JOURNAL OF COSMETIC SCIENCE 180 Figure 7. Frizzy hair technique. Three-dimensional surface plots for: (a) the wooden frame, (b) hair treated with Polyquaternium-55 then placed in the frame, and (c) the Polyquaternium-55 treated hair after exposure to 90% RH.

2008 TRI/PRINCETON CONFERENCE 181 erroneous readings, overestimating the amount of lost volume. Thirdly, choosing the cor- rect force, humidity exposure conditions, and the number of times that the probe comes in contact with the hair sample are key parameters in this experiment. The root-lift technique consists of forming the hair into an almost u-shaped arrangement in the treated state resulting in all of the fi bers bonded together. An illustration of a tress prepared for the root-lift technique is provided in Figure 8. This technique corresponds to a method commonly employed by beauticians and consumers in which they heavily treat the root portion of the hair in order to enhance volume. Often, it is accompanied by blow-drying. An example of the root-lift technique is shown in Figure 9 for hair that was treated with PVP K30. After 4 hours of exposure to 90% RH, we found that the height of the loop decreased, resulting in less volume underneath the hair. Several different poly- mers were tested in this manner and a summary of these results is given in Table II. In general, we fi nd that polymers with the highest humidity resistance perform the best in this test. To examine concentration and molecular weight dependence, we studied Polyimide-1. These data are given in Table III and clearly demonstrate that increasing the polymer concentration or molecular weight increases the amount of retained volume. The third method for investigating volume retention of styling agents, the straight hair technique, consisted of utilizing conventional hair tresses and building tress volume by treatment and subsequent mechanical manipulation and blow-drying. This method is very similar to the frizzy hair technique. It does, however, utilize a different mass (4 g) of straight European dark brown hair and the wooden frame for these samples does not have walls as the one discussed above. Also, we only subjected the treated tresses to 2 hours of 90% RH without any force deformations. As in the other tests, before and after stress readings were obtained with the laser stereometer. A pictorial view of a hair tress treated with PVP K15 is provided in Figure 10. The scale in the photograph allows us to discern the difference in the sample before and after humidity exposure. As an example, a three-dimensional surface plot, corresponding to before and after 90% RH exposure, is provided in Figure 11. Further, we subjected other polymers to a similar test and the obtained results are shown in Table IV. Figure 8. Root-lift technique. Photograph of hair treated and shaped into a particular arrangement.