Understanding the Interaction of Gluconamides and Gluconates with Amino Acids in Hair Care [dataset]

A hair care mixture formed from a gluconamide derivative and 3-hydroxypropyl ammonium gluconate, is known to strengthen hair fibres; however, the mechanism by which mixture affects hair is unknown. To give insight into the aggregation of the target gluconamide and potential interactions between the glucanoate derived mixture and hair fibres, a range of systems were characterised by X-ray crystallography namely two polymorphic forms of the target gluconamide and three salts of 3-hydroxypropylammonium with sulfuric acid, methane sulfonic acid and oxalic acid. The gluconamide proves to aggregate and becomes a supramolecular gelator in aniline and benzyl alcohol solution. The resulting gels were characterised by rheology, scanning electron microscopy, 1H NMR, FTIR and XRPD.