Composition and process for the treatment of keratin materials with polymers

Process for conditioning keratin fibers using a composition which contains an anionic polymer and a cationic polymer, said anionic and cationic polymers present in an amount from about 0.01 to 10% by weight, wherein said anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:

• (a) a polymer containing at least one sulphonic acid unit or a phosphoric acid unit;
• (b) a polymer containing at least one crotonic acid unit different from the copolymer vinyl acetate/crotonic acid, or at least one of a grafted and crosslinked derivative thereof, wherein said crotonic acid unit containing polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a graft polymer obtained from a vinyl ester and an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid grafted onto a polyalkylene glycol or a polyalkylene glycol of which the terminal OH groups are etherified or esterified, or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, crotonic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer derived from crotonic acid, vinyl acetate and an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR103## in which R' represents a hydrogen atom or a --CH.sub.3 radical, R.sub.1 represents a saturated linear or branched hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents either the --CH.sub.3 radical or the --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 H radical;
• (4) a tetrapolymer or pentapolymer resulting from the copolymerization of crotonic acid, vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, an allyl or methallyl ester of formula (11), and a monomer which is a vinyl ether of the formula:
• CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R.sub.3 ( 12),
• where R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical, a vinyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR104## where R.sub.4 is a linear alkyl radical having from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, or an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR105## where R' is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical and R.sub.5 is an alkyl radical;
• (5) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl ester of an alpha-branched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 5 carbon atoms in the carboxyl radical;
• (6) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an ester of an unsaturated alcohol with a short-chain saturated acid or an ester of a short-chain saturated alcohol with an unsaturated acid, crotonic acid, and an ester of a long-chain acid with an unsaturated alcohol, an ester of an unsaturated acid with a saturated or unsaturated alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms or with a lanolin alcohol, an alkylvinyl ether, an alkylallyl ether, an alkyl methallyl ether, an alkyl crotyl ether or an alpha-olefin;
• (7) a homopolymer of crotonic acid or a copolymer of crotonic acid with an unsaturated monoethylenic monomer;
• (8) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and an acrylic or methacrylic ester or an alkyl vinyl ether;
• and
• (9) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl, allyl or methallyl ester containing a long carbon chain;
• (c) a polymer containing at least one unit of an unsaturated acid selected from the group consisting of 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, allylthioacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid, N-monohydroxyalkyl or N, N-dihydroxyalkyl maleamic or itaconamic acids, and salts or derivatives thereof;
• (d) a polymer containing at least one of an acrylic and methacrylic acid unit, said polymer selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a graft polymer obtained by grafting a vinyl ester, acrylic acid ester or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, onto an etherified or esterified polyalkylene glycol or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, acrylic or methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer of a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR106## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer:
• ##STR107## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical or a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is equal to 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• (4) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer as defined in (3) copolymerized with one or more other copolymerizable monomers;
• (5) a N-tertiary butyl-acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylamide, methacrylamide/acrylic or methacrylic acid/N-vinylpyrrolidone terpolymer;
• (6) a water-soluble homopolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, or a water-soluble copolymer of at least one of said acids with a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer;
• (7) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with acrylamide;
• (8) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with vinyl alcohol;
• (9) a polyacrylamide containing carboxylate groups;
• and
• (10) a copolymer derived from 40 to 90 mol % of vinylpyrrolidone, 40 to 5 mole % of a vinyl ester and 20 to 3 mole % of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• and
• (e) a polymer containing at least one ethylene-alpha-beta dicarboxylic acid unit selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a copolymer of said acid with a compound containing a >C.dbd.CH.sub.2 group, which is a vinyl ester, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl vinyl ether, a phenylvinyl derivative and acrylic acid;
• (2) a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 half-ester of a said copolymer derived under (1);
• (3) a copolymer of said acid with an olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, which copolymers are partially esterified with an alkanol;
• (4) a copolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester, which copolymers are mono-esterified with an aliphatic alcohol or amidified with an aliphatic, cyclic or heterocyclic amine;
• (5) a terpolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester and an acrylamide or methacrylamide, in which the acid groups are mono-esterifed or amidified;
• (6) a polymer as defined in (5) copolymerized with an alpha-olefin, a vinyl ether, an acrylic or methacrylic ester, an acrylic or methacrylic acid or N-vinylpyrrolidone;
• (7) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer and pentapolymer of a said acid and a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR108## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer of the formula:
• ##STR109## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical, a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or --COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denoting H or --Z--OH, and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and maleic anhydride;
• (8) a polymer resulting from the polymerization of a said acid, at least a monomer of the formula (15), at least a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR110## where R.sub.15 denotes H or COOH and R.sub.16 denotes H or CH.sub.3 if p=0, or R.sub.15 denotes H and R.sub.16 denotes COOH if p=1, and maleic anhydride;
• and
• (9) a colored maleic anhydride polymer.

A composition for the treatment of keratin materials consisting essentially of an anionic polymer, a cationic polymer and a solvent medium, the anionic and cationic polymers being present in an amount of from 0.01 to 10% by weight, wherein said cationic polymer is selected within the group consisting of a water-soluble cyclopolymer which is a homopolymer or copolymer comprising recurring units of the formula:

