CA1091160A - Hair preparation containing vinyl pyrrolidone copolymer - Google Patents

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure Hair preparations containing a copolymer of about 99.5 to 45 mole percent of vinyl pyrrolidone and about 0.5 to 50 mole percent of diloweralkylaminoalkyl acrylate or methacrylate, and method of setting and conditioning hair therewith.

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; This invention relates generally to cosmetic ~ preparations and especially to hair setting and conditioning -~ compositions containing certain copolymers of vinyl pyrrolidone (N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone), hereafter refer~ed to as VP.
In the field of hair care, setting, waving, con-ditioning and the like, broad types of hair treating pre-parations have been proposed, the principal ones being cationic surfactants, superfatting materials, water soluble proteins and synthetic polymers, in a suitable cosmetically acceptable medium. The synthetic polymer containing pre-parations are generally regarded as most effective, parti-cularly those containing water soluble cationic polymers which are substantive to hair and exhaust thereon from solution or diluent medium. British 1,331,819 and United States 3,910,862 and 3,954,960, describe water soluble cationic quaternized copolymers of VP and a dialkylamino-alkyl acrylate or methacrylate, and hair care compositions containing such copolymers which have been found to be highly effective in providing most of the properties-con-sidered necessary in the theoretically perfect hair ~ preparation, as in fact also described in said patents.
.~ The hair preparations described in said patents are however not optimal in certain respects, as for example cost of ` producing the quaternized copolymers, a curl retention under high humidity conditions, an ease of removability, and/or a resistance to build-up not as high as could be desired.

~09~ 0 It is an object of this invention to provide hair treating compositions which will not be subject to one or more of the above disadvantages. Another object of the invention is the provision of such compositions containing lower-cost copolymers. Still another object of the invention is the ., , provision of hair setting and conditioning compositionæ with ` improved curl retention under high humidity conditions, ease of removability, and/or resistance to build-up with repeated use. Yet a further object of the invention is the provision of an improved method of treating, setting and/or conditioning hair (human hair on or off the head as in wigs) with such compositions. Other objects and advantages will appear as the description proceeds.

~ The attainment of one or more of the above objects '~.' 15 is made possible by this invention which includes the provision of a hair setting and conditioning composition comprising, approximately by weight, '~

I. 0.1 to 35% of a film-forming copolymer having a molecular weight of about 15,000 to 1,500,000 and containing ..~
A. about 99.5 to 45 mole percent of units derived from vinyl pyrrolidone B. about 0.5 to 50 mole percent of units derived from a monomer of the formula CH2 - CRl - COOR2 - NR3R4 wherein Rl is H or CH3, R2 is Cl_20 alkylene, and R3 and R4 are independentiy Cl_4 alkyl, and _ 2 _ : ~09~ 1~0 , C. 0 to about 50 mole percent of units - derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomer different from A and B, i .
II. 0.05 to 10% of at least one cosmetically ~ acceptable member of the group consisting of organic surface active agents, thickening . i agents , plasticizers and sequestering agents, - 10 in ,~
III. a solvent base selected from the group consisting of water, monohydric C2_3 aliphatic -, alcohols, l,l,l-trichloroethane, methylene , -chloride, and mixtures thereof.

In the above monomer B formula, R may for example be methylene or preferably ethylene or may be branched or isomeric but preferably normal or linear hydroxyethylene, propylene, hydroxypropylene, butylene, pentylene, hexylene, ~ heptylene, octylene, nonylene, decylene, dodecylene, `~ tetradecylene, hexadecylene, octadecylene or di-decylene; and R3 and R4 may be independently butyl, t-butyl, isobutyl, .
i propyl, isopropyl, ethyl, or preferably methyl.
;i 25 The optional monomer C may be any conventional vinyl or vinylidene monomer other than B copolymerizable with A
(VP). Exemplary of such monomers are the alkyl vinyl ethers, e.g. the methyl, ethyl, octyl and lauryl vinyl ethers;

