Synthetic sandalwood, better known for its role as sock-drawer potpourri, had unexpected effects on hair regrowth in a recently released study in Nature Communications. But although the application of ...

If you're looking to sprout some extra hairs, you may have encountered a wide array of high-tech, expensive and often painful tools that promise to bring some volume back to your locks. But the idea ...

While it’s long been used as a beauty tonic across cultures, particularly in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine, you may have noticed sandalwood essential oil increasingly showing up in hair ...

The smell of sandalwood is omnipresent in temples and on streets throughout Asia. As the most common scent in incense sticks, the smell of sandalwood oil conjures the idea of Asia more fittingly than ...

A synthetic compound that mimics the smell of sandalwood encourages human scalp tissue in the lab to maintain hair growth, researchers report today (September 18) in Nature Communications. The ...

There are all sorts of potential treatments for hair loss, including pills, injections, and even the suggestion of plucking the hairs that remain. Now comes a new idea: the odour of synthetic ...

Olfactory receptors are not limited to your nose. You have them all over your body, including your blood. Now, synthetic sandalwood has been shown to promote cell death in cancer cells for patients ...