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Ingredient of the Month: Aloe Juice

The Ingredient of the Month series highlights one of our meticulously-selected ingredients. Get to know them all on our newly-launched Ingredients Page.

Happy Summer, and welcome back to our Ingredient of the Month series! This month, we’re highlighting a favorite for both hair and skin care, Aloe Juice. This ingredient is trendy for a reason – Aloe Juice offers a variety of benefits depending on how it’s used, and can be found in many of our bestsellers. Read on for everything you need to know about Aloe, and take the hair quiz to get custom formulas with Aloe Juice.

Main benefits:

In haircare, Aloe Juice delivers extra moisture to the hair, leaving it smooth and shiny. It also helps to reduce itchiness, dry scalp, and irritation by moisturizing. In skincare, Aloe Juice calms and soothes irritations, acts as an antioxidant, and can even help improve redness.

Goals:

Aloe juice is formulated into every custom co-wash and custom conditioner, and can also be found in the calm / soothe goal used for all our skincare products (custom micellar gel cleanser, custom jelly cleanser, custom face serum, custom face gel moisturizer, custom face lotion moisturizer, and custom face cream moisturizer).

Aloe Juice is a naturally-derived ingredient that provides a variety of benefits to hair and skin. Packed with antioxidants and vitamins, aloe juice is commonly used in a range of beauty and personal care products for its hydrating and soothing properties.

Take our hair quiz or skin quiz today to experience the benefits of Aloe Juice in your next custom formulas!

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Get To Know: Function of Beauty Co-Founder Hien Kaplan

Meet Hien Kaplan — one of our amazing three co-founders here at Function of Beauty. Hien is a fearless leader, a super-brilliant formulation scientist, and an awesome mom to boot. Ahead, learn more about Hien, her background, and why she’s so proud to be part of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

Full name: Hien Nguyen Kaplan

Ethnicity: Vietnamese

Occupation: Formulation scientist + co-founder of Function of Beauty

Family:Hien is one of eight sisters and four brothers

Earliest beauty memory: Watching her sister make a toner for her skin out of rice water

Beauty role model: Her mom, who grew her own plants, showing her the importance of hard work and the power of plants

Hair type + goals: Wavy, shine + anti-frizz

Favorite scent: Eucalyptus

Why she’s proud to be part of the AAPI community: “Because we’re all unique and special and have our own stories to tell.”

Her experience in the AAPI community: “I came from a really big family, coming to America. We all have a place here and we all matter; we all have something to bring and that should be recognized.”

Done reading? Keep up with Hien on Instagram @functionofhien!

Ingredient of the Month: Rose Extract

The Ingredient of the Month series highlights one of our meticulously-selected ingredients. Get to know them all on our newly-launched Ingredients Page.

Welcome back to another installment of Ingredient of the Month. This time around we’re highlighting one of our most beloved ingredients — rose extract. Found in multiple best-selling Function of Beauty formulas, rose extract offers an array of notable benefits for the hair that you should know about. Here, everything you need to know about rose extract.

Main benefits: Delivers moisture to the hair, helps prevent split ends, balances excess oil + flakes

GOALS: fix split ends hair goal for custom hair serum + custom leave-in

Widely renowned for its highly therapeutic benefits, rose extract is a time-tested ingredient commonly used in a variety of personal care products — from serums and moisturizers, to shampoo and conditioner. Rich in vitamins A, C, D, and E, as well as essential fatty acids, rose extract is a powerful antioxidant with both soothing and hydrating properties. Moreover, it can help balance oil on the face or scalp. When it comes to the hair, specifically, rose extract aids in preventing split ends, delivering deep moisture to dry frizzy strands, and keeping oil under control. Rose extract also has a stunning floral scent profile, which makes it an excellent ingredient to use in natural fragrances. Currently, you can find rose extract in our hair serum and leave-in formulas. It’s worth noting that we use a synthetic form of rose because, believe it or not, producing a single pound of rose essential oil can take roughly 10,000 pounds of rose petals. Pretty wild, right? That’s why we went the synthetic route, to help sustain our Earth’s natural resources.

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Happy Mother’s Day From Function of Beauty

This Mother’s Day, we tapped our community to learn about the amazing caretakers that have made them who they are today — moms, sisters, friends, and more. Without further ado, tune in to the full video below to watch what they had to say about the women who deserve to be celebrated every single day.