SE457601B - HAIR CONDITIONING PREPARATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR TREATING HER WITH THESE PREPARATIONS - Google Patents

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457 601 10 15 20 25 30 35 2 Boiling point of about 150 C to about 250 C the weight of the preparation. in a content of 1 to 4% of A particularly preferred hair conditioning composition is an aqueous emulsion containing 1 to 4% of poly- C to% of a quaternary nitrogenous conditioner with two long chains each containing 12 to dimethylcyclosiloxane with an atmospheric boiling point of 150 DEG-250 DEG C., 0.5 to 18 carbon atoms and two equal or different short chain alkyl groups having one or two carbon atoms bonded to the quaternary nitrogen atom, 0.5 to 10% of a long chain fatty alcohol having 11 to 18 carbon long chain atoms, and 0.1 to 2% of a tertiary amidoamine; all percentages being calculated on the total weight of the preparation. The tertiary amidoamine is a compound having a structure of the formula R1_c (= n) NH_R? -_ N (R3) 2 wherein R1 represents a fat chain having 11 to 17 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms and each.R3 represents a ethyl or methyl group. It was not expected that the low viscosity low molecular weight volatile silicones used in the invention would provide either the improved general combing properties or the creamy feel to the hair offered by the conditioning compositions of the invention. This finding was unexpected, since both a very volatile silicone with a boiling point of about 10008 and a high molecular weight non-volatile silicone provided the hair with an oily feeling and poorer general combing properties. The present invention relates to improved hair conditioning compositions containing water and a quaternary nitrogenous conditioner. the improvement of these conditioning compositions is primarily the use of 1 to 4% by weight of volatile silicone, i.e. a polydimethyl- and cyclosiloxane having a boiling point of about 150 DEG-250 DEG C. These preparations are preferably stable emulsions in which water constitutes the outer phase, although preparations containing phases which separate after more than about 1 hour standing are also useful. .

The volatile silicones used in the invention are water-insoluble cyclic compounds having on average 3-3 repeating - [O-Si (CH 3) 2] units per molecule and boiling under atmospheric pressure at from 150 DEG C. to 25 DEG C. Polydimethyl 457 601 3 cyclosiloxanes with an average of H or 5 repeating units per molecule, i.e. tetramer and pentamer, are particularly preferred.

The particularly preferred polydimethylcyclosiloxanes have boiling points at atmospheric pressures in the range of about 17,000 to about ZZUOC and viscosities at 25 ° C of from about 2 to about 8 cSt. These materials are commercially available under the names Silicone SF-1173 and Silicone SF-1202 from General Electric, and Silicone SMU Fluid and Silicone 345 Fluid from Dow Corning Corporation; the tetramer is indicated first in both cases.

Volatile silicones are preferably included in the hair conditioning compositions of the invention with from about 1% to about 4% by weight of the composition. Preferably, these polydimethylcyclosiloxanes are included with from about 1.5% to about 3% by weight of the conditioning composition.

Volatile silicones are said by a manufacturer to be useful in various cosmetic preparations, such as antiperspirants, deodorants, hair sprays, hair coloring and hair care products, powders and color products and pin products, and due to their low viscosity and surface tension they offer a silky smooth feeling on the hair and skin. These silicones and a very volatile silicone (hexamethyldisiloxane, boiling point 10000) are also said to be non-greasy, but give a subtle lubrication.

It has not been taken into account in the hair treatment technique that the above-mentioned volatile silicones, used in the stated amounts, would offer the general combing benefits set forth herein.

In addition to water, which typically constitutes at least about 80% by weight of the conditioning composition, preferably about 90% by weight, and the volatile silicone, the compositions according to the invention also contain at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agent. A long chain fatty alcohol is also included in more preferred preparations, and a tertiary amidoamine is also included in highly preferred preparations.

The quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agents are preferably included with from about 0.5 to about 5% by weight of the composition as the active ingredient. Preferably, the quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agent is included with from about 2 to about 3% by weight ~% as active ingredient.

Both polymeric quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agents having several quaternary nitrogen atoms per molecule and conditioning agents having one quaternary nitrogen atom and at least one long carbon chain per molecule are useful. Conditioners with a quaternary nitrogen atom and at least one long carbon atom chain containing 12 to 18 carbon atoms per molecule are preferred over the polymeric materials, as the polymers tend to make the hair feel smoother, when wet, than the more low molecular weight ones. the associations.