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vinyl acetate and chloride; vinylidene chloride;
acrylonitrile and methacrylonitrile and substituted derivatives thereof; acrylamide and methacrylamide and N-substituted derivatives thereof; crotonic acid and esters thereof, e`.g. methyl and ethyl crotonate; and the like.
,~,, The above mentioned U.S. patents disclose the .~`. 10 production of quaternized derivatives of polymers containing the above defined A, B and optional C units, but with B
present in proportions of about 5 to 80 mole percent. The above-mentioned British 1,331,819 contains a similar disclosure but with B being present in proportions of 1 to 80 mole percent. It was highly surprising to discover that elimination of the quaternization step required in accordance with the teachings of said patents not only did not result in any significant detriment to the properties of the hair preparations containing such polymers, but proved advantageous in substantially reducing the costs of manufacture and in providing hair preparations yielding improved properties in the treated hair with respect to improved curl retention under high humidity conditions, ease of removability, and/or resistance to build-up with repeated use, among other i 25 miscellaneous advantages.

It should accordingly be understood that the method of making the copolymers employed herein, by free radical addition polymerization, preferably in aqueous or alcoholic lV~1160 (e.g. ethanol, isopropanol) solution, and examples of the ?~ acrylate or methacrylate monomer B and the optional ethylenically unsaturated (vinyl or vinylidene) monomer C
~` employed in such method, are adequately disclosed in said patents. As monomer B, di-Cl 2 alkylaminoethyl acrylates and methacrylates are preferred, especially dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate. Any of the other dialkylaminoalkyl acrylates and methacrylates disclosed in U.S. 3,910,862 at column 3, line 56 to column 4, line 15, may however be employed, in addition to their substantial equivalents in which the terminal dialkyl groups (R3 and R4) taken together form with the bonded N atom a 5 or 6 membered heterocyclic ring such as morpholino, methyl piperidino, pyrrolidono, and the like.

: To achieve greater ease of removability and decreased build-up with repeated use (i.e. applications), monomer B should constitute 0.5 to 4.g, preferably about 1 to about 2.5, more preferably about 1.4, mole percent of polymer , I and correspondingly monomer A (VP) should constitute 99.5 to 45.1, preferably about 99 to about 97.5, more preferably about ~ 98.6, mole percent of polymer I.

; If ease of removability and/or resistance to build-i up is not a desideratum, monomer B may constitute 5 to 50, preferably about 5 to about 40, more preferably about 10 to 25 - about 30, mole percent of polymer I, and correspondingly monomer A (VP) may constitute 99.5 to 45, preferably about 95 to about 60, more preferably about 90 to about 70, mole percent of polymer I.

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Any of the monomers disclosed in British 1,331,819 at page 2, lines 65-82, may be employed to provide the optional ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomer C
units in said polymer I.
,, The copolymers employed according to the present invention can be prepared over a wide range of molecular weights, e.g. from about 15,000 to l,S00,000 or more, depending upon the particular choice of reactants, initiator, solvent and polmerizing conditions, lower temperatures being generally conducive to the formation of higher molecular weight copolymers. The desired molecular weight range in any particular instance will in general be influenced by the type, utility, and dispensing method of the cosmetic composition in which it will be employed. Since these copolymers are soluble in both water and alcohol, they can be employed in cosmetic compositions, particularly hair preparations, containing an - alcoholic, aqueous or mixed aqueous-alcoholic base or carrier.
The preferred higher molecular weight copolymers of about 500,000 to l,S00,000 or more in addition act as their own thickeners, aqueous and/or alcoholic solutions displaying a slippery feel and facilitating appiication, local or overall, to the hair.

