A multi-functional hand-held apparatus comprising a housing and a brush to be used jointly for bathing a person, wherein the housing comprising a chamber or a container capable of holding and squirting water or a fluid through tubes or one or more pores toward a person's hair with a directional orientation toward a back of a person's head and away from a person's face. The multi-functional hand-held apparatus comprising a series of combs or the one or more bristles for rinsing hair and pulling water or the fluid and shampoo or bubbles through the person's hair. Further provided are methods for squirting fluid, such as water, with a directional orientation onto a person's head and removing soap, foam, bubbles or excess water with a brush including one or more bristles that may be curved to conform with a person's head.

The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is a brush. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is adapted for use with a patient. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is configured for use with a lotion. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush applies the lotion to the patient. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush comprises a brush structure, a control circuit, and a fluidic network. The brush structure contains the lotion, the control circuit, and the fluidic network. The control circuit pumps the lotion through the fluidic network. The control circuit rotates the brush structure. The fluidic network transports the lotion from the brush head to the patient.

A brush-like device that adapts to tangles in hair and allows for easy removal of hair post-groom using uniquely shaped, anisotropic papillae not unlike those found on a feline tongue.

Several hairstyling tools are described. One styling tool includes a removable cover and a main body with a spatula located at one end of the main body. An edge-defining brush is located at the other end of the main body. The spatula end is received by the removable cover while not in use. Another tool includes a main body with a tool section and a handle section. Amongst other features, the tool section includes a comb and a plurality of brushes.

A disposable brush head cartridge for a sonic or ultrasonic skin cleaning brush, specially adapted for use in surgical skin prep. The disposable brush head cartridge has a base configured to be removably attached to a sonic motor drive handle. The disposable brush head cartridge further comprises an upper bristle head sealed with respect to the base by a surrounding disposable cover spaced from the bristles. The cover defines a reservoir of pre-surgical skin cleaning fluid, in a first form soaking or pre-moistening the brush bristles until the cover is removed, and in a second form stored in a separate fluid-tight compartment in the cover and combined with the brush bristles after the cover is removed.

An all-in-one oral care system that includes a brush, a main body, a top cover, a bottom cover, an interdental brush, and a toothpaste cartridge. All major components are designed to be detachable and replaceable using attachment mechanisms built into each part. The oral care system utilizes a manual actuator to force toothpaste from the main body into the toothbrush head and onto the bristles when depressed. When released, the actuator creates a vacuum force that draws toothpaste from the cartridge into the main body. The vacuum force draws a plunger in the cartridge upwards to move the toothpaste to the main body.

A secured grip pet grooming device for use in aiding the de-shedding process while bathing a dog and decreasing stress on the animal. The secured grip pet grooming device includes a brush structure having a top surface, bottom surface, and plurality of sidewalls defining an internal reservoir therein. An adapter is configured to removably secure a water connection line to the brush structure in fluid communication, such as a hose. A plurality of bristles is disposed on the bottom surface of the brush structure, along with at least one vent in the surface having a channel extending into the internal reservoir and allowing liquid to pass therethrough. A handle is affixed to the top surface of the brush structure and includes at least one aperture adapted to receive the fingers of a user therethrough.

End effectors and systems including end effectors including embedded batteries and auxiliary components powered by the batteries are described. In an example, the end effector includes a base portion coupleable to a motor carried by an appliance that is separate from the end effector; and a battery disposed in the base portion configured to power an auxiliary component of the end effector.

A method of whitening teeth. The method may include delivering a buffer solution from a reservoir of a toothbrush to one or more tooth cleaning elements of the toothbrush; applying a toothpaste containing a peroxide to the tooth cleaning elements, the toothpaste having a first pH; and brushing the teeth with the tooth cleaning elements, thereby mixing the buffer solution and the toothpaste to form, at surfaces of the teeth, a tooth whitening mixture having a second pH that is greater than the first pH.

An oral hygiene device, which comprises a main body not provided with a region forming a handle, with dimensions that allow the device to be completely inserted into the mouth area of a user, said main body (11, 21, 31, 41) supporting at least one piece of dental floss (12, 22, 32, 42), where said piece of floss (12, 22, 32, 42) defines at least one cleaning zone, wherein the main body (11, 21, 31, 41) has two separate support regions each configured to support the ends of a piece of floss (12, 22, 32, 42), in the form of protruding projections that extend away from a central portion. This device for oral hygiene is based on cleaning with dental floss, not being provided with any region forming a handle or the like since it does not require the use of hands during its use.