PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair cosmetic which hardly damages the hair, can impart a straight hair shape or a curled hair shape semi-permanently or permanently, can easily remove hair from a heating rod after treatment and prevents tangling of hair during rinsing.SOLUTION: There is provided a one-component or a mult-component hair cosmetic which comprises the following components (A) to (D). (A): a compound selected from glyoxylic acid, a glyoxylic acid hydrate, a glyoxylic acid salt and glyoxylamide, (B) a phenol compound having an electron-donating group at least one site at the meta-position in which at least one site at the ortho-position or para position is H (the electron-donating group at the meta-position may form a benzene ring which may be substituted with OH together with the adjacent carbon atoms), (C): a thickening polymer in which the viscosity of a 10% aqueous solution of the thickening polymer is 100 mPa s or more in a pH range of at least one part having a pH of 4 or less and (D) water.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT【課題】毛髪へのダメージが少なく、半永久的ないし永久的に直毛形状やカール形状を付与することができ、処理後には加熱ロッドからの取り外しが容易で、すすぎ時のひっかかりもない毛髪化粧料の提供。【解決手段】成分(A)~(D)を含有する1剤式又は多剤式の毛髪化粧料。 (A):グリオキシル酸、グリオキシル酸水和物、グリオキシル酸塩及びグリオキシルアミドから選ばれる化合物 (B):メタ位の少なくとも1ヶ所に電子供与基を有し、オルト位とパラ位の少なくとも一か所がHであるフェノール化合物(メタ位の電子供与基は隣接するC原子と共にOHが置換してもよいベンゼン環を形成してもよい) (C):10%増粘ポリマー水溶液の粘度がpH4以下の少なくとも一部のpH領域で100mPa・s以上となる増粘ポリマー (D):水【選択図】なし