The above described copolymers of this invention can be employed in hair preparations and other cosmetic compositions in the same manner and with the same surface active agents, thickening agents, plasticizing agents and sequestering agents as the heretofore employed conventional film-forming resins, for example with the same additives and in the same formulations as disclosed for the quaternized copolymer in U.S. 3,954,960. They may generally be formulated for hair setting, waving, conditioning, shampooing, coloring, and/or bleaching functions in the form of a lotion, cream (paste), gel, pump spray or pressurized aerosol.
Conveniently, the copolymer is dissolved, generally in proportions of about 0.1 to about 5%, preferably about 0.2 to about 2%, or up to 35% or more in concentrates, by weight of the formulation, in the solvent of choice, e.g. 1,1,1-trichloroethane, methylene chloride, or preferably ethanol, isopropanol, 2-methoxyethanol, or water or mixtures thereof, in the presence of (before, with or after addition of) about 0.05 to about 10% by weight of one or a mixture of the known, conventional, cosmetically acceptable organic surface active agents, thickening agents, plasticizing agents and sequestering agents.

As cosmetically acceptable organic surface active agents useful in the cosmetic, particularly hair, preparations of this invention, any one or more of the anionic, ampholytic, polar nonionic, zwitterionic and cationic organic surfactants disclosed in U.S. 3,489,686 at column 2, line 66 to column 5, line 2 may be employed.

As operative thickening agents there may be mentioned carboxymethylcellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose, methylcellulose, magnesium aluminum silicate, Carbopols (B.F.
Goodrich) such as Carbopol 940, and the like. Useful seques-tering agents include sodium ethylenediaminetetracetates, polyphosphates and nitrilotriacetates, corresponding potassium salts, etc.

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As useful plasticizing agents (including emollients, lubricants), there may be mentioned lanolin and lanolin derivatives such as acetylated and ethoxylated lanolin alcohols and isopropyl lanolate, polyoxyethylenated sorbitan monooleate, trioleate and monostearate, ethylene, diethylene, propylene and hexylene glycols and their monomethyl and ~-` monoethyl ethers and monoacetates, glycerin, glycerol triacetate and monoricinoleate, long chain alcohols such as oleyl, isostearyl and cetyl alcohols and their polyoxyethylenated derivatives, e.g. with 2-30 moles of ethylene oxide, dimethyl, diethyl and dibutyl phthalates, :r~ triethylphosphate, isopropyl myristate and palmitate, dimethyl and methylphenyl polysiloxane and other silicones, and the like.

Certain volatile plasticizers may also be employed such as propionamide, benzoic and salicylic acid, menthol, thymol, methyl-2-naphthylketone, hexachloroethane, ., .
benzophenone and acetamide.
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Other optional conventional additives include '~f~ opacifiers, colorants, perfumes, UV absorbers, preservatives, .
;,' medicaments, suds boosters or depressants, penetrants, ~ lustrants, deodorants and the like.
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These compositions may also be employed for other cosmetic purposes such as hand lotions, deodorant sprays and lotions, protective and moisturizing creams, etc.
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The present invention includes a method comprising treating hair with an aqueous, alcoholic, or aqueous-alcoholic ~` medium containing an effective amount of the above-defined ,~,.

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copolymer I, such amount depending of course upon the desired function, e.g. conditioning, bodying, lusterizing, shape setting and holding, rinsing, protecting, improving manageability and the like, and generally ranging from about 0.1 to 5%, preferably about 0.2 to 2%, by weight in said medium. Such medium desirably also contains conventional hair preparation additives such as about 0.05 to about 10% of one or more of the above-mentioned cosmetically acceptable agents, i.e. surfactants, thickeners, plasticizers and sequesterants, in addition to other such conventional additives including those described elsewhere herein.
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Those copolymers containing at least 5 mole percent of monomer B are substantially more substantive to hair relative to corresponding copolymers containing less than 5 mole percent of monomer B, such degree of substantivity varying (increasing) directly with the proportion of monomer B
in the copolymer. They are accordingly especlally advantageous for use in rinse-type hair conditioning applications and conditioning shampoos. Thus, for rinse type applications, the copolymer in the aqueous and/or alcoholic medium may contain about 5 to 20, preferably about 10 to 15, mole percent of monomer B units, the substantivity of the copolymer to the hair being treated preventing it from being lost in the rinsing liquid. Because of such substantivity, dilute solutions of the copolymer may if desired be employed.
When it is desired to use these copolymers as conditioning agents in shampoos, the copolymer should preferably contain more than about 15 up to 40 or 50, more preferably more than about 15 up to 30, mole percent of monomer B units. These 10911~

higher proportions of monomer B units are substantially more effective for enabling effective deposition on the hair of the copolymer from the shampoo vehicle which, because of its relatively high content of detergents, tends to wash out the copolymer conditioner from the hair.

