A cosmetic composition for the first stage of an operation for the permanent reshaping of keratinous material, in particular the hair, which consists in reducing the disulphide bonds of keratin, characterized in that it comprises at least one active agent suitable for the reduction of the disulphide bonds of keratin, at least one basifying agent chosen from ornithine, a salt of ornithine, lysine, a salt of lysine, arginine, and a salt of arginine, and at least one cationic polymer containing pri...

Personal care products, particularly hair care products, are made herein by mixing (A) a polymer having defined repeat units of a monomer (e.g. .alpha.-olefin) maleic anhydride alkyl half-ester or full acid, maleamic acid and maleimide, which is derivatized with an amine, and (B) a compound or polymer having a carboxylic acid functionality. These products exhibit excellent high humidity curl retention properties, as well as an advantageous blend of toughness and cohesiveness, and a strong affini...

Personal care compositions, particularly hair care products, include a polymer mixture made from (A) a derivatized polymer of maleic anhydride having defined repeat units of a monomer (e.g. .alpha.-olefin) maleic anhydride alkyl half-ester or full acid, maleamic acid and maleimide, and (B) a compound or polymer having a carboxylic acid functionality. These compositions exhibit excellent high humidity curl retention properties, as well as an advantageous blend of toughness and cohesiveness, and a...

A hair styling composition comprising: (a) from about 0.1% to about 15%, by weight, of an adhesive polymer, said polymer being characterized by an organic polymeric backbone wherein said polymer is substantially free of silicone; (b) from about 0.1% to about 15%, by weight, of a silicone grafted adhesive polymer, said polymer being characterized by an organic polymeric backbone, compatible with said adhesive polymer of (a) wherein said silicone grafted adhesive polymer has silicone macromers gra...

Stable water-in-oil emulsion for cosmetic or pharmaceutical use. This emulsion comprises a fatty phase in a proportion of 15 to 40% consisting of at least one silicone in a proportion of 15 to 40% by weight relative to the total weight of the emulsion, and an aqueous phase containing at least one electrolyte-insensitive aqueous gelling agent, the emulsifying agent of the said emulsion being an alkyl- or alkoxydimethicone copolyol of general formula: ##STR1## in which: X is a hydrogen atom or a C...

The present invention deals with the composition, and application of novel compounds, useful as anti-tangle, and conditioning agents for use in personal care, on hair which has been processed. By processes is meant hair which has been subjected to the process of bleaching, relaxing, permanent waving, and/or coloring. These processes make the hair raspy and degrade the properties of the hair. The properties of these novel compounds remediates the damage done to hair and leaves it more manageable ...

The present invention relates to conditioning shampoo compositions which both cleanse the hair and condition the hair. These compositions comprise a detersive surfactant; a fatty compounds; a hair conditioning agent; and water. The present invention also relates to methods for cleansing and conditioning the hair.

A method of using a multipurpose hair-care product utilizing the active ingredient chitosonium pyrrolidone carbonxylate which is primarily derived from shrimp and other shell fish yielding a product having improved cutting lotion, memory lock, straightening and relaxing characteristics. The method comprises applying the product to the hair after shampooing and drying the hair.

A hair strengthening relaxing composition comprising a cationic polyquaternary polymer that is the product of a condensation reaction of a lower dialkylamine (C.sub.1 -C.sub.3), a difunctional epoxy compound and a third reactant selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, alkylene diamines having two to six carbon atoms, and polyamines; and a high-alkalinity hair relaxing agent.

The present invention relates to hair care compositions which contain a polymer which is prepared from N-vinyl formamide (NVF) monomer and the use of those hair care compositions to treat hair. The polymer may be a homopolymer of NVF or an interpolymer of NVF and at least one vinyl monomer. The polymer is present in amounts effective to provide the hair care compositions with hair fixative properties and/or hair conditioning properties.