Dual-phased styling product that provides styling and conditioning benefits
AssigneeUnilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsKimberly Kamis, Mark Dailey (II), Matthew Kuznitz, Keith Leslie Rutherford, Robert George Riley
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Abstract
A hair styling and conditioning composition, for use in heat styling hair, and which are dual-phased until shaken, and wherein said composition comprises: (a) a hydroalcoholic phase comprising at least one hair fixative; an emulsifier; a salt; and (b) an anhydrous phase comprising at least one volatile silicone or volatile hydrocarbon, are described. A method for heat styling hair so as to obtain both styling and conditioning benefits, which comprises applying a composition of the invention to hair prior to the application of heat, is also described.
Claims7
A hairstyling and conditioning composition which comprises:
- (a) from about 50% to about 95% of the total composition of a hydroalcoholic phase comprising:
- (i) about 40% to about 90% of the total composition of water;
- (ii) about 0.1 to about 15% of the total composition of C1 to C4 monohydric alcohol;
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- (iii) about 0.01 to about 10% of the total composition of a hair fixative styling polymer;
- (iv) a salt;
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- (b) an (v) an emulsifier anhydrous phase comprising about 5% to about 50% of a volatile silicone or a volatile hydrocarbon with 6 to 40 carbon atoms, or mixtures thereof;
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- wherein the composition is dual phase until agitated, becomes single phase upon agitation, and then returns to dual phase after agitation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.