Provided is a rinse-off-type hair cosmetic composition used by being applied to hair and then washed away, the hair cosmetic composition comprising: the ingredients (A) to (C) below, and water, wherein a molar ratio of the ingredient. (B) to the ingredient (A), (B)/(A), is less than 3, and a mass ratio of the ingredient (C) to the ingredient (A), (C)/(A), is less than 1:(A) an amido-cationic surfactant represented by formula (1)wherein R1 represents a C11-17-alkyl group or alkenyl group, R2 represents a C2-4-alkylene group, R3, R4, and R5 independently represent a C1-3-alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or hydroxyalkyl group, and X− represents an anion；(B) a fatty alcohol having 14 to 18 carbon atoms； and(C) a silicone.
