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The present invention provides stable aerosol cream mousse composition, preferably hair care composition, that can provide enhanced touch, combability, alignment and volume reduction to the hair, with low or reduced greasy, oily hair feel, while being formulated having a thick, rich, creamy, mousse-type rheology with excellent spreading, perception of spreading, and feel. The aerosol composition is based on the combination of component (A) a cationic surfactant, which is generally a quaternary ammonium compound such as e.g., ditallow dimethyl ammonium chloride; (B) a fatty alcohol, such as cetyl and stearyl alcohol; and (C) carbon dioxide.

The hair treatment composition contains preferably from 0.01 to 20 percent by weight of at least one N-hydroxyalkyl-O-benzyl chitosan and from 0.01 to 20 percent by weight of at least one other hair treatment effective ingredient. The at least one N-hydroxyalkyl-O-benzyl chitosan has at least one hydroxylalkyl group, preferably a hydroxyethyl, hydroxypropyl or hydroxybutyl group, and has from 2 to 20 carbon atoms. Various methods of treating hair with hair treatment compositions containing one or more of the N-hydroxyalkyl-O-benzyl chitosans are described.

A personal care conditioning and/or styling composition for a keratin substrate comprising: (i) about 50 wt. % to 95 wt. % of at least one cationic or pseudo-cationic monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylamidopropyl trimethylammonium chloride (APTAC) and/or Vinylpyrrolidone (VP); (ii) about 1 wt. % to 30 wt. % of at least one anionic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) acrylic acid (AA), (b) acrylamido methylpropyl sulfonate (AMPS), and/or (c) sodium methyl allyl sulfonate (SMAS); and (iii) about 0.1 wt. % to 20 wt. % of at least one hydrophobic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) polyoxyethylene (PEG)-18-behenylether-methacrylate (BEM) (b) Lauryl-ethoxylated-methacrylate (LEM), (c) stearyl acrylate (SA), (d) Stream-10-allyl-ether, (e) Vinylcaprolactam (V-cap), and/or (f) Hydroxyethyl-pyrrolidone-methacrylate (M06). Also described is a process of preparing said polymer, and its method of use.

The invention is a low viscosity oil-in-water emulsion that is readily atomizable for use in cosmetic and dermatological applications and particularly for spray or aerosol applications. The oil-in-water emulsion includes at least one phospholipid and at least one oil-in water emulsifier. In some embodiments, the emulsion may also include a water-in-oil emulsifier. The invention also includes a process for preparing the emulsion.

A polyethylene fiber having a high apparent Young's modulus, high breaking tensile strength and low breaking elongation. The fiber also exhibits residual percentage crimp suitable enough for carding, so that the cardability, which has been conventionally difficult to improve, can be remarkably increased. Further, the fiber can be formed into a non-woven fabric having a soft touch feeling such that the fabric is suitable for medical use as well as hygienic use. In addition, the polyethylene fiber of this invention can be mixed with other fibers such as cellulose fiber to obtain a high absorbent fiber network material.

The present invention relates to an aqueous hair cleansing agent which includes the following components (A), (B): (A) sulfate-type anionic surfactant having a specific structure, (B) polyoxyethylene alkyl ether-type nonionic surfactant having a specific structure, and water, wherein ratio of weight represented by (B)/((A)+(B)) is 1% to 25%.

Hair treatment agents include at least one propylene glycol diester and specific polymers based on protein hydrolysates. A composition for the treatment of keratin fibers includes, in a cosmetic carrier, a total of 0.01 to 5.0 wt. %, relative to the entire composition, of at least one propylene glycol diester of formula (I), in which R1 and R2 independently represent a group selected from among at least one linear saturated or unsaturated, branched saturated or unsaturated, and cyclic saturated or unsaturated C6 to C 30 hydrocarbon group and/or a phenyl or a benzyl group optionally substituted with C1 to C4 alkyl groups and/or hydroxy groups and mixtures thereof, and a total of 0.001 to 5.0 wt. %, relative to the entire composition, of at least one polymer, said polymer being composed of at least one protein hydrolysate and at least one silane.

