Patent ID: 7279449

Claim:
A composition which is suitable for cleansing hair and comprises (a) one or more pregelatinized, cross-linked starch derivatives; (b) one or more cationic polymers which comprise at least one polymeric quatemized ammonium salt of hydroxyethylcellulose which has been modified with a trimethylammonium-substituted epoxide; and (c) one or more nonionic, amphoteric or anionic surfactants which comprise at least one surfactant selected from fatty acid salts of sodium, alkyl sulfates, alkyl ether sulfates, alkane- and alkylbenzenesulfonates, sulfoacetates, sulfobetaines, sarcosinates, amidosulfobetaines, sulfosuccinates, sulfo-succinic half-esters, alkylether carboxylates, protein fatty acid condensates, alkyl betaines, amidobetaines, and fatty acid alkanolamides.