Sulfates: What’s all the attention?

Sulfates: What’s all the attention?

Many hair products, including shampoos and conditions, contain various sulfates, like sodium lauryl sulfate or SLS. Some companies produce hair care products that are sulfate-free, including both mainstream and natural or organic manufacturers.

Sulfates are detergents that produce lather. They are found in a variety of beauty products, including soaps, body washes, and shampoo. Sulfates break up grease on the hair, allowing it to be rinsed away. In hair products, like shampoo, sulfates remove natural oils, dirt and hair product residue. Sulfates can be rather harsh for sensitive skin, and may strip away color

 

These chemicals are the same chemical used to degrease engines. Like many things in our modern world, we are discovering safer/healthier alternatives.

The cold hard facts: your hair does NOT need to lather in order to clean your hair. While using a low-lather or no-lather shampoo will feel different, use a regular amount of shampoo with each wash and your hair will end up just as clean.

Common chemicals include Sodium Laureth Sulfate , Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Ammonium Lareth Sulfate and Myreth Sulfate, often referred to by initials like SLES, SLS, and ALS

·         People with really dry hair or hair that is generally more brittle and drier than other hair types. So this group in particular should look for other choices.

·         People with eczema and scalp conditions should stay clear too

·         Anyone with oily skin. This sounds counter intuitive. Surely someone with oily skin will want a product that strips the oil away. Unfortunately, the body will produce even more oil to replace that which has been lost. So avoiding sulfates would be a good plan for these folks too.

·         Anyone with chemically damaged hair or color treated hair. The sulfates will fade the color in your hair every time you wash it.

·         Anyone doing keratin treatments must stay away from sulfates

In today’s world that list covers the majority of people out there. Just like the discoveries in food science can work either for us or against us. As large companies dominate the market with what we call Franken-Science we will see more and more food and beauty products made with cheaper and more harmful ingredients. Just check out the Genetically Modified Food World.

All of our products are sulfate free and parabin free, natural and healthy. Best part of all is that every product of our sells for $20 across the board and is just 1 ingredient away from vegan. If doesn’t get better than that.

Treating your hair right is what will make your hair healthier, shiner, easier to manage, allow you to recreate what we’ve produced for you and gives the hard earned money you spent at our salon insurance that your look will last and be in the best care possible.

We currently carry product for color treated hair, hair that needs hydration/moisture, volume product for fine/limp hair, and a full line scalp products designed to heal issues of the scalp such as dandruff, dry or oily scalp. So we have something for everyone as very reasonable pricing.

The end result of your hair is a combination of what we do here and what you follow at home based on our professional recommendation.

 

 

 

Rocks in your Hair

Your Hair is full of Rocks!

What’s in your water and showerhead?

Its South Florida, the water is hard and full of minerals that attaches to your hair and produces discoloration, build-up, fade-age, and makes your hair feel dry and dull.

Hair has negative ions and water has positive ions.  Together they create a magnet and everything in your water attaches itself to your hair and fills up the strand with unhealthy mineral deposits. These deposits form as rocks in a tunnel. Your hair-shaft is filling up with all that it doesn’t need.

How about using positive ions with healthy components so when they attaché through the magnetic reaction your hair is better, shiny, healthy, full of life and longer lasting color.

So the next time you’re in the shower just look up. All those white caked-up deposits are calcium and all those green spots are copper. Imagine what they’re doing to your hair?

Let’s not forget lead and magnesium and if your color is always brassy or red then iron is the culprit.

If you want longer lasting color, healthier hair, longer lasting keratin treatments then Wellness Color is for you.

Our new Wellness Color Experience will excavate the rocks and produce healthy anti-oxidant color, and will cleanse and detox out the impurities.

If you are one of those people whose scalp gets sensitive from color services we can adapt your service using the same methodology, just inform us.

What you do and use at home is equally important since you cannot change the water supply. Using weekly at home treatments can cost as little as $10/week.

It is our firm belief that if your hair is not healthy or if your canvas is compromised than excellent color and cut is a continual challenge, it doesn’t have to be.

What’s Behind Your Hair?

What’s Behind Your Hair?

