Excitatory amino acid inhibitors for treating sensitive skins
AssigneeSociete L'Oreal S.A.
InventorsLionel Breton, Isabelle Nonotte
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Abstract
Sensitive human skin/scalp/mucous membrane conditions, for example skin irritation and/or dry patches and/or erythemas and/or dysaethetic sensations and/or sensations of heating and/or pruritus, are therapeutically treated by topically applying thereto an effective condition-alleviating amount of at least one inhibitor of at least one excitatory amino acid.
Claims10
A method for the treatment of stinging skin, tingling skin, itching skin, pruritus, skin heating, skin discomfort, skin tautness sensations and erythema resulting from the release of excitatory amino acids associated with sensitive human skin and/or sensitive human scalp, comprising topically applying to said sensitive skin/scalp of an individual subject in need of such treatment, an effective amount of aniracetam contained in a physiologically acceptable medium.
A method for treating a human skin or mucous membrane condition or affliction manifesting the release and/or synthesis and/or binding of at least one excitatory amino acid associated with sensitive human skin or mucous membranes, comprising topically applying onto the affected sensitive skin or mucous membranes of an individual subject in need of such treatment, an effective amount of aniracetam contained in a physiologically acceptable medium.
A method of treating stinging skin, tingling skin, itching skin, pruritus, skin heating, skin discomfort, skin tautness sensations and erythema resulting from the release of excitatory amino acids associated with sensitive skin comprising topically applying a composition containing aniracetam contained in a physiologically acceptable medium to at least one of sensitive skin, hair, and/or mucous membranes.
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