Patent ID: 7718817

Claim:
A method of preparing a hair cosmetic composition containing an additive which improves the feel thereof, consisting of the steps of: performing steam distillation of a vegetable oil to obtain a deodorized vegetable oil distillate; methyl-esterifying or ethyl-esterifying free fatty acids contained in the deodorized vegetable oil distillate to obtain an esterified deodorized vegetable oil distillate; contacting the esterified deodorized vegetable oil distillate with a basic anion-exchange resin to remove tocopherol therefrom and form a resultant distillate; distilling off volatile ingredients from the resultant distillate at a pressure of 1-0.005 Torr and a temperature of 150-160° C. to form a distillate product; esterifying phytosterols contained in the distillate product with at least one fatty acid having from sixteen to twenty carbon atoms to form an esterification reaction product; decoloring the esterification reaction product to form a decolored esterification reaction product; deodorizing the decolored esterification reaction product to form a cosmetic additive; and combining the cosmetic additive with at least one other cosmetic ingredient to form the cosmetic composition.