PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition for hair cosmetics and hair cosmetics which suppress the waving or bouncing of hair which is easily caused by the damaged hair and have an excellent effect of imparting excellent smoothness, good combing property and moist feeling to hair.SOLUTION: There is provided: a composition for hair cosmetics which comprises 5 to 30 mass% of N-(3-stearylalkylammonio-2-hydroxypropyl)hydrolyzed keratin (A) represented by the formula (I) and 0.1 to 30 mass% of one or two or more alcohols (B) selected from a monohydric alcohol having 2 to 3 carbon atoms and a dihydric or trihydric alcohol having 2 to 4 carbon atoms and is constituted so that the mass ratio (A)/(B) between (A) and (B) is 1:0.1 to 1:1 and a hair cosmetic by incorporating the composition for hair cosmetics. (R1 and R2 each independently represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms R3 represents an amino acid side chain constituting keratin-decomposed peptide and n represents 2.5 to 6.)SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2019,JPO&INPIT【課題】損傷を受けた毛髪で生じやすい毛髪のうねりや跳ねを抑制し、毛髪に優れた滑らかさ、良好な櫛通り性やしっとり感を付与する効果に優れる毛髪化粧料用組成物及び毛髪化粧料の提供。【解決手段】式(I)で表されるN-(3-ステアリルアルキルアンモニオ-2-ヒドロキシプロピル)加水分解ケラチン(A)を5~30質量%、及び、炭素数2又は3の一価アルコール、炭素数2~4の二価或いは三価のアルコールから選ばれる1種又は2種以上のアルコール(B)を0.1~30質量%含み、(A)と(B)の質量比(A):(B)が1:0.1~1:1であるように毛髪化粧料用組成物を構成し、該毛髪化粧料用組成物を含有させて毛髪化粧料。(R1及びR2は各々独立にC1~3のアルキル基;R3はケラチン分解ペプチドを構成するアミノ酸側鎖;nは2.5~6)【選択図】なし