DE9417598U1 - Hair growth and hair care products - Google Patents

Description

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Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Schirmer, Bielefeld · Dipl.-Ing. Volker Specht, Berlin

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German utility model application 247/59-1

01.11.1994

Applicant: Thomas Herzberg

Wilhelmstrasse 89 10117 Berlin

Angelika Weiz At the Colonnade 2 10 117 Berlin 15

Christel Maria Zwillus Kurfürstendamm 43 10719 Berlin

Hair growth and hair care products

The invention relates to a hair growth and hair care product based on various herbal active ingredients, for external use, in particular in the area of human head hair.

In particular, age- and disease-related damage to the hair and scalp or the hair roots in the epidermis, but also environmental influences and the usual treatment of the hair using chemical substances or physical processes when washing and dyeing or when brushing, blow-drying and shaping not only lead to an impairment of the physical properties of the hair, but also to

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Reduction in hair growth and ultimately hair loss.

In addition to numerous treatment methods for promoting hair growth and strengthening hair through internal use, which are mostly associated with unacceptable side effects, a variety of products are also offered for stimulating hair growth through external use, which mostly consist of birch water, panthenol, zinc compounds, etc. To increase blood circulation to the scalp and promote hair growth, extracts from flowers, leaves and roots of birch, nettle, arnica, burdock, witch hazel and other plants are also added to hair tonics.

Other well-known hair care and hair growth products are made using the juice produced from plants and parts of plants, namely parsley, dandelion, kiwi and olive, sometimes with the addition of lemon juice, olive oil and sea salt.

Finally, plant-based hair growth products in the form of plant oil or their seeds, sometimes also paraffin-based, have also been proposed.

However, the effectiveness of these agents, which are essentially based on herbal active ingredients, for stimulating hair growth in the compositions known to date is questionable.

The invention is therefore based on the object of developing a physiologically harmless hair growth and hair care product based on purely plant-based

To provide active ingredients that, after reactivating the hair roots, result in firmer and stronger formation of the regrowing hair and faster hair growth, as well as counteracting hair loss and at the same time having a care effect so that the hair is more resistant to external influences and stress.

This object is achieved with a hair growth and hair care product according to the preamble of claim 1, which according to the invention consists of an extract of the following plant components:

- Leaves of peppermint, nettle, walnut tree,
Birch, elderberry and strawberry plant;

- Herbs of chicory, marjoram, rosemary and horsetail;

- Ash components of burnt southernwood and burnt garlic, the latter alternatively also as
garlic powder;

- roots and/or leaves of burdock; and

- Onion pieces, Panama wood shavings and cress seeds;
and an addition of camphor.

Applying the active ingredients extracted from the plants contained in this extract in the claimed combination to the scalp or penetrating them into the scalp causes a reactivation of the hair roots, thus preventing further hair loss and promoting new growth, whereby the faster-growing hair is significantly stronger and firmer and also more resistant to environmental influences. The agent according to the invention has a regenerating and nourishing effect on existing hair. Negative

There are no side effects due to the external application and purely plant-based nature.

In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the proposed hair growth agent is an alcoholic extract which, with a 90% alcohol content in the extractant, ensures maximum extraction of the plant-based active ingredients.

In the ready-to-use hair growth and care product, the alcoholic extract is diluted with distilled water to an approximately 5% alcoholic solution in a further development of the invention, whereby the alcohol content is

■ To ensure long-term durability, the alcohol content should not be less than 5%. The low alcohol content contributes to better blood circulation in the skin without any damaging effect and thus to easier absorption of the herbal active ingredients by the hair roots.

According to a further feature of the invention, the application of the proposed hair growth agent and the activation of its active ingredients takes place in conjunction with oxygen, which is preferably applied before and/or after the application of the agent to the scalp.

In addition to massaging the product into the relevant areas of skin, it is also possible to introduce the hair growth product into the epidermis using galvanic current, so that the active ingredients quickly and largely reach the hair roots in the epidermis and have an intensive effect there. The previously mentioned ozonation also serves to improve access to the hair roots.

Further features and advantageous embodiments of the invention are set out in the subclaims.

The invention is explained in more detail using an example.

The dried leaves of peppermint, nettle, walnut, birch, elder and strawberry plants, the dried herbs of chicory and marjoram as well as rosemary and horsetail, the ash components of burnt southernwood and burnt garlic and finally onion pieces, Panama wood chips, cress seeds and burdock roots are placed in a glass container filled with 90% alcohol in approximately equal proportions, namely about a handful of each component, with the additional addition of commercially available camphor. After the plant mixture has remained in the 90% alcohol for about four weeks, the active ingredients contained in the respective components have essentially been dissolved out. The alcoholic extract of plant active ingredients thus created is filled up with distilled water to a total of five liters. The amount of alcohol used to extract the active ingredients contained in the plant mixture was previously selected so that the alcohol content of the resulting solution did not fall below 5%, thus ensuring a long shelf life.

The thin liquid extract is then decanted and filtered to remove its solid components and is then available as a hair growth and hair care product for application to or insertion into the scalp.

The product is rubbed or massaged into the scalp. However, in order to achieve the greatest possible depth of action to achieve intensive reactivation of the hair roots, the alcoholic extract is rubbed into the scalp using galvanic current. A particularly active effect of the proposed hair growth and hair care product is achieved in conjunction with oxygen, preferably by ozonation. For this purpose, the scalp is treated with ozone before and/or after the hair growth product is applied, preferably galvanically.

Claims (6)

Protection claims: 1. Hair growth and hair care products based on various herbal active ingredients, for external use, particularly in the area of human head hair, characterized by an extract of the following herbal ingredients: - Leaves of peppermint, nettle, walnut tree, birch, elderberry and strawberry plant; - Herbs of chicory, marjoram, rosemary and horsetail; - Ash components of burnt southernwood and burnt garlic or garlic powder; - roots and/or leaves of burdock; and - Onion pieces, Panama wood shavings, cress seeds; and with the addition of camphor. 2. Hair growth and hair care product according to claim 1, characterized in that it is an alcoholic extract of the active ingredients of the plant components used using a 90% alcoholic extractant, the alcoholic extract being diluted with distilled water to an alcohol content of 5% or more. 3. Hair growth and hair care product according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the leaves and herbs used for the alcoholic extraction are dried. 4. Hair growth and hair care product according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the proportion of the active ingredients of the respective plants contained in the alcoholic extract depends on the application equal amounts of plant components for the extraction process. 5. Hair growth and hair care products according to one of the Claims 1 to 4, characterized by its combination with oxygen. 6. Hair growth and hair care product according to claim 5, characterized in that oxygen enrichment can be carried out on the skin areas to be treated before and/or after the application of the active ingredient extract. ■7. Hair growth and hair care product according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that it can be introduced into the scalp by means of galvanic current.