ES2788800B2 - Container for conditioning vegetable oils by using magnetic fields and application method for cosmetics. - Google Patents

Description

DESCRIPTION

CONTAINER FOR CONDITIONING VEGETABLE OILS THROUGH THE

USE OF MAGNETIC FIELDS AND APPLICATION METHOD FOR

COSMETICS

Technical sector

The present invention relates to a conditioning container for vegetable oils and / or fats as well as to the method of using them in a user, with the same purpose for which aromatic oils are used for wellness and cosmetic purposes.

The magnetic conditioning described below makes it possible to improve the absorption of vegetable oils through the skin, due to the fact that the viscosity of the oils and / or fats has decreased, and the low viscosity state allows a very good capillarity and therefore both a great penetration into the skin through the pores of it.

It is applicable in the industry of products for wellness, cosmetics and parapharmacy.

State of the art

The use of oils in areas as diverse as food, cosmetics and natural therapies admit very different applications and forms of presentation.

It is known, and we cite it only as a typical example, the case of olive oil. In addition to its food use, products based on olive oil are well known in the market as a constituent of anti-aging lotions, hair products, and anti-wrinkle creams. In the range of the parapharmacy we find presentations with olive oil to treat psoriasis and even sexual dysfunction.

For the different areas of application, the legal requirements corresponding to each presentation must be considered, which may vary depending on the legal authorization be it for food, cosmetic or parapharmacy area use, which also indicates the demands and differences of processes according to their use. This proposal is framed in the area of cosmetics and personal well-being.

For this reason, the presentation of this novel technology developed for vegetable oils in non-food use is of interest. As an additional advantage, it can be said that the technology presented in the present invention application opens the use of unused parts in the food industry. Of special interest are the so-called essential oils (see for example, Essential oils: properties, uses, list, benefits, in https://aceites-esenciales.org/), whose wide market currently accumulates a growing number of innovations and continuous improvements to increase your efficiency.

The advantage of using magnetic fields to treat aromatic oils, obtained from wild plants, is that with treatment with certain magnetic fields, their penetration power into the dermis and their diffusion through the epidermis are considerably increased.

In the food field, Postharvest Engineering (PHE) focuses either on improving food production processes, or on improving preservation processes. The present invention applies and adapts some of the possibilities of magnetic fields for the case of essential oils, which to date have been treated by conventional techniques. There is no information on the use, to date, of magnetic fields in essential oils for body care, aesthetics and well-being.

Once the conceptual start of our development has been introduced, the method is presented, framing it in this case in the uses for products called vegetable and / or essential oils.

Specifically, we refer to the use of magnetic fields to modify certain characteristics of oils of plant origin, either from cultivated plants or from wild plants, in order to optimize their functionality for use within the area of cosmetics and personal well-being.

There is no known method or apparatus capable of obtaining the advantages of the invention.

Brief explanation of the invention

The present invention relates to a conditioning container for oils of vegetable origin and a method of applying these oils, according to the claims, to further improve their performance.

The possibility is presented of using permanent magnetic fields to make possible a reduction treatment of up to approximately 35% of the usual viscosity of vegetable oils. The modification of the characteristics of the products is pursued, it is achieved with their immersion in a permanent magnetic field.

The technique described here takes advantage of the fact that, in oils of vegetable origin, the application of magnetic fields of intensities 0.4 - 0.8 T (Teslas) produces a marked variation in the diamagnetic characteristics of the product, so that it is appreciated a very remarkable decrease in its viscosity. Furthermore, after being subjected to the magnetic field, the vegetable oil remains in optimal condition to be used, taking advantage of its low viscosity, for a sufficient period of time for its use. This situation of reduced viscosity disappears after a period of time, since the oil returns, spontaneously and progressively, to its initial viscosity.

The most suggestive of the present invention is the use of a magnetization process for vegetable oils.

The present invention will take advantage of the fact that, in some molecules of organic liquids, the magnetic field acts on free radicals and hydrogen bonds, breaking them or changing their orientation, which alters the properties of the molecules without changing their molecular architecture. This translates into an appreciable variation in its viscosity.

The fact that in the present invention permanent magnets are used to create the magnetic fields is due to the fact that, if one tries to produce these same fields using a loop of conductive wire traversed by an electric current, it they would require significant electrical currents. A field of the appropriate intensity can be achieved with a commercially available permanent magnet. For this reason, in the technique described here, permanent fields are generated with permanent magnets made of ferrite, alnico, neodymium and samarium-cobalt.