• ##STR121## in which R" denotes hydrogen or methyl, and R and R' independently of one another denote an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl group or an amidoalkyl group, or R and R', together with the nitrogen atom to which they are linked, denote a heterocyclic group, the units of formula (2) comprising a cosmetically acceptable anion, and wherein the anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of
• (a) a polymer containing at least one sulphonic acid unit or a phosphoric acid unit;
• (b) a polymer containing at least one crotonic acid unit different from vinyl acetate/crotonic acid thereof, wherein said crotonic acid unit containing polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a graft polymer obtained from a vinyl ester and an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid grafted onto a polyalkylene glycol or a polyalkylene glycol of which the terminal OH groups are etherified or esterified, or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, crotonic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer derived from crotonic acid, vinyl acetate and an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR122## in which R' represents a hydrogen atom or a --CH.sub.3 radical, R.sub.1 represents a saturated linear or branched hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents either the --CH.sub.3 radical or the --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 H radical;
• (4) a tetrapolymer or pentapolymer resulting from the copolymerization of crotonic acid, vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, an allyl or methallyl ester of formula (11), and a monomer which is a vinyl ether of the formula:
• CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R.sub.3 ( 12),
• where R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical, a vinyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR123## where R.sub.4 is a linear alkyl radical having from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, or an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR124## where R' is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical and R.sub.5 is an alkyl radical;
• (5) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl ester of an alpha-branched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 5 carbon atoms in the carboxyl radical;
• (6) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an ester of an unsaturated alcohol with a short-chain saturated acid or an ester of a short-chain saturated alcohol with an unsaturated acid;
• crotonic acid, and an ester of a long-chain acid with an unsaturated alcohol, an ester of an unsaturated acid with a saturated or unsaturated alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms or with a lanolin alcohol, an alkylvinyl ether, an alkylallyl ether, an alkyl methallyl ether, an alkyl crotyl ether or an alpha-olefin;
• (7) a homopolymer of crotonic acid or a copolymer of crotonic acid with an unsaturated monoethylenic monomer;
• (8) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and an acrylic or methacrylic ester or an alkyl vinyl ether;
• and
• (9) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl, allyl or methallyl ester containing a long carbon chain;
• (c) a polymer containing at least one unit of an unsaturated acid selected from the group consisting of 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, allylthioacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid, N-monohydroxyalkyl or N,N-dihydoxyalkyl maleamic or itaconamic acids, and salts or derivatives thereof;
• (d) a polymer containing at least one of an acrylic and methacrylic acid unit, said polymer selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a graft polymer obtained by grafting a vinyl ester, acrylic acid ester or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, onto an etherified or esterified polyalkylene glycol or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, acrylic or methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer of a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR125## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer:
• ##STR126## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical or a linear or branched alklene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is equal to 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• (4) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer as defined in (3) copolymerized with one or more other copolymerizable monomers;
• (5) a N-tertiary butyl-acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylamide, methacrylamide/acrylic or methacrylic acid/N-vinylpyrrolidone terpolymer;
• (6) a water-soluble homopolymer of methacrylic acid, or a water-soluble copolymer of acrylic or methacrylic acids with a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer;
• (7) a homopolymer of acrylic acid crosslinked by means of a polyfunctional-crosslinking agent;
• (8) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with acrylamide;
• (9) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with vinyl alcohol;
• (10) a polyacrylamide containing carboxylate groups;
• and
• (11) a copolymer derived from 40 to 90 mole % of vinylpyrrolidone, 40 to 5 mole % of a vinyl ester and 20 to 3 mole % of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• and
• (e) a polymer containing at least one ethylene-alpha-beta dicarboxylic acid unit selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a copolymer of said acid with a compound containing a >C.dbd.CH.sub.2 group, which is a vinyl ester, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl vinyl ether, a phenylvinyl derivative and acrylic acid;
• (2) a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 half-ester of a said copolymer derived under (1);
• (3) a copolymer of said acid with an olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, which copolymers are partially esterified with an alkanol;
• (4) a copolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester, which copolymers are mono-esterified with an aliphatic alcohol or amidified with an aliphatic, cyclic or heterocyclic amine;
• (5) a terpolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester and an acrylamide or methacrylamide, in which the acid groups are mono-esterified or amidified;
• (6) a polymer as defined in 5) copolymerized with an alpha-olefin, a vinyl ether, an acrylic or methacrylic ester, an acrylic or methacrylic acid or N-vinylpyrrolidone;
• (7) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer and pentapolymer of a said acid and a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR127## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer of the formula:
• ##STR128## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical, a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or --COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denoting H or --Z--OH, and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and maleic anhydride;
• (8) a polymer resulting from the polymerization of a said acid, at least a monomer of formula (15), at least a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR129## where R.sub.15 denotes H or COOH and R.sub.16 denotes H or CH.sub.3 if p=0, or R.sub.15 denotes H and R.sub.16 denotes COOH if p=1, and maleic anhydride;
• and
• (9) a colored maleic anhydride polymer.

A composition suitable for the treatment of keratin materials consisting essentially of an anionic polymer, a cationic polymer and a solvent medium, said anionic and cationic polymers being present in an amount from about 0.01 to 10% by weight, wherein said anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:

