Protecting Your Hair

Written By: Samantha Bernickus
Summary: An atomic-force microscope reveals that conditioners don’t actually help your hair repair from all the damage that we do to our hair. People have found that conditioners don’t help because they don’t interact with your hair chemically. Bharat Bhushan is a mechanical engineer and has been looking at hair very closely and is finding out that conditioner does not help repair our hair. Even shampoo takes away natural oil that we need for our hair to be healthy and that is why we use conditioner. Our hair is also damaged by friction, friction is cause by us rubbing anything against our hair. It makes it split causing frizz and then it keeps getting worse and worse. So Bharat is trying to figure out what exactly we need to keep our hair healthy and under control but for now he is still figuring out how our hair grows and works.
Critique: This article is helpful because we now know that even if we buy the best of the best conditioner it doesn’t help any more than a $5 conditioner. And hopefully Bharat can help come up with a conditioner that can actually help repair our hair.
Impact: The impact this article has is that people can now realize that they don’t need to buy such expensive hair products and hopefully there will be a conditioner that comes out that will actually be worth buying.