A small hair-care company called Living Proof, based on science from MIT,MITD -7.14% has signed Jennifer Aniston as an investor and spokesperson in an attempt to make waves in the $10 billion hair-care industry.
Jennifer Aniston and her layered hairstyle—”the Rachel”—have been a style icon and powerful influence in the beauty industry for almost 20 years. She is set to take a starring role in marketing for the brand. Executives expect the 43-year-old actress to have input into new products, package design and other business areas in exchange for her equity stake, which they declined to quantify but called “meaningful.”
Packaging a Hollywood star with a blue-chip scientific team, including Robert Langer, one of medicine’s most prolific inventors, highlights how high the success bar is set for new beauty products venturing out in front of jaded consumers. In a market saturated with “scientific” claims, Living Proof at first thought its MIT credentials would be enough to create brand awareness but eventually saw they needed more firepower.
The brand’s science star is Dr. Langer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a chemical engineer, whose work marshals technology like polymer chemistry and tissue engineering against disease and has spawned some two dozen companies. One company, MicroChips Inc., is developing a wirelessly programmed implantable microchip that shows promise for replacing painful injections to deliver medicine.
Ms. Aniston appeared to appreciate the novelty of their collaboration for the sake of better hair. “Bob Langer, are we curing cancer? Or diabetes? And he’s like, Yeah, I’m doing that as well as hair,” she said in an interview hours after meeting him.
“I like a scientific challenge,” Dr. Langer said in a separate interview. “I like to see if we can use science to solve problems.”
Ms. Aniston says she was “fascinated by the scientific approach” and asked for some product to test with her longtime hairdresser, Chris McMillan, salon owner and creator of the Rachel. Shooting in North Carolina at the time, Ms. Aniston says the “100% humidity” made for ideal test conditions for Living Proof’s frizz-fighting powers. She was surprised to find the No Frizz cream left her hair with “great curls.”
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