Patent ID: 7906107

Claim:
A method of shaping or styling hair in a hairstyle, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing a hair wax composition containing from 20 to 60 percent by weight water; from 10 to 50 percent by weight of at least one monohydric alcohol with 2 to 3 carbon atoms; from 0 to 5 percent by weight of at least one polyhydric alcohol with 2 to 5 carbon atoms; from 10 to 30 percent by weight of at least one nonionic emulsifier and from 5 to 30 percent by weight of at least one wax; wherein the weight ratio of said at least one nonionic emulsifier to said at least one wax is greater than 1, so that a stickiness of said hair wax composition changes after application to dry or slightly wet hair to be shaped; b) applying said hair wax composition to the dry or slightly wet hair to be shaped; and c) within an initial time interval immediately after the applying of step b) in which said hair wax composition applied to the hair is more sticky than during a time after said initial time interval, putting the dry or slightly wet hair to be shaped into said hairstyle.