The Procter & Gamble Company
Method for hair frizz reduction

Abstract:

A method directed to a hair soaking treatment for frizz reduction comprising immersion of consumer hair into an aqueous composition is disclosed. A method for hair frizz reduction wherein hair is soaked for at least about 2 minutes in an aqueous composition having a viscosity of less than about 1000 cP comprising from about 0.15% to about 20% (20 g/100 ml) of a moisture control material or mixture of moisture control materials wherein the moisture control material is a compound that is represented with the structure: ##STR00001## wherein R' is --COOY, sulfonic acid, or C.dbd.CH--COOY, Y is hydrogen or a metal ion, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 is hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, vinyl, allyl, methoxy, ethoxy, hydroxyl, halogen, sulfate, sulfonate, nitro, or --CH.dbd.CH--COOR, and wherein the moisture control material is an acidic material and further wherein the moisture control material has a % Protein binding higher than about 20 and Molecular Volume lower than about 500 and Partition coefficient octanol to water (log P) lower than about 3 and hydrogen binding higher than about 10 and pKa lower than about 5.0; further wherein the pH of the composition comprising the moisture control material is from about 1 to about 5.