Hair conditioning

Conditioning is everywhere in hair care. Customers want to give their hair lubricity, feel, manageability, strength, and more. Each benefit results from the ingredient activity we call hair conditioning.

Here are some of the most exciting ingredients for providing conditioning effects. They have advanced performance properties that offer excellent conditioning for hair.

Hair conditioning ingredients are specialties that create unique, distinct, and beneficial features in hair care products—the kind of features that will help offerings stand out in customers' minds.

Phospholipids, quaternary, and natural ingredients are ideal for today's hair care applications. Mildness, substantivity, high performance, and multifunctionality are typical properties of modern hair conditioning ingredients.

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate is a mild surfactant designed for cleansing products. It is nearly salt-free and resistant to hard and salt water with high foaming properties.

Sodium Lauroyl Glutamate is an acyl-amino acid type (acylglutamate) mild anionic surfactant used in soaps and cleaners. It is compatible with anionic and non-ionic surfactants used in cleansing applications and incompatible with cationic surfactants and other substances.

Sodium Lauroyl Hydrolyzed Silk is a silk-based anionic surfactant and is designed for higher-end brands, products, and customers enjoying silk as part of the cleansing process and label content.

Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids is a sodium salt of acylated oat (Avena Sativa) amino acids, a functional surfactant from modified natural raw material. It is compatible with anionic and non-ionic surfactants used in soaps and cleansing applications.

Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate (Sarkosyl) is a sodium salt of Lauroyl Sarcosinate, an ester of Lauroyl alcohol and Sarcosine amino acid. It is a secondary surfactant in a wide range of cleansing applications.

Sodium PCA is contained abundantly in the skin and plays the role of a "natural moisturizing factor" (NMF) ingredient. It is extremely hygroscopic and imparts a pleasant moist feeling to skin and hair.

Sodium Polyaspartate is a homogeneous polymer derived from naturally occurring Aspartic acid. Aspartic acid is a well-known amino acid and a component of many vegetable proteins.

Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate is a highly versatile polymer that performs various functions in both leave-on and rinse-off hair care applications. This polymer is used in styling aids and deep cleansing shampoos.

Sodium stearoyl glutamate is derived from L-Glutamic acid and natural fatty acid (stearoyl acid), an anionic surfactant with a pH similar to human skin

The sea is the source of all life. Soluble Collagen has been developed utilizing a variety of marine species that are rich in essential minerals and have excellent moisturizing and film-forming properties. It is also made from cattle hides using a weak acid/neutral salt extraction process.

Soluble Keratin is a water-soluble keratin hydrolyzate, a polymer of natural origin. It is compatible with the skin because it is made from Keratin, the key structural material of human skin.

The common sorrel extract is a natural remedy against spider veins thanks to an antiplatelet effect.

Soyethyl Morpholinium Ethosulfate is a cationic surfactant that effectively deodorizes a wide range of malodors. It functions by complexing or neutralizing specific organic molecules and reducing their concentration in the vapor phase.

Androgenetic alopecia mainly affects men after puberty, a period in which androgens begin to interact with androgen-sensitive hair follicles, resulting in changes such as follicular miniaturization and changes in the hair growth cycle, leading to progressive thinning and permanent hair loss.

Spirulina Amino Acids is an amino acid complex derived by the hydrolyzation of protein from Spirulina platensis cyanobacterium.

Spirulina Maxima is a blue-green algae that has recently become well-known as a food supplement and energy booster. It has even been used to treat high blood pressure, nervous tension, ulcers, and psoriasis and to relieve headaches, allergies, and arthritis pain.

Squalane prevents loss of moisture and makes your skin soft and supple. In addition, it has an anti-oxidant effect (fights free radicals) and prevents premature skin aging.

Squalene is an unsaturated hydrocarbon oil previously obtained from shark livers but now obtainable from vegetable sources. It has six double bonds, making it prone to oxidation and polymerization.

sr-(Wasp Spider Polypeptide-1 Oligopeptide-178) is a single-chain recombinant polypeptide that repeats a part of spider silk protein. It is a white soft powder, a product of fermentation using gene-modified yeast in a nutrient-rich medium.

Starch Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride is a naturally derived cationic polysaccharide produced from food-grade potato starch that has not been genetically modified and is free of environmentally toxic residues.

Stearalkonium Dimethicone PEG-8 Phthalate is a complex of a fatty quaternary compound and a carboxy silicone. It is a white to off-white solid with a mild odor and a melting point of 75-80°C.

Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine is a multifunctional ingredient, a hair-conditioning agent, thickener, and emollient that appears as white to yellowish flakes.

Stearamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate is a multi-functional phospholipid and diester phosphatide with multiple long-chain groups derived from pure natural palm oil.

Steardimonium Hydroxypropyl PEG-7 Dimethicone Phosphate Chloride is a Dimethicone PEG-7 Phosphate derivative with an enhanced performance based on proprietary silicone phosphate technology. It retains the parent material's multi-functional nature.

Nature offers us innumerable varieties of carbohydrates, many of which are easily taken for granted. Simple sugars like glucose and mannose are among the most recognizable. Simple sugars can bind together into larger chains of sugars called polysaccharides.

Sulfur is a yellow crystalline inorganic elemental mineral used in skin and hair care applications for centuries. It is a time-honored ingredient valued for its exfoliating, antimicrobial, and sebum regulating properties.

Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) ointment greatly aids healing for almost any kind of sore or bruise. Many ancient healers employed comfrey in poultices around broken bones to aid in healing.

TEA-Cocoyl Hydrolyzed Collagen is a fatty acid protein derivative that has been neutralized with triethanolamine improving its foaming and solubility.

TEA-Lauroyl Collagen Amino Acids is a clear to slightly hazy, amber liquid with a mild characteristic odor. It is considered a "foaming protein" with conditioning properties. It is a mild and water-soluble foaming surfactant based on collagen amino acids.

Theobroma grandiflorum seed butter is extracted by mechanically pressing the Cupuacu seeds in a continuous screw press. Cupuacu (Theobroma grandiflorum) is a tropical plant that grows wild in riverbank regions of the Amazon.