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Hair conditioning composition and method of conditioning hair therewith

Assignee: Procter and Gamble Co
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Filing: 1981-03-09
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2001-03-09
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Abstract

Abstract Hair conditioning compositions containing a volatile, liquid hair conditioning agent selected from hydrocarbons and silicones, together with a hydrophobicthickening agent.

Inventors

  • 👤 Raymond Edward Bolich, Jr.

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction EP
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 15:03
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61K; A61K8/00; A61K8/18; A61K8/30; A61K8/58; A61K8/585; A61K8/31; A61K8/72; A61K8/81; A61K8/8129; A61Q; A61Q5/00; A61Q5/12

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim 41 words
1 . A hair conditioning composition characterized by: (A) from 1% to 99% of a volatile liquid hair conditioning agent selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbons, silicones and mixtures thereof; and (B) up to 1% of a hydrophobic thickening agent.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 41 words
1 . A hair conditioning composition characterized by: (A) from 1% to 99% of a volatile liquid hair conditioning agent selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbons, silicones and mixtures thereof; and (B) up to 1% of a hydrophobic thickening agent.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 33 words
A hair conditioning composition according to Claim 1 chacterized in that the volatile liquid hair conditioning agent is a hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of decane, dodecane, tridecane, tetradecane and mixtures thereof.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 31 words
A hair conditioning composition according to Claim 1 characterized in that the volatile liquid hair conditioning agent is a silicone and is present at a level of from 2% to 60%.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 29 words
A hair conditioning composition according to Claim 3 characterized in that the volatile liquid hair conditioning agent is a cyclic silicone having either 4 or 5 dimethyl siloxane groups.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 40 words
A hair conditioning composition according to any of Claims 1 to 4 characterized in that the amount of volatile liquid hair conditioning agent is from 2% to 10% and the amount of hydrophobic thickening agent is from 0.005% to 0.5%.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 34 words
A hair conditioning composition according to any of Claims 1 to 5 characterized in that the hydrophobic thickening agent is selected from the group consisting of polyvinylisobutyl ether, polyvinyl ethyl ether and mixtures thereof.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 25 words
A hair conditioning composition according to any of Claims 1 to 6 characterized in that it additionally contains water and a cationic hair conditioning agent.
Claim 9
Independent Claim 36 words
A method of conditioning hair characterized by: I. applying from lg. to 60g. of a composition according to any of Claims 1 to 7 to freshly shampooed hair; and II. rinsing the composition from the hair.

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