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Article: Now, that's smart! A closer look at the growing emphasis on smart, two-faced and nanostructured particles and their many applications in personal care formulations.
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- Household & Personal Products Industry
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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ONE VERY noticeable hair care trend is the increasing use of nanostructured or "smart" particles to impart desirable attributes to hair. This drive appears to have been initiated by an emphasis on amphipathic particles that started about a decade ago. The concept of using amphipathic particles as emulsion stabilizers was originally introduced in 1907 by Pickering (1) who discovered the stabilization of oil and water emulsion by colloidal particles situated at the interfacial region between dispersed and continuous phases to form a thin film which provides mechanical stabilization. (2)
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