Patent ID: 8765688

Claim:
A method for treatment of dandruff, comprising topical application to a person in need of treatment of dandruff of a composition comprising a cosmetic carrier and a Malassezia furfur -inhibiting amount of at least one peptide with a sequence or a repetitive sequence motif according to SEQ ID NO: 2: (SEQ ID NO: 2) X 1 X 2 K X 3 X 4 X 5 KIP X 11 X 12 KFX 6 X 7 X 8 AX 9 KF in which X 1 is lysine, arginine or phenylalanine, X 2 is lysine or tryptophan, X 3 is leucine or lysine, X 4 is phenylalanine or leucine, X 5 is leucine or lysine, X 6 is leucine or lysine, X 7 is histidine or lysine, X 8 is alanine, leucine, valine or serine, X 9 is leucine or lysine, X 11 is proline or a chemical bond, and X 12 is proline or a chemical bond, where the repetitive sequence motifs are identical or different; or peptide derivatives thereof selected from the group consisting of aliphatic esters, amides, N-acyl peptides, O-acyl peptides, and peptides wherein between 1 to 5 arbitrary amino acid residues are N- and/or C-terminally added or deleted.