) and (ii) mixtures according to the invention having an intensified synergistic effect (active-substance combinations B - D); [CFU/ml]
• Active substance A 1, 2-hexanediol and 1 ,2-octanediol (weight ratio 1 : 1)

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