Cysteamine Cysteine Hair Perm System Without Rinse
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hair perming technologies face challenges such as damaging and harsh results, offensive fumes, excessive water usage, and limitations in creative styling options due to the need for robust perming rods and multiple rinsing steps.
Innovation Solution
A new hair perming system that uses a combination of cysteamine HCl and cysteine HCl to gently break disulfide bonds, paired with PisumProtex technology for strength and moisture, allowing for direct neutralization over the perming lotion without rinsing, and enabling the use of various off-the-rod techniques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional perming solutions (thioglycolic acid, ammonia) are used to break disulfide bonds, then the perming effect is achieved, but hair damage and harsh results occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the chemical parameters of the perming solution by using cysteamine HCl and cysteine HCl instead of traditional thioglycolic acid and ammonia. This substitution modifies the chemical action on disulfide bonds to be gentler while maintaining the perming effect, thereby reducing hair damage and harsh results.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a composite formulation combining cysteamine HCl and cysteine HCl together with PisumProtex technology (hydrolyzed vegetable protein and hydrolyzed pea protein). This composite approach provides both the bond-breaking function for perming and the protective/strengthening function to minimize hair damage simultaneously.
2Reliability
If an intervening rinse step is included to rinse out perming solution before neutralizing, then chemical residue is removed, but process time increases and water consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts or removes the intervening rinse step from the traditional perming process. By formulating the perming solution and neutralizer to be compatible for direct sequential application, the unnecessary rinse step is eliminated, thereby reducing process time and water consumption while still achieving effective chemical residue removal.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the perming and neutralizing steps by allowing direct application of the neutralizer over the perming lotion without intermediate rinsing. This consolidation of steps reduces the overall process time and eliminates excessive water usage while maintaining effective chemical residue removal.
3Stability of the object's composition
If robust perming rods are used to support hair during perming, then hair structure stability is maintained during rinsing, but creative styling freedom is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the requirement for robust perming rods by eliminating the aggressive intervening rinse step that necessitated their use. Without this intermediate rinsing, delicate hair structures like twists, waves, and braids can maintain their integrity throughout the perming process, freeing stylists from being constrained to only rod-based styling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the perming chemistry with a process that supports delicate off-the-rod structures. By making the chemical process compatible with fragile hair arrangements, the system merges effective bond-breaking chemistry with the ability to preserve delicate styling structures, expanding creative freedom.
4Reliability
If multiple rinses are performed to rinse out perming solution and neutralizer, then thorough cleaning is achieved, but water waste increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the final rinsing function into a single comprehensive rinse that removes both perming solution and neutralizer residues. By formulating the chemicals to be effectively removed in one thorough rinse rather than requiring multiple separate rinses, the system achieves thorough cleaning while minimizing water waste.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system reduces hair damage, saves time and water, provides a pleasant scent, and allows for a wider range of styling options, resulting in softer, more natural-looking hair with reduced demarcation lines.
Implementation Method 1
uses a first-product (first-composition) that may comprise a novel and unique combination of cysteamine HCl and cysteine HCl to soften disulphide bonds of the inner cortex layer of the hair
Implementation Method 2
cysteamine HCl and cysteine HCl to break preexisting disulfide bonds in hair
Implementation Method 3
PisumProtex technology comprising hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein PG-Propyl Silanetriol (Plex technology) and hydrolyzed pea protein
Implementation Method 4
The second-product (second composition) may be used to neutralize the effects of the first-product
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AI summary
Compositions, products, systems, kits, and methods of perming hair may include a first-product (perming lotion) that contains cysteamine and cysteine, such that the first-product is used to break preexisting disulfide bonds in hair, and then a second-product may be applied directly over (on top of) the first-product to neutralize the effects of the first-product without first rinsing the hair to remove the first-product, so that disulfide bonds in the hair may form to set the treated hair into a desired shape with desired curls, waves, texture, and/or style. Various on-the-rod, off-the-rod, and/or perm tools may be used to maintain the hair in the desired shape until the first-product and the second-product have finished acting on the hair and/or on each other. The Compositions, products, systems, kits, and methods of perming hair are vegan, cruelty free, paraben free, sulfate surfactant free, use minimal water, and are without thioglycolic acid.