| abstract |
A unitary storage-stable, high foaming multifunctional permanent wave neutralizer and conditioner composition contains an oxidizing agent useful in permanent waving, a surface active agent of the group consisting of zwitterionic surface active agents, amphoteric surface active agents or anionic surface active agents selected from the group consisting of alpha C14-C18 olefin sulfonates, N-(C12-C18) fatty acyl sarcosines and alkali metal salts thereof and N-(C12-C18) fatty acyltaurines and alkali metal salts thereof, and a water-soluble cationic polymer containing a plurality of quaternary nitrogen atoms, and has a pH value of between about 2.5 to about 8.0. The composition is used in a method of altering the configuration of hair to neutralize chemically reduced hair and to provide conditioning and odor removal. |