Cosmetic composition for the treatment of the hair and skin comprising a powder of flowers or flower tops and a cohesion agent

Claim 1

A cosmetic composition for application to the hair or skin comprising, in an aqueous medium, particles of pulverized flowers or flower tops having a granulometry lower than 125 microns and a cohesion agent present in an amount effective to maintain homogeneity of said composition, said cohesion agent being a thickening agent, or an emulsion selected from a water-in-oil emulsion or an oil-in-water emulsion, said particles resulting from the pulverization of flowers or flower tops of shrubs selected from the group consisting of corneal tree or dogwood, roselle, hydrangea, oleander, lilac, magnolia, sweet orange tree, rhododendron, syringa, spiraea, tamarisk and yucca and said thickening agent being selected from gum arabic, karaya gum, gum tragacanth, guar gum, carbo bean gum, tara gum, pectines, alginates, carraghenates, agar-agar, furcellaria, starches, the water soluble portions of mucilagenous plants selected from mullein, wild chamomile, fenugreek, marsh mallow, mallow, flax, lime, psyllium, plantain, borage, star thistle, alder buckthorn, common comfrey, asparagus, senna, lichen, methylcellulose, hydroxymethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, sodium polyacrylate, polyvinyl alcohol and carboxylic polymer derivatives of acrylic acid, said particles being present in an amount of at least 5 percent by weight based on the total weight of said composition and said cohesion agent being present in an amount of 0.1 to 20 weight percent of said composition.