Styling mousses

Uses Vise, builder and foaming agent for conditioning shampoos, mousses, styling... 

FoamingNgents Propellants. These ingredients are necessary in a styling mousse, the French word for foam. Styling mousses were introduced in Europe in the eady 1980s and in the United States in 1983, and they are extremely popular. 

Ma.nufa.cture. Finishing sprays are easily prepared as simple solutions of the polymers, neutralizers, plasticizers, fragrance, etc, in ethanol. If water is in the formulation, it must be added last. The aerosol products are filled by the methods described for styling mousses. 

Tertiary Amine-Containing Copolymers. Copolymers based on DMAEMA (dimethylarninoethyl methacrylate) in either free amine form or quatemized with diethyl sulfate or methyl chloride have achieved commercial significance as fixatives in hair-styling formulations, especially in the weU-pubhcized "mousses" or as hair-conditioning shampoo additives. This success has occurred because the cationic charge affords substantive resins that strongly adhere to the hair (141). 

Compositions have been pubHshed for cream tinses (82), hair conditioners, dressiags, and mousses (83), hair-styling products (84), hair sprays (85), hair colorants (86), hair-waving products (87), hair-straightening products (88), and depilatories (89). 

Mousses are designed for hair styling and setting hair in position. Commonly, formulations are based on cationic conditioning polymers with quaternary ammonium salts, alcohols, perfumes, colorants, water, and preservatives. They may be in propellant, foam, or jelly form for direct application to hair after shampoo or cutting, see also Fibrous Protein Formulation Chemistry Proteins. 

PVP/DMAEMA ISP / copolymer ethanol, IPA or waterin ethanol, IPA or water 845/937/958 mousses, gels, shampoos, styling lotions, bio-adhesives, water-remoist-enable or removable adhesives mildly cationic, hair styling aids and... 

Dimethicone copolyols provide lighter conditioning effects due to their solubility in water and low level of substantivity. Because of that, they are less effective in rinse-off products. They are used, however, in leave-on products, such as hairsprays, styling mousses, and gels. 

Neutral or negatively charged polymeric resins are commonly employed to provide styling benefits in products such as mousses, gels, hairsprays, and setting lotions. Typical examples in use today are the copolymer of vinyl acetate and cro-tonic acid, the copolymer of polyvinyl pyrrolidone and vinyl acetate (PVP/VA), the ethyl ester of the copolymer of polyvinyl methyl ether and maleic anhydride (PVM/MA), and the copolymer of octylacrylamide/acrylates/butylaminoethyl methacrylate (Amphomer). 

Hairsprays, setting lotions, and mousses are related in the sense that each of these products applies a resinous material to the hair and helps to maintain style retention by enhancing interfiber interactions. If the hair is not combed after the resin has set (after the solvent evaporates), rigid contact sites of resin are formed between fibers, analogous to strip welding (Figure... 

When the product is applied to wet hair and the hair is set and combed, after the solvent evaporates (as for styling lotions and mousses), the deposited polymer still influences the hair assembly character, by increasing the interfiber forces, but not as much through rigid contacts (Figure... 

Surfactants and oils are also present in most mousse formulations. Surfactants function to lower the surface tension to help spread the polymer film over the hair surface and to support the foam character of the product. Mousses are added to wet hair. They are combed through without rinsing, to distribute the product through the hair. The hair is then styled and dried. Mousses can improve wet hair manageability by lowering combing forces. They also enhance body and style retention. 

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