The copolymers employed herein containing less than 5 mole percent of units from monomer B, have a relatively low substantivity to hair, and hair preparations containing them according to this invention are preferred for most left-on-': 10 the-hair uses such as setting and conditioning lotions, creams and gels, blow-dry conditioners and hair sprays of the pump or ,.
- pressurized aerosol type. These copolymers are easily washed , :.
or shampooed out of the hair, thereby avoiding resin buildup which leads to reduced hair manageability and to an :~ 15 artifically coated appearance. These compositions may if desired also be employed in rinse-type hair conditioners and as a conditioner in shampoos.

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In general, for use in the form of a lotion, cream or gel for conditioning, bodying, lusterizing, shape setting and holding (curling, waving, straightening, shaping), v~ improving manageability (combability, brushability, shaping), protectors against mechanical and chemical influences, and the like, the invention involves the treatment of human hair with ~` 25 a lotion, cream or gel containing, approximately by weight, 0.1 to 5% of the above-defined polymer I in 99.9 to 95% of a , solvent medium, 50 to 100% of which is water and 0 to about 50%
of which is at least one C2 3 aliphatic monohydric alcohol, desirably with 0.05 to 10% of said medium being replaced .,-., -- 10 --.~

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For application in the form of a pump spray, about 3 to about 70% of said solvent medium is composed of said alcohol to facilitate the spray function and hasten drying.

For application as a conditioning rinse, said solvent medium is generally devoid of alcohol, desirably with about 0.05 to 10% of said medium being replaced by at leasf one of said cosmetically acceptable agents. In most instances the conditioning rinse contains about 1.5 to 10% of at least one lS surface active agent and 0 to about 4% of at least one plasticizer, e.g. glycerolstearate.

For application as a conditioning shampoo, said solvent medium is also generally devoid of alcohol which acts - as a foam or suds depressant, with about 10 to 50% of said ; medium being replaced by at least one surface active agent acting as detergent, and desirably with about 0.05 to 10% of said medium being replaced by at least one cosmetically acceptable thickener, plasticizer or sequestrant, especially the plasticizer, e.g. polyethylene glycol (6000) stearate and/or propylene glycol. One or a mixture of two or more of the surface active agents disclosed in U.S. 3,489,686, as indicated above, may function as the detergent component in the shampoo.

~.V'3~1~i0 A pressurized aerosol formulation according to the invention may contain, approximately by weight, 0.1 to 5~ of said copolymer I, 0 to 10% of one of the aforesaid agents, 25 to 60% of the aforesaid alcohol, 0 to 40% of water, and 10 to 70~ of propellant.
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In the above formulations, all or part of the alcohol may be replaced by l,l,l-trichloroethane or methylene chloride or the like, and concentrates containing up to 35% or more of the copolymer may be produced and used.
Any propellant may be employed for pressurizing the aerosol in its valved pressure container, pressurized or - liquified gas or the like. For example, where not prohibited, `( any of the known chlorofluoro hydrocarbons, or mixtures thereof, may be employed, if desired in admixture with other types of propellants such as described below. Freons 11, 12 and 114, particularly dual mixtures thereof, are useful, in addition to other Freons and their counterparts available as Genetrons, Isotrons, etc. Other useful propellants include any or a mixture of normal and isopropanes and butanes, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and the like.

Depending upon the proportion of monomer B, the VP
copolymers employed herein have a number of important advantages relative to prior art hair setting and conditioning resins, including:

1. Complete water solubility under all pH
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2. Amenability to yield clear aqueous, alcoholic, or aqueous-alcoholic liquid formulations.