• (a) a polymer containing at least one sulphonic acid unt or a phosphoric acid unit;
• (b) a polymer containing at least one crotonic acid unit different from the bipolymer vinyl acetate/crotonic acid wherein said crotonic acid unit containing polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a graft polymer obtained from a vinyl ester and an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid grafted onto a polyalkylene glycol or a polyalkylene glycol of which the terminal OH groups are etherified or esterified, or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, crotonic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer derived from crotonic acid, vinyl acetate and an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR130## in which R' represents a hydrogen atom or a --CH.sub.3 radical, R.sub.1 represents a saturated linear or branched hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents either the --CH.sub.3 radical or the --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 H radical;
• (4) a tetrapolymer or pentapolymer resulting from the copolymerization of crotonic acid, vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, an allyl or methallyl ester of formula (11), and a monomer which is a vinyl ester of the formula:
• CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R.sub.3 ( 12),
• where R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical, a vinyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR131## where R.sub.4 is a linear alkyl radical having from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, or an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR132## where R' is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical and R.sub.5 is an alkyl radical;
• (5) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl ester of an alpha-branched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 5 carbon atoms in the carboxyl radical;
• (6) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an ester of an unsaturated alcohol with a short-chain saturated acid or an ester of a short-chain saturated alcohol with an unsaturated acid, crotonic acid, and an ester of a long-chain acid with an unsaturated alcohol, an ester of an unsaturated acid with a saturated or unsaturated alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms or with a lanolin alcohol, an alkylvinyl ether, an alkylallyl ether, an alkyl methallyl ether, an alkyl crotyl ether or an alpha-olefin;
• (7) a homopolymer of crotonic acid or a copolymer of crotonic acid with an unsaturated monoethylenic monomer;
• (8) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and an acrylic or methacrylic ester or an alkyl vinyl ether;
• and
• (9) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl, allyl or methallyl ester containing a long carbon chain;
• (c) a polymer containing at least one unit of an unsaturated acid selected from the group consisting of 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, allylthioacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid, N-monohydroxyalkyl or N,N-dihydroxyalkyl maleamic or itaconamic acids, and salts or derivatives thereof;
• (d) a polymer containing at least one of an acrylic and methacrylic acid unit, said polymer selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a graft polymer obtained by grafting a vinyl ester, acrylic acid ester or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, onto an etherified or esterified polyalkylene glycol or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, acrylic or methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer of a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR133## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer:
• ##STR134## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical or a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is equal to 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6,R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• (4) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer as defined in (3) copolymerized with one or more other copolymerizable monomers;
• (5) a N-tertiary butyl-acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylamide, methacrylamide/acrylic or methacrylic acid/N-vinylpyrrolidone terpolymer;
• (6) a water-soluble copolymer of methacrylic acid with a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer;
• (7) a homopolymer of acrylic acid crosslinked by means of a polyfunctional-crosslinking agent;
• (8) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with acrylamide;
• (9) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with vinyl alcohol;
• (10) a polyacrylamide containing carboxylate groups;
• and
• (11) a copolymer derived from 40 to 90 mole % of vinylpyrrolidone, 40 to 5 mole % of a vinyl ester and 20 to 3 mole % of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• and
• (e) a polymer containing at least one ethylene-alpha-beta dicarboxylic acid unit selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a copolymer of said acid with a compound containing a >C.dbd.CH.sub.2 group, which is a vinyl ester, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl vinyl ether, a phenylvinyl derivative and acrylic acid;
• (2) a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 half-ester of a said copolymer derived under (1);
• (3) a copolymer of said acid with an olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, which copolymers are partially esterified with an alkanol;
• (4) a copolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester, which copolymers are mono-esterified with an aliphatic alcohol or amidified with an aliphatic, cyclic or heterocyclic amine;
• (5) a terpolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester and an acrylamide or methacrylamide, in which the acid groups are mono-esterified or amidified;
• (6) a polymer as defined in 5) copolymerized with an alpha-olefin, a vinyl ether, an acrylic or methacrylic ester, an acrylic or methacrylic acid or N-vinylpyrrolidone;
• (7) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer and pentapolymer of a said acid and a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR135## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer of the formula:
• ##STR136## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical, a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or --COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH, and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and maleic anhydride;
• (8) a polymer resulting from the polymerization of a said acid, at least a monomer of formula (15), at least a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR137## where R.sub.15 denotes H or COOH and R.sub.16 denotes H or CH.sub.3 if p=0, or R.sub.15 denotes H and R.sub.16 denotes COOH if p=1, and maleic anhydride;
• and
• (9) a colored maleic anhydride polymer, and wherein the cationic polymer is selected from the group consisting of a quaternary polymer comprising recurring units of the formula:
• ##STR138## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent an aliphatic, alicyclic or araliphatic radical containing at most 20 carbon atoms or a lower hydroxyaliphatic radical, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, together or separately, form, together with the nitrogen atoms to which they are linked, a heterocyclic ring which optionally contains a second hetero-atom other than nitrogen, or R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent a group of the formula ##STR139## R'.sub.3 denoting hydrogen or lower alkyl and R'.sub.4 denoting --CN ##STR140## where R'.sub.5 denotes lower alkyl, R'.sub.6 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl, R'.sub.7 denotes alkylene and D denotes a quaternary ammonium group, and A and B independently represent a hydrocarbon group which contains 2 to 20 carbon atoms and which can be linear or branched, and saturated or unsaturated and can contain, interposed in the main chain, one or more aromatic rings or one or more groups --CH.sub.2 --Y--CH.sub.2 in which Y denotes ##STR141## or A and R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, together with the two nitrogen atoms to which they are linked, form a piperazine ring, and B can also denote ##STR142## and X.sup.- is a mineral or organic acid anion or ##STR143## in which A denotes a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical, B denotes
• (a) a radical of the formula --O--Z--O--, where Z denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or a group of the formula:
• ##STR144## where x and y independently denote an integer from 1 to 4 or, in a mixture of compounds, any number from 1 to 4;
• (b) a radical of a bis-secondary diamine;
• (c) a radical of a bis-primary diamine of the formula:
• --NH--Y--NH--
• where Y denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or the divalent radical --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --S--S--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --;
• or
• (d) a ureylene group of the formula --NH--CO--NH--, R.sub.1 denotes an alkyl radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such that R.sub.2 can also denote a plurality of methylene groups linked to one another and form with A, if A denotes an ethylene radical, and with the two nitrogen atoms, a divalent radical of the formula:
• ##STR145## X .sup.- denotes a halide anion and n denotes the number 1 or an integer from 3 to 10.

A composition suitable for the treatment of keratin materials comprising essentially of an anionic polymer, a cationic polymer and a solvent medium, said anionic and cationic polymers present in an amount from about 0.01 to 10% by weight, wherein said anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:

