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Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Have you considered taking into account the customer's skin bacterial composition? Or making a shampoo that is bacterial friendly?

There are natural ingredients that help with bacteria on scalp which usually causes odor and dandruff, but we haven't included them (yet) since they are considered an OTC drug. We have included essential oils in our formulas that may help, but the claims are not allowed to be made according to the FDA.

Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Hey guys, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Function of Beauty (a YC company in the current batch). We're trying to disrupt the beauty space beginning with personalized shampoo and conditioner formulations. We use an algorithmic approach to translate a customer's hair type and hair goals into ingredient combinations that work perfectly for them. Customers are able to design almost any aspect of their formulation, from it…

Zahir, are these shampoos sulfate free?

Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Nice! My first impression of the website was positive. Some quick thoughts:

- I would like to see how the bottle (and maybe also packaging) looks like in real life before ordering.

- I would prefer to fill in my personal hair profile before entering my full name and email address.

Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Have you considered taking into account the customer's skin bacterial composition? Or making a shampoo that is bacterial friendly?

That's a great question-- the scalp and hair roots are arguably the most important aspects to consider when developing formulations. We don't currently take that into account but we should try to find an easy way to work with customers on that!

Yep, I do some metagenomics in an autoimmunity lab in Cambridge and this should be quite easy to address with a small and cheap trial. I'd definitely buy a bacteria-friendly shampoo. Ping me if you need some help.

Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Nice! My first impression of the website was positive. Some quick thoughts: - I would like to see how the bottle (and maybe also packaging) looks like in real life before ordering. - I would prefer to fill in my personal hair profile before entering my full name and email address.

Great suggestions! We are waiting for the touched up images of our bottles to come back today so we can at least show the actual bottles on the homepage. And that's a fair point- we collected the name to help demonstrate how it looks on a bottle in the next screen and we also didn't want to lose people during the order process for some glitches we were having which is why we get an e-mail address. We'll probably be able to do without it soon though!

Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Hey guys, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Function of Beauty (a YC company in the current batch). We're trying to disrupt the beauty space beginning with personalized shampoo and conditioner formulations. We use an algorithmic approach to translate a customer's hair type and hair goals into ingredient combinations that work perfectly for them. Customers are able to design almost any aspect of their formulation, from it…

Zahir, are these shampoos sulfate free?

They are! All our formulas are free of parabens, sulfates, phthalates, GMOs, and triclosan.

Re: Show HN: Function of Beauty (YC W16) – Personalized Shampoo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried it out and looking at the ingredients list, some of them are "bristle oat seed extract, sweet almond extract, beet root extract, tamarind fruit extract" I always thought that the random vegetable extracts in hair products were just BS for the label, but I assume you must be putting them in the shampoo for good reason.

Hello there, My name is Hien Nguyen and I am a co-founder and the chief scientist at Function of Beauty. Our hair goals are a proprietary blend of selected performance ingredients; each ingredient has been through rigorous clinical testing from reputable cosmetic ingredient suppliers. Black oat is used to "fix split ends", sweet almond extract deep conditions, beet root extract has high performance moisture, and tama…

Do you have independent, scientific references supporting your reasoning about the role each ingredient is intended to perform?
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