Use of metalloprotinease inhibitors to inducing and/or stimulating growth of hair or hair or hairs and/or for slowing down their loss
AssigneeSociete L'Oreal S.A.
InventorsFrancoise Jarrousse, Yann Mahe
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Abstract
The invention concerns the use in/for the preparation of a composition, as active principle in a physiologically acceptable medium, an efficient amount of at least a metalloproteinase inhibitor or any functional biological equivalent, for inducing and/or stimulating growth of hair or hairs and for slowing down their loss. The invention also concerns a method for the cosmetic treatment of hair or hairs.
Claims24
A method for inducing and/or stimulating the growth of hair and/or slowing hair loss comprising applying to the hair and/or the scalp of an individual in need thereof, a topical composition comprising an effective amount of at least one tissue inhibitor of metalloproteases (TIMP) or a protected form thereof in a physiologically acceptable medium, leaving said composition in contact with the hair and/or the scalp for a sufficient time and optionally rinsing said composition from the treated area.
A method for inducing and/or stimulating the growth of hair and/or slowing hair loss comprising applying to the hair and/or the scalp of an individual in need thereof, a topical composition comprising an effective amount of at least one tissue inhibitor of metalloproteases (TIMP) selected from the group consisting of TIMP-1, TIMP-2, TIMP-3, TIMP-4 and the protected forms thereof in a physiologically acceptable medium, leaving said composition in contact with the hair and/or the scalp for a sufficient time and optionally rinsing said composition from the treated area.
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