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COMPOSITIONS USED IN PERMANENT ALTERATION OF HAIR COLOR ABSTRACT A permanent hair color altering composition comprising an aqueous preparation on the basis of melanin dissolution and/or oxidation of a hair colorant dye intermediate, which contains as a swelling and penetration agent, a quaternized amino lactam having the formula: X-wherein m is an integer having a value of from 1 to 4; R is alkylene having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms and is optionally substituted with C1 to C4 alkyl; R1, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from the group of alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, and alkylamidoalkyl radicals, said groups each having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms and at least one of R1, R2 and R3 is a radical having from 8 to 30 carbon atoms; and X- is a chloride, bromide or iodide anion. The invention also relates to the use of said quaternized compounds. |