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écailles

English translation: cuticles (or follicles)

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French term or phrase:écailles
English translation:cuticles (or follicles)
Entered by: Colin Morley (X)

12:53 Jan 19, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Cosmetics, Beauty / Hair care
French term or phrase: écailles
A description of a clarifying shampoo - claims that the product: "Ouvre les écailles pour préparer la chevelure" (for the application of a second product, which is a smoothing lotion.

In a different context elsewhere within the hair care range I have seen écailles as skin cells (scales) producing dandruff when dry. But here that doesn't make sense. Am I looking for "roots"? or is this more complicated?
Colin Morley (X)
France
Local time: 20:06
cuticles (or follicles)
Explanation:
Opens the hair cuticles or follicles to treat the hair shaft.

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P&G Beauty & Grooming | Hair Damage
www.pgbeautygroomingscience.com › ... › Chapter 2 - Hair CareCached - Similar
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When new hair first grows up out of the scalp, the cuticle consists of up to ten layers of ... This is how the classic 'split end' starts, with a crack beginning to run back up the hair shaft. .... The surface of chemically treated hair is receptive to conditioners and other ... The hair has literally been fried by heat, and then burst open ...
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Hair care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_careCached - Similar
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Damage or changes made to the visible hair shaft cannot be repaired by a biological ... Some arise inexplicably, and often only the symptoms can be treated for .... Most permanent color changes require that the cuticle of the hair be opened so ...

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Note added at 45 mins (2012-01-19 13:39:45 GMT)
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further to Sean's ref., I hereby withdraw follicle (indeed beneath the skin surface) but leave cuticle, the term used in cosmetics marketing.
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NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 14:06
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6cuticles (or follicles)
NancyLynn
4 +1scales
Sean Sheahan


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
cuticles (or follicles)


Explanation:
Opens the hair cuticles or follicles to treat the hair shaft.

#
P&G Beauty & Grooming | Hair Damage
www.pgbeautygroomingscience.com › ... › Chapter 2 - Hair CareCached - Similar
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
When new hair first grows up out of the scalp, the cuticle consists of up to ten layers of ... This is how the classic 'split end' starts, with a crack beginning to run back up the hair shaft. .... The surface of chemically treated hair is receptive to conditioners and other ... The hair has literally been fried by heat, and then burst open ...
#
Hair care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_careCached - Similar
You +1'd this publicly. Undo
Damage or changes made to the visible hair shaft cannot be repaired by a biological ... Some arise inexplicably, and often only the symptoms can be treated for .... Most permanent color changes require that the cuticle of the hair be opened so ...

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Note added at 45 mins (2012-01-19 13:39:45 GMT)
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further to Sean's ref., I hereby withdraw follicle (indeed beneath the skin surface) but leave cuticle, the term used in cosmetics marketing.

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 14:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Many thanks to all who responded.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for the detailed explanation - most helpful


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mimi 254: http://www.myfulllacewigs.eu/index.php?option=com_virtuemart...
12 mins
  -> thanks mimi!
agree  B D Finch
53 mins
  -> Thanks B D!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
1 hr
  -> Thanks gallagy2!
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: cuticles
2 hrs
agree  EirTranslations
3 hrs
agree  Verginia Ophof
4 hrs
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
scales


Explanation:
'scales' exist biologically on the hair shaft, whereas the follicle would be below the visible surface...

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Note added at 36 mins (2012-01-19 13:30:00 GMT)
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just another idea...

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-01-19 14:19:57 GMT)
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This may be more a scientific context - like I said to Nancy, probably better to go with her suggestion of 'cuticle' for the consumer cosmetics market.


    Reference: http://www.vcbio.science.ru.nl/en/fesem/applets/hair/
Sean Sheahan
France
Local time: 20:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, Sean. Scales always makes me think of fish and reptiles - but I'm sure you're technically correct!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  NancyLynn: not very cosmetic
9 mins
  -> Hi Nancy, yeah, I'd go with 'cuticle' for the cosmetics market...
agree  Louisa Tchaicha
55 mins
  -> Merci loulou79 !
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