Wella Aktiengesellschaft

Sarah Maillefer

Daniel Chambettaz

Andre Rehmann

Michael Franzke

Axel Kalbfleisch

Benedikt Zenhaeusern

The hair wax product with liquid or creamy consistency for treating or setting up a human hairstyle contains at least 40% by weight of an aqueous or aqueous-alcoholic carrier medium, at least 5 percent by weight of an emulsifier and at least 2 percent by weight of wax. The weight ratio of emulsifier to wax is greater than 1, preferably 1.1 to 4. The invention also includes methods for styling and re-styling human hair-dos or hairstyles using the hair wax product according to the invention.

Hair wax products with a liquid or creamy consistency

A method of setting up, caring for and later removing a temporary rasta hairstyle is described. This method includes one or more of the following steps: applying a roughness-increasing substance to the hair to roughen the hair, applying an adherence-increasing substance to the hair to increase adherence of hairs to each other, and subsequently setting up the temporary rasta hairstyle by intertwining hair strandwise. The cleaning of the temporary rasta hairstyle occurs preferably using a concave sponge, without disturbing the temporary rasta hairstyle. To again remove the temporary rasta hairstyle a composition that increases the combability is applied to the hair and the rasta strands are opened and unwound or untwisted. Multi-component kits and compositions for performing the method are also described.

Method of setting up, caring for and later removing a temporary rasta hairstyle

The preferably optically clear, transparent or translucent micromulsion contains from 20 to 60 percent by weight water; from 3 to 20 percent by weight of an oil phase, which contains hydrophobic oil that is liquid at 25&#xb0; C. and optionally dissolved lipophilic materials, and from 20 to 60 percent by weight of an emulsifier mixture. The emulsifier mixture contains at least one first emulsifier, which is an ethoxylated castor oil and/or an ethoxylated hydrogenated castor oil, and at least one second emulsifier with an NRUvalue greater than 110 &#x3bc;g/ml. The microemulsion is usable as a cosmetic, dermatological or pharmaceutical preparation, especially as an agent for hair treatment.

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Middes, Switzerland

Sarah Maillefer