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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Saroja Narasimhan, Matawan, NJ (US);
Alexander C. Chan, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Dalal Ibrahim Duffer, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Geoffrey Robert Hawkins, Langhorne, PA (US);
Revlon Consumer Products Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An aqueous peroxide composition for coloring or lightening hair comprising (a) 1-99% of an aqueous phase containing (ii) 1-55% by weight of the total composition of water, (ii) 1-45% hydrogen peroxide, and (iii) a water soluble cosolvent; and (b) 0.1-60% of an oil phase; and (c) 1-65% of an organic, amphiphilic, surface active ingredient capable of interacting with the water phase and the oil phase to form lyotropic liquid crystals containing said water phase ingredients; a method for coloring or lightening hair using the peroxide composition, and a method for reducing the amount of time necessary to permanently color hair using the peroxide composition.