Composition for the permanent shaping of human hair

1. Composition for the curling of human hair, comprising at least one reducing agent at a concentration of above 2% by weight, calculated to total composition, and an aminated silicone compound at a concentration in the range of 0.1 to 2.5% by weight calculated to total composition, and a copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone, present at 5% by weight of the total copolymer, and quaternized vinylimidazole, present at 95% by weight of the total copolymer, at a concentration in the range of 0.1 to 2.5% by weight calculated to total composition, wherein the copolymer has a cationic charge density of at least 6.1 meq/g at pH 7.0 and a molecular weight, by light scattering method, of 40,000.

2. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein the reducing agents are selected from thioglycolic acid, thiolactic acid and its salts, cystein and its hydrochloride salt and acetylcystein.

3. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein the aminated silicone is amodimethicone.

4. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein the aminated silicone compound is included into the reducing compositions after pre-emulsification with at least one surfactant.

5. Composition according to claim 4 , wherein further comprising the at least one surfactant is according to the formula

CH 2 (CH 2 ) 12 (OCH 2 CH 2 ) n OH

wherein n is between 2 and 20.

6. Composition according to claim 4 , wherein the aminated silicone emulsion comprises Trideceth 5 and Trideceth 10 as nonionic surfactants.

7. Composition according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one surfactant is a cationic mono alkyl quaternary ammonium surfactant.

8. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein it has a Brookfield viscosity of 500 to 10,000 mPa·s at 20° C.

9. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein further comprising at least one organic solvent at a concentration of 0.1 to 10% by weight, calculated to total composition.

10. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein further comprising at least one ubichinone of the formula

where n is a number between 1 and 10.

11. Composition according to claim 1 , wherein in that it has a pH in the range of 6.5 to 10.5.

12. Process for permanent waving hair wherein hair is washed or shampooed first and wound on curlers and subsequently the reducing agent composition according to claim 1 is applied onto hair and at the end of the 1 to 45 min, rinsed off from hair with tap water and an oxidizing composition comprising at least one oxidizing agent at a concentration of 0.5 to 10% by weight calculated to total of oxidizing composition, is applied onto hair and left on the hair 1 to 20 min and rinsed off and curlers are removed from hair.

13. Process according to claim 12 wherein after rinsing off the reducing agent from hair, an intermediate treatment composition optionally comprising an aminated silicone compound at a concentration in the range of 0.1 to 2.5% by weight calculated to total composition and a copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone and quaternized vinylimidazole at a concentration in the range of 0.1 to 2.5% by weight calculated to total composition, is applied onto hair and without rinsing off and after removal of the excess amount with towel, an oxidizing composition is applied and at the end of the processing they are rinsed off from hair.

14. Process for straightening hair wherein is washed and/or shampooed and dried and reducing composition according to claim 1 is applied onto dry hair and processed for 5 to 60 min and rinsed off with water and dried and the dry hair physically straighten with hot iron at a temperature of 130 to 210° C. and subsequently an oxidizing composition comprising at least one oxidizing agent at a concentration of 0.5 to 10% by weight calculated to total of oxidizing composition, is applied onto hair and left on the hair 1 to 20 min and rinsed off.