The preferred class of conditioning agents having a quaternary nitrogen atom and a long chain of 12 to 18 carbon atoms per molecule includes a variety of compounds. However, the preferred individual conditioners can generally be assigned to three subclasses based on the structure of the groups attached to the quaternary nitrogen atom, namely (a) compounds having a long carbon chain and three equal or different short chain alkyl groups containing one or two carbon atoms, (b ) compounds having a long carbon chain, a benzyl group and two equal or different short chain alkyl groups having one or two carbon atoms and (c) compounds having two long carbon chains and two equal or different short chain alkyl groups having one or two carbon atoms. The first subclasses mentioned above can be exemplified by such compounds as cetyldimethylethylammonium bromide, lauryltrimethylammonium chloride and stearyltri- (2-hydroxyethyl) ammonium chloride. These compounds have the less awkward names .quaternium-17, laurethrimonium chloride and quaternium-16, respectively, in CTFA Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionaries, 2nd ed., 1977, published by Cosmetic, Toiletry and Pragrance Association, Inc., hereinafter referred to as CTPA Dictionary .

Illustrative conditioning agents in the second of the above subclasses are stearyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride and lauryl dimethylbenzylammonium chloride. These conditioning agents are called stearalkonium chloride and lauralkonium chloride, respectively in the CTFA Dictionary.

Illustrative conditioners in the third of the above subclasses are distearyldimethylammonium chloride and dilauryldimethylammonium chloride. These compounds are called, respectively, quaterniumä and quaterniumä7 in the CTFA Dictionary.

It is to be noted that the long carbon chain in the above-mentioned conditioning means need not be primarily of a chain length, i.e. the long chain need not be cetyl, myristyl, lauryl or stearyl. Instead, conditioners whose long carbon chain contains a mixture of lengths can be used. Such conditioners are made from readily and naturally occurring materials, such as tallow, coconut oil, soybean oil, etc., or from synthetically produced mixtures. Examples of conditioners with mixed carbon chain lengths are dimethyl di (hydrogenated tallow) ammonium chloride, dialkyldimethylammonium chloride wherein the alkyl group is a saturated group consisting primarily of 16 carbon atoms and N- (soy alkyl) -N, N, N-trinethylammonium chloride. These conditioners are called quaternium-18, quaternium-31 and quaternium-9, respectively, in the CTFA Dictionary.

Useful water-soluble or dispersible polymeric conditioners are those prepared from polydiallyldimethylammonium salts, as disclosed in U.S. Patent Nos. 3,288,770 and 3,412,091. peroxide or hydroperoxide, and the use of a suitable anion exchange resin. The polymers obtained are polydiallyldimethylammonium salts, such as polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride. The homopolymer formed is called quaternium-40 in the CTFA Dictionary.

The copolymer formed using acrylamide and a diallyl dimethylammonium salt is also useful.

The name in the CTFA Dictionary for the diallyldimethylammonium salt copolymerized with acrylamide is quaternium H1. 457 601 10 15 20 25 30 35 6 Both quaternium-H0 and quaternium-41 are commercially available under the designations MERQUAT-100 and MERQUAT-550 from Merck & Company, Inc. MERQUAT-100 is sold as an H0-proc. (weight) aqueous solution of the polymer and has a Brookfield viscosity at 25 ° C in the range of 8000 - 12000 cP. MERQUAT-550 is sold as an 8% aqueous solution of the polymer and has a Brookfield viscosity at 25 ° C in the range of 7500 - 15000 cP.

Another useful quaternary nitrogen-containing polymer is cationic guar. This material has 3-trimethylammonium-2-hydroxypropyl groups attached to the mannopyranosyl and galactopyranosyl moieties which make up the guar chains, chloride ion being the anion commonly associated with the polymer.

Cosmetic, The name of this material adopted by the Toiletry and Fragrance Association, which is not in the above-mentioned CTFA Dictionary, is guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride. A suitable cationic guar is supplied under the designation COSMEDIA GUAR C 621 by Henkel, Inc., and a similar material is sold under the designation JAGUAR C-13-5 by Stein, Hall & Company, Inc.

