Have you just tinted your hair? At home or at a salon? Is it dry, tangled, fly-away and unmanageable?
The main reason is that your hair is in an alkaline state.
pH rules: inside we are slightly alkaline. For our outsides, it’s equally as important to remain on the acidic side.
To get the colour into your hair – it needs to be convinced to open up slightly – so we make it alkaline with ammonia or other alkalising agent.
Now in order to keep your colour in and have shiny manageable hair, you need to close the hair when the work’s done. This is how moisture stays inside the hair: closed cuticle scales.
This is when it’s important to have post-colour treatments to stop oxidation and acidify the hair. Properly balanced acid pH gives you phenomenal hair.
Hair care is very simple – keep it acid and don’t apply occlusives (like silicone and petrochemicals (vaseline, liquid paraffin, etc…) that seals hair off from moisture.
Make sure your product’s pH level is below 6 (5.5 or lower) between 1 and 6 is acid, and you’re looking for a useful zone of around 4 to 5.5 and up. Good leave-in conditioners are a blessing. The longer contact time often means better pH for hair.
If your (sulphate-free) shampoo says it is ph balanced…what is it balanced to? It’s no coincidence that our grannies used vinegar rinses on their hair – sealed hair is shiny hair.
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