Patent Covers Simultaneously Neutralizing and Coloring Relaxed Hair

US Patent No. 11,324,674 (Mario M. De La Guardia and Tony Ray Adair); Strength of Nature, LLC, Atlanta, GA, has patented a method of method for simultaneously neutralizing and coloring relaxed hair. It is comprised of providing hair that has been treated with a relaxing agent, wherein the relaxing comprises a no-lye relaxing agent; and contacting the relaxed hair with one or more applications of a neutralizer colorant mousse composition for a time suitable to neutralize and color the relaxed hair. The composition comprised of a mousse concentrate comprising water, an acid, and a surfactant; a colorant selected from the group consisting of nitro dyes, anthraquinone dyes, acid dyes, oil-soluble dyes, basic dyes, and mixtures thereof; and a propellant. The relaxed and neutralized hair exhibits at least 20% fewer broken hair fibers as compared to relaxed hair that has been neutralized with a shampoo neutralizer product. The hair is not massaged or kneaded while the composition is in contact with the relaxed hair, and the composition remains in contact with the hair for from about 30 seconds to about 20 minutes. A substantially durable color is imparted to the hair from the composition.