Glypure® glycolic acid is one of the most popular ingredients in personal care and cosmetic products. It is vastly known for its anti-aging and exfoliation properties. More recently, it has been demonstrated to offer unique advantages and benefits to hair care products.
Conventional daily-use hair care products are predominantly based on relatively large molecules. However, the size of the molecules suggests a limited ability for penetration and their efficacy is, therefore, restricted solely to the hair surface. The small size of the glycolic acid molecule is a principal factor in allowing rapid penetration into the hair when used in leave-in and rinse-off hair care products.
Once inside the bulk structure, it produces changes that are not attained using existing ingredients, resulting in significant benefits to hair moisturization, softness, strength, and manageability for both healthy and chemically treated hair.
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Studies have shown that Glypure® glycolic acid penetrates throughout the hair shaft, an effect that persists even after the hair dries. That’s why adding Glypure® glycolic acid as a hair care ingredient enables to deliver these attributes that consumers desire:
- Helps make hair better able to withstand heat. Hair treated with Glypure® glycolic acid delivers a moisturizing effect, making it ideal for hair styled with high-wattage blow driers, hot curlers, curling irons, and straightening irons, without concerns about damaging the hair.
- Makes hair more manageable and easier to style. Glypure® glycolic acid as a hair care ingredient in a conditioning formulation provides hair with superior lubricity, which results in less friction and entanglement during combing and brushing, making hair less prone to breakage.
- Helps make hair feel softer and smoother. Glypure® glycolic acid in shampoos and hair conditioning formulations provides a significant decrease in elastic modulus, which is consistent with the effect of moisture on hair.
- Moisturizes and exfoliates the scalp, resulting in less flaking to give the scalp a healthy look and feel. With a long-proven reputation as an effective exfoliant and moisturizer for the skin, Glypure® glycolic acid provides this important added benefit to the scalp when used in hair care products.
Glypure® glycolic acid offers proven results of several benefits to hair care products
Five classes of experiments showed glycolic acid, as a hair care ingredient, serves several functions in hair care products. Specifically, adding cosmetic-grade glycolic acid to a conditioner or a hair treatment product aid moisturizes both hair and scalp by improving the penetration and delivering the active ingredients into the hair shaft and skin. Also, glycolic acid in conditioning formulations provides moisturizing-like effects and softness that helps prevent hair breakage, giving hair overall better manageability.
Glypure® glycolic acid can potentially transform the hair care market in a manner as significant as its impact on skin care 40 years ago. Its organic nature, biodegradability, and performance in aqueous hair products make it ideal for modern hair care products.
