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Conditioned Response: Fragrance's Cross-modal Effect on Sensory Perception in Hair Care*

This study compared the impact of two fragrance types on the tactile perception of dry, bleached hair treated with a base or enhanced leave-on conditioner. Sensory tests showed a fruity fragrance was most successful at imparting the perception of conditioned hair.

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Grooming Habits: A New Focus for Ethnic Care

Product developers often develop hair solutions for a specific ethnic market; however, fundamentally, hair structures are the same. The present article proposes how grooming habits, along with drastic variations within a single head of hair, should be considered.

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Rooted in Nature: Botanicals for Hair and Responsibly Sourcing Them

Demand for naturals in hair care has given rise to new strategies for fortifying the supply chain and ensuring the extracts promised are also the extracts received. This article provides a look at historic uses of botanicals in hair, considers responsible sourcing, and reviews techniques to verify extracts and their constituents.

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Rise to the Top: Decylene Glycol for Scalp Health and Care

Anti-dandruff is no longer the only demand for scalp care; scalp health maintenance and inflammation prevention are new targets. As such, decylene glycol is explored here for its potential in these capacities via tests for controlling sebum and inhibiting Malassezia.

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In Common Beauty Offers Universal Hair Elixir

Magic Myst was created to reinforce, strengthen and seal the hair cuticle in order to repair damage while also detangling and protecting against daily heat styling.

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Petal Fresh Superfoods Hair Care Joins Target's Clean Beauty Section

The Get Drenched collection was created to help dry, dull hair by utilizing coconut milk, vitamin E and almond oil.

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The Omm Collection Combats Hair Loss with Hair Thickening Line

The Omm Collection, the products' formulas stimulate natural hair thickening and nourishing at the follicle and cellular levels.

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Unwash Debuts Self Heating Deep Conditioning Hair Masque

The single-use mask is meant to strengthen, rebuild and restore damaged, over-processed hair.

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Natural Polymer Enables Humidity-resistant Hairstyling

Created to enable hair styling trends including light textures and hold, the film-former can be used in several hair care applications.

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My. Hair Care Launches Environmentally Friendly Shampoo Bar

My. Hair Care stated that the bars are biodegradable, vegan, cruelty-free, free from silicones, contain no palm oils and do not utilize plastic bottles.

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Broccoli Oil's Clean Label Skin, Hair Claims

A mild silicone alternative, this natural oil provides benefits to skin and hair care, including boosting hair shine and conditioning.

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Croda Honors Beauty's Diversity at NYSCC Suppliers' Day 2019

Playful formulations and on-trend ingredients are meant to showcase the multitude of unique perceptions of beauty at the event.

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Lonza’s Ingredient Tool Kit Heightens Formulation Speed to Market

Created from a single chemistry, this versatile ingredient range can be customized to formulators’ needs to increase speed to market and formulation efficiency.

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Croda Formulates with Multicultural Needs in Mind

Croda celebrates beauty in diversity with multicultural needs in mind by featuring a variety of products across the hair care, skin care and colour cosmetics categories.

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[video] Soy By-product for Natural Hair Conditioning

Following the movement for upcycled cosmetic ingredients, a fermented derivative from soybean wastewater was found to effectively and stably condition hair. Renuka Thergaonkar, Ph.D., of V.G. Vaze College, Mumbai, explained in this video interview.

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Breakthrough 100% Natural Hair Conditioning – AminoSensyl™ HC

AminoSensyl™ HC is a breakthrough 100% natural non-quat cationic hair care technology that delivers high performance, including 2X hair strengthening, scalp mildness, and superior environmental safety.

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[video] Student Poster: Microbial Dynamics in Ethnic Hair Prostheses

How does the scalp microbiome differ in natural black versus prosthetic hair? Tater Hooks sought to find out; she explained her results in this video interview.

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Jojoba Desert Brings Vegan Butter to NYSCC 2019

Enabling silky textures in skip, lip, hair and sun care for vegan consumers, the butter shares the nonsticky texture of the original JD Jojoba Butter, as well as its properties for moisturization, restoration and regeneration.