• (a) a polymer containing at least one phosphoric unit;
• (b) a polymer containing at least one sulphonic acid unit which is an alkaline earth metal salt of a lignin sulphonic acid;
• (c) a polymer containing at least one crotonic acid unit different from the bipolymer vinyl acetate/crotonic acid, wherein said crotonic acid unit containing polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a graft polymer obtained from a vinyl ester and an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid grafted onto a polyalkylene glycol or a polyalkylene glycol of which the terminal OH groups are etherified or esterified, or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, crotonic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer derived from crotonic acid, vinyl acetate and an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR146## in which R' represents a hydrogen atom or a --CH.sub.3 radical, R.sub.1 represents a saturated linear or branched hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents either the --CH.sub.3 radical or the --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 H radical;
• (4) a tetrapolymer or pentapolymer resulting from the copolymerization of crotonic acid, vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, an allyl or methallyl ester of formula (11), and a monomer which is a vinyl ether of the formula:
• CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R.sub.3 ( 12),
• where R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical, a vinyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR147## where R.sub.4 is a linear alkyl radical having from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, or an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR148## where R' is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical and R.sub.5 is an alkyl radical;
• (5) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl ester of an alpha-branched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 5 carbon atoms in the carboxyl radical;
• (6) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an ester of an unsaturated alcohol with a short-chain saturated acid or an ester of a short-chain saturated alcohol with an unsaturated acid;
• crotonic acid;
• and an ester of a long-chain acid with an unsaturated alcohol, an ester of an unsaturated acid with a saturated or unsaturated alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms or with a lanolin alcohol, an alkylvinyl ether, an alkylallyl ether, an alkyl methallyl ether, an alkyl crotyl ether or an alpha-olefin;
• (7) a homopolymer of crotonic acid or a copolymer of crotonic acid with an unsaturated monoethylenic monomer;
• (8) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and an acrylic or methacrylic ester of an alkyl vinyl ether;
• and
• (9) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl, allyl or methallyl ester containing a long carbon chain;
• (d) a polymer containing at least one unit of an unsaturated acid selected from the group consisting of 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, allylthioacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid, N-monohydroxyalkyl or N,N-dihydroxyalkyl maleamic or itaconamic acids, and salts or derivatives thereof;
• (e) a polymer containing at least one of an acrylic and methacrylic acid unit, said polymer selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a graft polymer obtained by grafting a vinyl ester, acrylic acid ester or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, onto an etherified or esterified polyalkylene glycol or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, acrylic or methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer of a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR149## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer:
• ##STR150## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical or a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is equal to 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• (4) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer as defined in (3) copolymerized with one or more other copolymerizable monomers;
• (5) a N-tertiary butyl-acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylamide, methacrylamide/acrylic or methacrylic acid/N-vinylpyrrolidone terpolymer;
• (6) a water-soluble homopolymer of methacrylic acid, or a water-soluble copolymer of acrylic or methacrylic acid with a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer;
• (7) a homopolymer of acrylic acid crosslinked by means of a polyfunctional-crosslinking agent;
• (8) a copolymer of methacrylic acid with acrylamide;
• (9) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with vinyl alcohol;
• (10) a polyacrylamide containing carboxylate groups;
• and
• (11) a copolymer derived from 40 to 90 mole % of vinylpyrrolidone, 40 to 5 mole % of a vinyl ester and 20 to 3 mole % of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• and
• (f) a polymer containing at least one ethylene-alpha-beta dicarboxylic acid unit selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a copolymer of said acid with a compound containing a >C.dbd.CH.sub.2 group, which is a vinyl ester, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl vinyl ether, and acrylic acid;
• (2) a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 half-ester of a said copolymer derived under (1);
• (3) a copolymer of said acid with an olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, which copolymers are partially esterified with an alkanol;
• (4) a copolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester, which copolymers are mono-esterified with an aliphatic alcohol or amidified with an aliphatic, cyclic or heterocyclic amine;
• (5) a terpolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester and an acrylamide or methacrylamide, in which the acid groups are mono-esterified or amidified;
• (6) a polymer as defined in (5) copolymerized with an alpha-olefin, a vinyl ether, an acrylic or methacrylic ester, an acrylic or methacrylic acid or N-vinylpyrrolidone;
• (7) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer and pentapolymer of a said acid and a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR151## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer of the formula:
• ##STR152## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical, a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or --COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH, and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and maleic anhydride;
• (8) a polymer resulting from the polymerization of a said acid, at least a monomer of formula (15), at least a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR153## where R.sub.15 denotes H or COOH and R.sub.16 denotes H or CH.sub.3 if p=0, or R.sub.15 denotes H and R.sub.16 denotes COOH if p= 1, and maleic anhydride;
• and
• (9) a colored maleic anhydride polymer, and wherein said cationic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (a) a polyalkyleneamine;
• (b) a polymer containing chain vinylpyridine or vinylpyridinium units;
• and
• (c) a vinylbenzylammonium homopolymer or copolymer.

A composition suitable for the treatment of keratin materials comprising at least one anionic polymer and at least one cationic polymer in a solvent medium, said anionic and said cationic polymers each being present in an amount from about 0.01 to about 10% relative to the total weight of the composition, wherein said anionic polymer is a vinyl acetate/crotonic acid bipolymer and wherein said cationic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:

• (1) a quaternary derivative of a cellulose ether;
• (2) a water-soluble cyclopolymer which is a homopolymer or copolymer comprising recurring units of the formulae:
• ##STR154## in which R" denotes hydrogen or methyl, and R and R' independently of one another denote an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl group or an amidoalkyl group, or R and R', together with the nitrogen atom to which they are linked, denote a heterocyclic group, the units of formula (2) comprising a cosmetically acceptable anion;
• (3) a water-soluble crosslinked polyaminoamide obtained by crosslinking a polyaminoamide which is a polycondensation of an acid with a polyamine, with a crosslinking agent which is:
• I. a bis-halohydrin, a bis-azetidinium compound, a bis-haloacyl substituted diamine or a bis-alkyl halide;
• II. an oligomer obtained by reacting a compound of group I, or an epihalohydrin, diepoxide or bis-unsaturated compound, with a bifunctional compound;
• III. a quaternization product of a compound of group I or of an oligomer of group II which contains a tertiary amino group which can be alkylated, said crosslinking agent being used in an amount from 0.025 to 0.35 mol per amine group of the polyaminoamide;
• (4) a water-soluble polyaminoamide which is a condensation product of a polyalkylene-polyamine with a polycarboxylic acid followed by alkylation by a bifunctional agent of the formula:
• ##STR155## where x denotes 0 or an integer from 1 to 7, A denotes a ##STR156## group, R.sub.3 denotes halogen, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently denote a lower alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group, Q.sup.- denotes halogen, sulphate or methosulphate, B represents an alkylene radical or a ##STR157## radical and y is an integer from 1 to 4, or (5) a polymer which is a reaction product of a polyalkylene-polyamine containing two primary amino groups and at least one secondary amino group, with a dicarboxylic acid which is diglycollic acid or a saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, the molar ratio of the polyalkylene-polyamine to the dicarboxylic acid being from 0.8:1 to 0.4:1, and reacting the resulting polyamide with epichlorohydrin in a molar ratio of epichlorohydrin to the secondary amino group of the polyamine of from 0.5:1 to 1.8:1.
• (6) a cationic polymer having recurring units of the formula --A--Z.sub.1 --A--Z.sub.1 --, in which A denotes a radical having two amino groups and Z.sub.1 denotes the symbol B.sub.1 or B'.sub.1 such that at least one Z.sub.1 denotes B'.sub.1, B.sub.1 being an alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical and B'.sub.1 being an alkylene radical which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more hydroxyl radicals and contains one or more chain nitrogen atoms which are substituted by an alkyl radical or an alkyl radical which contains a chain oxygen atom and contains one or more hydroxyl and/or carboxyl groups;
• or having recurring units of the formula --A'--Z'--A'--Z'--, in which A' denotes a mixture of radicals ##STR158## and Z' is as defined above for B.sub.1, or B'.sub.1 ;
• and the quaternary ammonium salts and oxidation products of the polymer --A--Z.sub.1 --A--Z.sub.1 --,
• (7) a cationic homopolymer or copolymer comprising recurring units of the formulae:
• ##STR159## in which R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3, A is a linear or branched alkyl group having up to 6 carbon atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or benzyl, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 denote H or alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and X denotes halogen or methosulphate;
• (8) a copolymer comprising recurring units of the formula:
• ##STR160## in the proportions n:m:p such that n represents 20 to 99 mole %, m from 1 to 80 mole %, and p from 0 to 50 mole %, with n+m+p=100, y denotes 0 to 1, and R.sub.1 represents H or CH.sub.3 ;
• R.sub.2 denotes --CH.sub.2 --CHOH--CH.sub.2 -- or C.sub.x H.sub.2x, where x is from 2 to 18;
• R.sub.3 denotes CH.sub.3, C.sub.2 H.sub.5 or ##STR161## R.sub.4 denotes CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5, X denotes Cl, Br, I, 1/2 SO.sub.4, HSO.sub.4, or CH.sub.3 SO.sub.4 and M is derived from a further monomer;
• (9) a polyalkyleneamine or alkyoxylated or alkylated polyalkyleneamine;
• (10) a polymer containing chain vinylpyridine or vinylpyridinium units;
• (11) a urea-formaldehyde cationic resin;
• (12) a polyamine/epichlorohydrin condensate;
• (13) a vinylbenzylammonium homopolymer or copolymer;
• and
• (14) a quaternary polyureylene;
• and
• with the proviso that when the cationic polymer is one of group 1, 7 or 8, the composition does not contain a divalent metal salt.