Normally, 30 - 45 minutes within the magnetic field is enough for the decrease in viscosity to be established for a certain time in the oil sample, although this time varies with the nature of the oil and can be adjusted for each composition with a test. trial and error.

The adequacy of the oil inside a container "flooded" by the magnetic field generated by permanent magnets, produces an effect of reducing the viscosity of the oils. This effect is maintained, at room temperature (20 ° C, 1atm), for a period of time of 3 to 6 hours after the removal of the magnetic field The duration of this period depends little on the composition of the vegetable oil that has been chosen from among the beneficial vegetable oils.

Once the aforementioned period has elapsed (3-6 hours), a relocation of the molecules will take place and the oil undergoes a slow but unstoppable recovery of its initial viscosity.

There are no known works, publications, or in the State of the Art on the mechanism, or the effect, of the magnetic field for the specific case of vegetable oils. It corresponds to a field of knowledge of high theoretical level called "spin chemistry", which is a field located at the intersection of chemical kinetics, photochemistry, magnetic resonance and free radical chemistry, dealing with the magnetic effects and spin of chemical reactions These concepts are briefly described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_chemistry and in some other publications.

Basically the issue is that large polar molecules can contain charges far from the nucleus of the molecule, so they act as free radicals, whose spins will become parallel when the set is submerged in a magnetic field, forming free pairs. The recombination of these pairs influences the physical properties of the medium and the speed of chemical reactions. See in B. Brocklehurst "Magnetic fields and radical reactions: recent developments and their role in nature" Chem Soc Rev 2002, 31, 301-311.

As the time of immersion of the oil sample in a magnetic field progresses, the recombining free pairs extract some molecules away from their grouping in macromolecules, so that the average molecular size in the liquid decreases, thereby decreasing the viscosity. .

The decrease in viscosity will be of great interest when the oils are to be used for cosmetic and relaxing use, or to promote well-being. The low viscosity will facilitate, on the one hand, the intimate mixture of different oils or components during the conditioning of the product, and, on the other hand, its decreased surface tension will facilitate its subsequent absorption into the human skin through the pores. of the epidermis. In this way, the oil can more easily reach the intercellular spaces of the dermis, which is where absorption really takes place.

The justification for these effects is that from the outset the application of a magnetic field to a liquid gives rise to phenomena in the molecules in such a way that a simultaneous decrease in viscosity and surface tension is originated. It is well established in Chemistry-Physics that viscosity and surface tension are related according to a very simple mathematical relationship reflected in a formula of the type of an exponential equation [as developed by Harold Schonhorn "Surface Tension-Viscosity Relationship for Liquids " J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1967, 12 (4), pp 524-525]]. Which is to say that: when we vary the viscosity of vegetable oil, the surface tension also changes.

The variation of the surface tension improves the capillarity or capacity of a liquid to penetrate empty capillary spaces (such as the pores of the skin) so that the modification by application of a magnetic field facilitates the transfer of the oils through the pores. of human skin.

Once the applied liquid has entered the intercellular spaces of the dermis, a rapid metabolic process takes place due to a chemical reaction between the components of an essential oil and the intercellular medium, as the oil molecules break up and react with the proteins in the middle. For this reason, the optional application of magnetic fields also acts on the kinetics of the reactions. so that we have one more reason to advise the subsequent application of an external magnetic field in the anatomical area of application of an oil.

In this way, with the application of the permanent magnetic field, the functionality of a magnetized vegetable oil (or a mixture of different magnetized vegetable oils) is improved.

That is why for the use of the technique described here, a final optional step is proposed to maximize the metabolization of previously magnetized oils through the subsequent application, directly on the skin, of a reinforcing magnetic field of moderate intensity, to human tissue. on the area of the anatomical zone (skin, hair) where the application of the oil or oil mixtures previously conditioned with magnetic field took place. This additional step should be done after the completion of the application of the oil on the skin. In this way the application of the oils turns out to be ultimately more efficient.

