967 results about "Keratin" patented technology

Cosmetic composition for the treatment of keratin-containing materials, mucosa and teeth, comprising at least one hydrophobin polypeptide sequence (i)

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of keratin-based skin diseases. In particular, the application describes compositions and methods of treating a patient suffering from skin blistering comprising the use of phase II enzyme inducers.

PCT No. PCT/US93/04763 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 18, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 18, 1997 PCT Filed May 19, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/23061 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 1993A new class of general antiinfective agents extracted from pepper, ginger, and other plant species containing vanillyl and piperidine ring structures typical of the pungent principal found in pepper and ginger. The role of these structures, their attached hydrocarbons groups, and other agents found with the plant extract is demonstrated in the topical treatment of dermatophyte infections, tissue injuries, and abnormal proliferations of keratin.

Compositions and methods are disclosed for imparting a long-wearing color to keratin fibers, including hair. More specifically, the invention relates to cosmetic compositions and methods for improving retention of particulate materials, such as pigments, on hair to artificially color the hair and/or to impart other aesthetic benefits to the hair. The compositions comprise at least one aminosilicone polymer having at least one diamino functional group, and a functional group equivalent weight (FGEW) from about 1,000 to about 2,000 g/mol and a non-spherical particulate material, preferably a pigment or a lake.

Composition for making up and/or caring for keratinous substances containing a block copolymer and a nonvolatile hydrocarbon ester oil.

The invention relates to a novel amino acid silicon polymer with good adhesion to the keratin layer of the skin, a method of preparing the amino acid silicon polymer, a cosmetic particles surface-treated with the amino acid silicon polymer, and a color cosmetic composition including the cosmetic particles. According to the present invention, the particles surface-treated up to 3% to the maximum with the amino acid silicon polymer prepared by reacting an amino acid and a functional silicon polymer in the manner of organic synthesis have water resistance and usability peculiar to silicon-treated pigments and take positive surface charges, thereby offering good adhesion to the skin and durability. Due to these characteristics, the cosmetic containing the surface-treated particles of the present invention is superior in the cosmetic effect to that containing the conventional surface-treated particles.

A personal care conditioning and/or styling composition for a keratin substrate comprising: (i) about 50 wt. % to 95 wt. % of at least one cationic or pseudo-cationic monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylamidopropyl trimethylammonium chloride (APTAC) and/or Vinylpyrrolidone (VP); (ii) about 1 wt. % to 30 wt. % of at least one anionic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) acrylic acid (AA), (b) acrylamido methylpropyl sulfonate (AMPS), and/or (c) sodium methyl allyl sulfonate (SMAS); and (iii) about 0.1 wt. % to 20 wt. % of at least one hydrophobic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) polyoxyethylene (PEG)-18-behenylether-methacrylate (BEM) (b) Lauryl-ethoxylated-methacrylate (LEM), (c) stearyl acrylate (SA), (d) Stream-10-allyl-ether, (e) Vinylcaprolactam (V-cap), and/or (f) Hydroxyethyl-pyrrolidone-methacrylate (M06). Also described is a process of preparing said polymer, and its method of use.

The disclosure relates to compositions and methods of using the compositions to treat keratinous substrates. The compositions provide a water resistant and non-transferable protective barrier on the substrate. For example, the compositions provide hair with improved shine, condition, manageability and color. The compositions contain at least one polyamide, at least one monoacid, at least one water-insoluble ingredient, solvent and optionally at least one auxiliary ingredient. The methods for treating keratinous substrates involve contacting the keratinous substrates with the compositions of the disclosure.

A skin observing apparatus capable of observing the skin texture, blotches caused from subcutaneous pigmentation and skin roughness caused from keratin abrasion by a single unit of image pick-up device without using a polarization plate for observing blotches or consumption articles such as a keratin sampling seal, the apparatus including an image pick-up head having an view hole to be in contact with a skin and, provided inside the image pick-up device, an image pick-up device for picking-up images of the skin through the view hole, and an illumination system comprising three systems, that is, a texture observing illumination system for irradiating a white light to the view hole along the image pick-up light axis (X), a keratin abrasion observing illumination system for irradiating a white light to the view hole from the lateral direction thereof, and a subcutaneous pigment observing illumination system for irradiating a UV-light to the view hole.