A hair treatment agent, a shampoo or a hair coloring agent comprising a silylated peptide-silane compound copolymer composition which is produced by the following process and has viscosity in a range from 500 to 20000 mPa.s in 70% of solid content concentration of said copolymer composition at 20° C., wherein said process comprises: polycondensing one or more kind selected from silylated peptides represented by the general formula (I) with one or more kind selected from silane compounds represented by the general formula (II) in an aqueous solution in a range of reaction molar ratio of said silylated peptide to said silane compound from 1:1 to 1:100 to form a polycondensed polymer, and then adding by addition reaction a silane compound represented by the general formula (III) in an aqueous solution to said polycondensed polymer; wherein said silylated peptide represented by the following general formula (I) is , in which R<1 >represents a hydroxy group etc., R<2 >represents a residual group of a side chain obtained by removing the terminal end amino group of a basic amino acid having an amino group at the end of a side chain, R<3 >represents a side chain of an amino acid other than R<2>, A is a connecting moiety, and x is from 0 to 50, y to from 1 to 100 and x+y is from 1 to 100; wherein said silane compound represented by the following general formula (II) is R<4>mSi(OH)pY(4-p-m) (II) , in which m represents an integer from 0 to 2, p represents an integer from 2 to 4, m+p is not more than 4, R<4 >represents an organic group; and wherein silane compound represented by the following general formula (III) is R<5>3Si(OH) (III) , wherein three R<5>s represent organic groups.

The present disclosure relates to kits and methods, which are particularly useful for repairing, strengthening, and protecting hair from damage. The kits and methods employ one or more booster compositions, which can be added to a separate hair-treatment composition for application to the hair, or can be applied individually to the hair in a sequence with a separate hair-treatment composition. The booster compositions include: at least 0.5 wt. % of at least one amino acid or amino sulfonic acid, and/or a salt thereof; at least 0.5 wt. % of at least one non-polymeric mono, di, or tricarboxylic acid, and/or a salt thereof; and water. Hair treated with the kits and methods exhibit desirable cosmetic properties such as smoothness, gloss, improved combability, and enhanced strength and elasticity.

A personal care conditioning and/or styling composition for a keratin substrate comprising: (A) at least one conditioning and/or styling ter/tetra polymer obtained by polymerizing: (i) about 50 wt. % to 97 wt. % of at least one cationic or pseudo-cationic monomer selected from the group consisting of diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride (DADMAC), Hydroxyethyl-pyrrolidone-methacrylate (MO6), and/or Vinylpyrrolidone (VP); (ii) about 1 wt. % to 30 wt. % of at least one anionic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) acrylic acid (AA), (b) acrylamido methylpropyl sulfonate (AMPS), and/or (c) sodium methyl allyl sulfonate (SMAS); and (iii) about 0.1 wt. % to 20 wt. % of at least one hydrophobic monomer selected from the group consisting of (a) polyoxyethylene (PEG)-18-behenylether-methacrylate (BEM) (b) Lauryl-ethoxylated-methacrylate (LEM), (c) stearyl acrylate (SA), (d) Streath-10-allyl-ether, and/or (e) Vinylcaprolactam (V-cap); and wherein said ter/tetra polymer has a cationic degree of substitution (Cat-DS) of greater than about 0.001 units, and wherein the cationic charge density is in the range of about 1 meq/g to about 6.5 meq/g; (B) at least one cosmetically acceptable excipient; and (C) optionally, at least one effective amount of personal care active ingredient. Also, disclosed is a process of preparing said ter/tetra polymer, and its method of use.

The invention describes the use of ester oil for haircare, particularly during the reduction stage, when perming hair, to corresponding perming agents and to a method for perming hair.

The present invention provides the use of a thickening system to provide stable thickened hair treating composition, preferably hair care composition, that can provide enhanced touch, combability, alignment and volume reduction to the hair, with low or reduced greasy, oily hair feel, while being formulated having a thick viscosity with excellent spreading, perception of spreading, combability of hair and feel of hair.

A hair treatment agent includes dimethylsilanol hyaluronates and glycerol.

The hair treatment composition, which is in the form a pearlescent product, contains a nonionic, amphiphilic associative thickener consisting of at least one hydrophobically modified aminoplast/polyether copolymer; a hair care active ingredient selected from the group consisting of cationic surfactants, zwitterionic surfactants, cationic polymers, cationic silicone compounds, amine-substituted silicone compounds, cationic derivatized proteins, cationic derivatized protein hydrolyzates and betaines; and a pearlescence or turbidity-inducing agent selected from the group consisting of fatty acid alkanol amides, fatty acid glyceryl esters, guanine, glycol fatty acid diesters, styrene/acrylate copolymers, polyethylene glycol fatty acid diesters, styrene/vinyl pyrrolidone copolymers and poly(trimethylammonium ethylmethacrylate chloride); in an aqueous cosmetic base. The composition is usable as a leave-in hair care composition or a hair rinse, which conditions the hair and imparts luster and volume to the hair.