An copolymer of about 80% by weight of N-vinyl-pyrrolidone and about 20% by weight of N, N-dimethylaminoethyl methyl acrylate and quaternized with dimethyl sulfate is also useful. material is called quaternium- This 23 in CTFA Dictionary. Quaternium-23 is available from GAF Corporation under the designation eAFQuAT-vss and GAPQUAT-vau. Yet another useful polymeric conditioning agent is a copolymer prepared from acrylamide and N, N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate, quaternized with dimethyl sulfate. Aqueous solutions of 1% by weight of these polymers typically have Brookfield viscosities of about 35 to about 1200 cP.

These copolymers are called quaternium-39 in the Cïfê Dictionary and are available under the designation RETEN from Hercules, Inc. Commercially available polymers are those designated RETEN SPX 1104, SPX 1105 and SPX 1106. Another useful water-soluble polymeric conditioning agent is a quaternary nitrogen-containing hydroxyethylcellulose having a backbone chain of anhydroglucose moieties with pendant substituent groups bearing a full positive group distributed along the anhydroglucose backbone. The pendant substituent groups are distributed along the chain anhydroglucose moieties, so that the substituent groups themselves become pendant and distributed along the chain. These hydroxyethylcellulose derivatives contain several quaternary nitrogen-containing groups with each anhydroglucose unit presenting from 0 to 3 quaternary nitrogen-containing groups; and their preparation is described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,472,8H0.

These cationic hydroxyethylcellulose derivatives are called quaternium-19 in Cïšê Dictionar, and are commercially available under the name POLYMER JR from Union Carbide Corporation. Available materials are POLYMER JR-125, POLYMER H00 and POLYMER JR-30M.

Long chain fatty alcohols having from about 11 to about 18 carbon atoms in the chain may also be included in the conditioning ingredient emulsions of the invention. These alcohols can be used individually or in admixture with each other. When included in the compositions, the alcohol is preferably present in from about 0.5 to about 10% by weight of the composition, preferably from about 2% to about 5% by weight. Lauryl alcohol, oleyl alcohol, myristyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, and the like and mixtures thereof are contemplated. here.

In addition, mixtures of natural or synthetic fatty alcohols with fat chain lengths of about 11 to about 18 carbon atoms are useful. Several such mixtures are commercially available and exemplify the material containing a mixture of synthetic alcohols having 12 to 15 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain sold under the name Neodol 25 by Shell Chemical Company, and the material containing a mixture synthetic alcohols with chain lengths of 12 to 15 carbon atoms, sold under the name Alfol 1216 Alcohol by Conoco Chemicals. "Fatty alcohols with the above carbon chain lengths, which are ethoxylated to an average of 1 or 2 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of fatty alcohol, may be used instead. Examples of such useful ethoxylated fatty acids are ethylene glycol acetyl ether, polyethylene (2) stearyl ether, etc., 4557 10 15 20 25 30 35 6 () 18 the exemplified compounds are named cetet-1 and stearate-2 in CTFA Dichtionary.

A tertiary amidoamine may also be included in the hair conditioning compositions of the invention and is present in especially preferred compositions at a concentration of from about 0.1 to about 2% by weight of the composition, preferably from about 0.25 to about 1% by weight. .

The useful tertiary amidoamines have structures according to the formula R1-c <= o> NH-R2-N2 wherein R1 represents a fat chain having 11 to 17 carbon atoms, R2 represents an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms and each R3 represents an ethyl or methyl group. Examples of useful tertiary amidoamines are dimethylaminopropyl stearamide, diethylaminoethyl stearamide and dimethylaminopropyl myristamide.

The hair conditioning compositions of the invention are suitably almost neutral to slightly acidic in pH.

Thus, the compositions of the invention preferably have pH values of about 4 to about 8, most preferably from 5.5 to 6.5.

Other ingredients are water and the above ingredients may also be included in the compositions of the invention.

These ingredients are, for example, polyhydric alcohols, such as propylene glycol or glycerol, hydroxyethylated fatty alcohols having about 12 to 18 carbon atoms in the fat chain and an average of about 15-30 moles of added ethylene oxide per mole of alcohol salts such as sodium or potassium chloride, perfume, batches, preservatives and more. Suitable hydroxyethylated fatty acids are the above-described fatty alcohols having about 11 to 18 carbon atoms, which have the desired degree of hydroxyethylation, such as polyoxyethylene (20) cetyl ether, polyoxyethylene (30) stearyl ether, polyoxyethylene (15) lauryl ether, polyoxyethylene ethyl glycol ether about 11 to 15 carbon atoms in the fat chain and an average of 20 moles of ethylene oxide pernm 2 alcohol and polyethylene glycol ethers of fatty alcohols containing in the first 10 cetyl and stearyl alcohol and an average of 20 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of alcohol. These exemplary hydroxyethylated fatty alcohols are referred to in the CTFA Dictionary as ceten-20, stearet-30, lauret-15, paret-15-20 and cetearet-20, respectively.