A composition suitable for the treatment of keratin materials comprising an anionic polymer, a cationic polymer and a solvent medium, said anionic and cationic polymers being present in an amount from about 0.01 to 10% by weight, wherein said anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:

• (a) a polymer containing at least one sulphonic acid unit or a phosphoric acid unit;
• (b) a polymer containing at least one crotonic acid unit different from the bipolymer vinyl acetate/crotonic acid wherein said crotonic acid unit containing polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a graft polymer obtained from a vinyl ester and an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid grafted onto a polyalkylene glycol or a polyalkylene glycol of which the terminal OH groups are etherified or esterified, or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, crotonic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer derived from crotonic acid, vinyl acetate and an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR175## in which R' represents a hydrogen atom or a --CH.sub.3 radical, R.sub.1 represents a saturated linear or branched hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents either the --CH.sub.3 radical or the --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 H radical;
• (4) a tetrapolymer or pentapolymer resulting from the copolymerization of crotonic acid, vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, an allyl or methallyl ester of formula (11), and a monomer which is a vinyl ether of the formula:
• CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R.sub.3 ( 12),
• where R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical, a vinyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR176## where R.sub.4 is a linear alkyl radical having from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, or an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR177## where R' is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical and R.sub.5 is an alkyl radical;
• (5) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl ester of an alpha-branched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 5 carbon atoms in the carboxyl radical;
• (6) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an ester of an unsaturated alcohol with a short-chain saturated acid or an ester of a short-chain saturated alcohol with an unsaturated acid, crotonic acid, and an ester of a long-chain acid with an unsaturated alcohol, an ester of an unsaturated acid with a saturated or unsaturated alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms or with a lanolin alcohol, an alkylvinyl ether, an alkylallyl ether, an alkyl methallyl ether, an alkyl crotyl ether or an alpha-olefin;
• (7) a homopolymer of crotonic acid or a copolymer of crotonic acid with an unsaturated monoethylenic monomer;
• (8) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and an acrylic or methacrylic ester or an alkyl vinyl ether;
• and
• (9) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl, allyl or methallyl ester containing a long carbon chain;
• (c) a polymer containing at least one unit of an unsaturated acid selected from the group consisting of 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, allylthioacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid, N-monohydroxyalkyl or N,N-dihydroxyalkyl maleamic or itaconamic acids, and salts or derivatives thereof;
• (d) a polymer containing at least one of an acrylic and methacrylic acid unit, said polymer selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a graft polymer obtained by grafting a vinyl ester, acrylic acid ester or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, onto an etherified or esterified polyalkylene glycol or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, acrylic or methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer of a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR178## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer:
• ##STR179## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical or a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is equal to 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• (4) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer as defined in (3) copolymerized with one or more other copolymerizable monomers;
• (5) a N-tertiary butyl-acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylamide, methacrylamide/acrylic or methacrylic acid/N-vinylpyrrolidone terpolymer;
• (6) a water-soluble copolymer of at least one of said acids with a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer;
• (7) a homopolymer of acrylic acid crosslinked by means of a polyfunctional crosslinking agent;
• (8) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with acrylamide;
• (9) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with vinyl alcohol;
• (10) a polyacrylamide containing carboxylate groups;
• and
• (11) a copolymer derived from 40 to 90 mol % of vinylpyrrolidone, 40 to 5 mol % of a vinyl ester and 20 to 3 mol % of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• and
• (e) a polymer containing at least one ethylene-alpha-beta dicarboxylic acid unit selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a copolymer of said acid with a compound containing a >C.dbd.CH.sub.2 group, which is a vinyl ester, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl vinyl ether, a phenylvinyl derivative and acrylic acid;
• (c) a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 half-ester of a said copolymer derived under (1);
• (3) a copolymer of said acid with an olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, which copolymers are partially esterified with an alkanol;
• (4) a copolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester, which copolymers are mono-esterified with an aliphatic alcohol or amidified with an aliphatic, cyclic or heterocyclic amine;
• (5) a terpolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester and an acrylamide or methacrylamide, in which the acid groups are mono-esterified or amidified;
• (6) a polymer as defined in (5) copolymerized with an alpha-olefin, a vinyl ether, an acrylic or methacrylic ester, an acrylic or methacrylic acid or N-vinylpyrrolidone;
• (7) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer and pentapolymer of a said acid and a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR180## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer of the formula:
• ##STR181## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical, a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or 'COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denoting H or --Z--OH, and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and maleic anhydride;
• (8) a polymer resulting from the polymerization of a said acid, at least a monomer of formula (15), ##STR182## where R.sub.15 denotes H or COOH and R.sub.16 denotes H or CH.sub.3 if p=0, or R.sub.15 denotes H and R.sub.16 denotes COOH if p=1, and maleic anhydride;
• and
• (9) a colored maleic anhydride polymer, and wherein said cationic polymer is selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a cationic copolymer comprising recurring units of the formula:
