Hair dressing compositions containing a hair substantive quaternary resin

Claim 1

A hair dressing composition comprising a hair-fixative quaternary cellulose ether resin having a high affinity for hair and a hair grooming agent dissolved in an aqueous alkyl alcoholic solvent in which the alkyl alcohol has from 2 to 6 carbons wherein: a. said resin is present in the range of from about 0.1 to 7.0% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; b. said hair grooming agent is present in the range of from about 1 to 60% by weight based on the total weight of the composition; c. the ratio of said resin to said hair grooming agent being about 1 part of resin to 10 to 30 parts of grooming agent wherein said resin is of the formula: ##EQU16## wherein: Y indicates the degree of polymerization and is a number from 50 to 20,000; R 4 , r 5 or R 6 is a radical of the formula: ##EQU17## in which: a is a whole number 2 or 3; b is a whole number 2 or 3; c is a whole number 1 to 4; m is a number from 0 to 10; n is a whole number from 0 to 3; p is a whole number from 0 to 10; q is zero or 1; R 7 is H or COOMe group in which Me is H, Na, K or NH 4 ; X is a salt forming anion; v is a number equal to the valence of X; R 1 , r 2 and R 3 are alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, cycloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl or alkoxyaryl in which the alkyl moieties have up to 6 carbon atoms; the aryl moieties having up to 12 carbon atoms and the cycloalkyl moieties having 5 to 6 carbon atoms and wherein two or three of the radicals R 1 , R 2 and R 3 may constitute a nitrogen heterocyclic nucleus having 5 to 6 atoms in the nucleus, one atom of which may also be oxygen; wherein the resin defined by the formula I above contains the quaternary group: ##EQU18## in the average of about 0.1 to 3 quaternary groups per anhydroglucose unit;