Abstract: The invention relates to the use in a composition for caring for human hair or eyelashes of an effective amount of a pyridinedicarboxylic acid derivative of general formula (I) or of one of its salts, 1

Abstract: Hair growth-/hair loss-affecting cosmetic/therapeutic compositions contain an effective amount of at least one 2-amino-4-alkylaminopyrimidine 3-oxide having the structural formula (I): in which R1 is an alkyl radical having from 5 to 20 carbon atoms, and Z is either a hydrogen atom or a radical −OR2, wherein R2 is an alkyl radical having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, or an acyl derivative or acid addition salt thereof.

Abstract: Novel solvates of 7&agr;-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone or derivatives thereof complexed with an alcohol are obtained by judiciously purifying a mixture of the 7&agr;-OH and 7&bgr;-OH isomers.

Abstract: Homogeneous, stable artificial/sunless skin tanning foams comprise an effective skin tanning amount of at least one self-tanning agent, most notably dihydroxyacetone (“DHA”), and an effective foam quality-augmenting and visual and self-tanning agent stability-enhancing amount of the surfactant, sodium coco-sulfate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, a purified natural or synthetic epidermis-specific polypeptide which is involved in horny layer cell cohesion. The invention also relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising a mixture of polypeptides derived from the proteolysis of the purified polypeptide of the present invention. The present invention further relates to a method for strengthening horny layer cell cohesion which comprises applying the cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition of the present invention to the skin. Finally, the present invention relates to a method for reducing horny layer cell cohesion, and thereby promoting exfoliation, wherein said method comprises applying to the skin a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of at least one protease active on the polypeptide of the present invention.

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.

Abstract: Amino acid compounds having the formula (I): are well suited for the UV-photoprotection of human skin and/or hair, as well as for the UV-photoprotection of a wide variety of photosensitive industrial materials/substrates, e.g., plastics, glasses, textiles, etc.

Abstract: Sensitive human skin/scalp/mucous membrane conditions, for example skin irritation and/or dry patches and/or erythemas and/or dysaesthesic 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.

Abstract: Topically applicable cosmetic/dermatological self-tanning compositions well suited for enhancing the coloration imparted by and/or the stabilizing of the self-tanning agent, contain (i) an effective amount of at least one artificial/sunless tanning agent, and (ii) an effective stabilizing/enhancedly self-tanning amount of at least one amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone compound having the following structural formula (I): formulated into (iii) a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable vehicle, diluent or carrier therefor.

Abstract: Synergistic immixtures of ascorbic acid with at least one monosaccharide ester of ascorbic acid and/or at least one metal salt of phosphorylated ascorbic acid more effectively increase the synthesis of epidermal ceramides in human skin, especially types IV to VII ceramides, as well as improve the barrier function, moisture content and/or suppleness/surface appearance of the skin and which otherwise combat/prevent intrinsic aging thereof and are useful for the treatment of dermatitis.

Abstract: Cinnamic acid and derivatives thereof are well suited for promoting desquamation and/or stimulating epidermal renewal and/or combating intrinsic/extrinsic aging of the skin of a human subject in need of such treatment, by topically applying thereto, for such period of time as required to elicit the desired response, a cosmetically/therapeutically effective amount of cinnamic acid and/or of at least one derivative thereof.

Abstract: Topically applicable cosmetic/dermatological sunscreen composition well suited for the enhanced UV-photoprotection of human skin and/or hair, contain synergistically UV-APPD-enhancing amounts of (i) at least one UV-screening silicon compound having a benzotriazole functional group substituent, (ii) at least one UV-screening dibenzoylmethane compound, and (iii) at least one UV-screening amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone compound having the following structural formula (III): formulated into (iv) a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable vehicle, diluent or carrier therefor.

Abstract: Topically applicable cosmetic/dermatological sunscreen compositions well suited for the enhanced UV-photoprotection of human skin and/or hair contain synergistically UV-APPD-enhancing amounts of (a) particulates of at least one insoluble organic UV-screening agent having a particle size ranging from 10 nm to 5 &mgr;m, and (b) at least one UV-screening amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone compound having the following structural formula (I): formulated into (c) a topically applicable, cosmetically/dermatologically acceptable vehicle, diluent or carrier therefor.

Abstract: Lycopene and compositions comprised thereof, for example tomato plant extracts, are uniquely suited for treating, preventively and/or curatively, cutaneous signs of aging, in particular inhibiting damage to the skin and/or mucous membranes via inhibition of collagenases.

Abstract: Vitamin C derivatives more stable than ascorbic acid itself and which more effectively increase the synthesis of epidermal ceramides, as well as improve the barrier function, moisture content and/or suppleness/surface appearance of the skin and which otherwise combat/prevent intrinsic aging thereof and are useful for the treatment of dermatitis, have the structural formula (I): 1

Abstract: The invention discloses an isolated arachidonic acid-binding heteromer that can be used in particular to stimulate and/or induce hair growth and/or check hair loss or to accelerate the healing process or to test substances affecting the activity of fatty acids or further as a diagnostic tool.

Abstract: Improvedly photostable UV-photoprotecting cosmetic/dermatological compositions for the skin and/or the hair contain (a) a UV-photoprotective amount of at least one dibenzoylmethane sunscreen, e.g., 4-(tert-butyl)-4′-methoxydibenzoylmethane or 4-isopropyldibenzoylmethane, advantageously (a′) a UV-photoprotective amount of at least one 1,3,5-triazine sunscreen, e.g., 2-[(p-(tert-butylamido]-4,6-bis[(p-(2′ethylhexyl-1′-oxycarbonyl)anilino]-1,3,5-triazine or 2,4,6-tris[p-(2′-ethylhexyl-1′-oxycarbonyl)anilino]-1,3,5-triazine, (b) an effective sunscreen photostabilizing amount of 1,1,1-tris(2-methyl-4-hydroxy-5-tert-butylphenyl)butane, formulated into (c) a topically applicable, cosmetically acceptable vehicle, diluent or carrier therefor.

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.

Abstract: An aged skin equivalent comprising an epidermis equivalent and an aged dermis equivalent, wherein the aged dermis equivalent comprises glycated collagen. An aged dermis equivalent, the epidermis equivalent obtained and methods of producing the aged skin and/or aged dermis equivalent and/or the epidermis equivalent.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use, as active principle, in a physiologically acceptable medium, in a composition, of an effective amount of at least one compound of the indolecarboxylic family, this compound or these compositions being intended to treat disorders associated with overactivity of 5&agr;-reductase. These compounds or the compositions containing them are more particularly intended to treat androgen-dependent disorders such as, for example, seborrhoea and/or acne and/or hirsutism and/or androgenic alopecia. The invention also relates to novel compounds of the indolecarboxylic family and to compositions-containing them.