The invention is illustrated by the following examples.

Example 1 Hair Conditioning Emulsion A A hair conditioning emulsion according to the invention was prepared with ingredients and contents listed below.

- PELL- Ingredient (weight percent) 1) Quaternium-31 3.3 (68% active) 2) Cetyl alcohol 3.25 s) Flyfig silicone 2, o 4) Promulgen G2 1.0 5) Dimethylaminopropyl-0.5 stearamide 6) Propylene glycol 0.5 7) Perfume 0.4 8) Potassium chloride 0.3 9) Pantenol dl 0.1 10) Citric acid 0.1 11) Preservation solution_ 0.2 (7 ppm active) 12) Deionized water qs 100.00 1 A polydimethylcyclosiloxane with a boiling point of 176 ° C sold under the designation Silicone SP-1173 by General Electric was used. 2 Promulgen G is the name * Robinson-Wagner Company Inc gives to its mixture of stearyl alcohol and cetearet-20.

Cetearet-20 is defined in the CTFA Dictionary as polyethylene glycol ethers of cetearyl alcohol, essentially according to the formula R (OCH2CH2) nOH, where R represents a mixture of cetyl and stearyl radicals and n has an average value of 20.

The conditioning emulsion was prepared by adding citric acid, quaternium-31, propylene glycol and dimethylaminopropyl stearamide to water with mixing.

The resulting mixture was warmed to a temperature of 63 ° C with continued stirring. After a substantially homogeneous mixture was obtained, cetyl alcohol and Promulgen G were added with stirring, and the temperature of the new mixture was raised to 68 ° C. Stirring at 68 ° C was continued for 30 minutes, and the temperature of the mixture was lowered to 46 ° C. Potassium chloride was added with continued stirring until a substantially uniform mixture was obtained, Pentenol dl, the volatile silicone, perfume oil and the preservative solution were added with stirring. Stirring was continued while the emulsified hair condenser was allowed to cool to 32 ° C, after which the preparation was packaged.

Hair was treated with a preparation according to this example using standard methods for evaluating conditioning products.

The preparation gave the wet hair a creamy feeling and good combability. Combing studies (Example 3) indicated that excellent combing and investigating properties in wet and dry conditions were imparted to the hair by this preparation.

Example 2 Hair conditioning emulsion B A second emulsified hair conditioning composition according to the invention was prepared, which contained the ingredients listed below in the levels indicated. The preparation was prepared in substantially the same manner as the preparation according to Example 1 with the following exceptions: Stearalkonium replaced quaternium-313 glycerol replaced propylene glycol, diethylaminoethylstearamide replaced dimethylaminopropylstearamide, Promulgen D replaced Pro mulgen G, and panthenol dl was missing. 10 15 20 25 30 35 457 601 11 íïíljå Ingredient (weight percent) 1) Stearalkonium chloride 10.5 (20% active) 2) Cetyl alcohol 3.25 s) volatile silicone 4) Promulgen D3 5) Glycerol 6) Diethylaminoethyl stearamide 0.5 7) Perfume oil 0.4 8) Potassium chloride 0.2 9) Preservative solution 0.2 (7 ppm active) 10) Citric acid 0.08 11) Water qs 100.00 1 See Example 1. 3 Promulgen D is that of Robinson-Wagner Co ,. given the designation for = its mixture of cetearyl alcohol and cetearet-20.

Hair was treated with the preparation of this example.

Evaluation of the treatment again indicated that the creamy consistency of the wet hair and good investigative and combing properties were obtained when using this preparation.

Example gel 3 1 Comparative quantitative combing tests Comparative quantitative combing tests were performed with an Instron tensile tester equipped with a comb. Ordinary 150 mm strands of brown or bleached undulated hair (De Me.

