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TRI Princeton
- 6 days ago

TRI Talks Start Again in March

Following the success of our TRI Talks last year, we are pleased to announce that we will be offering a brand-new series of TRI Training talks in March, April and May 2021.

TRI Training will offer bite-sized chunks of essential, basic training on specific cosmetic science topics from experts at TRI Princeton. As last year, the talks will be free to join live, and also available afterwards in the TRI Library (https://library.triprinceton.org) for library members and TRI member companies.

The series will start on Wednesday March 10th with a session titled “Creating Good Cosmetics Claim Support: Following the Rules”. This presentation, given by Dr Paul Cornwell from TRI, will focus on the laws in the EU, UK and US that must be complied with for claim support. It will also describe the various advertising standards bodies in these markets and the rules that they apply, including requirements for pre-clearances. Finally, it will cover area of inter-company disputes and class action lawsuits. In each of these areas the possible financial penalties or sanctions for non-compliance will be discussed. The presentation will finish with a thought about benefit vs risk. It is in the nature of ambitious cosmetics companies to make the strongest claims possible, but stretching the rules comes with increased business risks.

Book your place by clicking on this link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtfuyorTwvEtSWuvamlJETHaaJSpuYH5PH

Other TRI training talks will cover:

Creating Good Cosmetics Claim Support: Designing the right claims experiments
Repeated grooming (breakage) tests
FTIR and Raman spectroscopy tests to measure active penetration into skin and hair
Differential scanning calorimetry experiments on hair.

For more information about TRI contract testing services, training and research visit www.triprinceton.org

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TRI Princeton
- 6 days ago

Protein Treatments for Reduced Hair Breakage

TRI would like to announce the publication of a second paper on the topic of defying the damage of textured hair.

Continuing on the topic of defying the damage of textured hair (“Defying damage: Understanding breakage in Afro-textured hair” https://library.triprinceton.org/1ctrpk4/), we would like to announce the publication of our second paper in this area: “Penetration of different molecular weight hydrolysed keratins into hair fibres and their effects on the physical properties of textured hair” by E. Malinauskyte, R. Shrestha, P. Cornwell, S. Gourion-Arsiquaud and M. Hindley (https://library.triprinceton.org/1gjv2dm/ ).

This paper was funded jointly with Croda. The data from this paper were introduced during the DWI conference in 2019 for the first time, and subsequently at the TRI seminar of the same year. The data and the research area itself peaked interest of many scientists who were asking to share this publication. There were so many requests that we decided to make it open access so everyone could satisfy their curiosity.

In summary, our study compared the effect of low‐, mid‐ and high‐MW peptides on relaxed hair using the same test conditions. The high‐MW keratin peptides only penetrated the surface layers of relaxed textured hair, whereas the mid‐range keratin peptides were able to penetrate deeper into the cortex. However, both the mid‐range and high‐MW keratin peptides were able to improve breakage parameters: increasing break stress and reducing the number of premature fractures. The fiber dimension measurements suggested significant penetration of the low‐MW keratin peptides and leucine which increased cross‐sectional area of the hair, but unfortunately did not have any protein stabilizing effect. Enjoy!

For background information about protein effects on hair try watching our TRI Talk from 2020; “Bringing sand to the beach: The effects of proteins on hair” (https://library.triprinceton.org/1cp2h3o/).

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