Rhone-Poulenc, Inc.

Fred Robinson

Manjit Singh Chowdhary

Michael Prendergast

Dominic Wai Yeung

Stan Lem

The present invention is directed to a hair conditioning composition comprising as the active ingredient, a homopolymer of the formula. ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are independently lower alkyl; R.sub.4 is C.sub.2 -C.sub.25 alkyl or aryl group; n is 1-6; and X is lower alkyl sulfate or aryl sulfonate and to the use thereof for treating hair.

Homopolymers prepared from ammonium quaternary salts of

A detergent composition useful for cleaning and/or conditioning human hair or skin or cleaning dishes or clothing which contains NaCl or NH.sub.4 Cl and further contains a nonionically and cationically derivatized polygalactomannan, the molecular substitution of the nonionic substituent being between about 0.4 and about 1.2 and the degree of substitution of the cationic substituent being between about 0.20 to about 1.0, said detergent composition having a viscosity of greater than about 500 centipoises and said composition having greater than 75% light transmission at a wavelength of from about 500-600 nanometers is provided. Also disclosed is the use of an amphoteric and nonionic substituted derivatized polygalactomannan for such uses.

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