Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Solid synthetic organic polymer as designated organic active... – Polymer from ethylenic monomers only
Patent
1989-03-24
1990-07-03
Page, Thurman K.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Solid synthetic organic polymer as designated organic active...
Polymer from ethylenic monomers only
424 70, 514772, 8405, A61K 711, A61K 713
Patent
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049389548
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention is directed to a hairwax which can be rinsed out easily with water.
Semisolid compositions for hairstyling have already been known for a long time by the name of bar pomade or brilliantine. These hairstyling compositions are preferably used for treating men's hair and are supposed to ensure that the hair lies smoothly on the head. In addition, these compositions impart a sheen to the hair.
In order to style women's hair, on the other hand, so-called hairwaxes are predominantly used. Since a "fixing" effect is also expected from such hairwaxes, they must have a somewhat more solid consistency than brilliantines or pomades and in particular must have "adhesive" properties (that is, strong cohesive forces).
Hairwaxes are composed, as a rule, of a mixture of solid, semisolid and liquid saturated hydrocarbons such as e.g. petrolatum, solid paraffin or paraffin oils. They have waxlike and adhesive and luster imparting properties and therefore enable a satisfactory hairstyling as well as the treatment and shaping of individual hair strands. However, because of their composition such hairwaxes can only be removed again from the hair with great difficulty. Such hairwaxes are not removable from the hair with water, and even when the hair is washed repeatedly with hair shampoo they are removed only in an unsatisfactory manner, so that the hair becomes unsightly and "greasy" with frequent use.
Brilliantines and bar pomades which are removable with water are described in the literature on the subject, but these compositions do not have the desired hairstyling and fixing properties. Thus, for example, in the "Handbook of Cosmetics and Scents", Volume III (1973), by Hugo Janistyn, page 325, a bar pomade is described which can be washed out with water and comprises 60 percent by weight polyethylene glycol (M.W.=4000) and 40 percent by weight ethyl hexanediol. However, as comparison tests show (see Example 7), strands of hair which are treated with such a bar pomade composed in this matter have neither a satisfactory luster nor a sufficient shaping stability or satisfactory non-sag properties.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of our invention to provide a hairwax which can be rinsed out easily with water and which enables a good hairstyling and individual treatment of individual strands of hair in the same manner as the previously known hairwaxes.
Surprisingly, it has now been found that a hairwax which is characterized in that it contains a combination of of 3000 to 5000, with 40 to 60 moles ethylene oxide, polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 100 to 300 and
A preferred embodiment form of the invention is a hairwax containing a combination of of 3000 to 5000, with 40 to 45 moles ethylene oxide, polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 100 to 300 and
Another preferred embodiment form of the invention is a hairwax containing a combination of of 3000 to 5000, with 40 to 45 moles ethylene oxide, polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 100 to 300,
Particularly preferred embodiment forms of the invention are hairwaxes containing a combination of either of 4000, with 40 to 45 moles ethylene oxide, polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 200 and of 4000, with 40 to 60 moles ethylene oxide, polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight of 200,
Due to its waxlike consistency and its "adhesive" (i.e. cohesive) properties, the hairwax, according to the invention, enables an individual hairstyling and the treatment of individual strands of hair. For example, individual strands of hair can be treated with this hairwax in the same manner as with the previously conventional hairwaxes, so that they stand up from the scalp permanently and resiliently. Hair treated in this way is distinguished by a pronounced luster and a high stability of shape of the styled hair. Compared with the previously conventional hairwaxes based on hydrocarbons, however, the decisive advantage of the hairwax, according to the invention, is that the new hairwax can be rem
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Flemming Ernst
Gross Paul
Hulina Amy
Page Thurman K.
Striker Michael J.
Wella Aktiengesellschaft
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