A hair treatment composition comprising: i) an oligosaccharide comprising 3 to 7 sugar units in which the linkage group between the sugar units is an a 1-4 link and ii) an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive comprising: i) an acrylic group having a side-chain with at least 4 carbons (eg n-butyl acrylate or 2-ethylhexyl acrylate) and ii) a short side-chain acrylic such as methyl acrylate. the weight ratio of short side chain acrylic group ii) to the acrylic group i).