Keratin'protect Active Ingredient

Use as an ingredient in your blends:

• Thermal protection spray

• Supporting and restructuring shampoo

• Restorative conditioner

• Moisturising shine and softness hair spray

• Styling hair lotion

• Shine styling gel

Instant recipe by Aroma-Zone

Properties

Keratin'protect cosmetic active ingredient is recognised for its properties as a hair improvement ingredient:

• Combats dehydration: maintains the hair's natural moisture level for a long time, by forming a soft, light film.

• Thermal protector: helps protect hair from heat, for example when using a hairdryer or straightener.

• Restructuring: improves the structure of the proteins in the hair's cortex.

• Restores shine and lustre to hair by improving its ability to reflect light, even when damaged.

• Restores a soft, silky feel to rough hair, especially hair damaged by chemical treatments, bleaching, straightening, etc.

Indications

• Dry, damaged hair

• Rough, dull hair

• Coloured or bleached hair

• Straightened, brushed, or permed hair, damaged by chemical or thermal treatments

Preparation

Precautions

Precautions and allergens

Precautions for use

Allergens

Allergen-free

Add it to a neutral Aroma-Zone base

Keratin'protect can be incorporated into a ready-to-use AZ neutral base to make:

• An emulsion: with Organic Hair Mask Base

• An aqueous gel: with Aloe vera gel

• A foaming product: with Organic Neutral Shampoo Base, Organic Neutral Washing Base, Organic Neutral Cleansing Cream Base.

Use Keratin'protect as an ingredient in one of the AZ neutral bases listed above to make an emulsion, gel or foaming product.

I make my recipe from scratch

Keratin'protect can be incorporated as an active ingredient in all your formulas containing water: creams, lotions, cleansing gels, shampoos, conditioners, etc.

Incorporate keratin'protect into all your formulas containing water

Typical Quantities

Production process

Extract of Cystoseira compressa on a hydroglycerine base.

Botanical name

Cystoseira compressa

Function

Moisturising and protective cosmetic active ingredient, helps restore shine and health to hair and protects it from heat and damage.

Benefits and properties

• Softener

• Hair fortifier

• Protective and emollient

INCI name

Aqua, Glycerin, Zea mays starch, Cystoseira compressa extract, Glucunolactone, Benzyl alcohol, Sodium benzoate, Dehydroacetic acid, Calcium gluconate.

Presentation

Light brown to brown opalescent viscous liquid packaged in an amber glass bottle with dropper cap, supplied with a sampling pipette (viscous product).

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Storage

Store at room temperature away from moisture, light and sources of heat. Close the bottle tightly after use.

Precautions

• Keep out of reach of children.

• Do not swallow. Avoid contact with the eyes. Do not apply undiluted to the skin. Follow recommended doses.

• Wear gloves and goggles when handling.

Supplier documentation

Le bulletin d’information sur les algues.

CEVA. n°70 2nd quarter 2005.

Le bulletin d’information sur les algues.

CEVA. n°71 3rd quarter 2005.

A New Opportunity for Marine Cosmetics. Cosmetics & Toiletries® magazine. JH Fitton, Irhimeh M, Falk N. Macroalgal Fucoidan Extracts

Vol. 122, No. 8/August 2007.

Prospective of the Cosmeceuticals Derived from Marine Organisms. Kim SK, Y. Ravichandran D, Khan SB, and Tae Kim Y.

Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering 2008, 13: 511–523