WO2002045667A1

WO2002045667A1 - Hair growth stimulant

Info

Publication number: WO2002045667A1
Application number: PCT/US2000/042615
Authority: WO
Inventors: Marhsa E. Olguin
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2000-12-04
Filing date: 2000-12-04
Publication date: 2002-06-13
Anticipated expiration: 2003-06-04
Also published as: AU2001243101A1

Abstract

A hair growth formulation. The two basic main ingredients are castor oil and a special lemon extract. The special lemon extract is made from fresh lemon peel. The peel, including the bioflavonoids membrane, is blended with purified water until it is liquidified. Then the mixture is filtered through a sanitized cloth. Other ingredients that have been found helpful include: inositol, choline (from bitartate), niacinamide or nicotinic acid, manganese in chelated form, bioflavonoids, and folic acid. Finally perfume and sodium benzoate (as a preservative) can be added.

Description

HAIR GROWTH STIMULANT

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of scalp stimulation and in particular to the field of hair growth stimulants.

Background Art

There are many products on the market that claim to grow hair. Most do not. Products on the market that can actually grow hair are expensive and available only by prescription. Furthermore, cessation of use usually results in immediate hair loss. In other words, once a user starts using this prescription product, he or she must continue for life in order to maintain hair.

In the past it was believed that, once the hair root would not produce a follicle, the root was dead and could not be restored. But little research has been done for periods of seven and up to eleven years after the hair root has failed to produced a shaft. Results produced with this invention have proved that there is a window of time in which one can, in fact, regenerate or revive the hair root.

Development of a simple, inexpensive treatment which can grow hair represents a great improvement in the field of scalp stimulation and satisfies a long felt need of bald persons, balding persons, persons with thin or sparse hair, and their doctors and cosmeticians.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is a unique lotion or cream formula that can regenerate some follicles which are still alive but in a state of non productivity (the resting phase). There is no product now on the market which will enhance the growth of eyebrows and beards. Yet, this product can stimulate the growth of some eyebrow tips, as long as the roots are in this resting stage, can enlarge mustaches or enhance the fullness of the mustache, and can enhance beards that have been growing sparely.

People are balding for many reasons but the majority have nutritional deficiencies. This formula has regenerated hair growth even for people that have been bald for over ten years but not longer than fourteen years. It has strengthened hair for people as elderly as 94. What makes this product unique are the natural ingredients that produce it. It is made from the oil of a lemon and minerals. The acidity of the lemon along with choline, inositol and niacinamide or nicotinic acid stimulate the follicle while it is in the inactive stage. This product is revolutionary in that it is totally a natural product, except for the preservative and fragrance.

The main active ingredients of this invention are castor oil and a special lemon extract. The extract is made by blending fresh lemon peel with purified water and filtering the product through a sanitized cloth. The ratio is approximately 10-600 cc castor oil and approximately 5-340 cc special lemon extract. Other ingredients that can be beneficially added to the formulation are: inositol, choline from bitartrate, niacinamide or nicotinic acid, manganese in chelated form, bioflavonoids, and folic acid. Some perfume and a preservative may also be added.

An appreciation of the other aims and objectives of the present invention and an understanding of it may be achieved by referring to the following description of a preferred embodiment.

Best Mode for Carrying Out Invention

This product has regenerated a larger percent than any among the topical products. The highest success rate is with people with receding hairlines. This invention has regenerated hair that has been absent for over eleven years on people of all ages from age 16 to 94. Minimal use of the product, even as little as once a week has regenerated hair. Some hair follicles can be revived and stimulated by concentrated amounts of certain vitamins and minerals not present in the tissue at the base of the follicle. Nitamins and minerals revive the hair bulb and nourish it with the proper amounts needed to stimulate the root into action.

Heredity, stress and poor diet prevent normal cycles of hair growth. Not all hair bulbs can be stimulated into performance, but there are many people who can be helped by application of the following formula:

Table I

The powdered ingredients are sifted twice to minimize granules present. Then fresh

Containing Niacinamide, Dicalcium Phosphate, Cellulose, Stearic Acid, Magnesium Stearate and Silica.

Containing: Flavaones 350mg, Hesperidins 154mg, Eriocitrin 112mg, Naringen & Naringenin 14mg, Eriocitrin 112mg, Flavonols 308mg, Flavones 42, Rutin lOOmg.

