Brightener-containing hair relaxer
OwnerGlenn Shurneyinventor
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Abstract
An improved aqueous human hair relaxer composition is disclosed that contains effective amounts of active human hair straightening ingredients and excipients, and having a pH value of about 12 to about 14, whose improvement comprises the incorporation of a dissolved or dispersed discoloration-inhibiting effective amount of alpha-hydroxy-C1-C6 sulfinate of Formula I, below, where R1, R2 and M substituents are defined within. A method of using such a composition to straighten human hair without the discoloration to grey or white hair that normally accompanies relaxation is also disclosed.
Claims19
In a hair relaxer comprising an aqueous composition of active human hair straightening ingredients and excipients having a pH value of about 12 to about 14, the improvement that comprises a naturally grey or white human hair discoloration-inhibiting amount of an alpha-hydroxy-C1-C6 sulfinate of Formula I dissolved or dispersed in said relaxer in
- addition to said active straightening ingredients and excipients, wherein
- R1 and R2 are the same or different and are hydrogen (hydrido) or hydrocarbyl, or
- one of R1 and R2 is carboxy or carboxy-substituted hydrocarbyl and the other is hydrido or hydrocarbyl that together (R1+R2) contain a total of five carbon atoms, or
- R1 and R2 together with the depicted carbon atom form a ring structure that can contain up to six carbon atoms, and
- M is a proton or a cosmetically acceptable cation such as an ammonium ion, a monovalent metal ion or an equivalent of a divalent metal ion of the Groups Ia, IIa, IIb, IVa or VIIIb of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
An aqueous hair relaxer composition having a pH value of about 12 to about 14 comprising i) an aqueous composition of active human hair straightening ingredient, ii) a cosmetically useful amount of excipient, and iii) a naturally grey or white human hair discoloration-inhibiting amount an alpha-hydroxy-C1-C6 sulfinate of Formula I in addition to said active straightening
- ingredients and excipients, wherein
- R1 and R2 are the same or different and are hydrogen (hydrido) or hydrocarbyl, or
- one of R1 and R2 is carboxy or carboxy-substituted hydrocarbyl and the other is hydrido or hydrocarbyl that together (R1+R2) contain a total of five carbon atoms, or
- R1 and R2 together with the depicted carbon atom form a ring structure that can contain up to six carbon atoms, and
- M is a proton or a cosmetically acceptable cation such as an ammonium ion, a monovalent metal ion or an equivalent of a divalent metal ion of the Groups Ia, IIa, IIb, IVa or VIIIb of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
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