Patent ID: 8709389

Claim:
A hair care composition comprising 0.1-12% by weight based on the weight of the hair care composition of at least one silicone copolymer and/or saponification product thereof, the silicone copolymer prepared by copolymerizing monomers comprising A) 0.1-50% based on the weight of the silicone copolymer, of one or more polymerizable silicones of the formula R 1 R 2 SiO(SiR 2 O) n SiR 2 R 1 (1) where R is methyl, R 1 is vinyl, and n is 10 to 1000 B) 0.5-14% of one or more copolymerizable unsaturated hydrophilic monomers based on the weight of the silicone copolymer, and C) 30-99.4% of one or more copolymerizable unsaturated hydrophobic monomers based on the weight of the silicone copolymer, the polymerization taking place in the presence of a free radical initiator compound, with the proviso that the molecular weight M W of the silicone copolymer is 30,000 to 90,000 g/mol and organic polymer chains are covalently bridged by silicone chains derived from said polymerizable silicones A), the hair care composition further comprising 99.9 to 88% by weight of hair care composition components other than the silicone copolymer.