Brothers, New York) was used for the assessments. Measurements were made of the maximum force or peak load on the comb through the string as well as the total energy required for combing through the string. Of these measurements, the measurement of the total energy is considered to give a more reliable indication of the preparation's combing ease or investigative ability, since it gives a total combing image instead of just a part. 457 601 10 15 20 25 30 35 12 In each determination, a standard amount of conditioning agent was applied in proportion to the amount to be applied to an entire head, which was to be placed on wet freshly washed hair, allowed to remain in contact with the hair for about 1 minute and then rinsed off. the hair with tap water.

Wet combing measurements were made immediately after rinsing, and dry combing measurements were made after the hair had leveled for about 15 - 2k h in a room with 22 ° C and 60% relative humidity. The first combing feature through each strand is taken as a measure of the ease of investigation, a subsequent combing feature is taken as a measure of thionization properties. and on the condition of the preparation The five compared preparations were as follows: A) A preparation substantially the same as in Example 1, but containing water instead of the volatile silicone, mimicking a commercially available hair treatment composition.

B) The preparation according to Example 1.

C) The preparation according to Example 1, in which the volatile silicone had been replaced by a volatile silicone with a boiling point of about 190 - 21000, sold by General Electric under the name Silicone SF-1202.

D) The composition of Example 1, wherein the volatile silicone in that composition was replaced with a non-volatile silicone (polydimethylsiloxane) sold under the designation Silicone SP 96-50 by General Electric. I) The composition of Example 1, wherein the volatile silicone in that composition was exchanged for a highly volatile silicone (hexamethyldisiloxane, b.p. 10000) sold under the designation Q 2 10H6 by Dow Corning.

A creamy feeling was noted when preparations B and C of the invention were applied wet here. The preparations, which contained very volatile and non-volatile silicones, appeared and felt slightly oily on the wet hair.

Data from each measurement of the total energy or maximum force required to comb through the strings were rated on a scale of 1 - 5; the lowest value and the number 5 the number 1 was given it was given the highest value. Rating n; 457 601 13 were summed over all the eight determinations made to obtain an overall picture of the effectiveness of each preparation. The lowest sum thus reflects the preparation which gives the best general combing properties. The grades and grade sums are listed in Tables 1 and 2 below for total energy and maximum resistance to combing.

Table 1 Rating of total combing energy Brown hair Bleached / undulated here wet Dry Wet Dry _ Rating; Pregarat 1 * § * 'L § Ä § 1 § summor A 5 5 5 2 1 5 2 3 20 B 1 1 2 1 2 1 s 4 is CHU 1 5 HH 1 1 20 D 2 3 U 3 5 2 5 2 26 E 3 2 3 4 3 3 Ä 5 27 * I = introductory combing features, associated with the ease of investigation.

** S = later combing features, associated with conditioning.

Table 2 Rating of maximum combing power Brown hair Bleached / undulated hair Wet Dry Wet Dry Rating_ Pregarat 1 * § ** 1 § 1 § 1 § sums A 5 5 2 3 1 5 5 3 29 B 1 1 Ä 2 2 1 3 4 18 C 3 3 1 1 HH 2 2 20 D 2 H 5 4 5 3 1 1 25 E 4 2 3 5 3 2 U 5 27 * and ** see table 1. 457 601 10 15 20 25 30 35 i Review of the above tables , in particular the grade sums, show that the preparations according to the invention, B and C, offered easier general combing than some of the other studied preparations. This superiority was found when examining the measurements of either total energy or peak force.

Thus, preparation B or C was the best in seven of eight determinations of the total energy measure (Table 1).

In addition, the hair treated with preparation B or C required the minimum maximum strength in five of the eight determinations (Table 2).

The above results show which superior and unexpected results are obtained when the volatile silicones of the invention are incorporated into hair conditioning compositions. The volatile silicones used offer superior investigation -be subsequent ease of combing for wet and dry, brown and bleached undulated hair comparable to silicone or more or less volatile (preparations E and D) which are, or compared with a commercial conditioner without silicone (preparation A ). Although the use of the acyclic, but otherwise similar silicones provided conditioners which looked oily and felt oily, the volatile silicones used according to the invention provided pleasant creamy preparations when applied to wet hair.

