Cationic polymers as antistatic additives for hair preparations

An aqueous hair rinse antistatic composition consisting essentially of:

• a hair treatment substance and a cationic antistatic agent present in an antistatic effective amount, which agent is an epoxidized, aminated, 1,3-diene salt cationic polymer that is the reaction product of:
• (1) a 1,3-diene homopolymer or predominantly 1,3-diene copolymer, having at least 10 1,3-diene units per molecule, in which at least 10% of the double bonds present have been epoxidized, and which contains about 3-6% by weight of epoxide oxygen;
• which has been aminated with
• (2) amine of the formula R.sup.1 NR.sup.2 R.sup.3 wherein:
• R.sup.1 is a C.sub.1-4 alkyl, or a C.sub.2-4 hydroxyalkyl;
• and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and are hydrogen, C.sub.1-4 alkyl, or a C.sub.2-4 hydroxyalkyl;
• or an amine selected from the group consisting of morpholine, piperidine, and piperazine;
• and converted to a salt by
• (3) (a) reacting the aminated epoxidized 1,3-diene polymer with an acid which is a C.sub.1-7 carboxylic acid or a mineral acid;
• or (b) alkylating the aminated epoxidized 1,3-diene polymer with 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride or with RCl, RBr, or R.sup.2 SO.sub.4 wherein R is methyl or ethyl, to form a quarternary ammonium salt;
• or (c) quaternizing the aminated epoxidized 1,3-diene polymer with ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, glycidol, or glycidyl trimethylammonium chloride;
• and then further reacting the resulting quaternary ammonium salt with an acid which is a C.sub.1-7 carboxylic acid or a mineral acid.