Patent ID: 8197798

Claim:
A hair treatment composition comprising a combination of a) 0.1 to 10% by wt. of a monosaccharide; b) about 0.1 to 1% by wt. of an aliphatic amino acid having the general formula: CH(COOH)(NHR 1 )(R 2 ) in which R 1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having a chain length of from 1 to 4 carbons, and R 2 is selected from H, —CH 3 , —CH(CH 3 ) 2 , —CH 2 CH(CH 3 ) 2 and —CH(CH 3 )CH 2 CH 3 ; and c) about 0.1 to 1% by wt. of a basic amino acid selected from the group consisting of lysine, arginine, histidine, ornithine and mixtures thereof.