Patents Assigned to Helene Curtis, Inc.
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Patent number: 5286477Abstract: An aqueous aerosol hair spray styling aid composition and method including a terpolymer of vinylpyrrolidone/ethyl methacrylate/methacrylic acid (at least partially neutralized 30-1004) monomers in an amount of about 1% to about 124 by weight of the composition, particularly about 2% to about 10% by weight of the composition; water in an amount of about 20% to about 804 by weight of the composition; and a dimethyl ether liquefied propellant gas in an amount of about 25% to about 40% based on the total weight of the aerosol composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1992Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Devendra C. Bhatt, Kathleen A. Kochevar
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Patent number: 5275761Abstract: A conditioning shampoo composition comprising: (a) an anionic cleansing surfactant, such as an alkyl ether sulfate or an alkyl sulfate, like sodium lauryl ether sulfate or ammonium lauryl sulfate; (b) a water-insoluble conditioning agent, such as a silicone compound or a hydrocarbon compound, like a polydimethylsiloxane; (c) an emulsifying composition comprising (i) a polyhydric compound, such as a glycol, a triol or a polyol, and (ii) an anionic emulsifying surfactant having the general structural formula:R.sub.1 --O--(A).sub.x --CH.sub.2 --Y.sup.- M.sup.+, (I)wherein R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1992Date of Patent: January 4, 1994Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Wolfgang Bergmann
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Patent number: 5260054Abstract: A single formula, mild permanent wave reducing composition and method of permanently waving or reshaping human hair that provides a strong, long lasting curl and leaves the hair soft while minimizing further damage to already damaged hair. The composition contains a cysteamine reducing agent compound selected from the group consisting of cysteamine, a cysteamine salt, and mixtures thereof; preferably alone (without a monothioglycolate; a monothioglycolic acid ester, e.g., thioglycerol; a thiolactic acid; a sulfite; a hyposulfite, or a bisulfite second reducing agent). The cysteamine compound should be present in an amount of about 7.8% to about 9.0% by weight; and sufficient additional alkali, if necessary, to bring the pH of the composition to about 7.8 to about 8.5. Optionally, a hair softening and/or moisturizing agent, such as glycerine is included in the composition in an amount of about 0.1% to about 15% by weight of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1992Date of Patent: November 9, 1993Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Arun Nandagiri, Richard A. Abbott, Renee E. Nardone
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Patent number: 5254336Abstract: A method of treating hair that has been damaged and/or dulled as a result of an alkaline hair treatment including contacting the hair with a solution of weak acid having a pH in the range of about 2.0 to about 5.0, preferably about 2.0 to about 3.8 and having at least 0.75 milliequivalent of free acid per milliliter of solution, to restore natural shine to the dulled hair and to repair uplifted cuticles, if any, that have resulted from the alkaline hair treatment.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1992Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Myra A. Hoshowski, Chaitanya Patel
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Patent number: 5248445Abstract: A conditioning shampoo containing an anionic surfactant, a long-chain fatty acid, and a non-volatile silicone material has extended product stability, excellent cleansing and foaming properties, and provides excellent and improved overall conditioning to human hair, particularly superior wet and dry combing properties.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1992Date of Patent: September 28, 1993Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Riaz Rizvi, Chaitanya Patel
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Patent number: 5223252Abstract: A mild, alkaline permanent wave reducing composition and method of permanently waving or reshaping human hair that provides a strong, long lasting curl like an alkaline permanent wave composition but leaves the hair soft like an acid permanent wave composition and leaves essentially no post-perm odor. The composition contains about 2.0% to about 6.5% by weight of a cysteine reducing agent compound selected from the group consisting of cysteine, a cysteine salt, and mixtures thereof; about 4.5% to about 8.0% of a thioglycolate; and sufficient additional alkali, if necessary, to bring the pH of the composition within the rang of about 7.5 to about 9.5.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1992Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Stanley J. Kolc, Richard A. Abbott, Arun Nandagiri
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Patent number: 5221530Abstract: A conditioning shampoo containing an anionic surfactant, in an amount of about 5% to about 25% by weight, and a cationic acrylate/acrylamide copolymer conditioning agent material, in an amount of about 0.1% to about 20% by weight, has extended product stability, excellent overall conditioning to human hair, particularly superior wet and dry combing properties, and unexpectedly maintains very high levels of foam, with a mild anionic cleansing detergent, e.g., an anionic carboxylate detergent, or with lower amounts of a strong anionic cleansing detergent, such as a long chain (C.sub.12 -C.sub.22) alkyl sulfate, and/or a long chain (C.sub.12 -C.sub.22) partially or fully ethoxylated alkyl sulfate; and/or a long chain (C.sub.12 -C.sub.22) sulfonate.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1991Date of Patent: June 22, 1993Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Ben Janchitraponvej, William J. Brown
