Hair treatment compositions
View Patent ↗An aqueous and/or aqueous alcoholic leave-in composition to reduce the time to dry wet hair containing (a) at least one wetting agent having a Draves wetting value of 100 seconds of less selected in an amount sufficient to enhance the hydrophobicity of hair thereby causing water to dewet the hair, and optionally (b) at least one volatile selected from the group consisting of alcohols, dimethicone, trimethicone, and cyclomethicone and a method of shortening the time to dry wet hair.
1. A method of styling wet hair comprising (A) applying to the wet hair of a person an aqueous leave-in composition that imparts hydrophobicity to the hair to cause dewetting of the hair comprising (a) a silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent consisting of a silicone polyether having a molecular weight from about 600 to about 2500 that causes dewetting and sheeting of water off hair without binding the silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent to hair, said silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent having a surface tension of from about 15 to 26 mN/m and exhibiting a Draves value of 100 seconds or less, (b) at least one hair treatment agent, and (c) a solvent system comprising water; (B) styling the hair while hydrated, and (C) during and/or after styling, allowing the hair to dry.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the composition contains about 0.05 to 5% by weight of the wetting agent, and about 10 to 99% by weight of water.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the hair is mechanically processed.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the hair is blow dried.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein the composition is applied to damp hair.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the wetting agent is a silicone polyether surfactant of the formula
wherein a is an integer from 0 to 6; b is an integer from 2 to 4; x is an integer from 6 to 12, and y is an integer from 0 to 3.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the wetting agent is a silicone polyether surfactant of the formula
wherein a is an integer of from 1 to 3; b is an integer of from 2 to 4; x is 8, and y is 0.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the composition contains 0.1 to 5% by weight of wetting agent, 0.1 to 5% by weight of hair treatment component, 35 to 95% by weight of water, and 0 to 40% by weight of alcohol, and wherein the wetting agent exhibits a Draves wetting value of about 30 seconds or less.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein the hair treatment component is a hair fixative polymer selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic polymers, and combinations thereof.
10. The method of claim 8 wherein the hair treatment component is a cationic surfactant of the formula
wherein (i) R 3 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 8 to 22 carbon atoms; (ii) R 7 CONJ-(CH 2 ) n wherein R 7 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 7 to 21 carbon atoms and n is an integer of 1 to 4, or (iii) has the structure R 8 COO(CH 2 ) n wherein R 8 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 7 to 21 carbons, and n is an integer of 1 to 4; R 4 has the definition of R 3 or hydrogen; R 5 and R 6 are individually hydrogen or an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and X − is an anion.
11. A method of decreasing the time to dry wet hair comprising (A) applying to the wet hair of a person an aqueous leave-in hair styling composition that imparts hydrophobicity to the hair to cause dewetting of the hair comprising (a) at least one silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent consisting of a silicone polyether having a molecular weight from about 600 to about 2500 that causes dewetting and sheeting of water off hair without binding the silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent to hair, said silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent having a surface tension from about 15 to 26 mN/m and exhibiting a Draves wetting value of 100 seconds or less; (b) at least one hair treatment agent, and (c) a solvent system comprising water, and (B) drying the hair.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein the composition contains about 0.1 to 5% by weight of wetting agent, and about 10 to 99% by weight of water.
13. The method of claim 11 wherein the composition contains about 0.1 to 5% by weight of wetting agent, about 35 to 95% by weight of water, and optionally comprising 0 to about 40% by weight of a low molecular weight alcohol, the wetting agent exhibiting a Draves wetting value of about 30 seconds or less.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein the hair is blow dried.
15. The method of claim 11 wherein the hair is towel dried.
16. The method of claim 11 wherein the composition contains about 1 to 5% by weight hair treatment agent.
17. The method of claim 11 wherein the hair treatment component is a hair fixative polymer selected from the group consisting of anionic, nonionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic polymers, and combinations thereof.
18. The method of claim 11 wherein the hair treatment component is a cationic surfactant of the formula
wherein (i) R 3 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 8 to 22 carbon atoms; (ii) R 7 CONJ-(CH 2 ) n wherein R 7 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 7 to 21 carbon atoms and n is an integer of 1 to 4, or (iii) has the structure R 8 COO(CH 2 ) n wherein R 8 is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon of 7 to 21 carbons, and n is an integer of 1 to 4; R 4 has the definition of R 3 or hydrogen; R 5 and R 6 are individually hydrogen or an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and X − is an anion.
19. The method of claim 11 wherein the wetting agent is a silicone polyether surfactant of the formula
wherein a is an integer from 0 to 6; b is an integer from 2 to 4; x is an integer from 6 to 12, and y is an integer from 0 to 3.
20. The method of claim 11 wherein the wetting agent is a silicone polyether surfactant of the formula
wherein a is an integer of from 1 to 3; b is an integer of from 2 to 4; x is 8, and y is.
21. The method of claim 13 wherein the composition contains about 0.1 to 5% by weight of hair treatment component, about 1 to 40% by weight of alcohol, and about 0.001 to 10% by weight of volatile solvent other than the alcohol.
22. A method of styling wet hair comprising (A) applying to damp hair of a person an aqueous leave-in composition that imparts hydrophobicity to the hair to cause dewetting of the hair comprising (a) a silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent consisting of a silicone polyether having a molecular weight from about 600 to about 2500 that causes dewetting and sheeting of water off hair without binding the silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent to hair, said silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent having a surface tension of from about 15 to 26 mN/m and exhibiting a Draves value of 100 seconds or less, (b) at least one hair treatment agent, and (c) a solvent system comprising water; (B) styling the hair while hydrated, and (C) during and/or after styling, allowing the hair to dry.
23. A method of decreasing the time to dry wet hair comprising (A) applying to damp hair of a person an aqueous leave-in hair styling composition that imparts hydrophobicity to the hair to cause dewetting of the hair comprising (a) at least one silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent consisting of a silicone polyether having a molecular weight from about 600 to about 2500 that causes dewetting and sheeting of water off hair without binding the silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent to hair, said silicone polyether surfactant wetting agent having a surface tension from about 15 to 26 mN/m and exhibiting a Draves wetting value of 100 seconds or less, (b) at least one hair treatment agent, and (c) a solvent system comprising water, and (B) drying the hair.