A soothing, cleansing, and beneficial cosmetic facial mask is provided in two parts comprising an oil base, preferably a mixture of almond oil and olive oil, and an aqueous paste of banana flour, dried milk solids. The mask is employed by coating the skin areas to be treated with the oil base and thereafter applying a thick layer of the paste over the oil. The mask is left in place for a period of about thirty to forty minutes and then removed. The oil base will preferably contain a minor amount...

A process in which phthalocyanine pigment is produced at least 80 percent in the .beta.-pigmentary form by grinding a dispersed suspension of crude pigment in aqueous medium, preferably with particulate grinding elements which are insoluble in the aqueous medium, containing from 5 to 10 percent of surface active agent until the pigment flocculates and the system is converted into a filterable paste and by recovering the pigmentary phthalocyanine from the paste by filtration, the filterable paste...

Phosphorus values are recovered from phosphate crystal mother liquor by contacting the liquor with finely divided calcium salts at elevated temperatures to precipitate hydrated octacalcium phosphate. Ca/P input is specific.

A process for the preparation of a catalyst system having a catalytically active component of an oxide, metal or alloy of one or more of the elements copper, zinc, cadmium, nickel, cobalt, iron, manganese or magnesium, homogeneously dispersed over a solid particulate inorganic thermostable carrier material, wherein the catalytically active component is precipitated onto the carrier material from an acid aqueous solution of a complex of an .alpha.-, .beta.-, or .gamma. -amino acid, an amino-sulph...

Thionamides are formed in high yield by reacting alkyl, aryl, heterocyclic nitriles, or phenylacetonitriles and hydrogen sulfide under pressure in the presence of a minimal amount of basic catalyst. The use of a minimal amount of catalyst prevents the reverse decomposition of the thionamide to nitrile and hydrogen sulfide.

Process for the preparation of ammelides from guanidine, hydrocarbon substituted guanidines or acid salts thereof in which the guanidine compounds are heated with biuret in an inert organic solvent in the presence of a basic catalyst.

A process for preparing 3,5-dihydroxytoluene in which an alkyl acetoacetate is reacted with an alkyl crotonate in the presence of a hydride to form a carboethoxymethyldihydroresorcinol; in which said carboethoxymethyldihydroresorcinol is saponified and decarboxylated (decarbalkoxylation) and acidified whereby methyldihydroresorcinol is obtained; and wherein said methyldihydroresorcinol is dehydrogenated in the presence of a dehydrogenation catalyst to form 3,5-dihydroxytoluene. 3,5-dihydroxytolu...

A method for preparing amides by reacting a vicinal nitroketone with ammonia, a primary amine or a secondary amine at a temperature of from about 60.degree. to about 130.degree.C. The amides so prepared are useful as foam stabilizers, waterproofing agents, rust inhibitors, fuel oil additives, antistatic compounds, viscosity controllers, cosmetic components and high-temperature solvents.

Preparing oxides of film-forming metals by inserting electrically conductive bodies in a solution containing ions of film-forming metals, and anodically precipitating said oxides upon the first body.

Methods and apparatus are described for discouraging the formation of unwanted lumps which tend to form when preparing mixes of certain components, especially of fibres and a slurry. A mixing agitator, which is moved relative to the mix, is arranged to have a further motion such as by being free to rotate, or by being rotated, in response to conditions within the mix.