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Patent number: 5165427Abstract: A new and improved cysteinamide reducing agent, such as cysteinamide hydrochloride, capable of breaking sulfur to sulfur cystine bonds in human hair for use in permanent wave and hair straightening compositions, to provide additional set retention in hair sprays, styling aids, mousse and hair bodifying compositions, and to provide the hair with additional body when incorporated into shampoos, conditioners and conditioning shampoo compositions. In one embodiment, the cysteinamide reducing agent compounds are used for the reducing agent in permanent waving of human hair in the form of a mild alkaline permanent wave reducing composition and in a method of permanently waving or reshaping human hair that provides a strong, long lasting curl.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1991Date of Patent: November 24, 1992Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Edward T. Borish
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Patent number: 5164177Abstract: An aqueous aerosol or non-aerosol hair styling aid or mousse composition, and method, including a water-soluble or water-dispersable fixative resin in an amount of about 2% to about 40% by weight of the compositon, particularly about 2% to about 15% by weight of the composition; an electrolyte; water in an amount of about 30% to about 90% by weight of the composition; alcohol in an amount of 0% to about 30% by weight; and, with the aerosol compositions, a liquefied propellant gas, such as dimethyl ether, in an amount of about 5% to about 50% based on the total weight of the aerosol composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1991Date of Patent: November 17, 1992Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Darshna Bhatt, Ramiro Galleguillos
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Patent number: 5154847Abstract: An antidandruff shampoo composition includes a suspension composition for particulate matter to achieve an unexpected reduction in shampoo separation while maintaining acceptable shampoo viscosities and foaming levels. The suspension composition includes a suspending alkanolamide and/or a wax ester in conjunction with an ethylene-maleic anhydride resin or a polyacrylic acid resin to yield anionic surfactant-based antidandruff shampoos or improved stability and aesthetics.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1991Date of Patent: October 13, 1992Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Donna M. LaPetina, Chaitanya Patel
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Patent number: 5137715Abstract: A hair shampoo-conditioner composition including an anionic cleansing surfactant, such as an alkyl sulfate or an alkyl ether sulfate, and a polymeric conditioning compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein n is a number in the range of from two to about 1000; m is a number in the range of from one to about 18; p and r are numbers in the range of from one to about four, in a suitable carrier, and having a pH of from about 2.5 to less than 7, to cleanse the hair, to generate a copious and stable foam volume and to impart improved wet stage and improved dry stage conditioning properties to the hair in a single application of the composition is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1990Date of Patent: August 11, 1992Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Myra A. Hoshowski, William J. Brown
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Patent number: 5114706Abstract: A hair conditioning shampoo composition comprising an emulsion of water; about 5 to about 65 percent by weight of an anionic cleaning surfactant, such as ammonium lauryl sulfate; from about 0.1 to about 20 percent by weight of a cationic di-long chain alkyl quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agent, wherein the long alkyl chains bonded to the nitrogen atom have from about 12 to about 22 carbon atoms per alkyl chain, such as distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride; from about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent of a long chain fatty alcohol having about 8 to about 32 carbons in the long chain, such as stearyl alcohol; from about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent of a non-volatile silicone; and about 0.1 to about 5% of an anionic cross-linked polymeric suspending agent, such as a polymer of 2-acrylamide-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1991Date of Patent: May 19, 1992Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Lane A. Duvel
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Patent number: 5078990Abstract: An aqueous shampoo containing a long chain alkyl sulfate and/or long chain alkyl ether sulfate anionic surfactant, and a cationic di-long chain alkyl quaternary ammonium nitrogen-containing compound, unexpectedly increases the ability of the aqueous shampoo (1) to incorporate water-insoluble conditioning agents, particularly non-volatile silicone materials, and (2) to remove previously applied conditioning agents and other soiled conditioning agents and contaminants from the hair.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1990Date of Patent: January 7, 1992Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Kathleen Martin, Priscilla L. Walling
