Numerous chemical treatments, including relaxers, hair colors, and permanent waves, have been designed to meet consumers' ever-changing demands. These products enhance hair's manageability and appearance.
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.PPG-10 Methyl Glucose Ether is a propoxylated methyl glucose ether, a pale, yellow syrup (moderate-viscosity liquid) with a mild odor. It is an effective emollient, fragrance fixative, and humectant for hair and skin care products.
PPG-14 Butyl Ether is an ether of butyl alcohol and polypropylene glycol with 14 unit chain. It facilitates dispersion of the formulation, reduces whitening, and fast release of antiperspirant actives.
PPG-15-Buteth-20 is a butyl polyoxyalkylene ether with (15 moles of polyoxypropylene and 20 moles of polyoxyethylene) used as a solubilizer for perfume concentrates, essential oils, vitamins, or other oily components in water systems without solvents like alcohol.
PPG-2 Hydroxyethyl Coco/Isostearamide is an active liquid surfactant that replaces DEA-alkanolamides. It provides excellent foam stabilization and fragrance solubilization in formulations.
PPG-20 Methyl Glucose Ether is a propoxylated methyl glucose ether, a moderate-viscosity pale, yellow syrup (liquid) with a mild odor. It is an effective emollient, fragrance fixative, and humectant for hair and skin care products.
Collagen is a major structural protein forming vast resilient sheets that support the skin and softer tissues. Collagen is significant in retaining the youthfulness and elasticity of the skin.
Proline is the main building block of dermal collagen. Due to its significant role in skin structure maintenance and easy absorbance proline is a prominent ingredient of anti-aging skin care formulations.
Propylene Glycol Dicaprate is a diester of selected high-purity vegetable fatty acids and propylene glycol. It is a clear viscose liquid completely miscible with mineral oils and pure ethanol.
The Guava (Psidium Guajava) fruit has been used to treat high blood pressure, poor circulation, acidosis, asthma, prolonged menstruation, and obesity. Guavas are processed into jams, jellies, and preserves, and they are also found in cosmetic applications.
Punica Granatum Sterols is derived from pomegranate seed oil by first heat sterilizing it and then fractionating to isolate the fraction rich in sterols. It is a white to light yellow waxy paste with a characteristic odor.
Pyridoxine is one of the forms of Vitamin B6 that acts as a Co-enzyme for cell metabolism.
Pyridoxine Cyclic Phosphate is a white to light yellow powder, a stable Vitamin B6 derivative for skin and hair care preparations. It exhibits good stability under sunlight and heat, at a pH range of 6.5-8.0, and good compatibility with other vitamins.
Pyridoxine Dipalmitate (Vitamin B6 Dipalmitate) is a white or similar white crystal or crystalline powder; odorless. It can be easily dissolved in oil, slightly dissolved in ethanol by hot, and cannot be dissolved in water.
Quaternium-26 is a water-soluble
Quaternium-92 is a quaternized lipid conditioner developed especially for the skin. It is known under the trade name Incroquat QLC.
Red clover extract has an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect. In addition, it improves hair density and protects cells against early aging.
It is thought that the Greeks first brought the rose from Greece to southern Italy. They believed the red rose came from the blood of the goddess Aphrodite, whose foot got stuck in a thorn while trying to help Adonis.
There is a long history concerning the use of seawater in health and beauty due to its wealth of micro and macro minerals. Seawater has been shown to exhibit spectacular effects with regular use. The use of sea salts in bath water can imitate the curative effects of mineral springs.
Salicylic Acid is one of the beta-hydroxy acids also called BHAs. It's a strong keratolytic (can dissolve keratin), so it used in many formulations for exfoliation, peeling, acne treatment, and so on.
Salix Alba Bark Extract is an orange-brown to red-brown liquid with a characteristic odor. It is a natural ingredient derived from white willow bark.
This Chinese plant, Chinese Red Root Salvia (Salvia Miltiorrhiza), not to be confused with the more common Salvia Officinalis or Sage herb, has been used to increase metabolism, immunity, and blood circulation, as well as to treat coronary heart disease and ulcers.
The scalp undergoes constant renewal, shedding dead skin cells as flakes. Yet, these flakes only become visible if many dead skin cells clump together. The most common cause of dandruff is the skin fungus Pityrosporum ovale.
Tripleurospermum maritimum extract is a popular and recognized ingredient in the cosmetics industry for its anti-inflammatory and soothing properties reducing irritation, itching, and redness of sensitive skin. It's suitable for the face and sensitive eye area.
Serine is a small-molecule nonessential amino acid, the precursor of Glycine, thus involved in the synthesis of collagen. It also a part of essential NMFs (natural moisturizing factors) preventing transepidermal water loss.
Sesame oil is a versatile, pale oil that is extracted from the seed. It has a rich content of Vitamin E, A, and calcium, making it particularly beneficial for dry skin and various skin conditions.
Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) was probably one of the first oil-bearing plants cultivated by man. Some authors attribute the magic formula “Open, Sesame!” to the fact observed over the millennia that the consumption of sesame has favorable effects on memory and on clear thinking.
sh-Oligopeptide-78 is a synthetic recombinant 20 amino acid long, biomimetic peptide, with a sequence corresponding to a part Type II Keratin, which repeats several times in that structural protein. It is known under the trade name K18Peptide™.
sh-Polypeptide-28 is a synthetic recombinant human prolactin hormone analog peptide composed of 199 amino acids. Applied topically, prolactin leaves multiple beneficial effects on the skin including:
sh-Polypeptide-4 is a synthetic analog of human SCF (Stem cell factor), a peptide of 164 amino acids. It is a cytokine that controls the survival, growth, and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells.