Setting lotions (styling)

Description

Setting lotions are applied as styling mousse, liquid or spray lotion to the wet hair and impart more volume and a better hold of the hairstyle. Caring additives make freshly washed hair easier to comb, provide it with more elasticity and fullness, and protect against hair damaging external influences. At the same time they improve the feel of the hair, provide it with gloss and avoid that the hair “flies”. The hairstyle is stabilised and remains in shape for longer. If the caring effect is particularly high, reference is made to a conditioner or a blow dry lotion. Setting lotions contain film-forming agents which cover the hair with a stable film and hence provide it with strength. The share of film-forming agents is governed by the desired degree of strength. Cationic polymers improve the combability and prevent the electrostatic charging of the hair. Water and alcohols are used are solvents. Low amounts of surfactants are added to the styling mousses easy to use in practice for foam formation purposes. As aerosols they contain propellants such as propane, butane or isobutane. Styling mousses also offer in many cases additional caring substances (eg aloe vera, Vitamin B3, PANTHENOL, LECITHIN). For sensitive hair and scalp, setting lotions without alcohol and perfume additives are available. Thermal protection formulas and moisturising ingredients protect the hair during blow dry styling. Colour styling mousses combine styling with a light tinting. They are suitable for a short-term colour nuancing or for the intensification of the own hair colour. By adding UV filters and antioxidants, the hair is protected against environmental influences. For blow dry setting lotions styling is carried out with the thermal brush during drying. Styling gels serve for the support and / or strengthening of the hairstyle and cover the hair with an almost invisible, elastic and highly strengthening film. They receive their specific condition through thickening agents. Glitter gels contain glitter particles and / or additions of coloured, plastic-coated aluminium particles. Hair waxes are mainly suited to accentuate individual parts of hair, whereby the haircut remains shapeable and supple. They contain high shares of lipophilic components such as carnauba wax, beeswax, paraffin wax, macadamia oil, almond oil, silicone oil or Vaseline, which are combined with emulsifiers. Styling creams are mostly based on oil in water emulsions. Hairsprays apply film-forming agents with the support of a propellant and precision spray heads particularly finely onto the hair. During drying the spray forms a film on the hair surface, which interlinks the hair and constitutes an invisible hair net. Ingredients such as proteins, oil components, GLYCERIN, silicon oils, special polymers or UV absorbers ensure a pleasantly soft hair feel, care and protection. Hairsprays are as a rule perfumed. The propellants used are for instance butane, isobutane and dimethyl ether.