The present invention is related to surfactant-based formulations comprising the polyelectrolytes and blends of such polyelectrolytes with non-cellulosic cationic polysaccharide polymers. The surfactant-based formulations exhibit improved clarity of the resulting formulations, their improved conditioning of keratin substrates, textile substrates, and hard-surface substrates, their improved deposition of dispersed phase materials onto keratin substrates, textile substrates, and hard-surface substrates, their improved lather performance, and their improved rheology in applications such as personal care and household care products and textile applications.

Composition for making up keratin fibres, such as eyelashes or eyebrows, having improved makeup-removing properties, containing in a continuous aqueous phase:

• • an aqueous dispersion of a particular polyurethane present in an amount of solids greater than or equal to 5% by weight relative to the total weight of said composition, and
  • said composition comprising an emulsifying system comprising less than 2% by weight of triethanolamine.

A hair extension includes a hair weft. The hair weft is made of individual strands of human or synthetic hair. Far infrared powder is deposited onto Polyurethane (PU) and/or Keratin adhesive glue and webbing of silk or synthetic lace is incorporated with hair weft to create the human or synthetic hair PU and/or Keratin skin as connection strip(s). A connection strip receives connected ends of the individual strands of human or synthetic hair. A top adhesive strip is disposed on a top side of the connection strip and a bottom adhesive strip is disposed on a bottom side of the connection strip. The top and bottom adhesive strips both have a left side and a right side. The left side of the top adhesive strip and right side of the top adhesive strip are divided by an adhesive parting line.

The invention discloses hair nourishing and damage repairing shampoo. The hair nourishing and damage repairing shampoo comprises the components in percentage by weight: 0.5-5.0 percent of a medicinal plant extract, 0.1-3.0 percent of keratin, 8-12 percent of a surfactant, 4-8 percent of a conditioner, 0.3-1.5 percent of an acid-base regulator, 1-2 percent of a thickener, 0.5-2.0 percent of a pearlescing agent, 0.1-0.4 percent of salt and 68-80 percent of deionized water, wherein the medicinal plant extract is obtained by crushing medicinal plants, carrying out extraction or circulating extraction on the crushed medicinal plants with the water or ethyl alcohol as an extractant under the room temperature and ordinary pressure to obtain an extract solution, and concentrating the extract solution; the medicinal plant extract comprises the components in parts by weight: 10-25 parts of ligusticum wallichii, 15-30 parts of eclipta alba, 10-25 parts of astragalus membranaceus and 15-30 parts of cacumen biotae; the molecular weight of the keratin is no more than 40000 Daltons. With the adoption of the hair nourishing and damage repairing shampoo, damaged hairs can be relatively rapidly and effectively repaired, the uncooling feeling in the using process and after the use is avoided, a formula is also simplified, and the cost is lowered.

The invention relates to a keratin hair conditioner. The keratin hair conditioner is prepared from cetostearyl alcohol, behenyl trimethyl ammonium chloride, stearin, cetyl trimethyl ammonium chloride, cyclopentasiloxane, C12-15 benzoate, dimethyl siloxane, diamino siloxane, propylene glycol, sodium pyrrolidone carboxylate, olive oil, hydrolyzed keratin, previtamin B5, methylparaben, propylparaben, 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, essence and water. The invention further relates a method for preparing the keratin hair conditioner. The keratin hair conditioner can be used for enabling hair to be smoother and glossier, and can be used for repairing the damage of hairlines to enable the damaged hairlines to be subjected to excellent repairing care.

This invention relates to methods for providing cosmetic or other benefits to keratin-containing substrates by sequential treatment with cationically and anionically charged compounds, and compositions and kits containing them.

