PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair treatment agent which can impart a feeling of firmness and elasticity, shape retention, a voluminous feeling, and smoothness to hair weakened and having a thinned touch due to damage, aging or the like, and moreover, excels in the persistence of the effects.SOLUTION: The hair treatment agent includes a monovalent or divalent metal salt and a sericin hydrolyzate. The metal salt is a sodium salt, a potassium salt, a magnesium salt or a calcium salt, and preferably magnesium chloride and/or magnesium sulfate. The hair treatment agent further includes a keratin decomposition product.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】損傷や加齢などにより弱体化しやせた触感の毛髪に、ハリコシ感と形状保持力、ボリューム感、滑らかさを付与することができ、しかも効果の持続性に優れた毛髪処理剤の提供。【解決手段】1価または2価の金属塩とセリシン加水分解物を含有する処理剤。金属塩がナトリウム塩、カリウム塩、マグネシウム塩およびカルシウム塩、好ましくは塩化マグネシウムおよび/または硫酸マグネシウムであり、さらにケラチン分解物を含有する該処理剤。【選択図】図1