The use of sustainable, biodegradable and biocompatible raw materials show great interest for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. The cosmetic market is situated in development process, particularly in the area of hair products, with significant sales in Brazil. This growth brings the need for innovative, versatile and safe products to consumers. In this context, polymeric colloidal particles have occupied a prominent position on the world stage, marking the presence of nanotechnology in cosmetics. A variety of materials are natural or synthetic polyelectrolytes, whose electrostatic crosslinking in controlled conditions produces colloidal particles. The citrus pectin and vegetables peptones are part of polyelectrolytes, whose vegetable source has been preferred for applications in cosmetics, replacing animal products or inorganic materials. In this work, we studied the production of colloidal particles of citrus pectin and soybean and wheat peptones, all crosslinked with calcium chloride and quaternized guar gum. In all cases, production of particles was performed in a batch process, simple, scalable and in the absence of organic solvents, involving the drip of crosslinking agent on the polyelectrolyte solution under mechanical stirring. The results showed that for citrus pectin, size and polydispersity of the particles was controlled by the degree of esterification, crosslinking agent and initial concentration of electrolyte in solution. To obtain nanometer scale particles the concentration of the pectin was 10.0 g/l and the concentration of crosslinking agent was 1.0% (m / v). The particles obtained impart viscoelasticity to the mixture of pectin and cationic copolymer (polyquaternium-7). The viscoelasticity depended on the proportion and the particle diameter of pectin, as the micro and nanometric particles were similar to viscoelastic formations. In the case of peptones, wheat had the better performance in the formation of nanoparticles with low polydispersity. The obtained particles met the physico-chemical composition, size and polydispersity required for applications in cosmetics. The pectin particles, in particular, were very promising for applications in cosmetic hair due small size and potential viscoelastic. Capillary transformation processes were the focus for the application of these particles in an attempt to minimize the pre-existing damaged hair.