Shiseido Company, Limited

Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Chika Hamada

Masahiro Tajima

Eriko Takeoka

Yosuke Nakazawa

Jun Suzuki

Masazumi Watanabe

Yoshiharu Tsuji

Tsunao Magara

Akihiro Ishino

Takanari Tsuda

Daigo Mizumoto

Masashi Ogou

Tsutomu Souma

Tomoko Yokoyama

A hair growth inhibitor contains, as an active ingredient, at least one herb selected from the group consisting of phellodendron bark, houttuynia, rice bran, mulberry tree bark, Japanese coptis, thyme, peach seed, nettle, calendula, wild rose and balm mint or the extract thereof and various skin external application compositions such as cosmetic compositions to be used on the outer skin is prepared by mixing these active ingredients with other aqueous phase ingredients and oil phase ingredients according to conventional-methods.

Hair growth inhibitors and composition containing same

A hair growth phase extender containing, as an effective ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of unsaturated fatty acid and/or its derivatives, especially an unsaturated fatty acid having the formula:

Extract composition as hair growth phase extender

The invention relates to a hair revitalizing tonic composition containing, as an active ingredient, at least one lipid derivative of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and Y are as defined in the specification, and a and b are 0 or 1, as well as its use. Thus, there is provided a hair revitalizing tonic composition having an excellent hair loss prevention and hair revitalizing effect and, moreover, an excellent dandruff and itchy scalp prevention effect.

Hair revitalization tonic composition containing a lipid derivative and

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Chika Hamada