You open a magazine, watch TV, go shopping and you simply get bombarded by brands. Brands can be powerful and can make an impact at times.
The large companies behind these brands are powerful and have the purchasing power to be everywhere. They appear in your web browser because of the sites and searches you perform or where you shopped or because of your age.
In the beauty industry a small handful of companies owns everything and makes it very difficult for you to be open to other possibilities.
So what’s in a brand and what’s in your hair?
First ask yourself you do you trust? A commercial or the person who knows your hair such as your salon professional?
What is it that makes a consumer buy a hair care product off the TV from a stranger who clearly wants your money vs. the person who touches your hair and knows it needs issues and challenges?
The answer is that it’s in your face, telling you that you need it and need it now. It creates immediate relevancy and urge because if you act now your hair will be shiny, smooth and they will throw in a special something because this won’t last.
So how come when your hairdresser tries to sell you something you balk, or feel as though you are being hard sold?
They’ve touched your hair and know what it needs. We know plenty of salons that are forced to sell to every consumer every time.
Some salons will always carry the latest, hottest most popular product of the second waiting for the phone to ring. They jump on anything at any time based on media hype and assumption. SO they naturally attract a very fickle uncommitted clientele. They may also eliminate your favorite product at any time for no reason other than hot sales on the next thing.
Typically a salon who behaves like this is using popular brand with the mass appeal riding on the coat tails of the company’s advertisements.
Then you have the free thinkers who truly care. These are salons that carefully research and try a product in search of something unique and exclusive that can’t be found in the drug stores and supermarkets. Let’s face it; those salons that carry the latest and greatest have to compete with every other salon, drug store and super market with no loyalty whatsoever.
As a salon owner, I want no part of a company that sells to everyone including supermarkets or drug stores. I am not easily sold on the hippest thing nor do I want those one time buyers who jump ship at the slightest change in what’s on QVC.
We want to work with private labels because they provide high quality products, ingredients, support and do not sell to the masses or to the retail chains.
These companies care about the salon. They are for hairdressers by hairdressers. These are the companies I want my dollars spent on and these are the companies I want you to trust and spend your money on.
A true salon professional will care about your hair; work with high quality product not sold down the block and will never hard sell you. They stand behind their work and their results and the performance of the product they invest in.
Sure, not everyone can be pleased but it is also about the salons brand. And it’s the salons brand that is what’s behind your hair.
I am behind your hair; Hair Studio Artists is behind your hair. We select the finest private label product that we feel is affordable, performance worthy and that has high quality ingredients.
We touch your hair and create your look, advise you based on your hair type and lifestyle.
All too often these other companies end up with very short term search and then one day your hot product is on the news because it messed up someone’s health, caused cancer or was found unsafe. Just remember Brazilian Blowout Brand and all is cancer causing ingredients.
If a product fails us or a company sells us out we drop them. It’s that simple.
The same integrity we have behind the chair with your hair we expect from the companies we do business with.
We purposely want a label you haven’t heard of. And the whole time you jumped on board when you heard no sulfates from the top players we’d already been there and done that because our manufacturer who doesn’t advertise already figured this stuff out and is now researching how to improve their brand not create new ones based on hype.

Blow Dry Bars

What would you do if your dentist stopped doing everything except cleaning your teeth? No cavity filling, no x-rays no nothing?
Or we simply stopped cutting and coloring hair?
What statement would be made by giving up our hard earned skills or if we never had them to begin with?
Well that’s how a certain segment of the salon industry views Blow Dry Bars.
Although highly successful and making sense to some degree these blow dry only bars might do well in cities like NY where people are on the fly from the gym to work to dinner to meetings and need their hair styled in between; but why not just call your regular salon and/or hairdresser to get this done?
It seems silly to have spent $10-$13K on school, to get licensed. Open a salon; pay the same fees, permits, licensing etc. only to limit your services to blow dry’s.
Are these people taking the easy way, do they have a new cutting edge business model or did they simply cop out of the salon industry because they are just mediocre?
These are just some of the questions that come to mind as we see this type of “salon?” crop up here and there.
Is it the convenience of sitting and waiting no appointment necessary like a barber shop, to get your hair blown out or is your regular salon too busy for you?
Accommodations are our business so we are always prepared to take a client for any service. Should we ever become too busy to get you in for a blowout, you’ll be sure that we will simply hire another salon professional to get you in for your blow out.

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