April 04, 2025
The Winter Season is a great time to consider our personal care rituals. One area that’s often overlooked is scalp health. Like elsewhere it can become clogged and dull.
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March 28, 2025
“How can I get more volume in my hair?” is a question so often asked and I’d like to clarify an important distinction between size and body.
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March 06, 2025
“What’s he going to tell us now?” I hear you say. “Taliban warlords make shampoo in their poppy fields! Colombian cartels launch new crack-cocaine conditioner!”
Not quite, but...
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February 14, 2025
Wavy and curly hair can be the most enchantingly gorgeous, but for some people it can be a beast to manage. Here we go through the whys and the wherefores.
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December 19, 2024
It’s not ‘rocket surgery’ either, as George Bush allegedly mis-said. Only this month, 748 neurosurgeons and space engineers went through cognitive testing to see if the phrases – ‘It’s not rocket...
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December 13, 2024
We’ve been taught as a society to reach for a pill when something's wrong. A quick fix, often with a sting in the tail that’s rarely mentioned. For thicker hair, people like to think...
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November 22, 2024
I’ve spent decades formulating products. When I read the ingredients list of many high street products, I’m attuned to the toxins and the superfluous guff that pads out the formula. Most of it adding nothing to hair health and...
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October 25, 2024
We're passionate about beautiful, strong, shiny hair and our entire Van Clarke product range is created to deliver Healthcare for Hair.
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October 16, 2024
1. Miss X sees 'hair loss' as a whole hair having fallen out and gone.
2. Mrs Y interprets 'hair loss' as the hair still being there, but each hair half as thick, maybe split and broken too.
Both are right. But most people fear No.1 whilst suffering the most loss of volume from No.2.
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October 04, 2024
Healthier hair is often a lifestyle choice. If you are fit, a non smoker, have a good diet, etc. you are not going to get better hair than that coming out of your scalp.
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September 12, 2024
It’s been a long time since the first Brazilian Blowdry products were being used. The few people that supplied these unbranded products here in the late 1990s worked in the shadows like drug dealers distributing hooch from the cottage industry of stills in the jungle and favelas.
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September 12, 2024
We all want great looking healthy hair and marketeers love an angle. One you may have seen recently is hair Botox - jumping on the bandwagon of this popular nerve-blocking treatment.
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