A-list hairdresser Tara Smith’s Base Coat Serum has been named Winner of the Natural Health & Beauty Awards’ Styling Product category. She adds this accolade to other nods for her new natural and organic hair care products: the C Curl range won the Kiss & Make Up award for Best Shampoo and Conditioner 2008, while the whole range was named Highly Commended: Best Organic Launch at the Pure Beauty Awards. The products are also shortlisted for the Company Magazine Hair awards.

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We all want, we all need, to look good. Grooming is important. But the costs. Hair stylists, many who have noticed a decline in business, are aware that budgets are tight. They, along with some consumers, recommend a few ways to save on hair maintenance. • Get your hair cut at a cosmetology school. Bernard School of Hair Fashion on Lisbon Street, Lewiston, charges $4 for hair cuts, Tuesday through Friday, from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. The cuts are done by students with instructors right there.

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April showers bring … hair horrors? For us, anyway, those refreshing spring rains mean only one thing: frizzy-yet-lank locks, also known as the worst of both worlds. Luckily we've found a trick to help combat those pesky elements. Saijojo is a new eco-friendly hair care line made in Canada by homegrown stylist Mario Verrilli.
The line features all types of synthetic-free, petrochemical-free, biodegradable styling helpers, but our favourite is the Calm Smoothing Balm, which acts as a barrier against humidity, controls frizz, and triples as a heat protector using natural rosewood, ylang ylang and lavender oils.

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The 32-year-old company got its start in Little Rock. Now its products are found in beauty stores and salons throughout the nation. Whether in a hair salon or a beauty supply store, you're bound to see J.M. Product hair care lines. "I've always liked Isoplus; they've always agreed with my product line," says All Star Kuts Stylist Sandra Young. Despite its apparent popularity, recently the Little Rock-based company filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.

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MUMBAI: Super-specialty healthcare clinic Dr Batras on Tuesday formed a joint venture company with the US-based Nu/Hart for hair transplant and hair re-growth solutions.
The company, named as Dr Batra's Nu/Hart Hair Transplant Clinics, is a 51:49 joint venture. "The new joint venture will bring the latest hair transplantation solutions to India and will be a one-stop solutions provider, specializing in hair related matters," Dr. Batras Founder and CMD, Mukesh Batra, said in a statement here on Tuesday.

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If you purchase any shampoo and conditioner, you will receive any other styling product of your choice from the company absolutely free. David Babaii for WildAid’s Hair Care Line received a prominent award from InStyle magazine. This line of products was the recipient of the 2009 Beauty Buy Award for Best Green Hair Care Line from the distinguished magazine and it has generated a tremendous amount of positive attention from product reviewers and loyal consumers.

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Frederic Fekkai’s products are renowed for leaving the hair soft, shiny and silky, while providing it with a few hair goodies that restore damaged locks. CONS: The products are very expensive for a very small amount and contain many toxins, sulfates, and parabens. Here is a listing of the ingredients in the Glossing Shampoo ® : Water (Aqua), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Cocobetaine, Cocamide MEA, Polyglyceryl-3 Laurate, PEG-7 Glyceryl Cocoate, Decyl Glucosamide, Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids, Olive Oil PEG-7 Esters, PEG-18 Glyceryl Oleate/Cocoate.

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BEN STEWART, color director for Cutler salons in Manhattan and South Beach, is a sought-after colorist whose clients pay more than $250 for a tint. But in recent months, Mr. Stewart has found himself visiting the drugstore to choose do-it-yourself color for a few clients who want to do home touch-ups to stretch the time between appointments.

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Procter & Gamble has sold its ethnic hair care products unit, Johnson Products Company. According to The Dallas Morning News, the investment group who purchased the company includes Eric Brown and Renee Cottrell-Brown - former executives at rival Pro-Line International, which was founded by Mrs. Brown's father. Partnering with the Browns are Los Angeles based private equity firms Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners, LP and St. Cloud Capital LLC. Brown now becomes Johnson Products CEO and Cottrell-Brown is now executive vice president which puts the company back into the hands of black ownership.

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Johnson Products started a half-century ago in Chicago as an innovator in black hair care. The black-owned business sold to a white company, but it’s now back in black hands. Johnson brands Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen are iconic in Black American households. The company was also an early sponsor of the Chicago television show “Soul Train.” The Johnson family business was based on the South Side, provided local jobs and in 1971 became the first minority-run business listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Procter & Gamble Co. has sold Johnson Products Co., its African American hair-care products unit, to a local group of private investors including a husband-and-wife team. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, weren't disclosed. Founded in 1954, Johnson Products has sales of more than $23 million a year. The company, whose brands include Gentle Treatment and Ultra Sheen, offers more than 30 hair-care products.

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People spend millions of dollars every year on products on the market that promise to cover up and hide the gray hair that slowly creeps onto our heads.Read the rest of this entry »

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Hair conditioner is something that is promised to do everything from smooth rough hair to making it grow faster. The truth is that these products do do hair some good, but many of them do not work in ways that many people think of.Read the rest of this entry »

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A bad hair day is just as bad as a bad hair cut. That's why a lot of people entrust their hair to only one person or sometimes one salon. Hair is more than one's crowning glory. Read the rest of this entry »

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Long, black and silky hair is what almost all of us want but in today’s world of fast food meals, dry or oily hair is all what we get. Read the rest of this entry »

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