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AssigneeUnilever Home & Personal Care USA, Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsColin Christopher David Giles, Frances Ann Ellis, Andrew Malcolm Murray, Matthew Leslie Pearce, Pamela Eileen Red
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Hair treatment compositions are provided which have conditioning benefits and which contain a fatty acid polyester of a polyol selected from cyclic polyols, sugar derivatives and mixtures thereof, in which at least 50% by weight of the total fatty acid moieties of the polyester are C20 or higher unsaturated fatty acid moieties. Specific examples of suitable fatty acid polyesters are sucrose trierucate, sucrose pentaerucate, sucrose tetraerucate, sucrose trirapeate, sucrose tetrarapeate, and sucrose pentarapeate, and mixtures thereof. The compositions are typically in the form of shampoos or conditioners and give surprisingly improved overall conditioning, in particular hair softness.
A hair treatment composition comprising a fatty acid polyester of a polyol selected from cyclic polyols, sugar derivatives and mixtures thereof, in which at least 50% by weight of the total fatty acid moieties of the polyester are C20 or higher unsaturated fatty acid moieties.
A hair treatment composition according to any preceding claim which is in the form of a shampoo composition and which further comprises one or more cleansing surfactants, a cationic polymer and emulsified particles of silicone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.