Direct emulsion for bleaching hair

• US 7,494,513 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2006
• Issued: 02/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Original Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Inventors: Dubief, Claude, Kravtchenko, Sylvain
• Primary Examiner(s): Elhilo; Eisa B
• Application Number:
  US11/411,880
• Publication Number:
  US 20060242773A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,034 Days
• Field of Search: 840/5, 840/6, 840/7, 840/8, 841/0, 852/1, 810/7, 811/1, 453/432
• US Class Current: 8/405
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/22 Peroxides; Oxygen; Ozone
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/31 Hydrocarbons
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 5/08 Preparations for bleaching the hair

Abstract

A direct emulsion for bleaching keratin fibers, preferably human keratin fibers such as hair, having an inert phase containing of a nonoxygenated and nonperfluorinated liquid compound having a water-solubility at 25° C. of less than 1% and an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution, a bleaching method using this direct emulsion, as it is or in the form of a ready-to-use composition, and the use of this direct emulsion for bleaching keratin fibers. The direct emulsion in accordance with the invention makes it possible to rapidly obtain substantial lightening of keratin fibers while limiting the degradation of the keratin fibers and skin irritation.

Claims

1. A direct emulsion, comprising an inert phase and an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution, said inert phase comprising at least one nonoxygenated and nonperfluorinated liquid compound having a water-solubility at 25°

C. of less than 1%, the inert phase representing at least 20% by weight of the total weight of the direct emulsion.

2. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, in which the inert phase comprises at least one of polyalphaolefins, polybutenes and polyisobutenes, mineral oils, paraffin oils, polystyrene and polyisoprene block copolymers, and mixtures thereof.

3. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, in which the inert phase represents between 20 and 95% by weight of the total weight of the direct emulsion.

4. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, in which the inert phase represents between 30 and 90% by weight of the total weight of the direct emulsion.

5. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, in which the hydrogen peroxide concentration is between 1 and 20% by weight of the total weight of the direct emulsion.

6. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, in which the hydrogen peroxide concentration is between 2 and 12% by weight of the total weight of the direct emulsion.

7. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, further comprising at least one compound chosen from surfactants, amphiphilic polymers and thickening polymers.

8. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, further comprising at least one surfactant chosen from anionic, nonionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants having one or more linear or branched C₆-C₂₂ alkylated chains and/or one or more perfluorinated chains.

9. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, further comprising at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible amphiphilic block copolymer, oxyethylenated or nonoxyethylenated, telechelic or graft associative polymer bearing on their main chain C₆-C₂₂ alkyl and/or aryl groups, it being possible for these polymers to have a cationic, anionic, amphoteric or nonionic charge.

10. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, further comprising at least one thickening polymer chosen from crosslinked acrylic polymers, natural or modified polysaccharides.

11. The direct emulsion according to claim 7, in which the compound(s) chosen from surfactants, amphiphilic polymers and thickening polymers are each present in a quantity of between 0.1 and 30% by weight of the total weight of the direct emulsion.

12. The direct emulsion according to claim 1, whose pH is less than 5.

13. A ready-to-use bleaching composition resulting from mixing a direct emulsion as defined in claim 1 with one or more compositions comprising at least one alkaline agent and/or at least one persalt and/or at least one direct dye and/or at least one oxidation dye precursor.

14. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 13, resulting from mixing the direct emulsion with one or more alkaline agent(s) chosen from organic amines, ammonium hydroxide and silicates.

15. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 14, in which the alkaline agent(s) are present in a quantity of between 0.01 and 40% by weight of the total weight of the ready-to-use composition.

16. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 13, resulting from mixing the direct emulsion with at least one persalt chosen from ammonium and alkali metal perborates, percarbonates and persulphates.

17. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 16, in which the persalt(s) are present in a quantity of between 10 and 70% by weight of the total weight of the ready-to-use composition.

18. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 13, resulting from mixing the direct emulsion a with at least one direct dye, wherein said direct dye is present in a quantity of between 0.001 and 20% by weight of the total weight of the ready-to-use composition.

19. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 13, resulting from mixing the direct emulsion a with at least one dye precursor, and in which the dye precursor(s) are chosen from oxidation bases and couplers.

20. The ready-to-use bleaching composition according to claim 19, in which the dye precursor(s) are present in a quantity of between 0.001 and 10% by weight of the total weight of the ready-to-use composition.

21. A method for bleaching keratin fibers, comprising contacting said fibers with the direct emulsion as defined in claim 1.

22. A kit for bleaching keratin fibers, comprising:

a direct emulsion as defined in claim 1, and

at least one composition comprising at least one of an alkaline agent, a persalt, a dye precursor, and a direct dye.