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US 9,040,028 B2Granted
Hair cosmetic composition
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorsSteven Breakspear, Takashi Ito, Kenzo Koike, Artur Cavaco-Paulo
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Abstract
The present invention provides a hair cosmetic composition containing the following components (a) and (b) and a hair treatment method in which the hair cosmetic composition is applied to the hair: (a) one or two or more peptides each having the number of amino acid residues being 5 to 50, and having neither a sulfur-containing amino acid residue nor a derivative thereof; and (b) a hair-swelling organic solvent.
Claims7
A hair cosmetic composition, comprising:
- (a) a peptide which is free of sulfur-containing amino acid residues and which
- (1) consists of 20 or 22 amino acid residues;
- (2) has a molecular weight of 1500 to 3500;
- (3) comprises 4 or 5 basic amino acid residues;
- (4) comprises 10 or 16 non-polar amino acid residues;
- (5) has a C-terminal lysine residue;
- and
- (6) has a at least 80% homology to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, SEQ ID NO:
- 2, and SEQ ID NO:
- 3;
- and
- (b) 0.1 to 5 mass % of an aromatic alcohol.
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