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Section: Formulas/Products
Literature/Data
Enhancing Hair Health: Effects of Oiling, Inside and Out—Part I
Hair oiling has been practiced since ancient times and has more recently piqued market interest. Its effects on physical, chemical and sensorial properties have been reported, which the authors review herein. This first of two articles views oiling for hair health from the surface; a follow-up piece will review internal structural benefits.
Claims/Labeling
Making Hair (Claims) Do What You Want
Following in the footsteps of skin care claims, hair care claims are growing bolder as manufacturers try to get an edge on their competition. But no matter how bold the claim, the need for scientific data to substantiate it remains.
Literature/Data
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.
Sensory
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.
Hair Care
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.
Hair Care
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.
Method/Process
How Damaged is Hair? Part III: Better Defining the Problem
By identifying elements at the heart of technical issues in hair, product developers will uncover options to consider for improving its health and appearance. Completing our three-part series, this final piece on hair damage provides insight on new ideas and strategies for problematic hair.
Hair Care
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.
Color Cosmetics
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.
Hair Care
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.
Claims/Labeling
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."
Consumers/Market
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.
Literature/Data
What do We Know About Depigmenting Agents?
This review examines the efficacy and tolerability of agents such as hydroquinone, ascorbic acid and retinol to treat hyperpigmentation disorders. The authors assess the quality of studies as a tool to determine efficacy of depigmenting agents. Along with outcome, they also analyze study design, participant skin type, duration, intervention and statistical significance.
Actives
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.
Skin Care
What Can Beef Tallow Do For Skin?
Although beef tallow used to be the cooking fat of choice for fast food chains due to its high smoking point, it is now the skin care of choice for some Tik Tok influencers.
Tech Transfer
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.
Consumers/Market
What’s Next for Bespoke Beauty: DNA, Bacteria and More
Bespoke beauty has moved into "must-have" territory for brands looking to stay in line with consumer demand. Click through for an exclusive Q&A on where the bespoke market is headed.
Sensory
Are Silicones Safe and Sustainable? What are the Alternatives?
Alternative hydrocarbons, esters, ethers and emollients aim to replace D5, and to a lesser extent, low viscosity silicone fluids—and many of them meet the mark. However, a second look at why silicones are being replaced is advised. Formulators may want to evaluate the data themselves for both safety and environmental aspects to make their own judgments.
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