New Product Review: Aveda Dry Remedy

From the people who made organic cool before Leo DiCaprio, comes the latest spa treatment for your head. Aveda created the perfect compliment for Damage Remedy, a hardcore moisture treatment to match up with their hardcore best-selling reconstructor, Damage Remedy.
Dry Remedy includes a patent-pending combination called the Deep Moisture-complex, consisting of palm and Pomegranate conditioners that penetrated straw-like strands. Meadowfoam oil and Jojoba oil locks in moisture. Macadamia nut oil help to unravel tangled tresses.
Every shower brings you to a vacation in the tropics. Warm Vanilla, rose, Ylang-Ylang waft in the air as you imagine the lush flowers of a remote island retreat surround your body.

I suggest you fill your tub with water, light some candles and soak while you wait for the magic to happen.

Nothing can make the moment any better except knowing that the Deep-moisture complex can improve brittle hair up to 63 percent. Wow!

Release date: 07/01/2008
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Get Coco for coconuts!

Coconut oil is nature's own beauty perfector. Also known as coconut butter, this oil was first exported in the 1860s by south sea merchants comming to and from asia. Most of it comes from the Philippines, but the oil itself is used by women all over South and East Asia. Coconut oil is penetrates skin and hairs outer layers to moisturize and strengthen with its string of medium chain trigylcerides.

Previously published results showed that both in vitro and in vivo coconut oil (CNO) treatments prevented combing damage of various hair types. Using the same methodology, an attempt was made to study the properties of mineral oil and sunflower oil on hair. Mineral oil (MO) was selected because it is extensively used in hair oil formulations in India, because it is non-greasy in nature, and because it is cheaper than vegetable oils like coconut and sunflower oils. The study was extended to sunflower oil (SFO) because it is the second most utilized base oil in the hair oil industry on account of its non-freezing property and its odorlessness at ambient temperature. As the aim was to cover different treatments, and the effect of these treatments on various hair types using the above oils, the number of experiments to be conducted was a very high number and a technique termed as the Taguchi Design of Experimentation was used. The findings clearly indicate the strong impact that coconut oil application has to hair as compared to application of both sunflower and mineral oils. Among three oils, coconut oil was the only oil found to reduce the protein loss remarkably for both undamaged and damaged hair when used as a pre-wash and post-wash grooming product. Both sunflower and mineral oils do not help at all in reducing the protein loss from hair. This difference in results could arise from the composition of each of these oils. Coconut oil, being a triglyceride of lauric acid (principal fatty acid), has a high affinity for hair proteins and, because of its low molecular weight and straight linear chain, is able to penetrate inside the hair shaft. Mineral oil, being a hydrocarbon, has no affinity for proteins and therefore is not able to penetrate and yield better results. In the case of sunflower oil, although it is a triglyceride of linoleic acid, because of its bulky structure due to the presence of double bonds, it does not penetrate the fiber, consequently resulting in no favorable impact on protein loss.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=12715094&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google

The people of Sri Lanka and Indian use this oil to cool and soothe the scalp and moisturize and scent the hair. Look for these products with coconut oil as its base.