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Improving Hair Strength

By: John Woodruff, Lower Parkstone
Posted: March 29, 2006, from the March 2002 issue of Cosmetics & Toiletries.

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  • From Cosmetics & Toiletries
  • March 2002 issue, pg 33
  • 3 pages

Article Keywords:

  • hair strength
  • hair structure
  • Oriental hair
  • tensile testing
  • betaine

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Hair strength can be improved. One way to do this is to treat it with betaine. This article describes hair structure and the results of tensile testing experiements on hair that has been treated with betaine. It postulates a possible theory for the improvement of hair.

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