Molecular-level essential components for maintaining hair health: Disulphide bridges highlighted
Bolstering Hair Health: The Essential Role of Disulfide Bonds
Disulfide bonds are the unspoken heroes in hair care, shaping hair's structure right down at the molecular level. These invisible powerhouses can show they're the real deal through telltale signs like brittle, lifeless, or frizzy locks. But fear not, savvy consumers seek out solutions to restore hair's vitality, and brands, eager to stand out, can venture beyond regular remedies like keratin, and dive deeper, focusing on strengthening disulfide bonds.
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Decoding Disulfide Bonds in Hair
Disulfide bonds play a pivotal role in hair's structure by bonding protein chains together, ensuring they stay flexible while providing the stability that hair needs. Chemically, they're covalent bonds between sulfur atoms found in the amino acids within hair proteins.
While tough as nails, these bonds allow hair to bend without breaking, keeping hair's structure intact. Unfortunately, chemical treatments like bleaching, coloring, or perming can wreak havoc on these bonds by breaking them down. The 'carbonylation' process, a particularly harmful side effect, occurs when carbonyl groups bind to certain amino acids in hair proteins, resulting in irreversible damage.
In other words, preserving disulfide bonds should be a proactive approach.
Introducing Keradeep: The Guardian of Disulfide Bonds
Determined to protect disulfide bonds, Provital has teamed up with cutting-edge hair science and innovations to develop Keradeep. This miracle worker, derived from pine bark extract, boasts a powerful concentration of antioxidant polyphenols, making it the ultimate ally against irreversible damage to proteins.
Keradeep works by blocking the formation of carbonyl groups and hindering the oxidation of cystines. This groundbreaking intervention was demonstrated during an ultra-innovative ex vivo test protocol, a collaboration between Provital and pioneering companies:
- Oxi-Proteomics, providing a patented fluorescent probe for visualizing and quantifying carbonylated proteins.
- ALBA Synchrotron, using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for molecular hair fiber analysis.
- Kamax Innovative System, with their Xpolar® technology to study keratin structure via birefringence.
These trials have confirmed the preventive protective power of Keradeep, making it an invaluable ingredient in hair care products designed to safeguard hair's structure.
[1] Overall, Disulfide Bonds
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- Key functions: Structural Integrity, Stability and Elasticity, Chemical Resistance
- Significance in Hair Health: Hair Damage Prevention, Recovery and Repair, Supporting Hair Growth
- Role in Hair Health Maintenance: Protective Mechanisms, Strengthening Treatments
[2] Functions and Significance of Disulfide Bonds in Hair Structure
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- Disulfide bonds, essential in hair care, not only provide flexibility and stability but also contribute to chemical resistance, preventing damage and supporting hair growth.
- With a deeper understanding of disulfide bonds' functions and significance, you can appreciate their critical role in maintaining healthy hair structure and creating strengthening treatments.
- Beyond hair care, the importance of preserving disulfide bonds can extend to health-and-wellness, fitness-and-exercise, skin-care, nutrition, and technology, as these robust connections play a role in the structure and function of proteins throughout the body.
