The patient's sister had left hospital a few months earlier after sustaining a scald to the scalp which had required skin grafting. A proprietary shampoo had been recommended by a local shopkeeper to keep the scalp clean. One evening, another of the patient's siblings, her 7-year-old brother, rubbed some of this shampoo in during a nappy change. The patient was unsettled overnight, and presente...

Today considerable consumer interest has risen towards the use of herbal hygienic and cosmetic products. Lavender oil is a well-known essence with uses in the treatment of alopecia, dandruff and scalp hair re-growth, as well as possessing antimicrobial, antiviral and antifungal effects. Hence, this study was undertaken to formulate and assess the efficacy of a new clear liquid hair shampoo cont...

BACKGROUND This was a randomized, assessor-blind, controlled comparison of a soya oil- based medical device shampoo with a medicinal permethrin lotion in an alcohol vehicle for treatment of head louse infestation to generate data suitable for a regulatory submission to achieve reimbursable status for the shampoo product. METHODS We treated 91 children and adults, divided between two sites, on...

Shampoo is a preparation that contains surfactants in suitable form and useful for removing dirt grease attached to the hair scalp so as not harm scalp. In this study ingredients used were noni fruit extracts using Methyl Ester Sulfonate (MES). The purpose of was analyze effect time when making herbal shampoo, adding extract quality shampoo. To obtain maceration process by distilled water. Noni...

Preconditioned gradient methods are among the most general and powerful tools in optimization. However, preconditioning requires storing and manipulating prohibitively large matrices. We describe and analyze a new structure-aware preconditioning algorithm, called Shampoo, for stochastic optimization over tensor spaces. Shampoo maintains a set of preconditioning matrices, each of which operates ...

Shampoos are products which remove surface grease and dirt from the hair shaft and scalp. The cleansing or detergent action of a shampoo is a primary function. However, the foaming characteristic of a shampoo has an important role in its acceptability. Often alkanolamides are used for the formation of a stable foam; but because of producing nitrosamines, they are potentially carcinogenic compou...

A convenient standard microbiological potency determination test for the antidandruff shampoos was developed by adopting the pharmacopoeial microbiological assay procedure of the drug nystatin. A standard curve was drawn consisting of the inhibition zone diameters vs. logarithm of nystatin concentrations in international units using the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) strain National Co...