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Patent number: 5077040Abstract: A microemulsion composition for treating the hair, comprising a water-insoluble amino-containing compound, such as an amine or an amino-functionalized silicone; an ionizable metal salt, wherein the metal has a valence of at least II, such as magnesium chloride or zinc chloride; an ester compound having the general structural formulaR.sub.1 --O--(A).sub.X --CH.sub.2 CO.sub.2 R.sub.2,wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl group including from about eight to about 18 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkyl group including from one to about four carbon atoms, A is an alkylene oxide moiety wherein the alkylene group includes from one to about four carbon atoms, and X is a number in the range of from about 4 to about 20; and water, and wherein the composition has a pH of less than 7 and a particle size in the range of from about 0.1 nm to about 250 nm, to impart durable conditioning properties to treated hair is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1990Date of Patent: December 31, 1991Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Wolfgang Bergmann, Janice Bees
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Patent number: 5034218Abstract: A hair conditioning shampoo composition comprising an emulsion of water; about 5 to about 65 percent by weight of an anionic cleaning surfactant, such as ammonium lauryl sulfate; from about 0.1 to about 20 percent by weight of a cationic di-long chain alkyl quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agent, wherein the long alkyl chains bonded to the nitrogen atom have from about 12 to about 22 carbon atoms per alkyl chain, such as distearyl dimethyl ammonium chloride; from about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent of a long chain fatty alcohol having about 8 to about 32 carbons in the long chain, such as stearyl alcohol; from about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent of a non-volatile silicone; and about 0.1 to about 5% of an anionic cross-linked polymeric suspending agent, such as polyacrylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1990Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Lane A. Duvel
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Patent number: 4976956Abstract: A method of imparting improved conditioning properties to hair comprising treating the hair with a composition comprising a water-soluble quaternary ammonium compound, such as cetrimonium chloride; an oil-soluble, water-dispersible quaternary ammonium compound, such as distearyldimonium chloride; an acid-neutralized amidoamine compound, wherein an amidoamine having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a fatty acid chain containing from about 11 to about 21 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkylene group containing from two to about four carbon atoms, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or a hydroxyalkylene group containing from one to about three carbon atoms, R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1989Date of Patent: December 11, 1990Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Jeremy E. Noe
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Patent number: 4970067Abstract: A method of conditioning the hair and imparting semi-permanent hair set retention properties comprising treating the hair with a composition comprising a protein having a sufficient amount of an amino acid having a disulfide linkage, such as a keratin-based protein that includes the amino acid cystine. The method and composition are essentially pH independent and provide unexpectedly durable, semi-permanent hair set retention properties, and hair conditioning properties, after application to human hair.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1988Date of Patent: November 13, 1990Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Rajan K. Panandiker, Gerald P. Newell
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Patent number: 4960588Abstract: A hair setting composition that includes a water-insoluble amino- or substututed amino-containing compound, such as octylamine or an amino-functionalized silicone, and an ionizable metal salt, wherein the metal has a valence of at least II, such as aluminum chloride or zinc chloride, in a molar or molar-equivalent ratio of ionizable metal salt to water-insoluble amino-containing compound of at least 1:1, and having a pH in the range of about 2.7 to about 4.5, to provide unexpectedly durable hair set retention properties after application to human hair.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1988Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventors: Myra A. Hoshowski, Eugene Zeffren
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Patent number: 4954335Abstract: A method of imparting improved conditioning properties to hair comprising treating the hair with a clear conditioning composition comprising a quaternary ammonium compound, such as dicetyldimonium chloride; an amidoamine compound having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a fatty acid chain containing from about 11 to about 21 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkylene group containing from two to about four carbon atoms, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl or a hydroxyalkylene group containing from one to about three carbon atoms, R.sub.4 is methyl, ethyl or a hydroxyalkylene group containing from one to about three carbon atoms, and Y is a heterocyclic nitrogen-containing moiety, like morpholine or pyridine; a volatile conditioning agent, such as a volatile hydrocarbon compound or a volatile silicone compound, like cyclomethicone; a solubilizing nonionic surfactant, like lauryl pyrrolidone; and a polyhydric compound, such as a glycol, a triol or a polyol, like hexylene glycol.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: Ben Janchipraponvej
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Patent number: D312324Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1988Date of Patent: November 20, 1990Assignee: Helene Curtis, Inc.Inventor: George R. Fromm