Head of hair-care R&D Christine Hall on the Estée Lauder Companies’ big bet on scalp care
For consumers, 2024 was the year of the scalp. But for executives like Christine Hall, the work to develop this category for the U.S. market started nearly a decade ago. Partially fueled by the growing attention on the scalp in Asian countries like Korea and Japan, Hall and her team began to develop products for the American market by studying and understanding the scalp, as well as what ingredients help it to thrive.