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3. Lower cost, particularly as compared with their quaternized derivatives.
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5. Ready removability by washing or shampooing.
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.''~' ;; The compositions of the present invention are . 10 particularly useful for the following distinctive on-hair ; performance criteria:
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2. Detangling of wet hair.
3. Provides hair with a lustrous "natural" as against a dirty ~coated" appearance.
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4. Adds body and a lively bounce to hair.
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3,910,862, omitting of course the final quaternizing step, ~" !' ~ e.g. Examples 1 to 4 and 6 of said patent, with suitable . -.
adjustment of the mole percent of monomer B.

Another preferred method of preparing copolymer I is -.
l set forth in Example A below. All amounts and proportions referred to herein and in the appended claims are by weight ~ unless otherwise indicated.
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' Materials Amounts Distilled Water 1400g.
Vinylpyrrolidone (VP) 343g. (330 ml.) Dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) 7.0g.
Azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) 0.6g.
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: ;i Charge 1350g. of the water and 310 ml. VP to a kettle equipped with mechanical stirrer, reflux condenser, , ~
thermometer and gas inlet tube and adjust to a pH of about 7 with citric acid or caustic soda solution. Purge with nitrogen and heat to 75C. under nitrogen purge.
"''6 15 Mix the DMAEMA with the remaining 50g. of water and similarly adjust to pH of about 7, dilute to 65 ml. with distilled water and charge to a dropping funnel.
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Dissolved the AIBN in the remaining VP, add to - 20 kettle at 75C. and hold for 5 minutes.

Add 3~ ml. of the DMAEMA solution to the kettle over 10 minutes, followed by 20 ml. over 10 minutes and 15 ml. over 10 minutes. Hold at 75C. for 1 hour, sample and analyze for ~,.
~ VP monomer. Rold an additional 1.6 hours, cool and discharge.
; 25 The resulting product has a pH of about 6.5 to 6.7 and bulk Brookfield viscosities of 34,000-48,000 cps. using a ~7 spindle at 20 rpm.
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As also indicated above, the copolymer I of this invention may be substituted for the quaternized copolymers employed in the various formulations exemplified in U.S.
3,954,960, e.g. Examples 2 to 10. The following additional examples are only illustrative of further preferred embodiments of this invention and are not to be regarded as limitative. In these examples and the appended claims all amounts and proportions are by weight unless otherwise indicated, DMAEMA is dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate; the VP/DMAEMA 98/2 and 90/lO have number average molecular weights ;~; (M.W.) ranging from about 700,000 to at least 1,000,000; the VP/DMAEMA 80/20 has a M.W. range of about l,000,000 to 1,500,000; 98/2, 90/10 and 80/20 indicate weight ratios of ~ VP/DMAEMA; "Ethoquat" indicates quaternization with diethylsulfate, such quaternized derivatives having the same M.W. range as the non-quaternized precursors; PVP R90 (VP
homopolymer) has a M.W. of about 360,000 and PVP K30 has a M.W.
of about 40,000.
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The following test procedure used in these examples was developed to compare the hair-holding qualities of different products under varying temperature and humidity I conditions:
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Humidity Curl Retention Test l. Human, untreated hair is used for this test.

2. A master shank of hair is subdivided into a series of individual swatches each nine inches long and weighing 1.5 grams.

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, 4. In each case 1.2 ml. of the product is used per hair j swatch. The product is worked down into the swatch 1~.;, ' S
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5. Each swatch is combed twice immediately after product application. It is then curled using a 5/8"
O.D. mandril and pinned.
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hair dryer at high temperature setting approximately ~'5. 1~ hours.
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~' 2'~ 8. After drying, the swatches are unpinned and care-,,:,`
'r~ fully opened. Each swatch is individually mounted on a precalibrated plexiglass board. The initial length is recorded. The swatches are so spaced so .:
~ no one cell will have an abnormal number of swatches `~ in any one area of the humidity chamber.
,,, 9. The plexiglass boards are then placed in the humidity chamber. The temperature and relative , humidity are recorded.