• ##STR183## in which R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3, A is a linear or branched alkyl group having up to 6 carbon atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or benzyl, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 denote H or alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and X denotes halogen or methosulphate;
• and units derived from comonomers selected from the group consisting of:
• acrylamide, methacrylamide, diacetone acrylamide, acrylamide and methacrylamide substituted on the nitrogen by lower alkyls, alkylesters of arcylic and methacrylic acids, vinylpyrrolidone and vinylesters;
• (2) a polymer resulting from the copolymerization of (a) a cosmetic monomer selected from the group consisting of a vinylester of an acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, allyl or methallyl esters of an acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an acrylate or methacrylate of a saturated alcohol having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, an alkylvinylether in which the alkyl radical has 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an olefin having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, a heterocyclic vinyl derivative, a dialkyl or N,N-dialkylaminoalkylmaleate having 1 to 3 carbon atoms or an anhyride of an unsaturated acid, (b) dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate, (c) polyethyleneglycol and (d) a polyunsaturated crosslinking agent;
• (3) a cationic polymer having recurring units of the formula --A--Z--A--Z--, in which A denotes a radical having two amino groups and Z denotes the symbol B or B', which symbols may be identical or different and denote an alkylene radical which is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl groups and which can additionally contain chain oxygen, nitrogen or sulphur atoms and 1 to 3 aromatic, heterocyclic, or aromatic and heteroxyclic rings;
• or having recurring units of the formula A--Z.sub.1 --A--Z.sub.1, in which A is as defined above and Z.sub.1 denotes the symbol B.sub.1 or B'.sub.1 such that at least one Z.sub.1 denotes B'.sub.1, B.sub.1 being an alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical and B'.sub.1 being an alkylene radical which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more hydroxyl radicals and contains one or more chain nitrogen atoms which are substituted by an alkyl radical or an alkyl radical which contains a chain oxygen atom and contains at least one or more hydroxyl, carboxyl, or hydroxyl and carboxyl group;
• or having recurring units of the formula --A'--Z'--A'--Z'--, in which A' denotes a mixture of radicals ##STR184## and Z' is as defined above for B.sub.1, B, B' or B'.sub.1 ;
• and the quaternary ammonium salts and oxidation products of the polymers --A--Z--A--Z-- and --A--Z.sub.1 --A--Z.sub.1 --;
• (4) a quaternary polymer comprising recurring units of the formula ##STR185## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent an aliphatic, alicyclic or araliphatic radical containing at most 20 carbon atoms or a lower hydroxyaliphatic radical, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, together or separately, form, together with the nitrogen atoms to which they are linked, a heterocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring which contains a second hetero-atom other than nitrogen, or R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent a group of the formula:
• ##STR186## R'.sub.3 denoting hydrogen or lower alkyl and R'.sub.4 denoting CN, ##STR187## where R'.sub.5 denotes lower alkly, R'.sub.6 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl, R'.sub.7 denotes alkylene and D denotes a quaternary ammonium group, and A and B independently represent a hydrocarbon group which contains 2 to 20 carbon atoms and which can be linear or branched, and saturated or unsaturated and can contain, interposed in the main chain, one or more aromatic rings or one or more groups --CH.sub.2 --Y--CH.sub.2 in which Y denotes --O--, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --S--S--, ##STR188## in which R'.sub.8 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl and R'.sub.9 denotes lower alkyl, or A and R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, together with the two nitrogen atoms to which they are linked, form a piperazine ring, and B can also denote ##STR189## and X.sup.- is a mineral or organic acid anion or ##STR190## in which A denotes a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical, B denotes (a) a radical of the formula --O--Z--O--, where Z denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or a group of the formula:
• ##STR191## where x and y independently denote an integer from 1 to 4 or, in a mixture of compounds, any number from 1 to 4;
• (b) a radical of a bis-secondary diamine;
• (c) a radical of a bis-primary diamine of the formula:
• --NH--Y--NH--
• where Y denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or the divalent radical --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --S--S--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --;
• or (d) a ureylene group of the formula --NH--CO--NH--, R.sub.1 denotes an alkyl radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such that R.sub.2 can also denote a plurality of methylene groups linked to one another and form with A, if A denotes an ethylene radical, and with the two nitrogen atoms, a divalent radical of the formula:
• ##STR192## X.sup.- denotes a halide anion and n denotes the number 1 or an integer from 3 to 10;
• (5) a copolymer comprising recurring units of the formulae:
• ##STR193## in the proportions n:m:p such that n represents 20 to 99 mol %, m from 1 to 80 mol %, and p 0 to 50 mol %, with n+m+p=100, y denotes 0 or 1, and R.sub.1 represents H or CH.sub.3 ;
• R.sub.2 denotes --CH.sub.2 --CHOH--CH.sub.2 or C.sub.x H.sub.2 x, where x is from 2 to 18, R.sub.3 denotes CH.sub.3, C.sub.2 H.sub.5 or ##STR194## R.sub.4 denotes CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5, X denotes Cl, Br, I, 1/2 SO.sub.4, HSO.sub.4 or CH.sub.3 SO.sub.4 and M is derived from a further monomer;
• (6) a polyaminoamide or a crosslinked polyaminoamide;
• (7) a polyalkyleneamine or an alkoxylated or alkylated polyalkyleneamine;
• (8) a urea-formaldehyde cationic resin;
• (9) a polyamine/epichlorohydrin condensate;
• (10) a quaternary polyureylene;
• and
• (11) a coloring polymer in the form of a mixture of water-soluble cationic polymers which contain secondary or tertiary amino groups or quaternary ammonium groups which either form part of, or are attached directly or indirectly to, compounds which carry chromophoric or chromogenic aryl or araliphatic groups provided that if the main chain contains amino groups which form part of said chromophoric or chromogenic compounds it necessarily also contains at least 10% of aliphatic amino groups to the total number of amino groups of the polymer chain with the proviso that when the cationic polymer is one of groups 1, 3 or 5, the composition does not contain a divalent metal salt.

