PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair cosmetic enhancing hair smoothness resulting in no stickiness and heaviness feelings on hair and giving finish feeling of silky and good finger combing.SOLUTION: A hair cosmetic contains the following (A) to (D) components: (A) polyoxypropylene (3) monooctyl ether (B) an alkyl-type cation represented by the general formula (I) (where, any one of Rto Ris an alkyl group having a carbon number of 8 to 24, an alkenyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group or a hydroxyalkenyl group, the rest represent an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 3 or a benzyl group, and Y represents a halogen atom or an alkylsulfuric acid group having a carbon number of 1 to 3) (C) a higher alcohol having a long chain alkyl group having a carbon number of 14 to 24 and (D) behenyl PG trimonium chloride.