A method for permanently changing the shape of keratinic fibres and a kit-of-parts comprising the agents (a), (b) and (c) packaged separately. The method comprises applying a permanent waving agent (a) to the keratinic fibres, leaving agent (a) to take effect for a period of from 2-60 minutes, rinsing out the agent (a) from the keratinic fibres, applying agent (b) to the keratinic fibres, leaving agent (b) to take effect for a period of from 2-60 minutes, rinsing out agent (b) from the keratinic fibres, applying agent (c) to the keratinic fibres, leaving agent (c) to take effect for a period of from 2-60 minutes, and rinsing out agent (c) from the keratinic fibres. The permanent waving agent (a) includes one or more keratin-reducing compounds, the cosmetic agent (b) includes one or more aliphatic C₂-C₈ dicarboxylic acids and/or physiologically acceptable salts thereof, and the fixing agent (c) includes hydrogen peroxide.

The disclosure relates to compositions and methods of using the compositions to treat keratinous substrates. The compositions provide a water resistant and non-transferable protective barrier on the substrate. The compositions contain at least one polyamine, at least one acid, at least one water-insoluble ingredient, solvent and optionally at least one auxiliary ingredient. The methods for treating keratinous substrates involve contacting the keratinous substrates with the compositions of the disclosure.

The invention discloses a preparation method of golden nanoclusters emitting red fluorescence. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: separately preparing a chloroauric acid solution and a keratin solution, slowly adding the chloroauric acid solution into the keratin solution, and then fully stirring the mixture to uniformly mixing the solutions to obtain a faint yellow solution; regulating the pH value of the solution to 8-12; placing the solution at 25-60 DEG C to incubate to obtain a brown golden nanocluster solution; and pouring the golden nanocluster solution intoa dialysis bag to be dialyzed, wherein the molecular weight cut-off is 3500Da, and then freezing and drying the mixture to obtain the golden nanocluster particles. By taking keratin as a stabilizer and a reducer and tetrachloroauric acid as a precursor to synthesize fluorescent golden clusters, the prepared golden nanoclusters emit red fluorescence, the maximum excitation wavelength is 520nm and the maximum emitting wavelength is 670nm. The keratin has rich sulfydryl, is good in stability, and meanwhile, has an effective reducing capacity.

The invention provides a method for taking reducing solvent to separate and extract fibrillar structural body and keratin solution in natural keratin fiber, and is characterized by comprising the concrete steps: the natural keratin fiber is sequentially processed by opening and scotching, decontaminating, washing and drying, cut into fiber sections having the length of 3-6mm, dipped into protein denaturation solution which contains the reducing solvent and can break hydrogen bond of protein and then stirred at the temperature of 50-90 DEG C; after the mixture is filtered by a screen mesh, the fibrillar structural body with the diameter of 2-4mum and filtrate can be obtained; the filtrate is separated to obtain the fibrillar structural body with the diameter of 0.2-0.4mum and centrifugal supernatant fluid, and then the obtained fibrillar structural body is washed and dried; after the centrifugal supernatant fluid is dialyzed and concentrated, the keratin aqueous solution can be prepared. The invention can be used for preparing anisotropic fibrillar structural body and keratin solution, and has the advantages of simple method, high productive rate, low energy consumption and seldom environmental pollution.

The invention relates to a preparing method of a polyurethane-keratin composite nano fiber film. The preparing method comprises the steps that polyurethane is dissolved in a solvent, dissolution by stirring is carried out, and a polyurethane solution is obtained; keratin is dissolved in a solvent, dissolution by stirring is carried out, and a keratin solution is obtained; and the polyurethane solution and the keratin solution are mixed according to the weight ratio of 95 : 5-5 : 95, blending by stirring is carried out, a polyurethane-keratin spinning solution is obtained, then electrostatic spinning is carried out, nano filaments are received by aluminum foil or cloth, and the polyurethane-keratin composite nano fiber film is obtained. According to the polyurethane-keratin composite nano fiber film, the good biological activity of the keratin is maintained, the good tenacity and the good mechanical strength of the polyurethane are achieved, and the polyurethane-keratin composite nano fiber film is expected to be used in fields such as surgical dressing.