Patent ID: 7736663

Claim:
A hair treatment composition comprising: at least one polymer comprising at least two hydrogen-bonding moieties, which may be the same or different, covalently bonded to each other by at least one polymeric, oligomeric or monomeric linker, wherein said linker comprises a sufficient number of single covalent bonds to maintain flexibility of the linker and wherein each hydrogen bonding moiety has at least 3 groups capable of forming a hydrogen bond with the same moiety or a different moiety; and from 0.1 to 50% by weight of the total composition of a hair conditioning agent and/or a cosmetically acceptable surfactant; wherein said hydrogen bonding moieties independently have the general formula I, II or III wherein R 1 is H, C 1 -C 24 alkyl, C 2-24 alkenyl, C 2-24 alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl or heteroaryl groups, or polyoxyethylene or polyoxypropylene or a random or block copolymer thereof and R 2 and R 3 may be either a polymeric, oligomeric or monomeric linker or a side group selected from H, C 1 -C 24 alkyl, C 2 -C 24 alkenyl, C 2 -C 24 alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl or heteroaryl groups, or polyoxyethylene or polyoxypropylene or a random or block copolymer thereof; wherein said alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl or heteroaryl groups are optionally substituted with one or more amino, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, nitro, phenyl, hydroxyl, sulfide, thiol, ester or amide groups; and with the proviso that R 2 and R 3 are not both side groups; wherein the hair treatment composition is a hair spray, mousse, tonic, gel, shampoo, conditioner or rinse.