Hair waving natural product: Dillenia indica seed sap.

Jyoti Prasad Saikia

DBT Nodal Centre, Tezpur (Central) University, PO-Napaam-784028, Sonitpur, Assam, India. jyotizone@gmail.com

Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces 2013 Feb 1

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Knowing keratin is the main component and mechanical strength of hair a study was performed to evaluate whether Dillenia indica seed sap can affect molecular strength of hair or not. In the present study the human hair collected from barber shop waste were subjected to purified sap for 12 h and then analysed using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) for documenting evidence for keratin degradation. Further the deterioration was confirmed by thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.