Wella Aktiengesellschaft

The Procter Gamble Company

Wella Aktiengsellschaft

Thomas Kripp

Beate Grasser

Rudolf Bimczok

Christian Springob

Michael Franzke

Guenther Lang

Karl-Heinz Kischka

Sabine Baecker

Hiltrud Bormuth

Eugen Konrad

Andreas Flohr

Gunther Lang

Harald Wendel

Manuela Javet

Wolfram Geibel

Dieter Hoch

Ursula Hehner

Friedel Schroder

Kirstin Uhl

Wolfgang Maurer

Achim Koschik

Friedel Schr&ouml;der

Beate Krause

Ingrid Toeche-Mittler

Sonja Rodriguez Bares

G Unther Lang

Thomas Czigler

A method for chemically modifying the internal region of the hair shaft comprising applying a monomer composition to the hair, wherein the monomer composition comprises an ethylenic monomer having a molecular weight of 500 g/mole or less; then rinsing the hair; then applying a conditioning composition to the hair, wherein the conditioning composition comprises a hydrophobic polyol and a hydrophilic polyol; and wherein the method comprises applying an initiator to the hair prior to rinsing the hair, wherein the initiator initiates the chemical modification.

Method employing polyols when chemically modifying the internal region of a hair shaft

The invention relates to the use of creatine, creatinine and/or derivatives thereof and/or their salts in an agent for hardening, strengthening, restructuring or increasing the shine, volume or combability of keratin fibers, particularly of human hair.

Use of agents containing creatine, creatinine and/or their derivatives to fortify and improve the structure of keratinic fibers

The method of hardening, fortifying, restructuring, repairing, increasing volume or stabilizing keratinic fibers, especially human hair, includes providing a keratinic fiber treatment composition containing from 0.05 to 1.0 percent by weight of creatine, a salt of creatine, creatinine and/or a salt of creatinine, bringing the keratinic fiber treatment composition into contact with the keratinic fibers and allowing the keratinic fiber treatment composition to remain in contact with the keratinic fibers for a certain time interval.

Method of treating keratinic fibers with creatine, creatinine and/or their salts to strengthen, restructure, harden and stabilize them

The two-component hair treatment product consists of one component (A) and another component (B). Component (A) contains an acid and component (B) contains a base. Less than 3 g of the base and/or acid are soluble in 100 ml of water at 20&#xb0; C. The acid is preferably a dicarboxylic acid, such as sebacic, dodecanoic dicarboxylic acid or tetradecanoic dicarboxylic acid. The base is preferably ammonia, an alkyl amine or an alkylol amine. Prior to use in a method of permanent hair shaping or hair care, the components are mixed with each other to form a ready-to-apply mixture having an automatically continuously or gradually changing pH that changes within from one to 60 minutes so that damage to the hair due to high pH is avoided. For permanent shaping of hair the initial pH of 8 to 13 falls from about 1 to 4 pH units within from 10 to 30 minutes after mixing the components.

Two component agent with a time dependant pH and method of treating hair with said agent

The composition for hardening, strengthening and restructuring keratin-containing materials and/or for increasing the volume of keratin-containing fibers, such as hair, contains from 0.3 to 50.0% by weight of one or more reductones, each having a &mdash;(HO)C&boxH;C(OH)&mdash; group. The reductone ingredient is preferably ascorbic or isoascorbic acid, a salt of ascorbic or isoascorbic acid, such as an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt, an ester of ascorbic or isoascorbic acid, 6-O-palmitoyl ascorbate, ascorbyl phosphate, 2,3-dihydroxy-2-propenal and hydroxypropanedial. A method of treating keratin-containing materials or fibers to harden, strengthen and restructure keratin-containing materials and/or to increase the volume of the keratin-containing fibers by applying this composition and allowing it to act is described. A method of pre-treating keratin-containing material that is to be subjected to a chemical or physical treatment, such as dyeing or permanent shaping is also described.

Use of reductive compounds for strengthening and improving the structure of materials containing keratin

The subject of the invention is a cosmetic preparation containing Ilex resin which is isolated from leaves of Ilex aquifolium or Ilex paraguariensis, a method for isolating Ilex resin, and the Ilex resin obtained by this method. Skin treatment preparations containing Ilex resin produce a stable protective film on the skin. Hair treatment preparations containing Ilex resin intensify the color, increase luster, contribute to good wet combability, and improve the elasticity of the hair treated with the preparation.

Cosmetic preparation containing Ilex resin method for obtaining Ilex resin and Ilex resin which can be obtained by this method

Use of flower wax in liquid hair-treatment agents

The new active ingredient derivative compounds have the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and are each an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, Y is an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group, R is an active ingredient group which, prior to ester formation, has at least one OH group and A.sup.- is an anion. A process for making the compounds of formula (I) is described. Hair treatment compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating hair with these hair treatment compositions are also described.

Hydrolytically cleavable active ingredient derivative compounds, hair

Cosmetic preparation containing Ilex resin, method of obtaining Ilex and

The skin and hair treatment composition includes 0.5 to 2 percent by weight apple wax, 0.1 to 30 percent by weight of at least one anionic, cationic, amphoteric and/or nonionic surfactant, a solvent consisting of water, ethanol, propanol, isopropanol, glycols or mixtures thereof and one or more cosmetic additives selected from the group consisting of perfume oils; opacifiers; pearlescing agents; bacterial and fungicidal ingredients; coconut fatty acid diethanolamide; buffer substances; coloring materials; solubilizers; light stabilizers; antioxidants; complexing agents and antidandruff active ingredients. Methods for obtaining the apple wax used in these compositions include extraction of depectinized apple pomace with a variety of solvents and purification and evaporation of the extract to obtain an apple wax product.

Cosmetic composition for treating skin and hair containing apple wax and

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Thomas Kripp