If we talk about applying a permanent magnetic field with magnets juxtaposed to the skin, we are in the usual situation of well-known treatments of dysfunctions in well-being with magnets, in which the North pole of the magnets is applied to the area under treatment without the help of any medicinal product, avoiding contact with the South Pole, whose effect is irritating by increasing the local acidity in the tissue. In these cases, the magnetic field flux density can be between 0.125 and 0.250 T. The same stimulating effect on the body is exhibited by alternating magnetic fields, with the advantage of requiring less field intensity. In this case, 1.5 pT with a frequency lower than 100 Hz may be sufficient.

On the other hand, biophysics found that when the viscosity is lower, the diffusion of biomolecules within the cytoplasm is easier. And this determines a greater or lesser level of metabolic activity, since diffusion through the cytoplasm is what keeps the mitochondria active, which governs the metabolism of the cell. [See Jorge Fernández de Cossio Diaz et al. "A physical model of cell metabolism". Scientific Reports vol 8, article number 8349 (2018)].

When the applied magnetic field is suspended, the viscosity in the cytoplasm of the cells slowly recovers until the viscosity value is recovered. that it had before the magnetic field was applied to it. The similarity to the conditioning process for oils is obvious.

Thus, the vegetable oil conditioning container is prismatically shaped with its vertical side walls and means for containing oil, which may also comprise a bottom and a lid. Permanent magnets are arranged on the walls of the prism, with their N or S polarity facing the inside of the container. It is preferable for the magnets to generate a uniform magnetic field of between 0.4 and 0.8 T inside the container. Preferably, the magnets alternate the polarity that they direct towards the interior of the container. For example, if there are six magnets, they will be oriented N-S-N-S-N-S. Although other sequences are possible, such as N-N-N-S-S-S, where the alternation is by groups of magnets.

In specific areas the field may be somewhat smaller, for example, in the center of the container. In those cases, where this is a drawback, the difficulty can be solved by avoiding the stillness of the oil sample undergoing modification, with a dynamizing element included in the structure of the magnetic modifying container or coupled to the container.

If the container is used with cosmetic oils, the method of applying cosmetic oils comprises the steps of introducing an oil into the conditioning container for at least 30 minutes and applying the oil to the skin or hair of the user.

The useful period for using the modified oils is 3-4 hours from the moment of extraction of the oil from the modifying container.

You can make a mixture of oils inside the modifier container, taking advantage of the reduction in viscosity, or add other components that are not of that nature (glycerin, vitamins ...).

It is especially advantageous to apply a magnetic field to the skin during or after application of the oil. This magnetic field can preferably be permanent and between 0.125 and 0.250 T, or alternating, up to 1.5 pT and with a frequency lower than 100 Hz. Other conditions may also be possible.

In the present invention, all examples, residence times, etc. they have been measured at 20 ° C and 1 atm (normal conditions). As is known, the higher the temperature the viscosity is lower and the effects of the modification / conditioning last longer.

The figures show the following items:

1. Vegetable oil conditioning container

2. Side walls

3. Background

4. Container

5. Permanent magnets

Description of the drawings

In the following, the present invention will be explained in more detail with the aid of a non-limiting example of an embodiment, represented in the following figures.

Figure 1: perspective view of a simplified example of the patent.

Methods of carrying out the invention

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be briefly described, as an illustrative and non-limiting example thereof.

In general conditions, the oils to be used in the container of the conditioner (1) of the invention are usually contained in ampoules or containers, which are nothing but the small containers in which manufacturers commercially present their products. They are made of non-electrically conductive, non-magnetizable material, such as glass or plastic. In this way, the conditioning container (1) is easily usable with different oils, obtained commercially with different presentations (bottles, beads, ampoules), at different times, as long as the oil is left inside the conditioning container (1) long enough For the magnetic conditioning to take place, a stay of at least 30 minutes, prior to use. All oil samples they can be placed in the means for containing oil into which they are to be introduced into the conditioning container (1).

Note that neither in the commercial containers that carry the oils, nor in the means to contain the oil nor in the side walls (2) are there any magnetic materials. The only magnetic materials in the conditioning vessel (1) are permanent magnets (5). Note also that the oils (contrary to what would happen in a circulating oil carrier pipe) can be at rest.

The conditioning container (1) has side walls (2) so that, if it has faces, these are preferably vertical. The means for containing oil may comprise a bottom (3) and / or a container (4); and, optionally, a cover (not shown in figure 1).

