Abstract: A hair coloring and hair-setting lotion composition comprises in combination an aqueous solution of a lower alkanol, a cosmetic film-forming resin, a direct dye, a solar filter and a reducing agent selected from the group consisting of butyl hydroxy anisole, dodecyl gallate, propyl gallate and octyl gallate. The reducing agent is generally present in amounts of about 0.02 - 2% by weight of the composition.

Abstract: A process for preparing a cosmetic blotting paper toweling composition for the skin consisting essentially of a flexible solid blotting paper toweling support having a multiplicity of mechanical pressure rupturable, cosmetic containing microcapsules, which are homogeneously distributed therein, comprises dispersing the microcapsules in a liquid blotting paper paste phase at a time when the liquid blotting paper paste phase has a density close to that of the microcapsules so that the microcapsules are homogeneously distributed therein and solidifying the liquid phase to produce said cosmetic composition.