Containing Dibasic Calcium Phosphate, Crosscarmellose Sodium, Magnesium Stearate, Folic Acid. lemon peel of one lemon, of the Rutaceae family, is scrubbed with a brush and cut up into ^lA inch pieces, including the bioflavonoids membrane, then put in a blender with three to four ounces of purified water until it is liquidified. Then the mixture is filtered through a press. The press consists of a sanitized cloth, to filter out the precious liquid. This lemon fluid is somewhat thick in substance and is measured. This essence is the main active ingredient of the formula. This fluid is both lemon oil and bioflavonoid from the membrane around the peel. The bioflavonoids boost the acidity in the lemon rind, acting as an activator for the lethargic follicle. The acidity in combination with the choline, inositol and niacinamide or nicotinic acid stimulates the follicle into production. The choline is important for development of the cell membrane. Inositol is essential for the growth of human cells but only myo-inositol is of importance here.

Castor oil, a prepared oil from the plant ricinus communis of the Euphorbiaceae family contains many glycerides of which linoleic acid is one. A deficiency of linoleic acid has caused severe hair loss in canines, according to experiments. The same seems to be true of man. The niacinamide or nicotinic acid opens up the blood vessels to accept nourishment into the hair root and the follicle is stimulated out of its resting state. Folic acid, in conjunction with this formula, causes adequate oxygenation of the blood supplying the scalp or other treated area. Inositol, works to metabolize amino and fatty acids in the skin. The blood vessels in turn nourish the root and stimulating rapid growth. The average growth of one hair is ^lA of an inch a month. After being treated with this formula, hair has grown 1/8 of an inch in two weeks on some clients.

The two basic main ingredients that will grow hair are castor oil and lemon extract. It has been found that the formulation will work with castor oil and lemon extract in any of the following ratios:

Table π

The formulation will grow hair if the ratio of castor oil to lemon extract is anywhere from 0.4 to 1 to 2 to 1.

This product can help those individuals with baldness arising from these three conditions. It has also helped those prone to baldness at an early age.

EXAMPLES

One client had three completely bald sections on her head for eleven years. She used the full hair growth formula described above in Table I only three times a week. She applied the formulation by applying it to the bald areas and surrounding hair. After seven months the right and left sides of her head had completely filled and the top was slowly filling also.

Another client using the formulation had 50 new hairs grow in a 2 square inch radius.

This client had been bald for over ten years.

Yet another client using the formulation, who has thinning hair, has grown 38 new hairs in a 2-inch square section.

A 49 year old male, entirely bald on the crown of his head, was treated with the castor oil/special lemon extract formula described above in Table II. Treatment was accomplished by rubbing the formulation into the bald scalp and surrounding hair once daily. In only one week new hair grew. Even though the client has discontinued use of the formulation, the new hair remains.

A 70 year old female was going bald. She rubbed the full formulation described above in Table I into her scalp twice a week at the start and then once every two weeks. The product stopped hair from falling out and promoted growth of new hair.

A 30 year old male was experiencing hair loss. He rubbed the full formulation described above in Table I into the balding areas of his scalp one a week for 4 months. Thirty new hair shafts grew in that time frame.

A 35 year old male had developed a large bald crown. Ingestion of potent vitamin formulations did not produce any new hair. He applied the formulation described above in Table I to his crown daily for 6 months and new hair grew into the bald area.

An 81 year old female had hair which was thinning in sections. The product described in Table I was applied to the thinning sections once a week. Hair grew in these sections and her hair appeared fuller.

An 81 year old female had thin, fine hair. The product described in Table I was applied to her scalp only about every 11-14 days. Use of this product has given this client new hair and increased its fullness.

The hair growth formula has been described with reference to a particular embodiment. Other modifications and enhancements can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims that follow.

Claims

1. A hair growth formula comprising castor oil and special lemon extract; said special lemon extract comprising fresh lemon peel made into a puree by blending with purified water until liquidified and said puree being filtered through a sanitized cloth.

2. A hair growth formula as claimed in claim 4 in which the ratio of said lemon peel to said purified water is the peel of one lemon to three to four ounces of purified water.

3. A hair growth formula as claimed in claim 4 in which the ratio by volume of castor oil to said special lemon extract is from about 0.4 to 1 to about 2 to 1.

4. A method of mixing a hair growth formula comprising:

1. providing castor oil, a sanitized filter cloth and purified water;

2. providing fresh lemon peel;

3. scrubbing said fresh lemon peel with a brush; 4. cutting up said fresh lemon peel into ^lΛ inch pieces;

5. blending said fresh lemon peel in a blender with said purified water until it is liquidified

6. filtering said blended lemon peel through said sanitized cloth to produce a special lemon extract; 7. mixing said special lemon extract, with said castor oil.

5. A method as claimed in claim 10 in which the ratio of said lemon peel to said purified water is the peel of one lemon to three to four ounces of purified water.

6. A method as claimed in claim 10 in which the ratio by volume of castor oil to said special lemon extract is from about 0.4 to 1 to about 2 to 1.