A hair care product which comprises a salt of an acylated compound obtained by condensing fatty acids containing at least 40% of branched fatty acids having 20 to 32 carbon atoms with silk protein-derived peptides, which hair care product is effective in imparting a good texture and preventing the hair from damages (split hair, clipped hair, etc.) without giving any tackiness or greasiness.

A novel hair waving agent comprises as its main ingredient a thioglyceryl alkyl ether or 1-phenyl-2-mercaptoethanol. The agent has low irritativeness and the good capability of wave formation.

A novel hair waving agent comprises as its main ingredient a thioglyceryl alkyl ether or 1-phenyl-2-mercaptoethanol. The agent has low irritativeness and the good capability of wave formation.

This invention discloses a novel odor-removing and deodorizing composition which comprises as its effective component a hydrolysate of keratin material. The hydrolysis of keratin material may be effected by any known methods using acid, alkali or enzyme. The composition according to the invention can be used in any known forms by treating the keratin hydrolysate to be an odor-removing base by usual manners. The composition effectively acts on mercaptan and hydrogen sulfide with which it has been...

A process for the production of a solubilized protein is disclosed, which is obtained by reducing disulfide bonds in a disulfide bond-containing water-insoluble protein material into mercapto groups and subsequently converting a part or an entire portion thereof into carboxymethyldisulfide groups. In particular, the disclosed process for the production of a solubilized protein which comprises (a) treating a disulfide bond-containing water-insoluble protein material with an aqueous alkaline solut...

A hair cosmetic composition comprising the following components (A) and (B): (A) 1.0 to 50.0% by weight, based on the total weight of the composition, of a dialkylene glycol monoalkyl ether represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; and (B) 0.01 to 20.0% by weight, based on the total weight the composition, of at least one cationic surfactant is disclosed. This hair cosmetic c...

A method and apparatus of splicing a train for veneer sheets being fed in a horizontal direction on infeed and outfeed conveyors operated by electric sensors that signal the conveyors to start or to stop at predetermined appropriate times when the preceding and succeeding veneer sheets pass certain predetermined positions, coordinated with application of a strand and beads of a thermoplastic adhesive onto said train of the veneer sheets on conveyors by a cold press. According to this method and ...

A hair care product contains a yolk antibody (a yolk-derived, anti-hair antibody) which has been obtained from an egg of a domestic fowl immunized using, as an antigen, whole human hair, e.g., normal human hair or human hair damaged by permanent waving, dyeing or bleaching, hair particles obtained by grinding constituent tissues of human hair, the keratin protein extracted from the human hair, or a hydrolysate of the keratin protein.

A hair setting composition is described which comprises at least one of decomposition products obtained by oxidation of keratin materials and derivatives at a thiol group of decomposition products obtained by reduction of keratin materials, and at least one of alkanolamines and basic amino acids. The member is dissolved in a polar solvent in an amount of 0.01 to 10 wt. % of the composition. The base is contained in a weight ratio to the member of 0.02 to 0.7:1.

A shampoo composition is provided which is of the type which comprises a shampoo base containing at least one anionic surface active agent and a decomposition derivative of keratin material. The decomposition derivative is one or more of (1) decomposition products obtained by oxidation of keratin materials and derivatives at a thiol group of decomposition products obtained by reduction of keratin material.