The carrot (Daucus Carota Sativa) root is rich in Beta-Carotene, pro-vitamin A, which has been found to help maintain healthy skin and hair. Its seeds also contain numerous beneficial compounds that are useful in skin and body care preparations.
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.Di-PPG-3 Ceteth-4 Adipate is a synthetic gentle "detackifying" emollient designed for mildness in leave-on products, especially for sensitive skin or where abrasion is involved in the skin treatment process (i.e., facial scrubs, microdermabrasion).
Dicaprylyl Ether is a dioctyl ether, a colorless and odorless oily liquid with low molecular weight and low polarity. High-purity dioctyl ether is not susceptible to oxidation and is readily biodegradable. It is stable over the wide pH range (3-11).
Dicetyldimonium Chloride (Dihexadecyldimethylammonium chloride) is a high-quality cationic conditioning agent with low color. It is a very economical ingredient, the company maintains. It is also known under the trade name Incroquat DCMC.
Diglycerin (Diglycerol) is a clear, colorless liquid that is more dense than Glycerin. Diglycerol has been incorporated into personal care products in Japan since the 1980s. It is a mild humectant, provides gloss to hair, and can enhance fragrance/flavor impact and longevity.
Dihydroxyethyl Cocamine Oxide is a surfactant with good foam-boosting and stabilizing properties. It is also used as a viscosity-controlling agent in formulations.
Dihydroxypropyl Arginine HCL is a conjugate of Glycerin and Arginine that combines both ancestors' moisturizing (NMF) and high adsorption power.
Dilinoleamidopropyl Dimethylamine is a reaction product of dilinoleic acid and dimethylaminopropyl-dimethylamine, is molecularly more than half vegetable derived with the remainder synthetic.
Dimer Dilinoleyl Dimer Dilinoleate is a substantive liquid ester with both intense cushion and a high degree of gloss.
Dimethicone PEG-7 Cocoate is a silicone pol
Dimethiconol Cysteine is a complex of dimethylpolysiloxane with sulfur-containing amino acid. It is supplied as a milky white water-dispersable liquid with 36-38% solids content.
When the reactive Amodimethicone Soya Ammonium Chloride condenses with Dl-Panthenol and forms a substantive polymer Dimethiconol Panthenol, its former designation was Panthenol Amino Dimethicone.
Dimethylaminopropylamido PCA Dimethicone is a unique pyrrolidone dimethylamidopropylamine. It is an organosilicon for personal care products that provide long-lasting substantivity and emolliency and is compatible with many emollients.
Disodium Cocoamphodipropionate is a salt-free, multi-functional amphoteric surfactant characterized by hydrolytic stability, detergency, and its ability to couple nonionic surfactants into concentric electrolyte solutions.
Disodium Sebacoyl Bis-Lauramidolysine is a sodium salt of a diester of Sebacic acid with Lauroyl Lysine. It is an amino acid-based multifunctional surfactant and emollient with unique properties for skin and hair care applications. It is a white powder barely soluble in water and oils.
Historically, the juice of the Coneflower (Echinacea Angustifolia) root was used externally to bathe burns and make the intense heat of a sweat lodge more bearable.
Epoxycyclohexylethyl Polysilsesquioxane is a hybrid molecule with an inorganic silsesquioxane at the core and organic epoxy cyclohexyl groups attached at the corners of the cage. It is a clear, pale yellow/orange semi-solid.
Ethyl Panthenol (or Panthenyl ethyl ether) is the ethyl ether derivative of Panthenol (provitamin B5). As a result of the presence of an ethyl group, the penetration into hair and skin is enhanced, and the moisturization effect is increased.
Clove (Eugenia Caryophyllus) was first brought to Europe by the Arabs and Venetians and was used as a natural food preservative and embalming agent. Cloves have been used medicinally because of the large amount of natural oil found in undeveloped plants.
The use of natural plant extracts “nature’s healing power” in hair care products fulfills the requirements of a wide spectrum of consumers: the ecology movement has awakened in many people, the desire for a natural lifestyle.
The Chinese ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) tree bears a small, brownish-white nut that is used to treat asthma, coughs, wheezing, leukorrhea, and bladder irritability. The ginkgo nut is also considered to have detergent properties and an antibiotic effect against many pathogenic bacteria.
In Asia, Panax (means ‘treating all’ in Greek) is considered to be the most valuable plant among all, and its root called Ginseng became famous worldwide.
Gluadin® Soy is a soya protein hydrolyzate (sophisticated product - peptides and shorter proteins obtained by hydrolyzation of natural soy proteins). Protein hydrolyzates' numerous critical characteristics are their substantivity to the skin and hair and a protein protective layer formation, protecting from damaging environmental factors.
Glucamine is an organic primary amine, which has a sugar linked to its structure. It is used for the neutralization of carbomers and acrylate polymers, making it possible to obtain transparent and stable cosmetic and pharmaceutical gels.
Vegetable Glycerine is plant-derived from vegetables and coconut and offers water binding and moisture-retaining properties that can balance skin’s natural moisturizing factor.
Glyceryl Polymethacrylate is a non-drying lubricant whit excellent water solubility. It is a clear, mildly acidic (pH: 4.7 - 5.5) multi-functional moisturizer that enhances the feel and lubricity of formulations.
Glycine is a small-molecule nonessential amino acid. It's a proteinogenic amino acid, an important precursor of collagen which contains about 35% glycine in the chain.
Glycine Soja Protein is a soybean protein, a plant-derived treatment specialty that specifically inhibits skin enzymes (human leucocyte elastase and tryptase) to minimize damage to the skin from their unscheduled release.
Glycoproteins a soluble mucoproteins derived from yeast cell walls, having a molecular weight between 10,000 and 20,000. Composed of oligosaccharides (consisting of 5 to 10 sugar units) and a protein core, it is in the form of a water-soluble material with a globular structure.
Grape (Vitis vinifera) extract is made from organically grown grapes. It contains potent antioxidant resveratrol that delivers scientifically tested and clinically proven health benefits.