Healthy Hair
Hair health is a core benefit of products produced for consumers by the cosmetic industry, and more than 70% of women claim to want healthy hair. However, there is very little clarity in the industry as to the meaning of healthy hair in a consumer context
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Healthy Hair
Jennifer Marsh • John Gray Antonella Tosti
Healthy Hair
Jennifer Marsh The Procter & Gamble Company Mason, OH, USA
John Gray Winston Park, Gillitts, South Africa
Antonella Tosti Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-18385-5 ISBN 978-3-319-18386-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18386-2
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Foreword
Beware of her fair hair, for she excels all women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man’s neck, She will not ever set him free again. —Goethe
Fig. 1 More time and effort is spent on the bride’s hair than perhaps on any other day of her life. Healthy hair sends a powerful message of youth and health. In this case—from both parties
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Hair is one of nature’s survivors and although technically ‘dead’, one of the most resilient. The visible hair shaft appears very simple, but the mechanism to create it, the hair follicle deep in the skin, is one of the most complex biological systems nature has devised. Hair first arrived on the evolutionary scene some 310 million years ago on reptilian-like animals. It preceded and survived the rise and extinction of the dinosaurs and emerged as the dominant skin appendage of mammals. As part of this class, modern humans have ‘inherited’ skin which although bearing several million hair follicles have largely confined growing hair to the scalp. Caring for hair is entirely consistent with mammalian grooming which enhances appearance and subconsciously imparts status, health, physical attractiveness and, perhaps less romantically, helps remove parasites.
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