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Shampoo

 >>    name         Adrien
 >>    status       student
 >>    age          13

 >>    Question -   What is in shampoo? What are the active ingredients?

The ingredients vary from shampoo to shampoo, but the main active
ingredients in shampoo are detergents.  The list of ingredients usually
refer to them as "surfactants.

Rich Barrans
Argonne National Laboratory
richb@anl.gov

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