A composition suitable for the treatment of keratin materials consisting essentially of an anionic polymer, a cationic polymer and a solvent medium, said anionic and cationic polymers being present in an amount from about 0.01 to 10% by weight, wherein said anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:

• (a) a polymer containing at least one sulphonic acid unit or phosphoric acid unit;
• (b) a polymer containing at least one crotonic acid unit different from the bipolymer vinyl acetate/crotonic acid wherein said crotonic acid unit containing polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a graft polymer obtained from a vinyl ester and an acrylic or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with crotonic acid grafted onto a polyalkylene glycol or a polyalkylene glycol of which the terminal OH groups are etherified or esterified, or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, crotonic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer derived from crotonic acid, vinyl acetate and an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR195## in which R' represents a hydrogen atom or a --CH.sub.3 radical, R.sub.1 represents a saturated linear or branched hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 represents either the --CH.sub.3 radical or the --C(CH.sub.3).sub.2 H radical;
• (4) a tetrapolymer or pentapolymer resulting from the copolymerization of crotonic acid, vinyl acetate or vinyl propionate, an allyl or methallyl ester of formula (11), and a monomer which is a vinyl ether of the formula:
• CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--O--R.sub.3 ( 12),
• where R.sub.3 denotes an alkyl radical, a vinyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR196## where R.sub.4 is a linear alkyl radical having from 7 to 11 carbon atoms, or an allyl or methallyl ester of the formula:
• ##STR197## where R' is a hydrogen atom or a methyl radical and R.sub.5 is an alkyl radical;
• (5) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl ester of an alpha-branched saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having at least 5 carbon atoms in the carboxyl radical;
• (6) a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an ester of an unsaturated alcohol with a short-chain saturated acid or an ester of a short-chain saturated alcohol with an unsaturated acid, crotonic acid, and an ester of a long-chain acid with an unsaturated alcohol, an ester of an unsaturated acid with a saturated or unsaturated alcohol containing 8 to 18 carbon atoms or with a lanolin alcohol, an alkylvinyl ether, an alkylallyl ether, an alkyl methallyl ether, an alkyl crotyl ether or an alpha-olefin;
• (7) a homopolymer of crotonic acid or a copolymer of crotonic acid with an unsaturated monoethylenic monomer;
• (8) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and an acrylic or methacrylic ester or an alkyl vinyl ether;
• and
• (9) a terpolymer of vinyl acetate, crotonic acid and a vinyl, allyl or methallyl ester containing a long carbon chain;
• (c) a polymer containing at least one unit of an unsaturated acid selected from the group consisting of 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allyloxyacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, allylthioacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid, N-monohydroxyalkyl or N,N-dihydroxyalkyl maleamic or itaconamic acids, and salts or derivatives thereof;
• (d) a polymer containing at least one of an acrylic and methacrylic acid unit, said polymer selected from the group consisting of
• (1) a graft polymer obtained by grafting a vinyl ester, acrylic acid ester or methacrylic acid ester, alone or as a mixture, copolymerized with acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, onto an etherified or esterified polyalkylene glycol or onto a polyalkylene glycol oxide containing amino groups;
• (2) a grafted and crosslinked polymer resulting from the copolymerization of a non-ionic monomer, acrylic or methacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol and a crosslinking agent;
• (3) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer of a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR198## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer:
• ##STR199## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical or a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is equal to 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if m=1, and acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• (4) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer, pentapolymer or higher polymer as defined in (3) copolymerized with one or more other copolymerizable monomers;
• (5) a N-tertiary butyl-acrylamide, N-isopropylacrylamide/acrylamide, methacrylamide/acrylic or methacrylic acid/N-vinylpyrrolidone terpolymer;
• (6) a water-soluble homopolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid, or a water-soluble copolymer of at least one of said acids with a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer;
• (7) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with acrylamide;
• (8) a copolymer of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid with vinyl alcohol;
• (9) a polyacrylamide containing carboxylate groups;
• and
• (10) a copolymer derived from 40 to 90 mole % of vinylpyrrolidone, 40 to 5 mole % of a vinyl ester and 20 to 3 mole % of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid;
• and
• (e) a polymer containing at least one ethylene-alphabeta dicarboxylic acid unit selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a copolymer of said acid with a compound containing a >C.dbd.CH.sub.2 group, which is a vinyl ester, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl vinyl ether, a phenylvinyl derivative and arcylic acid;
• (2) a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 half-ester of a said copolymer derived under (1);
• (3) a copolymer of said acid with an olefin having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, which copolymers are partially esterified with an alkanol;
• (4) a copolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester, which copolymers are mono-esterified with an aliphatic alcohol or amidified with an aliphatic, cyclic or heterocyclic amine;
• (5) a terpolymer of said acid with an allyl or methallyl ester and an acrylamide or methacrylamide, in which the acid groups are mono-esterified or amidified;
• (6) a polymer as defined in (5) copolymerized with an alpha-olefin, a vinyl ether, an acrylic or methacrylic ester, an acrylic or methacrylic acid or N-vinylpyrrolidone;
• (7) a terpolymer, tetrapolymer and pentapolymer of a said acid and a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR200## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent hydrogen or methyl and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 10, a water-soluble monomer of the formula:
• ##STR201## in which R' represents hydrogen or methyl, Z represents a linear or branched alkylene radical, a linear or branched alkylene radical substituted by one or two hydroxymethyl groups, m is 0 or 1, R.sub.4 denotes H or --COR.sub.6, where R.sub.6 is OH or --NH--R.sub.7, R.sub.7 denotes H or --Z--OH, and R.sub.5 denotes H or CH.sub.3, if m=0, or R.sub.4 denotes H and R.sub.5 denotes COR.sub.6, R.sub.6 being as defined above, if M=1, and maleic anhyride;
• (8) a polymer resulting from the polymerization of a said acid, at least a monomer of formula (15), at least a monomer of the formula:
• ##STR202## where R.sub.15 denotes H or COOH and R.sub.16 denotes H or CH.sub.3 if P=0, or R.sub.15 denotes H and R.sub.16 denotes COOH if p=1, and maleic anhydride;
• and
• (9) a colored maleic anhydride polymer, wherein said cationic polymer is a quaternary derivative of a cellulose ether.