10. Swatch length readings are taken at various prescribed time intervals with the corresponding temperature and relative humidity recorded.

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~09il~;0 11. The data for each product obtained on the six or so ;~ swatches are averaged for comparison purposes.

12. Since the test is dependent upon the nature of hair used, cross comparison between two different lots of hairs is not meaningful.
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Example 1 Two setting lotions are formulated using PVP-R-90 in one and copolymer Vinylpyrrolidone/Dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (VP/DMAEMA = 98/2) in the other. These two lotions are compared side by side using the test procedure described above. The relative curl retention at different intervals of time are shown below.

Setting Lotion Formulation Parts Resin Solids 1.5 Isostearyl alcohol + 102Ø 0.08 Silicone Fluid SF-10660.08 Perfume 0.10 -1 Ethanol 32.90 FDC Blue ~1 (0.6% aq.) ~ 0.05 Distilled Water Q.S. to 100 Citric Acid (10%)Q.S. to pH 6.3 * General Electric lubricant - dimethyl polyoxyalkylene ether polysiloxane copolymer.

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Resin Solids Resin Solids r;t VP/DMAEMA 98/2 PVP R 90 ., .
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; The above data shows that at equal solids content the copolymer of the current invention tVP/DMAEMA 98/2) `. 10 containing only 2 weight percent DMAEMA i9 significantly s superior in curl retention under humid conditions to the polyvinylpyrrolidone homopolymer.
~ ,, Example 2 , 15 . ~ , This example shows comparative curl retention values between PVP-R-30 and VP/DMAEMA (98/2) under identical conditions.
' % Curl Retention 2% Aqueous Solution of Product on Hair Swatches (80% RH and 80F.) 0 min.30 min. 60 min.90 min.
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-Example 3 ' This example is designed to show that copolymers of 5` the current invention do not leave any significant build-up on s 5 hair on repeated use and shampoo, whereas, prior art cationic quaternary resins leave a positive build-up on repeated use.

` The following test procedure is used to demonstrate -~ presence of the resin on hair:
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A swatch (approximately 0.3g.) of virgin light blonde hair is thoroughly washed with ethanol ~ .
and dried. The dried hair swatch is placed in the test solution and held there for 3 minutes.
The hair swatch is then rinsed with fresh water and while still damp dipped into a 0.5% aqueous solution of special macromolecular polyanionic direct red azo dye (Direct Fast Red C.I. $32*) . .
adjusted to p~ 3.5 with sulfuric acid for 5 minutes at 40C. The swatch is rinsed well . ~ .
with fresh water and visually examined for ` intensity of the red color it may have picked ~,-up. The intensity of the red color on the hair '~ swatch indicates the degree of deposition of ~`~ cationic resin onto the hair. Absence of red i,j~
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-Theory: Hair in contact with water usually acquires a negative charge. However, when a cationic resin is deposited onto it, it becomes positively charged. The positively charged hair attracts the negatively charged macro polyanion of the red dye molecule and holds it tenaciously on to the surface of the hair. The hair swatch thus acquires a substantive red color. The intensity of the red color on the - hair swatch is a function of the extent of adsorption of the dye, which in turn is a function of the cationic charge density on the hair, which again is a function of the extent of deposition and substantivity of the particular cationic resin on the hair.
' - The products are formulated in the setting lotion formulation of Example 1. The hair swatches are immersed into ':~ 15 the setting lotions and tested according to the test procedure ,.
`~ given above. The color development, which is a function of resin concentration on the hair, is noted in each case.

