Patent ID: 8025871

Claim:
A hair cosmetic composition comprising the following components (A) to (C), and having a pH at 25° C. of from 1 to 5.5 when diluted to 20 times the weight of the composition with water: (A) 0.5 to 5% of a cationic surfactant, or a tertiary amine represented by the formula (1): wherein, at least one of R 1 to R 3 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 8 to 23 carbon atoms and the remainder represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a benzyl group, R 4 represents an alkylene group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, A represents —CONH— or —NHCO— and a stands for 0 or 1; or salt thereof: (B) 0.5 to 10% of an aliphatic alcohol having from 8 to 30 carbon atoms, and (C) 0.1 to 1% of toluenesulfonic acid or salt thereof, wherein the ratio of (A)/(C) ranges from 3 to 15.