The invention relates to an external skin care composition comprising a ceramide production-accelerating agent and a film-forming polymer. The external skin care composition can enhance the barrier function of the skin and has an excellent skin roughness-improving effect.

External skin care composition

During a connection between a network infrastructure and user equipment a first indication of the amount of data transmitted over the connection is maintained in the network infrastructure and a second indication of the amount data transmitted is maintained in the user equipment A checking procedure is triggered in response to encountering (402) a predetermined checking value The checking procedure utilizes integrity protected signalling During the checking procedure the first indication is compared with the second indication This checking procedure enables easy discovery of an intruder who either sends and/or receives data on an authorized connection between a network infrastructure and a mobile station, the data transmission being charged from the mobile station

Method of checking amount of transmitted data

There is provided a liquid additive thickener, or a liquid thickening agent, which can thicken easily when it is added to an object. The liquid additive thickener comprises a liquid that is prepared by dissolving a thickening agent into water and is initially inhibited from forming viscous solutions or gels. The liquid can begin to form a viscous solution when it is added to a water-containing object. The liquid may be: (a) prepared to have a low viscosity by dissolving a thickening agent into water together with a poor solvent; (b) prepared to have a low viscosity by dissolving a thickening agent into water together with a low viscous saccharide; or (c) prepared to have a low viscosity by dissolving a thickening agent into water together with a reactive ion.

Liquid additive for thickener

A composition for external use on skin that can be spread evenly on the skin, does not produce a liquid residue as a result of temperature change, and can suppress a feeling of sliminess of xanthan gum is provided. There are provided a composition for external use on skin containing 0.1% by mass to 10% by mass of a component (A) (a water-soluble polymer obtained by mixing agar with xanthan gum) and 30% by mass or more of a component (D) (water); the composition for external use on skin containing 0.5% by mass to 40% by mass of a divalent polyol as a component (B); the composition for external use on skin according to any one of the above compositions, which contains moisturizers as a component (C); and the composition for external use on skin according to any one of the above compositions, which contains oil as a component (E).

Composition for external use on skin, cosmetic, and cleaning agent

The present invention provides a soybean milk or milk drink which is highly enriched with calcium and which has excellent taste and storage stability. The soybean milk or milk drink is enriched with calcium by adding a hardly soluble calcium compound thereto, and by adding colloidal microcrystalline cellulose and low-strength agar in such amounts as not to exceed a viscosity of 40 cp, to thereby stabilize the calcium in the soybean milk or milk drink.

Calcium-enriched drink and method for producing the same

According to a low gel strength agar of the invention, the molecules of agar are cut to short fragments, and the gel strength of the agar is adjusted to be 250 g/cm 2 or below at 1.5 % agar concentration. Thus, even when the agar is used at a certain agar concentration or above, a soft gel having a low gel strength with no syneresis can be obtained. When the agar is contained in foods or cosmetics, special advantages, which are not obtainable with prior-art products, can be achieved.

Low gel strength agar-agar

PURPOSE:To efficiently obtain low-strength agar useful for spread food, etc., having excellent stability and safety by cleaving molecules of agar component by acid treatment, neutralizing and making a soft gel not accompanied by water release. CONSTITUTION:Ground agar in a dry state is treated with an acid such as sulfuric acid to cleave molecules. The agar is neutralized with caustic soda and acid effects are removed to give the low-strength agar having 10-250g/cm jelly strength at 1.5%.

Low-strength agar and its production

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a tabletlike liquid food stock uniformly soluble without forming undissolved lumps of flour and useful for a soup, etc., by including a powder providing a liquid food by dissolving in hot water and dietary fibers. SOLUTION: This tabletlike liquid food stock is obtained by including (A) a powder providing a liquid food by dissolving in hot water such as a soup stock for Chinese noodles and (B) dietary fibers such as one or more kings of insoluble fibers of wheat, barley, oat, crystalline cellulose, a soybean, a corn, a seaweed, a beet, a bottle guard, konjak, curdlan and alginic acid or one or more kinds of water-soluble fibers of agar, an aliginate, sodium carboxmethyl cellulose, gellan gum and Azotobacter vinelandii gum. The tableting is preferably carried out at 0.1-10 kg/cm2 hardenss to prepare the food stock so that the surface becomes harder than the inner surface in the tabletlike liquid food stock comprising the power providing the liquid food by dissolving in hot water.

Tabletlike liquid food stock

PURPOSE: To effectively prevent a fluid food from the running down of a liquid or a threading without damaging the original characteristic of the fluid food. CONSTITUTION: This method for preventing a fluid food from, the running down of a liquid or a threading comprises adding at least one kind of a natural high molecular material selected from among an agar, a carrageenan, a furcellaran, a gelatin, a gellan gum, a pectin, a tamarind gum, a guar gum, a locust bean gum, a gum arabic, a tara gum, a glucomannan, a starch, a chemically processed starch and their decomposed materials. COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO

Preventing method of fluid food from running down of liquid or threading

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain agar useful as a tablet base or assistant capable of imparting a tablet with excellent disintegrability, especially high disintegration rate by adding water to solid or powdery agar to effect the absorption of water and dehydrating and drying the swollen agar. SOLUTION: An agar (A) useful as a tablet base or assistant to form a tablet mixed with a drug and having a definite shape is produced by adding water to a solid or powdery agar (B) to effect the absorption of water and again dehydrating and drying the swollen agar by hot-air drying, freeze-drying, vacuum drying, etc. The agar (A) is produced preferably by adding water to an agar obtained by filtering an extract of seaweed or to the component B, dissolving the agar by heating, cooling the obtained agar sol to form an agar gel (C), freeze-drying the product C as it is or after pulverization and crushing the freeze-dried product. The agar (A) capable of imparting a tablet with excellent disintegrability as well as sufficient tablet strength can be produced by the process.

Kazuhiro Tabata

Papers

Low gel strength agar-agar

Low-strength agar and its production

Tabletlike liquid food stock

Preventing method of fluid food from running down of liquid or threading

Agar for tablet and preparation of tablet