The bottom (3) is optional since the oil container (4) can be retained by other methods (hanging from the side wall (2), for example). Likewise, the container (4) and the side walls (2) of the conditioning container (1) can be supported on a bottom (3), acting as a common base. The conditioning container (1) can be of a polygonal base (figure 1) or of another shape, even cylindrical, being preferred that the side walls (2) are vertical.

In some versions the container (4), made of non-magnetic material, such as glass, plastic, wood or the like, may be dispensable because, for example, the oil can be supplied in glass ampoules or other containers that can be placed directly in the container. conditioning container (1), without the need for the container (4).

The conditioning container (1) is a magnetic conditioner, that is, a volume of space with a sufficiently strong magnetic field where the oil sample / s can be located to subject them to the effect of the field. This will preferably be produced by permanent magnets (5), as it is the most effective solution. The permanent magnets (5) have their polarity (North or South) oriented towards the inside of the container (1). Preferably, they will alternate the polarity they offer. Thus, if a magnet (5) orients its North face to the inside of the conditioning container (1), the neighboring ones will orient their South faces, and vice versa.

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To prevent the magnetic field from being too different at different points inside the conditioning container (1), it is convenient to place the permanent magnets (5) on the side walls (2), with the poles facing the center of the conditioning container ( 1), that is to say the North face of a magnet (5) is placed on a side wall (2) facing or almost facing the South face of the magnet (5) placed opposite, and vice versa. The number of magnets and their power will depend on the intensity of the magnetic field required in the entire space of the container, but it is preferable that it be a not small number so that a magnetic field is achieved in the working volume with a good level of uniformity. . It is also preferred that it be an even number, to be able to face the magnets (5) in pairs.

In general it can be said with respect to the magnetic conditioner that:

a) The closer the magnets (5) are to the center of the figure, the stronger the magnetic field will be in the core of the magnetic conditioning container (1). With this way of construction it will be possible to achieve fields of up to 0.4 - 0.8 T magnetic flux density; These values are within the permitted intensity range, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) standards. They can be seen in International Standards https://www.who.int/pehemf/publications/facts/fs299/es/

b) The field intensity generated by each magnet (5) is not relevant, as long as the conjunction of the fields produced from each magnet allows the desired flux to be achieved.

c) The magnets (5) can have reasonably different field strengths. In these cases, the field that forms in the space of the conditioning container (1) shows a certain field gradient, but which is not an obstacle for the operation of the conditioning container (1) to be effective.

d) Without being mandatory, the conditioning container (1) can contain a dynamizing element, such as a vibrating or stirring element, to facilitate the mobilization of the oils so that all the molecules have a path through the flow zones magnetic.

It is noteworthy that the decrease in viscosity within the conditioning container (1) is very useful for preparing mixtures of different substances, not easily mixed, but whose effects have desirable synergies.

For this reason it is possible that the known commercial mixtures of honey and essential oils can be prepared, even industrially, in a more advisable way using the possibilities of magnetic conditioning during their elaboration. This allows very interesting innovations to be presented on the market, such as honeys that are beneficial to health, qualifying as cold pasteurized, and which had not been achieved until now.

If this conditioning container (1) is used with cosmetic products based on vegetable oils, the procedure for using the technique presented in this invention begins with the placement of the product for cosmetic use in the oil-containing means of the conditioning container (1 ) a minimum time of 30 minutes. After the treated product has been removed from the conditioning container (1), the treated oil is then applied to the skin or hair of the user. When the product is applied from outside the conditioning container (1), there is a requirement that it must be applied within 3-6 hours.

Finally, it is worth highlighting the technological value of the optional use of an external magnetic field in order to use the possibilities of magnetokinetics in order to use magnetophoresis so that the vegetable oils, once they have been deposited on the user's skin, after having been treated according to the present invention, so that it can stimulate their passage through the skin so that they reach the subcutaneous tissue as soon as possible.

The issue of transcutaneous transfer of health products is receiving increasing attention for its attractive advantages; They are the fastest way to provide attractive molecules to the body and without excipients that can generate collateral effects. Unfortunately most studies are very moderately successful. Only few drugs can pass the skin and with the threat of edema problems.

That is why there are recent attempts to fine-tune a continuous magnetic field magnetophoresis, which have led to studies with high-tech materials so that the drug to be supplied is included in diamagnetic nanostructures, so that they feel a strong repulsion by the external magnetic field (see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic druq delivery).

