HAIR

CONDITIONING / STYLING

TECHNIQUES

  • Friction forces: smoothness

  • Combability: Combing test in wet and dry hair

  • Dynamometer: strength

USES

  • Hair care products and products that provide softness. Facilitate styling and hair manipulation

HAIR´S SHINE

TECHNIQUES

  • Digital pictures

  • Images Treatment

  • Expert assessment

USES

  • Final products that increase hair shine. Formulas to enhance the shine of the hair shaft

FRIZZ / VOLUME 

TECHNIQUES

  • Digital pictures

  • Pictures of Treatment

  • Frizz analysis

  • Increase in volume

  • Expert assessment

USES

  • Products that prevent hair frizz

  • Products that add volume and body to the hair

CURLING

TECHNIQUES

  • Digital pictures

  • Images Treatment

  • Curl retention

  • Curl resistance

  • Expert assessment

USES

  • Final products for curly and ethnic hair. Curl hold and strength

REPAIR / PROTECTION

TECHNIQUES

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

  • Mass spectroscopy (TOF-SIMS)

  • AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy)

  • Polarized light

  • Particle accelerator (Syncotron Alba)

  • Tensile Test: strength

USES

  • Final products for: Restructuring the hair fiber, hair strength, Integrity of cuticles against aggressions, thermal protectors, etc.

HAIR AGING

TECHNIQUES

  • Keratin oxidation

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

  • Polarized light

  • Particle accelerator (Syncotron Alba)

USES

  • Indicated for products that claim protection against hair aging

  • Younger hair

SPLIT ENDS

TECHNIQUES

  • Microcamera

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

USES

  • Formulae or active ingredients to repair or avoid split ends in long hair

HYDRATION

TECHNIQUES

  • Sorption-desorption of moisture (DVS)

  • Gravimetry

  • Tensile Test: strength

USES

  • Effectiveness of hair moisturizing products

COLOURING

TECHNIQUES

  • Exposure to light (Xenotest)

  • General pictures

  • Chromometry: colorimetry

  • Amino acid analysis

  • Glossmeter

USES

  • Effectiveness of active ingredients: hair colourings

EXPOSURE TO LIGHT

TECHNIQUES

  • Exposure to light (Xenotest)

  • Amino acid analysis

  • Lipids analysis

  • Spectrophotometry / Chromometry

  • Dynamometer

  • Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)

USES

  • Study of effectiveness of active ingredients and formulations, with or without rinsing: solar filters, anti-oxidants, etc.

FORCED OR ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

TECHNIQUES

  • Water analysis

  • Amino acid analysis

  • AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy)

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

  • Polarized light

  • Keratin oxidation

USES

  • Study of effectiveness of active ingredients and formulations for the prevention and/or elimination of pollution