Patent · US Expired

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

US7687055B2 · kind B2 · utility

1Cited by

7References

6Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Wella GmbH · DE

Inventors

Rudolf Bimczok · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
Thomas Kripp · Fränkisch-Crumbach, DE
Beate Grasser · Hattersheim, DE
Christian Springob · Neu-Listernohl, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 14, 2002
Grant date	Mar 30, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 14, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61Q5/12
WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

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.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.