Cosmetic compositions comprising an aqueous solution of an urea compound, hair treatment, skin moisturizer, hair waving system, retardation of alkali production, and hair and skin treatment methods

Claim 2

A cosmetic composition comprising an aqueous solution of a urea compound that is selected from the group consisting of urea, lower alkyl-substituted urea, and mixtures thereof present at a concentration of about 0.5 to about 12 molar, and an amount of an ammonium salt of an unreactive acid sufficient to adjust the pH value of the urea compound solution to about 6 to about 8, said cosmetic composition being stable to the production of titratable alkali.

Claim 3

A put-on leave-on treatment for hair including the cosmetic composition of claim 1 and additionally containing a hair conditioning agent.

Claim 4

A skin moisturizer including the cosmetic composition of claim 1, and additionally containing an emollient for skin.

Claim 5

A hair waving system comprising two separately packaged components, the first of the packaged components including the cosmetic composition of claim 1 and the second of the packaged components including an aqueous solution of a hair disulfide bond-breaking agent, said separately packaged components when admixed providing a waving lotion that contains about 4 to about 25 percent by weight urea compound, a sufficient amount of the reductive disulfide bond-breaking agent to wave hair, and having a pH value of about 6.5 to about 9.5.

Claim 10

A method of treating hair to provide increased weight, bulk, static control and moisturization to said hair comprising the steps of applying the composition of claim 1 to said hair to contact the hair fibers and maintaining said contact until said hair is dry.

Claim 11

A method of treating hair to provide conditioning to said hair comprising the steps of applying the composition of claim 2 to said hair to contact the hair fibers and maintaining said contact until said hair is dry.

Claim 12

A method of moisturizing skin comprising the steps of applying the composition of claim 3 to said skin, spreading said composition over the area of the skin to be moisturized to contact that skin with said composition, and maintaining said contact until said moisturizer is absorbed by the skin.

Claim 13

A method of waving hair comprising the steps of: providing the hair waving system of claim 4; admixing the two separately packaged components of said hair waving system to form a waving lotion; applying said waving lotion to hair to form partially reduced hair that contains broken disulfide bonds; straining said partially reduced hair; and applying a neutralizer to the strained, partially reduced hair to reform the disulfide bonds.