Hair care products conditioning agents

Nearly all hair care products incorporate one or more cationic conditioning agents, where the latter can be either cationic surfactants or cationic polymers. The cationic surfactants can be further divided into four major classes, i.e. alkylamines, ethoxylated amines, alkyl imidazolines, and quaternaries. The quaternaries are the most widely used in the personal care industry because of their strong affinity to the hair fibre surface. 

Because cationic surfactants irritate the eyes and skin [69], their use has been limited to hair care products where they are employed as conditioning agents [58]. Moreover, their ability to penetrate the skin barrier appears to require barrier disruption by solvents or abrasion [70,71]. Interaction of cationic surfactants with hair has received much more attention. For a review on this subject, the reader is referred to Ref. 72. 

Kim, Y.-D., Kim, C.-K., Lee, C.-N. and Ha, B.-J. (1988) Hydrolysed ginseng-saponin quaternary a novel conditioning agent for hair care products, in XVth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Cosmetic Chemists, 26-29 September, 1988, London. 

The primary use of liquid petrolatum is as a laxative, a product that loosens the bowels. It also has a number of other applications, such as an additive in foods such as candies, confectionary products, and baked goods as an ingredient in personal care products, such as baby oil creams, hair conditioning lotions, and ointments in many different kinds of pharmaceutical preparations in the production of industrial lubricants as a softening agent in the manufacture of rubber, textiles, fibers, adhesives, and machine parts as dust suppressants and as dehydrating agents for a number of industrial processes. 

Several chapters in this book address polymers useful as conditioning agents for the hair and skin. These functionally unique materials include the synthetic polymers discussed in this chapter, silicone polymers discussed in Chapter 7, the polysaccharide polymers discussed in Chapter 8, and the proteins discussed in Chapter 9. Most commercially available personal care products contain one or more of these critical ingredients (154,155). 

Applications. Amphoterics of this class are mainly used in personal care products. Polycarboxylates deliver reduced eye irritation and provide hair conditioning benefits zwitterionic forms are substantive on the hairs. In household products, they are especially suitable in built liquids with high electrol)de contents (i.e., containing the so-called builders )- These surfactants are also used as foaming agents in fire-fighting foam production appliances. 

Applications. Although they have some potential prospects in personal care (improved hair conditioning) and household (leveling agents for floor polish products), fluo-rosurfactants find their major applications in industrial areas ... 

Uses Permanent conditioning protein and bodying agent for cream rinses, shampoos, conditioners, perms, naii care prods. foam buiider/stabiiizer in shampoos, conditioners, styiing products, hair dyes, perms, faciai cieansers, and shower gels Features Retains a cationic nature even in high pH systems compat. with anionic, cationic and nonionic surfactants... 

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