Example H - Further comparative quantitative combing studies Y The effect of using volatile silicones in hair conditioning preparations was further demonstrated by comparing the combing forces between a first preparation containing only deionized water and a quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agent and a second preparation containing a second preparation. - holding the same both ingredients with the addition of a volatile silicone. The first preparation contained 3.3% by weight of quaternium-31 (68% active) dissolved in water. The second preparation of the invention contained the same amount of quaternium-31 with 2% by weight of Silicone SF-1173 (Example 1) replacing an equal amount of water. Bleached and undulated hair strands were treated with either of the two preparations, as described in Example 3, making comparisons for both wet and dried treated hair. Data for the maximum force before combing through the strings for the average of the first six strokes with the comb (investigation strokes and subsequent strokes) were analyzed with Student's t-test. The force reductions with the preparation according to the invention were determined as significant at least at the confidence level of 95%. These data are given in Table 3.

Table 3 Maximum force (in grams) Wet combing force Dry combing force Preparation 1 * 11.27 8.48 Preparation 2 ** 7.55 6.01 Percentage reduction 33 * Preparation 1 contained only deionized water and 3.3 wt. %% active).

Preparation 2 contained deionized water, 3.3% by weight of quaternium-31 (68 D quaternium-31 (68 6 active) and 2% Silicone SF-1173 (Example 1).

*** Percentage force reduction was obtained by subtracting the force obtained with preparation 2 from that obtained with preparation 1, dividing the number obtained by the force obtained with preparation 1 and multiplying by 100.

The above data and reductions of the maximum force against combing through the string fully illustrate the effect of the present invention.

Claims (1)

1. 457 601 10 15 20 25 30 35 16 CLAIMS 1. Hair conditioner, characterized in that it is an emulsion of water, 1-6% by weight of polydimethylcyclosiloxane having an atmospheric boiling point of 150 DEG C. to 250 DEG C., from 0.5 to 5% by weight of a quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioner having two long chains each containing 12 to 18 carbon atoms and two equal or different short chain alkyl groups having one or two carbon atoms attached to the quaternary nitrogen atom, from 0 , 5 to 10% by weight of a long chain fatty alcohol having 11 to 18 carbon atoms in the long chain and from 0.1 to 2% by weight of a tertiary amidoamine having a structure of the formula R1-C (= O) NH- R 2 -N (R 3) 2, wherein R 1 represents a feu chain having 11: in 17 carbon atoms, R 2 represents an alkylene group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms and each R 1 represents a methyl or ethyl group. Z. A composition according to claim 1, characterized in that the water constitutes at least 80% by weight of the composition. 3. A composition according to claim 1, characterized in that the polydimethylcyclosiloxane boils at 170 DEG to 220 DEG C. at atmospheric pressure. according to claim 1, a temperature of from 4. Preparations natk ä nnetec k-polydimethylcyclosiloxane is included with 1.5 to 3% of the weight of the preparation 5. of that Preparations according to any previous claim, characterized in that the quaternary nitrogen-containing the conditioning agent is distearyldimethylammonium chloride, dilauryldimethylammonium chloride, dimethyldi- (hydrogenated tallow) ammonium chloride or dialkyldimethylammonium chloride wherein the alkyl group is a saturated group consisting primarily of 16 carbon atoms or a mixture thereof. 6. feel that the quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning agent is included with 2 to 3% of the weight of the preparation. Preparation according to any one of the preceding claims, t e c k n a t Preparation according to any one of the preceding claims, t e c k n a t k e n n e that the long chain fatty alcohol is present in 2 to 5% of the weight of the preparation. Preparation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the long chain fatty alcohol is cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol or a mixture thereof. Preparation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the tertiary amidoamine is present at 0.25 to 1% 10. of the weight of the preparation. Preparations according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the tertiary amidoamine is dimethylaminopropyl stearamide or diethylaminoethyl stearamide or mixtures thereof. A process for treating here with a hair conditioning composition, characterized in that a composition consisting of an emulsion of water is applied to the hair, 1 to Q% by weight of polydimethylcyclosiloxane having an atmospheric boiling point of 150 DEG C. to ZSOOC, from 0 DEG. 5 to 5% by weight of a quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioner having two long chains each containing 12 to 18 carbon atoms and two equal or different short chain alkyl groups having one or two carbon atoms attached to the quaternary nitrogen atom, from 0.5 to 10% by weight. % of a long chain fatty alcohol having 11 to 18 carbon atoms in the long chain and from 0.1 to 2% by weight of a tertiary amidoamine having a structure according to Ü means a fat chain BZ means an alkylene group of the formula R1_c (= o) NH_R2-N (R 3) 2, R 1 being 11 to 17 carbon atoms, 2 to 3 carbon atoms and each R 1) represents a methyl or ethyl group.