| abstract |
The present invention intends to provide a composition for hair treatment containing gamma -polyglutamic acid or a salt thereof, a hair cosmetic for damaged hair containing such a composition, and their uses. The composition for hair treatment containing gamma -polyglutamic acid or a salt thereof and the hair cosmetic for damaged hair of the present invention have excellent improvement effects on the strength and frictional force of hair, so that they can provide tension, elasticity, or the like to damage hair to prevent or alleviate split hair and broken hair as well as improvements in combing and touch. Furthermore, they also exert effects of moisture retention inherent to gamma -polyglutamic acid or a salt thereof, preventing or improving effects on the generation of dandruff on the basis of such effects, preventing effects on the feeling of stickiness or creak, and various effectiveness including appropriate residual tendency to hair in a simultaneous manner, respectively. |