ABSTRACT
Hair styling and fixative products cover a wide range of product categories, forms, and styles as well as information on its use and application. These products can be use on wet or dry hair. They can be used at almost any point in a hair care regimen: to start a hair style, to refresh or change a hair style, and to hold a hair style. The chapter reviews the typical categories of styling and fixative products, present some typical formulations, and speculate on some new formulation trends. Formulation tools for preparing, designing, or stabilizing a coiffure are called setting, or styling aids. Aerosol mousses are styling and/or conditioning aids that can be used on both wet and dry hair, and that can be either washed out or left in the hair. Mousses, setting lotions, styling sprays, and gels are all formulated with polymeric resins as the active ingredients.
