Davies, Thomas
Hardie, Katie
Wortmann, Gabriele
Schulze zur Wiesche, Erik
Wortmann, Franz J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0076-9552
Article History
Received: 18 November 2024
Accepted: 10 July 2025
First Online: 10 August 2025
Declarations
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: TD is Business and Development Manager at Bosa Nova Vision. The company develops, builds, and markets testing equipment, namely, for the hair cosmetic industry. KH declares no competing interests. FJW and GW are partners in F & GW – Consultants GbR. The company provides academic support for the hair cosmetics industry on a consultancy basis. ESzW was Head of Basic Development Hair Care at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Hamburg, D) until 2018 and when the experiments underlying this study were conducted at the University of Manchester (UK). He is now Head of Research & Development at Dr Wolf- Group (Bielefeld, D). In this role, he leads, e.g., hair cosmetics R&D at this company.
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