of compounds that encompass hair styling oils and polyalkylene glycols shown below the hair styling oils mean eo po adducts of monohydric to tetrahydric alcohols or monovalent to trivalent carboxylic acids those commercially available can be used and examples thereof can include unilub 50 mb 168 unilub mb 370 beltamol p 700 beltamol dg 25 triol g 40 savon d u2032 or sgp 7 and savon d u2032 or gp 9 all from nof corp and estemol 50 nisshin oil mills co ltd the polyalkylene glycols mean polyalkylene glycol for example addition polymers of ethylene oxide eo propylene oxide po or butylene oxide bo those commercially available can be used and examples thereof can include eo addition polymers such as peg200 peg300 peg400 peg600 peg1000 peg1540 peg2000 peg4000 peg6000 peg11000 and peg20000 nof corp or toho chemical industry co ltd and po addition polymers such as uniol d 700 uniol d 1000 uniol d 1200 and uniol d 2000 all from nof corp the polyalkylene glycols used in the present invention are not limited among them polyethylene glycol is most preferable the amount of the eo po derivative formulated in the hair cosmetic of the present invention is generally 0 1 to 20 by mass preferably 1 to 20 by mass more preferably 3 to 10 by mass if the amount is less than.