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Spectrometry goes to the beauty salon

by Marc S. Reisch
January 21, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 3

 

A photo of a hair dresser running a handheld analyzer over a client's hair.
Credit: Henkel
The new hair analyzer has a mini near-infrared analyzer.

Hair care expert Henkel won awards for outstanding product design and engineering at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for a hair analysis tool containing a miniature near-infrared spectrometer from the Egyptian semiconductor designer Si-Ware Systems. Designed to measure hair condition, moisture level, and color, the tool is part of a system intended to provide hairdressers with hair care and color recommendations.

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