Heat protecting hair care products – Analysing John Frieda Frizz-Ease Hair Serum

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As per the suggestion from Kemi and Hoshishi in the conditioner tutorial thingie post…Heat protecting hair sprays and sera are an interesting group of products – there doesn’t seem to be a basic formula to follow like you would for a shampoo or conditioner. Some offer heat protection alone, while others offer styling or conditioning...

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Merry Christmas!

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I wish you a very merry Christmas Day filled with pies, chocolate, laughter, presents, and much merriment! As you can see, my beautiful furbaby Blondie enjoys her presents as much as we do!...

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Carrot tissue oil

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Carrot tissue oil – INCI Helianthus annus (and) beta-carotene – should not be confused with carrot seed oil, an essential oil. The carrot tissue oil is beta carotene infused into sunflower oil, so we get all the goodness of carrot tissue oil with the awesome power of sunflower oil! Pure carrot tissue oil contains about...

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Carotenoids

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Carotenoids are tetraterpenoids, which are a large and varied class of hydrocarbons produced by plants, particularly conifers (wow, that sounded text-booky, eh?) They are either carotenes (oil soluble) or xanthophylls (more polar, water soluble with oxygen functional groups) with 40 carbon atoms. I’ll be going into more detail about terpenes and terpenoids in the near...

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Vitamin A

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Vitamin A – what is it good for in bath & body products? It’s an oil soluble molecule that can improve skin barrier function, increase cell proliferation, increase thickening of the skin, and increase collagen production. It can also help increase skin’s water retention, and it may be effective in preventing, retarding, or restoring changes...

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