Another set of similar swatches is treated with the -~ 20 same setting lotions, shampooed and then tested by the color test for residual resin on the hair. The process is repeated ~ .
~- on a third set which is treated witb setting lotions, shampooed, treated with setting lotions again and shampooed again before checking for resin on the hair by the color test.
The test is conducted up to 10 successive lotion applications and shampoos. The results are summarized in the following -`~ table.
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repeated shampoo use conditions whereas the prior art ;i~ materials do definitely build up upon repeated shampoo use conditions.
i., ` 20 Example 4 This example compares the curl retention values of '~ copoly VP/DMAEMA (90/10), copoly VP/DMAEMA (80/20) and PVP K-. " . . ~
30 (the presently most preferred grade of PVP for hair cosmetic application) under identical conditions. All these 25 polymers are tested at 2% solids level from an aqueous medium.
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The above results show that VP/DMAEMA copolymers of this invention are significantly superior to the poly-vinylpyrrolidone homopolymers with respect to curl retention under high humidity conditions.

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; This example shows that copolymers of the current ~,~ invention have superior humidity holding characteristics over their quaternary derivatives disclosed in prior art.
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(80/20), are tested against their ethoquats made from the same samples according to prior teachings (USP 3,910,862) under identical conditions employing 2% aqueous solutions of the copolymers. The results are as follows:
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** GAF Corporation UV absorber - 2-OH-4-methoxybenzophenone-5-sulfonic acid.
Example 7 Wave Setting Gel Parts Carbopol 940 0.35 Uvinul MS-40 0.10 Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, disodium salt (0.1% aq.) 0.10 Triethanolamine 0.50 Water, distilled 97.05 VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 80/20 ,, (100% solids) 1.50 Opacifier* 0.40 Color F.D.C. Yellow $5 (0.6%) 0.3 Fragrance 0.1 Preservative 0.1 * GAF Corporation - 70% styrene graft polymerized on 30% PVP.

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Parts VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 80/20 ; (100% solids) 1.00 ; Ammonyx 4002* 0.40 Tween ~0** 0.20 Fragrance 0.1 '~ Ethanol 60.00 - Water, distilled 38.40 :,-* Onyx Chemical - stearyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride .' (100%).
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- Distilled Water Q.S. to 100 * Onyx Chemical - oleyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride.

, Example 10 Conditioning Shampoo ' ~r~ Parts Miranol C2M* 15.0-20.0 Coconut diethanolamide - 4.0 Propylene glycol 7.0 VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 80/20 1.5 PEG 6000 distearate** 5.0 Dinonyl phenol + 150 E.O. 5.0 Water, distilled Q.S. to 100 * Coconut imidazolinium-N-ethoxymethylcarboxy-N-acetic acid, disodium salt - Miranol Corporation.
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Example 11 Conditioning ShamPoo Parts Sipon LT6* 35.0 Coconut diethanolamide 4.0 Ceraphy~65** 2.5 VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 90/10 0.5 Perfume 0.1 Distilled water Q.S. to 100 ~ * Alcolac Chemical - triethanolamine lauryl sulfate ;' ** Van Dyke Company - mink oil-amidopropyl dimethyl , 10 2-hydroxyethyl ammonium chloride.

Example 12 Blow Dry Conditioner Parts VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 90/10 1.00 Carbopol 940 (100% solids) 0.10 Triethanolamine 0.15 ; Isostearyl alcohol + 10 E.O. 0.05 Tween 20 0.13 Perfume 0.20 F.D.C. Yellow #5, (0.6% aq.) 0.07 , 20 Ethanol 44.32 ; Water, distilled Q.S. to 100 Example 13 Cream Rinse ;

~r~1 Parts Arquad 2 HT-75* 7-5 Glyceryl monostearate 2.0 VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 90/10 0.4 Distilled water go.o Glutaraldehyde 0.1 Citric Acid Q.S. to pH 5.0-5.5 * Armak - cationic dimethyl di (hydrogenated tallow) ammonium chloride, 75% active.

