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coffee shampoo
How much caffeine do you think there should be in a coffee shampoo? (In mg per kilo.)
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Careful!! FPO gives 6153 hits for keywords “caffeine” and “shampoo”.
Claimed caffeine content in EP1396261 is in the range 0.0001% - 30%
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Use of caffeine for the manufacture of a cosmetic or pharmaceutical formulation for improving natural skin protection.2.
Use
according to claim 1, for the treatment and / or prophylaxis of
disorders which are associated with a lack of regeneration of the
epidermis.3.
Use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said skin male skin or female skin with an elevated testosterone levels.4.
Use
according to one of the aforementioned claims wherein the caffeine is
present in the formulation in an amount of 0.001 to 30 wt .-%.5.
Use according to claim 3, wherein the caffeine is present in the formulation in an amount of 0.01 to 2 wt .-%.6.
The
use of any of the aforementioned claims, wherein the caffeine is used
in combination with other active components, selected from the group
consisting of vitamins, flavonoids, sunscreens, moisturizing agents,
terpenoids, saccharides, plant extracts, oligopeptides or polypeptides
and other secondary plant accompanying substances.7.
Use
according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the formulation is in
the form of an emulsion, a liposome preparation or a
Nanospherenzubereitung.8.
Use according to claim 6, wherein the emulsion is an emulsion of the type W / O, O / W or W / O / W. -
Make a shampoo using coffee concentrate, ignore the caffeine concentration. Don’t claim it anywhere, shouldn’t be a problem with the patent.
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Claimed caffeine content in EP1396261 is in the range 0.0001% - 30%
range is so large that’s not very helpful. . . I see that that patent has expired anyway. 1 large mug of coffee has somewhere around 100mg, so I suppose approx. 100mg/kilo might be a starting point. Which is around 0.01%
The test batch sold out immediately and we have customers waiting. -
@Belassi Coffee available on shelves in markets??? Is that what you have used here???
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Yes, exactly! Brewed 100% organic Columbian.
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What a great idea. If your employees get to drink some of the coffee before you use it in the shampoo, I want to work with you.
Also, coffee scrub made from the grounds…
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Hey thanks for the coffee scrub idea. Have to test to see that it doesn’t stain the skin! Although, that would be yet another product…
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I can see it now…
“SCRUB ‘N TAN”- Why put TOXIC CHEMICALS on your body when you want to look good on the beach? Our new ALL NATURAL product is CHEMICAL FREE! What could be more natural than COFFEE? So don’t delay, scrub off those dead cells today and be golden, with SCRUB ‘N TAN.
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Its difficult to get caffeine anhydrous into solution in your water phase right?
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I don’t know, but I haven’t got a source for it anyway. It’s just a curiosity at the moment.
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for what it’s worth, many years ago we used to manufacture a mixture of coffee grounds and powdered indigo, and sell it as a brown hair dye
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This is so nice that it is going to be a new product. I’ve finalised the percentage of licorice now. With the pearliser it has a lovely appearance, like metallic bronze. And it leaves the hair very shiny. The fragrance being natural tends to fade a bit, so I think I will add a little, maybe 0.2%, coffee fragrance oil to it.
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I’m having a viscosity problem. Over time, it is becoming thinner. No other change noticed.
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Amazing. The coffee shampoo is selling twice as well as the others despite the fact we priced it 50% more expensive. And we’re already getting repeat orders. I’m going to continue refining the details of this product.
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Wow. Congratulations!
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I am definitely inspired @Belassi, thanks for the update and thorough ideas.
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roast 50 gram fresh coffee seeds , then without grinding , boil in one liter water for 10 minutes , and leave it for 12 hours then seperat the seeds from water with clean mesh . use this water recipe to formulate the your shmpoo ( adding the texabon and the other gredients )
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I realised what the viscosity problem is. Seems to be some pH drift. I am unsure as to whether the coffee or licorice is responsible. Coffee is supposed to have an acidic pH. However, I have found it necessary to adjust the final pH with citric acid. (pH=5) The drift was towards basic. The fragrance remains remarkably stable considering no fragrances were added.
Also, we had a phone call from the original customer. She says that her husband is showing a fuzz of new hair growth. We’ll have to wait and see on that one. Still, the sensorials are great, it’s like shampooing with a Starbucks latte. -
I want to try some!
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