The aqueous hair fixing composition is in the form of a highly viscous sprayable gel and contains 0.1 to 50 percent by weight of one or more disaccharides or a mixture of 2 to 37 percent by weight of one or more disaccharides and 63 to 98 percent by weight of one or more oligosaccharides, 0.05 to 30 percent by weight of one or more cationic polymers, and 0.05 to 10 percent by weight of at least one thickener selected from the group consisting of honopolymers of acrylic acid, acrylic acid/acrylamides copolymers and sclerotium gum, The composition of the invention necessarily does hot contain monovalent aliphatic alcohols having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and no inorganic salts of alkali metals or inorganic salts of bivalent or trivalent metals. Either the composition is sprayed with the aid of a mechanical spray device or, alternatively, a gaseous propellant is included in it and the composition and propellant is included under pressure in a dispensing container.