US Patent No. 8,679,513 B2; L’Oreal, Paris, has patented a cosmetic process for inducing and/or stimulating growth of the eyelashes and/or halting their loss and/or increasing their density. It entails applying on the eyelashes and/or eyelids a mascara composition comprising in a physiologically acceptable medium, an amount effective for inducing and/or stimulating growth of the eyelashes and/or halting their loss and/or increasing their density of at least one jasmonic acid derivative....