ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,833, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cosbe Laboratory Inc. (Shantou, China).

"Composition for makeup removal and methods for preparing, packaging, and using same, and makeup removing gel" was invented by Songwu Zheng (Shantou, China), Xiaofan Chen (Shantou, China), Zehua Zhao (Shantou, China), Yanxiong Zhang (Shantou, China) and Xiazhi Huang (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for makeup removal comprises, in parts by weight, the following components: 15-30 parts of a thickening agent, 10-30 parts of sodium methyl cocoyl taurate, 10-50 parts of sodium lauroyl glutamate, 5-10 parts of sodium lauryl sulfate, 2...