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Evolution of Hair Treatment and Care: Prospects of Nanotube-Based Formulations

A new approach for hair treatment through coating with nanotubes loaded with drugs or dyes for coloring is suggested. This coating is produced by nanotube self-assembly, resulting in stable 2–3 µm thick layers. For medical treatment such formulations allow for sustained long-lasting drug delivery di...

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Autores principales: Santos, Ana Cláudia, Panchal, Abhishek, Rahman, Naureen, Pereira-Silva, Miguel, Pereira, Irina, Veiga, Francisco, Lvov, Yuri
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6631835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234351
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano9060903
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author Santos, Ana Cláudia
Panchal, Abhishek
Rahman, Naureen
Pereira-Silva, Miguel
Pereira, Irina
Veiga, Francisco
Lvov, Yuri
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Rahman, Naureen
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description A new approach for hair treatment through coating with nanotubes loaded with drugs or dyes for coloring is suggested. This coating is produced by nanotube self-assembly, resulting in stable 2–3 µm thick layers. For medical treatment such formulations allow for sustained long-lasting drug delivery directly on the hair surface, also enhanced in the cuticle openings. For coloring, this process allows avoiding a direct hair contact with dye encased inside the clay nanotubes and provides a possibility to load water insoluble dyes from an organic solvent, store the formulation for a long time in dried form, and then apply to hair as an aqueous nanotube suspension. The described technique works with human and other mammal hairs and halloysite nanoclay coating is resilient against multiple shampoo washing. The most promising, halloysite tubule clay, is a biocompatible natural material which may be loaded with basic red, blue, and yellow dyes for optimized hair color, and also with drugs (e.g., antilice care-permethrin) to enhance the treatment efficiency with sustained release. This functionalized nanotube coating may have applications in human medical and beauty formulations, as well as veterinary applications.
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spelling pubmed-66318352019-08-19 Evolution of Hair Treatment and Care: Prospects of Nanotube-Based Formulations Santos, Ana Cláudia Panchal, Abhishek Rahman, Naureen Pereira-Silva, Miguel Pereira, Irina Veiga, Francisco Lvov, Yuri Nanomaterials (Basel) Article A new approach for hair treatment through coating with nanotubes loaded with drugs or dyes for coloring is suggested. This coating is produced by nanotube self-assembly, resulting in stable 2–3 µm thick layers. For medical treatment such formulations allow for sustained long-lasting drug delivery directly on the hair surface, also enhanced in the cuticle openings. For coloring, this process allows avoiding a direct hair contact with dye encased inside the clay nanotubes and provides a possibility to load water insoluble dyes from an organic solvent, store the formulation for a long time in dried form, and then apply to hair as an aqueous nanotube suspension. The described technique works with human and other mammal hairs and halloysite nanoclay coating is resilient against multiple shampoo washing. The most promising, halloysite tubule clay, is a biocompatible natural material which may be loaded with basic red, blue, and yellow dyes for optimized hair color, and also with drugs (e.g., antilice care-permethrin) to enhance the treatment efficiency with sustained release. This functionalized nanotube coating may have applications in human medical and beauty formulations, as well as veterinary applications. MDPI 2019-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6631835/ /pubmed/31234351 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano9060903 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Evolution of Hair Treatment and Care: Prospects of Nanotube-Based Formulations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6631835/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano9060903
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