Hair care
Hair is composed of keratinous fibers and is inclusive of head hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, mustache, beard, and other types of body hair. Hair is often subjected to a wide variety of insults that can cause weakening and damage. These include shampooing, rinsing, drying, heating, combing, styling, perming, coloring, exposure to the elements etc. Human hair comprises proteinaceous helices known as keratins. Such structural proteins degrade with prolonged exposure to sunlight, harsh chemicals such as dyes and bleach, and air-borne pollutants. Hair follicles also stop producing the requisite melanin as a person ages; thus, the hair turns gray. To preserve a youthful appearance or for fashion purposes, the cosmetic industry has developed conditioners and coloring agents for hair. There are a number of haircare compositions, commercially available, which seek to minimize the damage to the hair by the inclusion of certain agents. In particular materials such as vitamins and herbal extracts have widely been known to reduce the formation of free-radicals. Free radicals, which are generated by factors such as UV radiation (present in sunlight), heat and/or by chemical reaction, are implicated in the process of damage to hair, reduction in shine, poor feel, and fading of hair color. The process of hair care is multifaceted and generally involves washing, conditioning, and styling the hair. The first step involves the thorough cleaning of the hair with an initial application of shampoo. After the hair is cleaned and rinsed, the second step of the process involves conditioning the hair with a conditioner, which is applied to the hair and allowed to thoroughly penetrate into the hair. After a sufficient period of time, the residual conditioner is rinsed off the hair with water. Hair styling is an art which frequently requires various implements and environmental conditions to produce desired results. The implements assume many configurations, such as combs, brushes, curlers, and others. Hair styling compositions are well known and are commercially available in a variety of forms including mousses, gels, lotions, pumps, or hair sprays. Many of these products contain various hair styling agents to provide temporary hair styling benefits such as body, hold, luster, improved hair feel, and good style retention. Hair styling and conditioning compositions in the form of gels are provided by the inclusion of a suitable amount of a gelling agent, generally to provide a 7-10,000 cps formulation which can be dispensed by hand or by pump application. Lotion hair care products are hydroalcoholic formulations which can be applied by hand. Sprays are formulations for application by pump action. Mousses are compositions which can be dispensed easily and conveniently from an aerosol can as a pressure sensitive foam. Glazes are thin gel formulations. Consumers are becoming increasingly educated and expect a high level of sophistication and multi functionality in their hair care products. They expect the product not only to clean, but also condition, nourish, and provide a lasting impression of clean hair and freshness. Multifunctional hair care products such as hair styling and conditioning compositions have become popular with the public. Such compositions have been made available in the form of gels, lotions, sprays, mousses and glazes, which can be removed after use either immediately, for example, in the so-called "rinse-off" application. Mousse and gel hair styling compositions have become particularly popular with the public. A mousse gives an appearance of penetration of the hair as the foam collapses and has ingredients that perform functions that are needed for the improved styling of hair. The dandruff is a keratin-like mass resulting from coagulation of dead cells shed from scalp and sebaceous secretion of scalp. Dandruff undergoes a change of its color into reddish gradually and forms a clear boundary from normal skin. Occasionally, it causes a skin disease with accompanying itching and inflammation. It has been known that such dandruff may be caused by a hormone imbalance, a nutrition imbalance, nervous stresses, biochemical changes in the epidermal tissue resulting from an excessive multiplication of scalp epidermal cells, growths of microorganisms on the head and activity increase thereof, and inflammations due to air pollutions. Anti-dandruff shampoos are well known. Anti-dandruff shampoos typically incorporate an anti-dandruff active and detersive surfactants. Among the preferred type of anti-dandruff agents are particulate, crystalline anti-dandruff agents, such as sulfur, selenium disulfide and heavy metal salts of pyridinethione.
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