Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
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Features & Benefits
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- Product Characteristics
- Complement of damaged cuticle of hair
- Selective adsorption to damaged part of hair
- Hydrophobizing effect
- Sensory texture improvement
Applications & Uses
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- Applications
- Hair Care Applications
Properties
- Physical Form
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Active Content | 50 | % | — |
Technical Details & Test Data
- Mechanism of Action
- There are "Barrier structures" that protect healthy hair surface from some damages.
- These are named scholarly "18-MEA" or "F-Layer"
- Chemical damages caused by perm or hair-coloring break these barrier structures.
- In result, the damaged hair becomes easy to suffer external stresses.
Materials to "Barrier structures" of healthy hair
- Vegetamide is a specialized repair agent
- 18-MEA and protein in hair are recreated as pseudo 18-MEA and plant protein in vegetamide for each
Healthy hair repels water
There are Barrier structures named 18-MEA or f-Layer on healthy hair surface. This makes hair surface hydrophobicity and protects the hair from external stress
Damaged hair has affinity for water
Barrier structures on hair surface are broken under damage, and the hair becomes hydrophilicity. As hydrophobicity barrier is broken, the hair becomes easy to suffer external stress and recieve more damage.
Vegetamide gets hydrophilicity hair back
Vegetamide adsorb onto damage parts in hair selectively and recover Barrier structures. In the results, this restores hydrophilicity hair to hydrophobicity, and the hair will be back to helthy hair.
- Efficacy Tests
- We tested hydrophobic property of Vegetamide.
- Healthy hair, damaged hair and damaged hair treated with Vegetamide were used in the test evaluating hydrophilic/ hydrophobic property of hair surface by measuring the contact angle of water droplet on hair sample.
- We tested how to adsorb to the hair surface.
- Healthy hair, middle-damaged hair and high-damaged hair treated with fluorescence labeled-Vegetamide were observed by fluorescence microscope and confirmed the adsorption of Vegetamide to hair surface.
Packaging & Availability
- Regional Availability