Have you considered taking into account the customer's skin bacterial composition? Or making a shampoo that is bacterial friendly?
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#12Hey 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…
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#13- 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.
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#15Have 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!
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#16Nice! 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.
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#17Hey 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?
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#18I freaking love it. Relatively cheap and makes my hair feel better than the Aveda products I was previously using.
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#20Earlier 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…