In this sense and according to tests carried out to carry out the present invention, it is beneficial to apply a magnetic field to the skin during or after the application of the oil. That magnetic field can be permanent or alternating.

Preferably, this application of the cosmetic product, once the oil has been applied to the skin, can be completed by applying a second magnetic field on the anatomical area of the user where a mixture of oils is applied, which constitute a composition that is supposed to be efficient and which is used as an effective prescription in cosmetics or for wellness preparations. The characteristics of this field depend on the type of magnetic field chosen. If it is a permanent field, the magnetic field flux density will be between 0.125 and 0.250 T. If an alternating magnetic field is applied, a flux density of up to 1.5 pT with a frequency less than 100 Hz is sufficient.

Application example

As an example we are going to show how the immersion treatment is carried out in a permanent magnetic field 0.45 T, achieved with six permanent magnets (5) of neodymium type Nd ² Fe ^ B with a remnant field of 1.2 T The magnets ( 5) were placed as indicated in figure 1. Samples of six commercial vegetable oils commonly used in the fields of cosmetics and personal care were chosen as the oils to be tested.

The verification that the magnetic flux density in the magnetic conditioning container (1) where the samples were treated was correct, was made by means of a measurement with a Gaussmeter BGM 201 from Blockhaus Measurements ™. It has a full scale of 4 T and a Hall type probe that can be moved throughout the interior of the magnetic conditioner.

The modification in the samples of the commercial oils that were tested is evidenced by the results of the viscosity measurements, before and after the treatment by immersion in the magnetic field, collected in Table 1, where it is represented the initial viscosity (in the delivery state), that obtained after 3 hours in the container (1), and at 4 and 48 hours after having extracted the sample / s from the container.

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The measurements were made by comparing the discharge time of each sample in an Ostwald viscometer with the discharge time measured using a standard oil with the aforementioned viscometer and taking into account the value of its viscosity and its density provided by its manufacturer. .

The Ostwald viscometer used was SI AnalyticsTM brand, whose discharge capillary has a diameter of 0.5 mm and the amount of sample that fills the measuring ampoule is 3 ml.

The hydrometer used to assess the value of the density of the oils in the samples tested was a glass hydrometer for liquids with a measuring scale for liquids with a lower density than water. It is Nahita brand, with a measurement scale of 900/1000 kg / m3 and a measurement sensitivity of 1 mg / cm3.

As a reference oil, we use a castor oil of pharmacological purity, which was supplied by its manufacturer with information on its viscosity value.

The density measurement was done only once. The density of the oil was measured and then it was introduced into the viscometer, after which the discharge time was measured. The measurement was then repeated in a post-treatment rest outside the conditioner for 4 hours and 48 hours.

In view of these results, it seems proven that the effect of the treatment by a permanent magnetic field decreases the viscosity of the commercial vegetable oils tested, but that its effect is only maintained for a few hours.

Claims (2)

1- Vegetable oil conditioning container (1) comprising means for containing oil characterized in that it comprises side walls (2), and permanent magnets (5), arranged on the side walls (2) of the container (1) with their NS axes oriented towards the inside of the container (1) generating a magnetic field that reduces the viscosity of the oils. 2. Container, according to claim 1, wherein the means for containing oil comprise a bottom (3) and / or a container (4) where the vegetable oils are introduced. 3- Container, according to claim 1, where the magnets (5) generate inside the container (1) a magnetic field between 0.4 and 0.8 T 4- Container, according to claim 1, comprising a dynamizing element. 5- Container, according to claim 1, where the polarities of the magnets (5) are alternate. 6- Container, according to claim 1, where the means for containing oil are configured for the mixture of vegetable oils. 7- Method of applying vegetable oils, with the container of any of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: - introduce a vegetable oil, or mixtures of vegetable oils, into the container (1), for at least 30 minutes, and - apply the oil on the user's skin or hair. 8. Method according to claim 7, which comprises applying the conditioned oil on the skin or hair of the user within 3-4 h from the completion of the conditioning in the container (1). 9. Method according to claim 7, which comprises applying a magnetic field to the skin or hair of the user during or after applying the oil. 10- Method according to claim 9, where the magnetic field applied to the skin or hair is permanent and between 0.125 and 0.250 T 11. Method, according to claim 9, where the magnetic field applied to the skin or hair of the user is alternating, up to 1.5 pT and with a frequency lower than 100 Hz. 1