Adsorption – Point of Interest

Adsorption means molecules accumulate on the surface of your hair or skin. It’s different from absorption in that it doesn’t penetrate, it just sits on top of the hair fibre. This is an electrostatic attraction of a positive or cationic thing to an anionic or negative thing.

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