GREENPLEX®
Vegetal derived complex for restructuring hair fibers and salt linkages
Vegetal derived complex for restructuring hair fibers and salt linkages
INCI
Polyglyceryl-3 Betainate Malate, Sulfated Castor Oil, Aqua
GREENPLEX® is an innovative, 100% plant-derived complex designed to treat hair damaged by chemical and mechanical treatments, ensuring extraordinary regeneration. It significantly enhances hair strength, making fibers more resilient and less prone to breakage.
The treatment also reduces combing force and electrostatic effects, resulting in more manageable hair. It promotes the closure of cuticles and improves smoothness, leaving hair feeling better to the touch and easier to style.
Furthermore, GREENPLEX® enhances hair elasticity, allowing it to stretch and return to its original shape, indicating improved protein and moisture protection.
In terms of cuticle alignment, GREENPLEX® greatly improves the compactness and adherence of cuticle scales to the hair shaft, even in heavily damaged hair. The filming property of GREENPLEX® is evident, providing additional protection and shine.
Overall, GREENPLEX® offers a comprehensive solution for repairing and enhancing the health of damaged hair, ensuring smoother, stronger, and more resilient hair with each use.
Cyclic fatigue indicates dynamic strength or fatigue behavior.
A higher number of cycles to break indicates a stronger fiber: 8% GREENPLEX® aqueous solution applied to damp high curl type hair significantly increases the mean number of cycles to break by 55.6% compared to the untreated group.
GREENPLEX® treatment reduces combing force and electrostatic effect (-23% and -60% respectively) in damaged hair compared to untreated.
Frictional properties determine how the hair feels to the touch, how it combs and styles, and its manageability.
GREENPLEX® treatment significantly reduces dry friction in damaged hair if left on (-79%) and rinsed off (-75%), claiming smoothness, damage prevention, and repairing action on the hair.
Elasticity is the hair’s ability to stretch and return to its original shape. It could be considered a measure of hair protein and moisture protection.
The elastic modulus measures the fiber’s stiffness: a decrease in the modulus indicates an increase in fiber elasticity. 8% GREENPLEX® aqueous solution applied to heat-damaged hair significantly improves elasticity by 10.3%.
To explore in depth the effect of GREENPLEX® treatment, hair has been bleached twice leading to heavily damaged and almost deprived cuticles, with the scales very open and irregular.
FE-SEM images show that GREENPLEX® treatment greatly improves compactness of the scales and adherence to the hair shaft with cuticles less raised and jagged.
GREENPLEX® filming property is highlighted by “drops” covering the hair’s surface.
3% – 8%
Restructuring Hair Masks and Serums, Hair Dyes, Shampoos, Conditioners at pH 4.5 – 6.5
APPEARANCE | CLEAR OILY LIQUID |
COLOUR | LIGHT YELLOW TO AMBER |
ODOUR | CHARACTERISTIC |
DRY RESIDUE (105°C) | 75 – 85% |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY (25°C) | 1.1 – 1.2 |
PH (5% WATER SOLUTION AT 25°C) | 6.5 – 8.5 |