Lyophilisated composition to be used for the conditioning of keratinic fibers, resulting from the lyophilisation of a composition containing an anionic and cationic polymer in respective proportions comprised between 0.01 and 10% by weight in water wherein said anionic polymer is selected from the group consisting of a polymer containing recurring units derived from one of the following acids or a salt or derivative of said acids:

• (a) sulphonic acid, in which case the polymer is a salt of a polystyrenesulphonic acid or an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of a lignin sulphonic acid,
• (b) crotonic acid,
• (c) acrylic or methacrylic acid,
• (d) ethylene-.alpha.,.beta.-dicarboxylic acid, or
• (e) allyoxyacetic acid, methallyloxyacetic acid, 3-allyloxypropionic acid, allylthioacetic acid, allylaminoacetic acid, vinylacetic acid, vinyloxyacetic acid, crotyloxyacetic acid, 3-butenoic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, 10-undecenoic acid, allylmalonic acid, maleamic acid, itaconamic acid or N-monohydroxyalkyl- or N-dihydroxy-alkyl-maleamic or -itaconamic acids, or a salt or derivative thereof;
• and wherein the cationic polymer is selected from the group consisting of:
• (1) a quaternary derivative of a cellulose ether;
• (2) a water-soluble cyclopolymer which is a homopolymer or copolymer comprising recurring units of the formula:
• ##STR253## in which R" denotes hydrogen or methyl, and R and R' independently of one another denote an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, a hydroxyalkyl group or an amidoalkyl group, or R and R', together with the nitrogen atom to which they are linked, denote a heterocyclic group, the units of formula (2) comprising a cosmetically acceptable anion;
• (3) a cationic homopolymer or copolymer comprising recurring units of the formula:
• ##STR254## in which R.sub.1 is H or CH.sub.3, A is a linear or branched alkyl group having up to 6 carbon atoms or a hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or benzyl, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 denote H or alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and X denotes halogen or methosulphate;
• (4) a cationic polymer having recurring units of the formula --A--Z--A--Z--, in which A denotes a radical having two amino groups and Z denotes the symbol B or B', which symbols may be identical or different and denote an alkylene radical which is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl groups and which can additionally contain chain oxygen, nitrogen or sulphur atoms and 1 to 3 aromatic, heterocyclic, or aromatic and heterocyclic rings;
• or having recurring units of the formula --A--Z.sub.1 --A--Z.sub.1 --, in which A is as defined above and Z.sub.1 denotes the symbol B.sub.1 or B'.sub.1 such that at least one Z.sub.1 denotes B'.sub.1, B.sub.1 having an alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical and B'.sub.1 being an alkylene radical which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more hydroxyl radicals and contains one or more chain nitrogen atoms which are substituted by an alkyl radical or an alkyl radical which contains a chain oxygen atom and contains one or more hydroxyl, carboxyl, or hydroxyl and carboxyl groups;
• or having recurring units of the formula --A'--Z'--A'--Z'--, in which A' denotes a mixture of radicals ##STR255## and Z' is as defined above for B.sub.1, B, B' or B'.sub.1 ;
• and the quarternary ammonium salts and oxidation products of the polymers --A--Z--A--Z-- and --A--Z.sub.1 --A--Z.sub.1 --;
• (5) a quaternary polymer comprising recurring units of the formula:
• ##STR256## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent an aliphatic, alicyclic or araliphatic radical containing at most 20 carbon atoms or a lower hydroxyaliphatic radical, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, together or separately, form, together with the nitrogen atoms to which they are linked, a heterocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring which contains a second hetero-atom other than nitrogen, or R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently represent a group of the formula:
• ##STR257## R'.sub.3 denoting hydrogen or lower alkyl and R'.sub.4 denoting --CN, ##STR258## where R'.sub.5 denotes lower alkyl, R'.sub.6 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl, R'.sub.7 denotes alkylene and D denotes a quaternary ammonium group, and A and B independently represent a hydrocarbon group which contains 2 to 20 carbon atoms and which can be linear or branched, and saturated or unsaturated and can contain, interposed in the main chain, one or more aromatic rings or one or more groups CH.sub.2 --Y--CH.sub.2 -- in which Y denotes --O--, --S--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --S--S--, ##STR259## in which R'.sub.8 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl and R'.sub.9 denotes lower alkyl, or A and R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, together with the two nitrogen atoms to which they are linked, form a piperazine ring, and B can also denote ##STR260## and X.sup.- is a mineral or organic acid anion or ##STR261## in which A denotes a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical, B denotes (a) a radical of the formula --O--Z--O--, where Z denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or a group of the formula:
• ##STR262## where x and y independently denote an integer from 1 to 4 or, in a mixture of compounds, any number from 1 to 4;
• (b) a radical of a bis-secondary diamine;
• (c) a radical of a bis-primary diamine or the formula:
• --NH--Y--NH--
• where Y denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical or the divalent radical --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --S--S--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --;
• or (d) a ureylene group of the formula --NH--CO--NH--, R.sub.1 denotes an alkyl radical having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 denotes a linear or branched hydrocarbon radical containing from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, such that R.sub.2 can also denote a plurality of methylene groups linked to one another and form with A, if A denotes an ethylene radical, and with the two nitrogen atoms, a divalent radical of the formula:
• ##STR263## X.sup.- denotes a halide and n denotes the number 1 or an integer from 3 to 10;
• (6) a copolymer comprising recurring units of the formulae:
• ##STR264## in the proportions n:m:p such that n represents 20 to 99 mol %, m from 1 to 80 mol %, and p from 0 to 50 mol %, with n+m+p=100, y denotes 0 or 1, and R.sub.1 represents H or CH.sub.3 ;
• R.sub.2 denotes --CH.sub.2 --CHOH--CH.sub.2 -- or C.sub.x H.sub.2 x, where x is from 2 to 18;
• R.sub.3 denotes CH.sub.3, C.sub.2 H.sub.5 or ##STR265## R.sub.4 denotes CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5, X denotes Cl, Br, I, 1/2 SO.sub.4, HSO.sub.4, or CH.sub.3 SO.sub.4 and M is derived from a further monomer;
• (7) a polyaminoamide or a crosslinked polyaminoamide;
• (8) a polyalkyleneamine or alkoxylated or alkylated polyalkyleneamine;
• (9) a polymer containing chain vinylpyridine or vinylpyridinium units;
• (10) a urea-formaldehyde cationic resin;
• (11) a polyamine/epichlorohydrin condensate;
• (12) a vinylbenzylammonium homopolymer or copolymer;
• (13) a quaternary polyureylene;
• and
• (14) a coloring polymer in the form of a mixture of water-soluble cationic polymers which contain secondary or tertiary amino groups or quaternary ammonium groups which either form part of, or are attached directly or indirectly to, compounds which carry chromophoric or chromogenic aryl or araliphatic groups, provided that if the main chain contains amino groups which form part of said chromophoric or chromogenic compounds it necessarily also contains at least 10% of aliphatic amino groups to the total number of amino groups of the polymer chain.