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Triton X400* 7.0 Glyceryl monostearate 2.0 - Ceraphyl 28** 1.0 ,~ VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 90/10 0.5 Distilled water 90.0 ~- Glutaraldehyde 0.4 ~- Sodium hydroxide Q.S. to pH 5.0-5.5 ' * Rohm and Haas - cationic stearyl dimethyl benzyl ~ 10 ammonium chloride, 25% solids.
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** Hercules - hydroxyethyl cellulose.
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~- VP/DMAEMA 98/2 or 90/10 8.0 - 5 PVP/VA E 735* 37.0 Ammonyx KP 2.4 Tween 20 1.2 Ar,; Distilled water Q.S. to 100 * GAF Corporation - 70 VP/30 Vinyl acetate copolymer, 50%
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`- VP/DMAEMA 75/25M.W. 500,000 1.0 Sulfuric Acid Q.S. to ph 7.4 ~ ~.
Distilled water Q.S. to 100 * GAF Corporation - Amphoteric polyoxyethylenated , quaternized sulfated fatty amine, 754 active.
** GAF Corporation - Foam boosting amphoteric mono-carboxyl coco imidazoline, 38% active.
*** onyx Chemical - anionic sodium lauryl polyoxy-; ethylene (2-4E.O.) sulfate, 30% active.
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Claims (20)

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:

1. A hair setting and conditioning composition comprising, approximately by weight, I. 0.1 to 35% of a film-forming copolymer having a molecular weight of about 15,000 to 1,500,000 and containing A. about 99.5 to 45 mole percent of units derived from vinyl pyrrolidone, B. about 0.5 to 50 mole percent of units derived from a monomer of the formula CH2 = CR1 - COOR2 - NR3R4 wherein R1 is H or CH3, R2 is C1-20 alkylene, and R3 and R4 are independently C1-4 alkyl, and C. 0 to about 50 mole percent of units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomer different from A and B, II. 0.05 to 10% of at least one member of the group consisting of cosmetically acceptable organic surface active agents, thickening agents, plasticizers and sequestering agents, in III. a solvent base selected from the group consisting of water, monohydric C2-3 aliphatic alcohols, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, methylene chloride, and mixtures thereof.

2. A composition as defined in claim 1 wherein copolymer I contains about 99.5 to 45.1 mole percent of units derived from monomer A and about 0.5 to 4.9 mole percent of units derived from monomer B.

3. A composition as defined in claim 1 wherein copolymer I contains about 95 to 45 mole percent of units derived from monomer A and about 5 to 50 mole percent of units derived from monomer B.

4. A composition as defined in any of claims 1 - 3 wherein copolymer I
consists essentially of units derived from vinyl pyrrolidone and dimethylamino-ethyl methacrylate.

5. A composition as defined in claim 2 containing 0.05 to 10% of component II, and water as solvent base III.

6. A hair setting and conditioning lotion, cream or gel containing a composition as defined in claim 1.

7. A pump hair spray containing a composition as defined in claim 1.

8. A pressurized aerosol hair spray containing a propellant and a composition as defined in claim 1.

9. A hair conditioning rinse preparation containing a composition as defined in claim 1.

10. A hair shampoo containing, approximately by weight, 10 to 50% of at least one organic anionic, cationic, nonionic or amphoteric detergent and a composition as defined in claim 1.

11. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of a composition as defined in any of claims 1 - 3.

12. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of a composition as defined in claim 5.

13. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of a lotion, cream or gel as defined in claim 6.

14. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of a pump hair spray as defined in claim 7.

15. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of an aerosol hair spray as defined in claim 8.

16. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of a conditioning rinse preparation as defined in claim 9.

17. A method comprising treating hair with an effective amount of a hair shampoo as defined in claim 10.

18. A method comprising treating hair with an aqueous, alcoholic, or aqueous-alcoholic medium containing an effective hair setting or condition-ing amount of the copolymer I as defined in any of claim 1..

19. A method as defined in claim 18 wherein copolymer I consists essen-tially of units derived from vinyl pyrrolidone and dimethylaminoethyl meth-acrylate.

20. A method as defined in either of claims 18 or 19 wherein said medium contains about 0.5 to 5% by weight of said copolymer.