The invention relates to aqueous compositions for hair treatment, comprising polyorganosiloxanes A) or organic compounds B) having certain functional groups, in particular aldehyde and unsaturated dicarboxylic acid moieties, hair treatment or hair care compositions comprising the aqueous compositions, a process for the treatment of hair which comprises the steps of providing the aqueous compositions and applying said aqueous compositions to the hair, and the use of the aqueous compositions for the treatment of hair.

The invention relates to polyamide fibers, in particular to high-temperature-resistance polyamide fibers for high-simulation human hair wigs and a preparation method of the high-temperature-resistancepolyamide fibers. Color masterbatch slices are prepared from 20-40% of the weight of required polyamide resin and other raw materials, a spinning melt solution is prepared from the remaining polyamide resin and the obtained color masterbatch slices, and the high-temperature-resistance polyamide fibers for hair is prepared from the spinning melt solution. The wig fibers produced through the preparation method have excellent chemical stability, thermal stability, strength, abrasion resistance and shaping persistence, have the luster of natural human hair and excellent elasticity, drapability and the combing property, are easy to dye, are not prone to fading, and are easy to model and neaten.

The present invention provides the use of a thickening system to provide stable thickened hair treating composition, preferably hair care composition, that can provide enhanced touch, combability, alignment and volume reduction to the hair, with low or reduced greasy, oily hair feel, while being formulated having a thick viscosity with excellent spreading, perception of spreading, combability of hair, and feel of hair.

The invention discloses organic silicon shampoo and a preparation method thereof. The organic silicon shampoo is prepared from a polydimethylsiloxane alcohol emulsion with nano particle size, a composite natural product anti-allergic and itching-relieving extract, sodium methyl cocoyl taurate, cocamidomethyl MEA, glycol distearate, sodium isostearoyl lactylate, stearamide propyl dimethylamine, stearamidopropyl dimethylamine, guar gum hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride, cocamidopropyl betaine and other matrix components. The preparation method comprises the following steps: dispersing, mixing and uniformly stirring solid materials, keeping at medium-high temperature for a certain time, cooling, adding low-temperature materials, and uniformly mixing. According to the organic silicon shampoo involved in the technical scheme, the polydimethylsiloxane alcohol nano-emulsion is selected as a main raw material, so that the hydrophilicity of silicone oil is improved, the problem that hydrophobic silicone oil in an existing shampoo product is gathered on scalp is solved, and the beneficial effect of low accumulation of the nano-silicone oil emulsion is achieved.

The invention provides a hair cleaning agent composition, which has good foaming performance during hair washing. In addition, both the hair in the washing process and the hair after being dried have excellent combing smoothness. The hair cleaning agent composition comprises the following ingredients: (A) 0.5 to 60 weight percent of anion active agents, (B) 0.01 to 3 weight percent of poly(diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride) and vinyl pyrrolidone-vinyl sulfonated copolymers, and (C) 0.05 to 3 weight percent of at least one kind of organic acid selected from hydroxycarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic acid and aromatic carboxylic acid. In addition, when the hair cleaning agent composition is diluted to 20 weight times, the pH value of the hair cleaning agent composition is 1 to 4.

The invention provides a transparent hair shampoo composition which is hard to cause dripping when taken in hands, has good finger through property when shampoo is rinsed, and is excellent in stability over time at a low temperature. The transparent hair shampoo composition is characterized by comprising: 1-20 mass% of component (a): a surfactant represented by the formula (1), 1-20 mass% of component (b): an amphoteric surfactant, 0.01-2 mass% of component (c): cationized cellulose having a weight average molecular weight of 5*105-30*105, and 0.5-2.5 mass% of component (d): sodium chloride, wherein the mass ratio (a)/(b) of the components a to b is 1-9. In the formula (1), RCO represents an aliphatic acyl group having 8-22 carbon atoms, and M 1 represents an alkali metal atom, an alkanolamine, and an alkali metal salt of taurine.

The invention relates to hair preparations containing selected cationic silicones and at least one B series vitamin as well as to the use of said preparations for the treatment of keratin fibers, in particular human hair.