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Verb’s Ghost Dry Oil

Just like its spooky namesake, this dry conditioner is meant to "vanish" after refreshing, detangling and moisturizing hair with glycerin, moringa seed oil and German chamomile.

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Covestro Film Former Provides Sustainability Without Side Effects

Meant to provide sustainable benefits to hair care without compromising on function, the ingredient reportedly delivers long-lasting, flexible hold plus anti-frizz and smoothing properties.

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Hair Care with Benefits Fares Best

Hair care focused on delivering intense moisture and hydration accounted for more than 55 of the top 600 hair care products as of summer 2018.

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Iselux® Isethionate Surfactants for Optimum Sulfate-free Cleansing with Data Sheet & Formula

Iselux® (INCI: Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate) is an extremely mild high-performing, sulfate-free surfactant.

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Patent Pick: High Curl Retention Sans Heat

Kao inventors are hitting a high note with a composition to retain curls without the need for damaging heat. A new patent application explains.

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Detox the Day Away with Cabot's High-purity Charcoal

The charcoal's abrasive, adsorptive and opacifying properties (plus its inky appearance) can be utilized in a variety of skin, hair and oral care applications.

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Supplier Roundtable: Formulating Multifunctional Products

Multifunctional personal care products help to scale back routines for consumers looking to use simple formulations with minimal ingredients. Here, experts weighed in on how to formulate these versatile concepts in this month's Supplier Roundtable.

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Design Your Dream Hair Product with It's a 10 Haircare

Founder and CEO of It's a 10 Haircare, Carolyn Aronson, will hand pick 10 finalists that have submitted the most innovative product concept and chose one to ultimately produce.

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SeneGence Enters Hair Care Category with HairCovery Launch

The collection includes a shampoo, conditioner and serum, all of which are meant to revive dull, lifeless hair.

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evo Wants to Macgyver Your Bad Hair Day Away

The new multi-purpose styling mousse can be used with or without heat to create volume, separation and texture.

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The Mane Choice Launches Do It FRO the Culture Collection in Sally Beauty

The line was created for afro-textured hair and includes six products that have been infused with black charcoal and black cumin.

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In the Thick of It: A Primer on Polyelectrolyte Crosspolymer Rheology Modifiers

Polyelectrolyte crosspolymers are preferred rheology modifiers that function to confer thickening, product stability and sensory attributes to aqueous cosmetic formulations. This article reviews the relationship between structure and function for this broad class of rheology modifiers.

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In the Thick of It (continued)

This article continues the discussion from our print edition on the relationship between structure and function for polyelectrolyte crosspolymers. Click through to read Part II in our Digital Edition.

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How Hair ‘Smells’ Sandalwood to Reverse Baldness

Synthetic sandalwood is the key to hair growth, according to recent research that manipulates the scalp's olfactory receptors.

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Your Hair on Acid: The Influence of Carboxylic Acids

Carboxylic acids are growing in use to alter hair's properties from the inside out. This column explores the efficacy of these materials and presents possible explanations for their effectiveness.

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Good Vibrations: Spectroscopic Imaging to Visualize the Delivery of Actives

Understanding how actives are delivered is essential to product development and to provide scientific data in support of a product’s efficacy. Vibrational imaging spectroscopy is shown here to enable the visualization of the penetration of cosmetic actives into skin, hair and nails.

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Sticking it to Hair Damage: Delivery Duo Protects and Repairs Inside and Out

To adequately protect hair from damage, an efficient solution should offer not only high coverage externally, but also penetrate hair to impart reparative effects internally. The present study explores the ability of a dual technology to provide these benefits, as demonstrated via analytical techniques.

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[video] Noodle Beauty Bars, Big Winners and Cross-modal Cues: News and Insights

With IFSCC last week, and in-cosmetics North America (and more) around the corner, there’s plenty to report in this week's video recap.