Ingredients focus: hair care products analysed

In recent years, hair care ingredients have developed a great deal and we are now seeing a skin care and anti-ageing approach to hair care.

As a result there has been a wealth of new ingredients designed to protect hair against brittleness and dryness in the same way that skin care products have been doing for many years. 

However, there is still a great need for hair care products to do the traditional things well, such as conditioning and cleansing the hair to ensure that the hair is easy to manage. Natural and naturederived ingredients have always been popular in hair care products and this clearly shows no sign of changing. 

Ultimately, formulators are searching for ingredients that are easy to formulate, can keep products in line with trends and offer noticeable results. Following is a selection of hair care ingredients from around the globe that give formulators the opportunity to do just that, starting with the anti-ageing hair care trend:

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