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 homogeniety of said composition, said cohesion agent being a thickening agent, or an emulsion selected from a water-in-oil or an oil-in-water emulsion, said particles resulting from the pulverization of flowers or flowr tops of trees selected from the group consisting of acacia tree, catalpa tree, rough cherry tree, horse-chestnut tree, apple tree, peach tree, plum tree, sophora tree and corme tree, and said thickening agent being selected from the group consisting of gum arabic, karaya gum, gum tragacanth, guar gum, carob bean gum, tara gum, pectines, alginates, carraghenates, agar-agar, furcellaria, starches, the water soluble portions of mucilagenous plants selected from the group consisting of mullein, wild chamomile, fenugreek, marsh mallow, mallow, flax, limes, psyllium, plantain, borage, star thistle, alder buckthorn, common comfrey, asparagus, senna and lichen, methyl cellulose, hydroxymethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxpropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl-methyl 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.