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  • coating hair ingredients

    Posted by tinas on February 20, 2020 at 7:23 am

    I have heard that panthenol and maybe also castor oil realy coat the hair so that thin hair looks thicker. Is there other ingredients that do the same thing? I like to formulate a “hair thickening” conditioner, maybe leave-on conditioner

    tinas replied 4 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • natzam44

    Member
    February 20, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    That whole coating the hair thing is used as a marketing term. Most of the time, thickening products make hair looks thicker by incorporating a polymer into the product which will give your hair volume and keep the hair toghether. 

    You can do this by adding something like PVP at 1% or something like VP/VA copolymer. I will add that it won’t do much in a conditioner since most of the polymer would ne rinsed away. A leave-in conditioner could work.

  • belassi

    Member
    February 20, 2020 at 3:18 pm

    Polyquart H-81

  • tinas

    Member
    February 21, 2020 at 7:12 am

    thanks a lot

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