Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Live hair or scalp treating compositions
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-02
2001-07-03
Page, Thurman K. (Department: 1615)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Live hair or scalp treating compositions
C424S074000, C424S195110, C424S196110, C424S070140, C514S880000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06254858
ABSTRACT:
DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to hair treatment compositions and methods of manufacturing the compositions, and more specifically to such compositions which are capable of acting as a cosmetic, reducing alopecia, preventing alopecia, stimulating hair growth or any combination thereof, as well as methods of manufacturing the compositions.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Alopecia can be caused by various factors including, but not limited to, mental stress, hormonal imbalances, chemotherapy and febrile conditions. Alopecia is also attributed to advancing age and a decrease in the mitotic activity of the hair follicle.
Due to society's tendency to attach a stigma to hair loss, there exists a substantial demand for a “cure” to baldness. In particular, the desire to maintain a full head hair has resulted in numerous hair growth studies. These studies have led to several causes with respect to the acquired loss of hair.
Particularly, among the several causes, a hypothesis that seborrhea leads to alopecia is generally accepted now. As illustrated in
FIG. 1
, a hair
1
is composed of a hair bulb
4
which includes stem cells
3
having hair papillas
2
provided to nutrients through a blood vessel, a hair root
6
which has sebaceous glands
5
located in a part connected to the stem cells, and a hair shaft
8
which is one part of scalp
7
.
Though sebum makes hair glaze by nature, if excessive secreting sebum oxygenates to peroxide of lipid, sebum changes to seborrhea which hardened like a wax. The seborrhea mostly stops up hair bulbs, resulting in reduction of the metabolism of the stem cell and stoppage of hair generation. If these phenomena continue in the scalp, seborrhea becomes scurfy and hair removal from the scalp is increased; that is, alopecia occurs.
On the other hand, it was known that there are many compositions and treatments for curing alopecia in the prior art. For example, these include a composition mixed with various herbs, a composition made from a polysaccharide which is extracted from the skin of animals, and a composition made from a minoxydyl used as hyperpiesia remedy, etc. Also, there are treatments such as stimulating a blood vessel by using the art of acupuncture and planting follicles in the scalp directly.
But it remains a challenge in the art to provide a composition that is capable of reducing and/or preventing alopecia without any detrimental side effects. It is a further challenge in the art to provide a composition that is capable of increasing hair growth or acting as a cosmetic without inducing negative side effects.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a hair treatment composition and method of manufacturing the composition that is capable of acting as a cosmetic, reducing and preventing alopecia by melting seborrhea and keeping hair bulbs open.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a hair treatment composition, and method of manufacturing the composition, that is capable of acting as a cosmetic and increasing hair growth to epithelia of follicles directly and by stimulating a peripheral blood vessel system.
A hair treatment composition and method of manufacturing the composition according to the present invention is made by and includes the steps of extracting juice contained various components from loess, brown algae, artemisia, and leaves of pine tree.
In a preferred embodiment, the step of extracting loess juice from the loess includes a step of separating minute loess by means of pulverizing the loess and screening the pulverized loess, and a step of separating only loess solution including SiO
2
, Al, Mg, and various minerals, after dissolving the minute loess in purified water.
In a preferred embodiment, the step of extracting brown algae juice from the brown algae includes a step of extracting brown algae juice from the brown algae by means of heating, a step of extracting brown algae juice from the brown algae by means of not heating but breaking tissues of the brown algae, pulverizing the broken tissues, and filtering the pulverized tissues, and a mixing step of mixing the brown algae juice extracted by the heating step with the brown algae juice extracted by the non-heating step.
In a preferred embodiment, the brown algae includes brown seaweeds and kelps. In a preferred embodiment, the non-heating step of extracting a brown algae juice includes a deodorizing step of removing odor from brown algae, a breaking step of breaking tissues of the brown algae so as to be easy to extract juice, a pulverizing step of pulverizing the broken tissues using a pulverizer, and a filtering step of filtering the pulverized tissues.
In a preferred embodiment, the breaking step includes a few repeated operations of thawing after freezing.
In a preferred embodiment, the step of extracting artemisia juice from artemisia sources includes a pulverizing step of pulverizing the artemisia, a cooling step of cooling the brown algae juice gained in the heating step until its temperature is about 60° C., and an extracting step of extracting the artemisia juice by means of putting the pulverized artemisia in the cooled brown algae juice and leaving it until a component including cineole and sesquiterpene, etc. are evident.
In a preferred embodiment, the step of extracting pine leaf juice from the needles of pine trees includes a heating step of heating a mixture which is mixed with the pine needles in water and a step of extracting pine leaf juice from the heated mixture.
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Channavajjala Lakshmi
Cook Alex McFarron Manzo Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.
Da Min Enterprise, Ltd.
Page Thurman K.
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