모발 건강과 관련된 한국의 최신 특허 동향

In today’s society, as there is a growing interest in appearance, the health of hair is taking on addedsignificance, and the population who are worrying about hair loss is on the rise. This study is intended to putforward basic data, which can give the development direction of hair loss protection and hair loss treatmentin the beauty field, by inquiring into the trend of patents on hair restorer, hair grower, hair loss protectionand hair loss treatment registered in Korea. The products for improving and maintaining the health of hairare classified into cosmetics, quasi-drug and medicine by the kind and mixture of pharmacological activeingredients, the difference in efficacy and effect, and the development and production method of products. The results of this study were as follows. The efficacy of quasi-drug is hair growth promotion, hair growth,and protection of dandruff, itching and hair loss. The morbid alopecia like alopecia areata, poor hair growth,alopecia seborrheica, pityroid alopecia needs to be applied by medicines. The recent patent application relatedto the health of hair showed that natural materials of few side effects were used for most of patents in terms ofa long-term treatment of hair loss protection. The peptide or stem cell was used for many materials of hair losstreatment. And most of patents were applied for external application or cosmetics production.