HMA has been developed as a delivery system for hair with excellent substantivity and coacervation techniques.
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.HMA Silky is a botanical complex that provides breakage resistance for hair. Due to unique coacervation technology, it acts as a hair micro-adhesive.
Hops have a long history of use in herbal medicine, especially for their sedative, soothing and calming effects on the mind and body.
Hydrogenated Castor Oil/Sebacic Acid Copolymer is a polymer derived from natural raw materials and designed to seal down hair cuticles that were damaged by coloring, bleaching, or any other process that requires lifting of the cuticle.
Excellent wetting capabilities of Hydrogenated polydecene are ideal for suncare and make-up applications and complete innocuousness - ideal for babies and sensitive skins.
Hydrolyzed Barley Protein is a protein hydrolyzate obtained from food-grade Golden Barley (Hordeum jubatum). It is carefully hydrolyzed without the addition of enzymes to preserve its unique characteristics.
Hydrolyzed Chestnut Extract is an active ingredient developed for hair care obtained from organically grown Castanea sativa fruits (chestnut).
It can improve both hair manageability and skin smoothness. In addition, hydrolyzed collagen has unique water-binding and texturizing properties, which enable it to bind to the water held by the hair shaft.
Vegetable proteins may be extracted, solubilized, purified, and supplied as light-colored, good clarity, low ash solutions.
Studies showed that elastin fragments activate skin fibroblast and boos extracellular matrix components production, including collagen and elastin.
Many manufacturers hydrolyze (divide long chains) mucopolysaccharides derived from natural sources like shrimp shells. Those hydrolyzed glycosaminoglycans are perfect-matching and ready-to-use building blocks for skins' own dermatan and hyaluronan production.
Hydrolyzed/oligomeric hyaluronic acid can penetrate into the deepest skin layers and store the moisture there in a targeted manner. The skin image is upholstered.
Hydrolyzed Jojoba Esters are
Keratin is made up of fibrous proteins rich in sulfur-containing amino acids, an essential component present in skin, hair, and nails. Hydrolyzed keratin is a mix of peptides and amino acids obtained from the controlled bio- or chemical hydrolysis of proteins from natural origin.
Hydrolyzed Linseed Seed is a hydrolyzed protein derived from Flax (Linseed - Linum Usitatissimum). It imparts benefits to skin and hair care products and is particularly suited to products based on natural concepts.
Hydrolyzed Lupine Protein is a clear light-yellow or orange-yellow solution with a characteristic odor.
Hydrolyzed Milk Protein is a biotechnology-derived ingredient that contains milk peptides and is rich in the amino acids cysteine and methionine and in Vitamin B6. It has sebum-regulating, nourishing, and skin barrier-repairing properties.
Oats are an excellent source of manganese and selenium – which may assist in building strong bones and promoting a healthier immune system; phosphorous; B Group Vitamins; magnesium; zinc, and dietary fiber.
Hydrolyzed rice protein is a versatile alternative to cosmetic grade proteins, carefully processed to yield a low odor and color product, which is freely soluble in water.
Hydrolyzed silk is a fragmented silk protein, peptides, and amino acids. "Smooth as silk" is a phrase that conveys sensuousness and elegance as no other words can.
Hydrolyzed Sweet Almond Protein is an enzymatic or chemically hydrolyzed protein extracted from sweet almond seeds. Its aqueous solution is a clear amber-yellow liquid with a slight odor.
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein is a general name for enzymatically or chemically hydrolyzed grain proteins extracted from various sources, including oats, wheat, maize, and soybean. It is compatible with almost all compounds used in personal care products.
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein PG-Propyl Silanetriol is a copolymer of vegetable protein and silicone. It is a powerful hair-strengthening ingredient that dramatically improves the strength of damaged hair.
In a particular stage of walnut ripening, the green walnut is particularly rich in active principles and reticulating agents for proteins: the structural phenols.
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein is a product of enzymatic or chemical hydrolyzation of vegetable protein wheat gluten. Its aqueous solution is a clear amber-yellow liquid with a slight odor, typical use level of 1-25%.
Hydroxyethyl Cetyldimonium Phosphate is a quaternary ammonium salt used as a hair conditioner, emulsifying agent, and solubilizer. It is miscible with water and ethanol and distributed as a 27 – 33% solution.
Hydroxyethyl Erucamidopropyl Dimonium Chloride is a cationic conditioning agent, a 60% active amido amine quaternary based on rapeseed oil. It is also known under the trade name Incroquat Erucyl HE.
It has been known for many years that hydrolyzed proteins will make excellent additives for mildness in surfactant systems. A paper was published in the JAOCS, summarizing work done on the use of proteins as counter-irritants in surfactant systems.
HydroxypropylTrimonium Honey is a low molecular weight quaternary derivative of honey to keep its natural charm and make it practically non-sticky. It is a substantive humectant suitable for hair and skin for leave-on and rinse-off applications.
Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed Corn Starch is a quaternized version of maize starch with a high molecular weight that allows it to form films around the hair to provide a smooth, manageable style.