Why Is This Ingredient In My Conditioner?

©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 I’ve wanted to post this for a while, but it makes me feel a bit subversive because I’m going to tell you that wha...

How Coarse Hair is Different

Ken and his plastic hair. One of the greatest differences for medium to coarse hair vs. fine hair is an element of flexibility. In cosmetics...

More Wavy Physics

Why does some wavy hair curl, and others does not? Some wavy hair will curl with certain styling products, with humidity – just plain unpred...

Why Hair Curves (Waves and Curls - and Kinks)

I've been working on this post for a while, my research has answered a lot of my questions and I hope it does for you too. While this po...

Autumn to Winter Hair and Humidity

This post is timely to those of us in the Northern Hemisphere - to our friends and family in the Southern Hemisphere - hope you are enjoying...

Porosity in Hair

I'm going for long-winded again, but you get pictures at the end as a reward... Hair is a fibrous, proteinaceous system which can absorb...

Wavy Pride

What defines wavy hair? ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Let’s start with this warning. Lots of us who must go online to learn how to care for our ...