Abstract: Hair treatment products comprising in an aqueous phase a mixture of (a) water soluble procyanidins and (b) oil soluble free tocopherols, both components having an affinity to the hair, protect the hair against damage on heat drying, against environmental influences and hair treatments, and they protect other components of said hair treatment products against oxidation and degradation.

Abstract: The method of obtaining a pomade effect on hair includes providing a foam pump apparatus for making a foam from a single-phase composition, which contains at least one anionic, carboxylate-group containing surfactant compound, preferably a sulfosuccinate, and at least one nonionic emulsifier; then generating a foam from the single-phase composition by operating the foam pump apparatus; and working at least a portion of the foam into the hair without subsequently rinsing the hair in order to provide the pomade effect.

Abstract: Hair treatment products comprising in an aqueous phase a mixture of (a) water soluble procyanidins and (b) oil soluble free tocopherols, both components having an affinity to the hair, protect the hair against damage on heat drying, against environmental influences and hair treatments, and they protect other components of said hair treatment products against oxidation and degradation.

Abstract: The hair treatment composition has the Theological properties of an oil but contains non-hydrophobic ingredients. It includes at least one fatty acid glyceride polyalkylene glycol ether or at least one fatty acid partial glyceride polyalkylene glycol ether with at least 30 alkylene glycol units respectively; at least one surfactant different from the at least one fatty acid glyceride polyalkylene glycol ether and the at least one fatty acid partial glyceride polyalkylene glycol ether with at least 30 alkylene glycol units and at least one thickener. The hair treatment composition is dfree of ingredients that cause foaming of the composition prior to or during application to hair. It provides hair to which it is applied with improved hair shaping, long-lasting luster and soft feel. It behaves like an oil, without having an oil in the classical sense as its principal ingredient.

Abstract: The product or article of manufacture for hair treatment consists of a single-phase composition containing at least one anionic, carboxylate-group-containing surfactant compound and at least one nonionic emulsifier, in combination with an apparatus for making a foam from the single-phase composition. The product produces foam in an outstanding manner without the need for a propellant gas and is satisfactorily worked into the hair without troublesome after-foaming. It has a satisfactory shaping effect and imparts long-lasting luster and long-lasting soft feel to hair treated with it.

Abstract: Compositions for treating hair prepared using fluorinated acids to neutralize polymers with basic groups are described, which contain a complex formed from at least one fluorinated acid and at least one polymer with basic groups or a complex of a salt of a fluorinated acid and a polymer with protonated or quaternized amine groups, and which also contain at least one film-forming, hair-fixing polymer. These compositions deposit a reduced amount of residue on the hair without reducing the hair-fixing performance.

Abstract: The hair treatment composition for increasing the formability and luster of hair contains from 0.01 to 10 percent by weight of a copolymer formed from at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer of the formula (I): CH2═CR1R2  (I), wherein R1 is A—(CH2CH2O)x—R3 or COOH group and A is C(═O)O, C(═O)NH or CH2O, x is a number from 1 to 100, R3 is a C8- to C30-alkyl group, R2 is H, a C1- to C30-alkyl group or a CH2—R1 group, with the proviso that at least one of the groups, R1 and R2, contain the A—(CH2CH2O)x—R3 group; and from at least one ethylenic unsaturated monomer of the formula (II): CH2═CR4COOR5  (II), wherein R4 and R5 are, independently of each other, H or an alkyl group with 1 to 30 carbon atoms; from 0.01 to 50 percent by weight of a polyethylene glycol with a molecular weight over 500 g/mol and from 0.01 to 20 percent by weight of a nonionic surfactant having an HLB-value under 20.

Abstract: The hair treatment composition for promoting luster and stylability of hair consists of an aqueous or aqueous-alcoholic solution containing preferably from 0.1 to 30 percent by weight of at least one fatty acid glyceride polyalkylene glycol ether having from 70 to 1000 alkylene glycol units or at least one fatty acid partial glyceride polyalkylene glycol ether having from 70 to 1000 alkylene glycol units and a propellant which is dimethyl ether and/or a volatile hydrocarbons or a mixture of volatile hydrocarbons so that the hair treatment composition consists of a single-phase aerosol preparation. The composition is composed so that an aerosol foam is formed on the hair when the hair treatment composition is applied to the hair.

Abstract: The hair treatment composition contains at least one nonionic, water-insoluble vinyl/silicone copolymer having a backbone chain of siloxane polymer units and a side chain of vinyl polymer units and at least one nonvolatile silicone derivative compound. Hair, which is treated with the composition according to the invention, has a long-lasting fixing effect, which lasts through several washings. The hair treated with the composition of the invention is flexible and has a natural feel.

Abstract: The hair cleansing composition contains from 0.1 to 30 percent by weight of a dimethylsiloxanelmethyl-3-mercapto-propylsiloxane/isobutylmethacrylate copolymer and from 3 to 50 percent by weight of at least one detergent surfactant. The composition can also contain dimethylsiloxane glycol copolymers and/or polydimethylsiloxanes with or without hydroxy terminal groups. This composition has a definite fixing effect as well as satisfactory hair cleaning action. The film formed on the hair after washing and drying the hair does not significantly load the hair or leave an appreciable residue.

Abstract: Process for the polymerization of cyclic olefins by photochemical ring-opening metathesis polymerization by irradiation, using catalytic amounts of a heat-stable ruthenium or osmium catalyst which has at least one photolabile ligand, the other coordination sites being occupied by non-photolabile ligands.