Patent ID: 8591872

Claim:
A process for reducing curl and/or frizziness of hair comprising: (a) providing a composition for reducing curl and/or frizziness of hair, said composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier: (i) from about 1 to about 5% by weight of at least one non-hydroxide base chosen from monoethanolamine, triethanolamine, and ethylenediamine; (ii) from about 2 to about 20% by weight of two protein denaturants chosen from urea and hydroxyethylurea and present in a ratio by weight ranging from about 5:1 to about 2:1; (iii) from about 1 to about 10% by weight of amino propyl triethoxysilane (iv) optionally, at least one fatty substance; (b) contacting the hair with the composition in (a) to form treated hair; (c) optionally, rinsing the composition in (a) from the treated hair; (d) optionally, contacting the treated hair with a conditioning agent; (e) smoothing the treated hair using a combination of heat and means for physically smoothing hair to form smoothed hair; (f) optionally, shampooing the smoothed hair; and (g) rinsing the smoothed hair.