Kao Corporation

Hisateru Tanabe

Kenji Arai

Shinobu Nagase

Satoshi Shibuichi

Yasushi Kajihara

Hideyuki Hanazawa

Masato Oshika

Masaaki Moriyama

This invention relates a hair cosmetic composition, which comprises (A) glycine or alanine, (B) an &agr;-hydroxy acid, &bgr;-hydroxy acid, 1,2-dicarboxylic acid, 1,3-dicarboxylic acid or aromatic carboxylic acid, and (C) a cationic surfactant. The hair cosmetic composition is excellent in the effect of improving optical or mechanical properties of hair.

Hair cosmetic compositions containing glycine and alanine

This invention relates to a hair cleansing composition, which comprises (A) 0.01 to 20 wt. % of glycine or alanine, (B) 0.01 to 5 wt. % of an &agr;-hydroxy acid, &bgr;-hydroxy acid, 1,2-dicarboxylic acid, 1,3-dicarboxylic acid or aromatic carboxylic acid, and (C) 5 to 40 wt. % of an anionic surfactant selected from an alkylsulfuric acid salt, an alkylethersulfuric acid salt or an N-alkylamidoalkanolsulfuric acid ester salt. The hair cleansing composition is excellent in the effect of improving optical or mechanical properties of hair.

Hair cleansing compositions containing glycine and alanine

An aqueous liquid cleansing composition, packaged in a foamer container, said composition comprising:

Aqueous liquid cleansing composition

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Hisateru Tanabe