abstract |
Disclosed are hair conditioning shampoo composition comprising: (a) from about 5 % to about 50 % by weight of an anionic surfactant component; (b) from about 0.1 % to about 10 % by weight of a dispersed, insoluble, nonvolatile, nonionic silicone hair conditioning agent; (c) from about 0.05 % to about 10 % by weight of soluble, organic, polymeric cationic hair conditioning agent, said polymeric, cationic hair conditioning agent consisting essentially of one or more cationic, hair conditioning polymers, said cationic hair conditioning polymers having quaternary ammonium or cationic amino moieties, or a mixture thereof, an open chain backbone, and a charge density of about + 3.0 meq/gram or less; and (d) an aqueous carrier. The shampoo compositions hereof can provide excellent overall hair conditioning benefits, in conjunction with excellent cleaning performance, to a variety of hair types including treated hair such as permed and color-treated hair, as well as undamaged hair. |