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What’s Happening in Hair Damage, Protection and Repair

Hair damage from environmental and cosmetic treatments is a continuing concern. Efforts are under way to understand hair degradation and devise means to protect and repair hair from the damage. This short review is an attempt to summarize recent advances toward protecting and repairing human hair.

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How Damaged is Hair? Part I: Surface Damage

This article is the first of two that explores ways of capturing and quantifying the different forms of hair damage. Here, we begin with damage to the hair surface, or cuticle, while also exploring the implications of this occurrence. A second article will focus on damage to the internal cortex structure.

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Beauty is Universal: Multicultural Conditioning of Damaged Hair

Understanding the consumer hair care needs of diverse populations is increasingly critical. As consumers around the world continue to damage their hair by using thermal styling tools, chemical processes or colorants, restoring hair to a healthy state is a primary consumer need that appears to be universal.

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How a Kudzu Isoflavone Tonic Mitigates Female Hair Loss

Kudzu isoflavones were explored in vitro for the potential to signal the hair growth cycle in dermal papilla. Promising results led to the development of an anti-hair loss tonic using kudzu root extract, which was tested in vivo in 40 Chinese women.

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Is the Damage Done? Reduce and Repair Hair Color Damage

This article explores the main changes to hair after regular use of permanent hair colorants and how these changes impact noticeable hair properties such as feel, styling, breakage, etc. It then considers several strategies to reduce the damage caused during hair coloring, or to minimize the impact of damage post-coloring.

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Clinging to Color: Isopentyldiol Boosts Brightness in Dyed and Damaged Hair

Keeping up natural hair color or making a bold statement are of utmost importance to hair color consumers, and isopentyldiol is structured to deeply saturate hair and achieve these effects. This ingredient was put to the test, as described here, in different dye products to study its influence on immediate color performance.

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Hair Trio Triumph: Isopentyldiol for Color Care, Strength and Anti-frizz

The hair market moves fast, continuously demanding new concepts for changing trends, with the latest demand being for multitasking benefits. Isopentyldiol is presented as a multitasking tool for color-retention, strengthening and anti-frizz.

What it Means to be 'Green'

Formulators of natural personal care products have the same lament as Kermit the Frog—i.e., “It’s not easy being green.” So before proceeding into the ever-unpredictable product development process, claims must be established as to what the final product aims to fulfill—especially in order to direct efforts toward the desired “green” claim for sustainable, natural, organic, etc.

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Whatever Happened to Halal Cosmetics?

While analysts are left to sort through the question of "why" the halal segment is growing, cosmetic companies are moving forward with the "how."

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Bio-inspired Beauty: Replacing What's Lost

Biomaterials evolved from material science focused on biocompatibility, in terms of chemical and mechanical reactivity. Some materials interact with and bind to tissues in the human body, providing strength and elasticity for tissue replacement and repair.

Kojic acid has become increasingly popular, as seen in Peace Out Skincare's Dark Spots Serum, featuring kojic acid alongside 3% tranexamic acid and alpha-arbutin.

2025 Beauty Ingredient Trend Preview: What’s Next?

From silk-derived biotech to microbiome sexual wellness and beyond, new ingredients point to future innovation opportunities.

What’s New in Skin Protection: A Periodical Review

The author reviews recent publications discussing the protection of human skin against photodamage, reactive oxygen species, and other skin health topics.

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Words from Wiechers: Sustainability Yes, But of What?

How well has our industry adopted sustainability? Find out what Tony O'Lenick and the late Johann Wiechers, Ph.D., think in this edition of our "Words from Wiechers" series.

What Every Formulator Needs to Know About Fragrance

This overview of the types of problems encountered when fragrancing personal care products discusses issues of stability, solubility, color change and compatibility of fragrance and product ingredients.

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What Food Science Can Lend to Skin Care

What insights can personal care leverage from the foods industry? This article explores food trends, sensory language and metrics that translate across these categories.

What are Oligomers for LED Curable Nail Gel Coatings?

Formulators in the cosmetics industry continue to search for oligomers that can overcome common nail gel coating issues such as low gloss, color drift, regulatory compliance, and premature chipping.

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What if The Rules of Fighting Acne Have Changed?

What if the rules of fighting acne have changed? Dendriclear™ selectively targets acneic C. acnes strains to recover a healthier microbiome and reduce the appearance of acne lesions.

Suppliers' Day Asks: What Does ‘Green’ Really Mean?

Personal care chemists, formulators, suppliers, marketing and sales all gathered under one “green umbrella” for the New York Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists’ (SCC) Suppliers’ Day 2009.

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