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On this episode of How Stuff Is Made, we go inside the Pantene factory to discover how their Intense Rescue Shots are made. We explore the production line that creates these repairing hair masks. Press play to see how this Pantene hair product is made!

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Transcript
00:01Beautiful hair is hair that does what you want it to do, that shows who you
00:05really are, and that can change just as much as you change every day.
00:11Welcome to Pantene. Have you ever wondered how to get overworked,
00:15over-processed, and over-styled hair back in shape? We're here in Mason, Ohio
00:20learning all the ins and outs of Pantene's intense rescue shots. So good
00:25at rescuing hair they noticeably repair damage in just one use, turning dry
00:29brittle hair, soft, shiny, and more resilient. Hi, I'm Dr. Jenny Thomas. I am
00:37a scientist with Pantene, studying what people use and what we need to be
00:43developing to meet the needs of women around the world. Pantene's intense rescue
00:49shot came about because we're seeing so many more women want to play with their
00:54hair. So colors, different styles, day in and day out. It's a really deep treatment.
01:00It restores hair, it can repair extreme damage, so that it can free you up to play
01:05with your hair the way that we know so many women want to do.
01:12I'm Stephanie Riley and I work here in the Beauty Microscopy and Imaging Lab at Pantene headquarters.
01:22Some of the research that we do here with Pantene is we actually look at a wide
01:27variety of hair and the reason why we do that is because each woman will actually
01:32have a different experience with the products that we formulate. Once we have
01:37the sample on the inside of the microscope we'll actually use the
01:40instrument at various magnifications and we use that in order to see what's
01:45happening at the cuticle edge of the hair so that we can understand how the
01:50products either deposited or were absorbed into the hair.
01:57My name is Dr. Sherry Swanson. I have a PhD in biochemistry and I work on the
02:02formulation and products research part of Pantene. We do a lot of interaction on the
02:09formula itself to get it right for each consumer. Very thick luxurious formula when
02:17you squeeze it out it's really thick and cushiony but when you start to use it it
02:21breaks down in the shower. The special parts of it are the lipids so your hair
02:26naturally is made of protein and naturally occurring lipids however those
02:30are very fragile and if you do damage to your hair and that could be coloring or
02:34cutting it or brushing it you might destroy those lipids. By putting lipids
02:39back into the formula and re-depositing them on your hair we can restore what you
02:43naturally had which makes your hair feel better.
02:48I'm Dr. Christina Ganzel.
02:53We test on a multitude of different hair types and textures throughout the world so we
03:00can develop the best product for them. This is our inner fiber friction test
03:05method. You have two pads that have the surface energy of skin and the
03:10suppleness of skin and essentially they're pressing against the hair that's
03:15on the instrument and sliding it back and forth to look at the friction. With the
03:20intense rescue shot you're going to have a lot less friction on the hair and it's
03:24going to be a lot softer and smoother. This is our triple comb instrument and what
03:29it simulates is the combing either of a wet truss or a dry truss and you're
03:35looking for things like how hard is it to comb through the hair and can I get
03:40conditioning all the way to the tips.
03:46Hi my name is Steve Hendricks I'm a senior scientist in Beauty Measurement
03:50Sciences. I measure how products interact with humans hair. I do research on every hair
03:59product you can think of from around the world. So this is wavy frizzy moderately
04:04damaged hair. It's got some physical damage to it. It was originally treated
04:09with just a shampoo and then combing through this hair can be really
04:13difficult. I'm actually bending the comb more than no human being would
04:18actually do this to themselves. So this is without the product and this is
04:24actually very concentrated. So if I take just a little bit and then I just milk it
04:34in for 30 seconds and then not only should I be able to take my course comb
04:40straight through but also the fine-tooth comb and it's completely combable.
04:50Thanks for spending the day with us learning all about Pantene's intense
04:53rescue shots. Their most powerful repair product yet.
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