Abstract: Cosmetic composition comprising a cationic surfactant, a fatty alcohol and two nonionic polymers The invention relates to a composition for the cosmetic treatment of keratin materials, in particular human keratin fibres such as the hair, comprising one or more cationic surfactants, one or more fatty alcohols, one or more nonionic non-associative cellulose-based polymers and one or more nonionic associative polymers. The invention also relates to a cosmetic treatment process using this composition.

Abstract: A two-stage treatment process suitable for the permanent deformation and/or shaping of keratinous substances and, in particular, the hair includes the application of a reducing composition containing, in addition to a reducing agent, an organic absorbing agent followed, after an optional rinsing, by the application of a neutralizing composition and by the rinsing of the keratinous substances thus treated.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the permanent setting of keratin fibres and in particular hair, characterised in that it consists in: applying on the keratin fibres a composition reducing keratin, with adhesive capacity less than 15 g and a viscosity ranging between 0 and 2500 mpa's at a laminar flow rate of 100 s?1 and setting them; after sufficient setting time for reducing keratin, applying an oxidising composition, without intermediate rinsing of the fibres; rinsing after sufficient time for fixing the set fibres and reduced fibres in permanent setting; rinsing with water.

Abstract: The invention concerns an agent for use as reducing agent in a method for permanent hair setting, comprising: a first constituent consisting of a powder composition, comprising at least an agent for reducing solid keratin or adsorbed on a solid; a second constituent consisting of aqueous liquid composition not containing a keratin reducing agent, the different constituents designed to be mixed with each other when used to obtain a reducing composition designed to be applied on the hair for reducing the sulphur bonds thereof.

Abstract: A subject-matter of the invention is a two-stage treatment process suitable for the permanent deformation and/or shaping of keratinous substances and in particular the hair comprising the application of a reducing composition comprising, in addition to a reducing agent, an organic absorbing agent, followed, after an optional rinsing, by the application of a neutralizing composition and by rinsing of the keratinous substances thus treated.

Abstract: The invention relates to an oxidizing agent for use in a process for permanently reshaping the hair, this agent comprising: a first component comprising a composition containing at least one oxidizing agent in aqueous medium, a second component comprising a composition containing one thickening polymer in aqueous medium, as an aqueous or oily dispersion or as a reverse emulsion, with the proviso that said thickening polymer is not quaternary hydroxyethylcellulose; the first and the second component are mixed with each other at the time of use in order to obtain a ready-to-use oxidizing composition to be applied to the hair in order to reform the hair's disulfide linkages.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reducing agent intended to be used in a process for permanently reshaping the hair, this agent comprising: a first component comprising at least one thiol-bearing reducing agent in aqueous medium, and a second component comprising at least one thickening polymer in aqueous medium, said thickening polymer being in the form of an aqueous dispersion, an oily dispersion, or a reverse emulsion, with the proviso that said thickening polymer is not vinylpyrollidone-styrol, carboxymethylcellulose, acrylic acid homopolymers, quaternary hydroxyethylcellulose, and cross-linked polymers of polymethacrylic acid; wherein the first and second components are to be mixed with each other at the time of initiating the permanently reshaping of the hair to obtain a ready-to-use reducing composition.