Kinactif

Kinactif is a professional haircare range made by KIN Cosmetics, a family-owned hairdressing-products company based in Sant Feliu de Guíxols on Spain's Costa Brava. The line is sold through salons rather than direct to consumers, and the parent company positions it around the health of both the hair and the scalp. KIN Cosmetics dates the creation of the Kinactif treatment range to 1979, while the company itself was founded in 1932 by Gregori Bosacoma [2].

The brand remains active. KIN Cosmetics rebranded with a new image in 2021 and relaunched several of its established treatment lines in 2025, with the current Kinactif range marketed across a number of international markets.

KIN Cosmetics traces its founding to 1932, when Gregori Bosacoma established the business in Sant Feliu de Guíxols [2]. The company describes itself as having "more than 90 years experience working alongside hairdressing professionals," and it has remained a multi-generation family firm, with second- and third-generation members joining over the following decades. Its facilities and laboratories are located in the same Costa Brava town where it began.

Within that history, Kinactif is one of several lines the company has developed. The two dates are sometimes conflated: KIN Cosmetics gives 1932 as the founding year of the company, whereas 1979 marks the start of the Kinactif treatment range specifically [2]. The brand operates today as KINACTIF by KIN Cosmetics, with KIN Cosmetics as its parent [1].

Kinactif is presented as a "clean" haircare line built around hair and scalp health. According to the company, its formulas are vegan and contain "a high percentage of naturally-derived ingredients" [3]. The range is offered as an exclusively professional, customizable system, framed as technical services carried out through hairdressers rather than a retail self-care line [3]. The brand uses the tagline "Beyond Conscious Beauty" [3].

The line is organised into treatment families addressing specific hair needs, including Nutrition for dry hair, Repair for damaged hair, Volume, Color protection, Blonde, Suncare, Control for frizz and oil balance, and Scalp care. Named products within these families include the Nourishing 2-in-1 Mask, the Anti-Brass Blonde Shampoo, and the Anti-Hair Loss Revitalizing Shampoo.

The brand's signature technical claim is what it calls its hybrid formulas, which it describes as combining "two active ingredients that exert a double action on hair and scalp" [4]. KIN Cosmetics presents this dual hair-and-scalp approach as the basis of the range, alongside an interest in prebiotic scalp care that a brand ambassador has described as an area the company has opted to pursue [4].

On sustainability, the company highlights recyclable bottles and biodegradable formulations, and points to a reduction in plastic use: it states that the bottle of the new Kinactif shampoo weighs 24 grams against 32 grams for the previous bottle, a change it frames as a roughly 24 percent reduction [5].

Kinactif is an actively marketed line. Its parent, KIN Cosmetics, has operated continuously since 1932 and distributes internationally, having expanded into markets such as Mexico, France, Venezuela, Israel, Colombia, Portugal and Belgium from around 2000 onward. The most recent activity recorded in the company's history is the 2025 relaunch of established bleaching and treatment lines [2]. As a salon-exclusive professional brand, it has limited mainstream editorial coverage, with most external visibility coming through retailer and distributor listings.