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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Explaining The Technology Behind The Best Hair Serums

By Joanna Walsh


Hair is an important part of personal image, and many people try to cultivate long, ample hair so as to enable more sophisticated styling possibilities or generate a striking appearance. Yet long locks also suffer trouble, such as desiccation (dryness), discoloration or breakage. Using the best hair serums is one step that people take in keeping theirs strong and supple.

In medieval times, people did not engage in ablutions very often, and the result was that the wax secreted by their scalps, known as sebum, would build up and cake in the strands. This, in turn, protected the strands naturally and enabled styles that would seem extravagant or bizarre to modern populations. In modern times, personal grooming has come to involve extensive and frequent washing, usually with strong cosmetic chemicals, so that the sebum never accumulates to that extent.

Besides, clotted wax on the head would be seen as repulsive by today's standards. People have therefore started to use the serums. These are available on the market in two versions: organic and silicon-based (synthetic). The organic version then represents the market offering of the organic, or non-artificial chemical, movement, which is also seen in food products.

Silicon-based serums used silicon as an emollient or coating for the individual strands. The silicon attaches to them and encapsulates them so that they are physically protected, in the same way that an electric flex is insulated by plastic or rubber. In addition to the silicon, the serum contains amino acids and ceramides.

This might sound very technical but it is simple to understand. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, and hair itself is mainly protein. This protein specifically is known as keratin, and it occurs in finger and toenails too (which are basically compacted keratin). The amino acids are supposed to nourish the protein so that it remains as supple and strong as it originally was when it emerged from the scalp.

Protein is prone to damage by environmental conditions. Imagine the white of an egg (the albumen), and what would happen to it if it was left outside in the sun. It would soon denature (the technical term for a protein that is damaged or changing its state). Keratin is not similar to albumen in its physical properties but, being a protein too, it undergoes similar environmental trauma, so that it ages, dries out, or becomes structurally weak and breaks. You can see this in the way that it displays these changes or loses its color.

Organic serums, on the other hand, avoid silicon. One criticism of the silicon-based serums is that the silicon is too hermetic as a sealant, i. E. It is so effective that the hair smothers inside it, or that the chemicals in the serum are trapped inside the emollient with the strand and cause it to break. The choice between silicon or organic serums is one that the consumer needs to make based on their own research.

For those who regard their appearance as important, or who are trying to make a high-impact impression, protective serum is one option in maintaining spectacular hair. Understanding how it works is important in its application and assessing its results.




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