Yerba mate (Paraguay tea; Ilex Paraguariensis) is primarily cultivated for the leaves and is esteemed as an aromatic, stimulating beverage with a somewhat bitter taste.
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.Inositol is a powerful skin moisturizer and a substance that optimizes the skin's water-lipid barrier. Inositol molecules are incorporated into membrane lipids, enhancing the natural defenses of the skin.
Isoeicosane is a clear, color- and odorless liquid hydrocarbon with low viscosity and good spreadability. It is used as a conditioner in hair care and as a lipophilic, low-viscosity carrier in skin and sun care.
Prostaglandin Derivate an artificial hair growth hormone from the pharmaceutical industry that stimulates the roots of your hair and activates hair growth.
Extracted for the Cacay Nut, Kahai Oil is both highly regenerative and powerfully antioxidant. A rich source of linoleic acid, Vitamin E and Retinol.
Excessively curly hair, commonly found in people of African descent, can be dry and difficult to manage. This hair type calls for products specially designed to address its unique needs.
Is a protein naturally produced by the human body. It is a fibrous substance that constitutes the basic component of our skin, hair and nails.
Keratin Amino Acids are made by carefully hydrolyzing sheep's wool or deer hair down to a low molecular weight and consist of a mixture of free amino acids, dipeptides, tripeptides, and tetrapeptides.
Rhatany’s (Krameria Triandra) habitat is primarily Peru and Bolivia. However, various species are known to be found in the desert southwest of the United States.
Rich in cholesterol, lanolin is well suited for the treatment of brittle hair and fingernails and dry and raw elbows, knees, and feet.
Lanolin Alcohol is an amber solid with a waxy consistency and faint odor. It is used as an emulsifier, stabilizer, thickener, moisturizer, and conditioning agent in personal care applications.
Lanolin oil is the lower melting point esters (liquid fraction) of lanolin, derived from the wool of sheep. It has a very characteristic odor.
Lauramine Oxide is an amine oxide surfactant. It is water soluble and supplied as a 30% active solution, which is a clear, light yellow liquid.
Lauroyl Lysine is a fine white powder, a perfect organic powder for makeup, hair, and skincare products. Its hydrophobic characteristic improves makeup water resistance and improves the flow and spread of the oil/powder mixture.
Lauryl Betaine is an amphoteric surfactant that is hydrolytically stable, biodegradable, and colorless, with low odor.
Lauryl Methyl Gluceth-10 Hydroxypropyldimonium Chloride is a quaternary ammonium salt of ethoxylated methyl glucose and dimethyl dodecyl ammonium substituted epoxide.
French lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is credited with many rich qualities. When used externally, its preparations had antiseptic and disinfectant properties.
Lime (Citrus Aurantifolia) oil is obtained by cold pressing the peel or steam distilled from the whole fruit.
Linoleamide DEA is a clear liquid amide, highly recommended for use in all types of shampoos, cleansers, bubble baths, and liquid cleanser formulations where quality, performance, extreme mildness, and maximum ease of handling are required.
Essential fatty acids are recognized as a vital part of the human diet that cannot be synthesized internally. These fatty acids are the foundations of phospholipids, such as phosphatidylcholine, which are critical in the cell membrane to help facilitate the passage of biological substances.
Linoleamidopropyl PG-Dimonium Chloride Phosphate Dimethicone is a water-soluble organosilicon composition with high silicone content (60% of 25% activity) that delivers an exceptionally high silicone content to clear personal care formulations.
Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid (EFA). EFAs are fundamental constituents of bio-membranes and precursors of biological substances such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and hydroxylated fatty acids.
Lysine Aspartate is an amino acid complex, a product of condensation of natural L-lysine and L-aspartic acid, without preservative.
Kelp (Macrocystis Pyrifera) is a seaweed member of the brown algae phylum (Phaeophyta). It is found in the colder coastal waters of North America. High in silicon, which is believed to prevent skin wrinkling and sagging, kelp is considered an essential food for the hair root.
Maltodextrin is a generalized name for polysaccharides composed of short-to-medium long chains of glucose units (from 3 to 20 units, linked primarily by α-1–4 bonds) produced from starch.
Mango (Mangifera Indica) trees have long been appreciated as bearers of luscious fruits. Native to India, Burma, and Malaya, mangoes were some of the first fruits cultivated, supposedly as long as 4000 years ago.
Maris Sal is a salt obtained by evaporation of seawater, an edible ingredient in crystalline form or concentrated 30% solution.
Rich in antioxidants and oleic acid, this nut oil has been treasured for centuries in Africa as an invaluable skincare treatment.
Peppermint (Mentha Piperita) oil was used as an inhalant to calm the nerves and relieve asthma and migraine headaches. The herb was also used as a mosquito and rat repellent and as a treatment for some skin diseases.
Methacrylic Acid/Sodium Acrylamidomethyl Propane Sulfonate Copolymer is a unique, proprietary, anionic copolymer for applications in hair and skin products. It is a clear to slightly opaque, colorless, odorless viscous liquid.