A Measurement and Modeling Study of Hair Partition of Neutral, Cationic, and Anionic Chemicals

Various neutral, cationic, and anionic chemicals contained in hair care products can be absorbed into hair fiber to modulate physicochemical properties such as color, strength, style, and volume. For environmental safety, there is also an interest in understanding hair absorption to wide chemical po...

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Published in:Journal of pharmaceutical sciences 2018-04, Vol.107 (4), p.1122-1130
Main Authors: Li, Lingyi, Yang, Senpei, Chen, Tao, Han, Lujia, Lian, Guoping
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
absorption
partition coefficient
physicochemical
QSPR
static charge
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Summary:Various neutral, cationic, and anionic chemicals contained in hair care products can be absorbed into hair fiber to modulate physicochemical properties such as color, strength, style, and volume. For environmental safety, there is also an interest in understanding hair absorption to wide chemical pollutants. There have been very limited studies on the absorption properties of chemicals into hair. Here, an experimental and modeling study has been carried out for the hair-water partition of a range of neutral, cationic, and anionic chemicals at different pH. The data showed that hair-water partition not only depends on the hydrophobicity of the chemical but also the pH. The partition of cationic chemicals to hair increased with pH, and this is due to their electrostatic interaction with hair increased from repulsion to attraction. For anionic chemicals, their hair-water partition coefficients decreased with increasing pH due to their electrostatic interaction with hair decreased from attraction to repulsion. Increase in pH did not change the partition of neutral chemicals significantly. Based on the new physicochemical insight of the pH effect on hair-water partition, a new quantitative structure property relationship model has been proposed, taking into account of both the hydrophobic interaction and electrostatic interaction of chemical with hair fiber.
ISSN:0022-3549
1520-6017
DOI:10.1016/j.xphs.2017.12.010