Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smelly, but eco-friendly

Wood -based sustainable hair air conditioner may be black and smell like peat, but its elements claim that the future of hair care may be after the tests indicating that it may work completely as well as commercial products.

“We use the strength of nature,” he says Ievgen Pylypchuk At Stockholm University in Sweden. “We combine a high level of ancient science and tradition … [to] Really cool thing: simple, useful and very effective. “

Pylypchuk and its ligamental colleagues, the polymer, which is a major component of wood and bark, used as a starting point for their vital air conditioner. When it is extracted from wood, the ligain reacts naturally with water While also acts as superficial, it is a major component of detergents. Pylypchuk says, it also contains natural antioxidants, which help to maintain the air conditioner, and provides UV protection. “Lenin acts as a multi -functional platform in this context,” he says. “It protects against UV rays, it’s moisturizer.”

The researchers merged the lin gel developed into their laboratory with coconut oil and water to make the final product. team member Mika SebonnAlso at the University of Stockholm, he claims to be almost operating as well as commercial air conditioners. When using it on samples of wet ovary hair and then washed, it reduced the “clouds” when combing the hair while it was still hydrated by 13 percent, compared to the commercial product they tested, which reduced the clouds by 20 percent.

Cibonin says the current form of conditioner is “black” and a scent like “cooked wood”, such as peat, says Sipponen. This did not prevent those looking for thinking about its marketing. Test the formula on hair, towels, pork, and they say it washed without leaving stains. Even the smell is very fun, says Pylypchuk. “I personally love it so much, and most people are in our laboratory – perhaps because they were working with the lane – they loved him.”

Pylypchuk and SipPonen You have a patent For the gel of the lignin and I hope their air conditioner will become a consumption product, providing people with a more sustainable alternative to current products that depend on the components derived from fossil fuels. They say the next step is to know if it causes eye and skin irritation before any experience on live hair.

But a cosmetic researcher in the United States Trevor Evansand Previously at the Institute of Textile Research Princeton, New Jersey, he has doubts about the quality of the product performance compared to the commercial competitors. “These experiments have been conducted for 30 years, and the traditional air conditioner product will reduce 80 percent combing forces, and perhaps up to 90 percent,” he says. SIPPONEN believes the contrast in testing methods and hair condition under analysis can explain the cause of his team found a 20 percent reduction of a commercial air conditioner.

Evans says that the appearance of an unusual air -conditioner and an unusual smell may lead to the position of consumers. “Patent literature is Chock-A Block with possible formulas of hair conditioner that did not go anywhere,” he says. “The reason is that you not only need effective – for the consumer to buy it, what you really need is aesthetics.”

So, would it be a black air conditioner, a wooden scent and a successful environment with consumers? “It looks like a few stars,” says Evans.