Cosmetic agents based on polycationic polymers, and their use in cosmetic compositions

Claim 1

A shampoo composition comprising an aqueous solution of a quaternized polymer containing units of the formula ##STR38## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group, or at least one of the pairs R 1 , R 2 and R 3 , R 4 represents together with the nitrogen atom to which it is attached a heterocycle optionally containing an oxygen or sulfur heteroatom; A 1 and A 2 , each independently, represent linear or branched alkylene or arylene, substituted or not, containing up to 20 carbon atoms; X represents a bivalent group of the formula ##STR39## --CO--NH--, (e) --CO--O--, (f) --O--CO--NH--, (g) --CO--X.sub.2 --CO--, (h) --CO--X'.sub.2 --CO--, (i) or --O--CO--X.sub.3 --CO--O--, (j) wherein y is equal to 0 or 1, R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , R 9 and R 10 represent hydrogen or lower alkyl, X 1 represents alkylene, alkylene including an --S--S-- group, alkenylene, arylene, diaminoalkylene, diaminoarylene, dioxyalkylene, dioxyarylene or polyoxyalkylene, or X 1 represents a direct covalent bond, X 2 represents diaminoalkylene, dioxyalkylene or polyoxyalkylene bivalent group, X' 2 represents dithioalkylene, X 3 represents alkylene, cycloalkylene, arylene, diaminoalkylene, diaminocycloalkylene or diaminoarylene, A 3 represents --B 1 --Y--B 2 , wherein B 1 and B 2 represent alkylene or arylene and Y has the same meaning as X above, or Y represents ##STR40## or A 3 is a linear or branched alkylene group (1) substituted by at least one ═O group, or (2) interrupted by at least one heteroatom or heteroatom group of oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen, or (3) interrupted by at least one arylene, or (4) substituted by at least one ═O group and interrupted by at least one heteroatom or heteroatom group of oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen, or (5) substituted by at least one ═O group and interrupted by at least one arylene, or (6) interrupted by at least one heteroatom or heteroatom group of oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen, and interrupted by at least one arylene, or (7) substituted by at least one ═O group and interrupted by at least one heteroatom or heteroatom group of oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen and interrupted by at least one arylene, or A 3 represents --B 3 --Y 1 --B 4 , wherein B 3 and B 4 represent arylene and Y 1 represents linear or branched alkylene, or linear or branched alkylene substituted by at least one --OH or ═O group, or Y 1 represents a heteroatom selected from oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen, or A 3 represents --E--O--D).sub.z O--E-- (a) or --E--O--G--O--E--, (b) wherein z is a number ranging from 2 to 600, E represents alkylene having 1-4 carbon atoms or --CH 2 --CHOH--CH 2 --, D represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group containing 1-5 carbon atoms, and G represents alkylene, cycloalkylene, arylene or aralkylene, or when X is other than --CO--X 2 --CO--, A 3 represents linear or branched alkylene or hydroxyalkylene, alkenylene or hydroxyalkenylene, cycloalkylene, or cycloalkenylene, containing up to 20 carbon atoms; and Z.sup.⊖ represents a halide anion; with the proviso that when X represents --NH--CO--NH--, A 3 represents --E--O--D) z O--E-- or --B 1 --Y--B 2 , wherein Y has the meaning given for X above except for the value --NH--CO--NH--, or A 3 represents --E--O--G--O--E-- wherein E and G have the meanings given above with the proviso that E and G are not simultaneously alkylene; and an effective amount of at least one of a cationic, nonionic, anionic or amphoteric detergent, or a mixture thereof.