TY - JOUR
AU - Dunlap, Frank E.
AB - Abstract Infrequent reports of matting and tangling of hair with uncertain etiology have been published. This paper ascribes this phenomenon to "felting," a physical compaction common to most animal fibers and derived from the unique morphological, frictional, and mechanical properties of such fibers. A laboratory method for felting hair is described. Felting is experimentally enhanced by increased duration of mechanical action, by treatment with bleaching and waving solutions, and with fine or dense hair. Cosmetic cationic lubricants decrease the matting tendency while variations in shampoo composition are without effect in those examined. References 1. Ormsby OS, Montgomery N: Diseases of the Skin , ed 8. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger Publishers, 1954, pp 1386-1387. 2. Savill A: The Hair and Scalp . Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co, 1944, pp 236-237. 3. Anonymous: Skin gallery . Skin , p 242, (August) 1963. 4. Howell RG: Matting of the hair by shampoo . Brit J Derm 68:99, 1956.Crossref 5. Graham PV: Tangled hair . Arch Derm 67:515, 1953. 6. Howell RG, Mieszkis KW, Tabor D: Friction in Textiles . London, Butterworth & Co., 1959. 7. Alexander P, Hudson RF: Wool: Its Chemistry and Physics . New York, Reinhold Publishing Corp, 1954. 8. Von Bergen W: Wool Handbook . New York, Interscience Publications, 1963. 9. Harris M: Some factors contributing to the felting of wool . Amer Dyestuff Rep 34:72-74, 1945.
TI - Matting of Hair
JF - Archives of Dermatology
DO - 10.1001/archderm.1970.04000030092015
DA - 1970-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/matting-of-hair-loBNyaihdr
SP - 348
EP - 351
VL - 101
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -