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"  After eleven long months of washing, treating, coloring, combing, drying, and analyzing, we announced the winners of our Second Annual Anti-Aging Awards. To pick these standouts, we tested hair care and color products that explicitly claimed they&amp;#039;d keep hair looking young, including shampoos, conditioners, serums, permanent and demi hair colors, and root touch-up products. You can find out which of the 73 products we tested were worthy of our Awards in the September issue of Good Housekeeping or right here on goodhousekeeping.com. But first, I thought you&amp;#039;d like a peek behind the scenes to see what went on in the Health, Beauty, and Environmental Sciences (HBES) Lab when testing was in full swing. Once you realize how much work went into the selection process, I&amp;#039;m sure you&amp;#039;ll be anxious to see the winners and try them out for yourself.   Here you can see hair swatches being prepped for coloring. Don&amp;#039;t be surprised by the &amp;quot;blonde looking&amp;quot; swatches \u2014 they&amp;#039;re actually 100% virgin gray hair. We colored the hair samples according to package directions, rinsing them out at our Swatch Wash station that delivers water at a controlled temperature and flow rate so that we know that each hair sample gets treated exactly the same way.  After all, when you&amp;#039;re handling close to 736 swatches (almost 9 pounds of hair) and handling them 5008 times, it&amp;#039;s important to be exact. What&amp;#039;s the cool tool below? It&amp;#039;s the cylinder we use to mount our swatches in our light room so we can look at them under controlled conditions. We selected the daylight setting and asked a panel to visually rate the swatches for shine.  It wasn&amp;#039;t only the hard work of our HBES staff that made it possible to select the top anti-aging hair products in stores today. We also relied on the 579 dedicated volunteer testers from across the country who participated in our study. At this time, I&amp;#039;d like to take the opportunity to say thank you to both my staff and the panelists for all the good and bad hair days that went into picking our winners. If you&amp;#039;ve never tested for us, don&amp;#039;t worry. We have exciting new studies starting all the time. To become a volunteer tester of beauty products, please write to us at ghribeauty@hearst.com. Once you&amp;#039;ve had a chance to try out winning hair products, be sure to let us know how you like them. For those of you who would like advice on greener choices for beauty products please check out thedailygreen.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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