Archive for the ‘Hair Care’ Category

Humectants as Moisturizing Agent

Posted by Amy On February 19 2010

As we take better care of our hair, it is important to learn more about our hair health. As our hair undergo everyday environment stressors, ranging from the hair dryer to exposing hair to sun, it is very important to take care of our hair. By taking good care of our hair, our heads will [...]

Prevent Blonde Hair Turning Green

Posted by Amy On January 5 2010

By Nancy Jo, Haircolor Advisor Not when their blonde hair is green! Here is an easy way to keep your blonde hair from turning green from swimming pools and Jacuzzi water. First of all, lets discuss why it turns green. Hair, and especially blonde hair, is porous and that means thirsty hair. Your thirsty blonde [...]

The Science of Hair

Posted by Amy On December 13 2009

By Hair By Design The active ingredients of the vast majority of hair treatment chemicals raises the pH of the hair so that the structure of the hair can be altered by other ingredients of the treatment. PH is a scale of how acid or alkaline something is. A neutral pH on this scale is [...]

Hair Porosity: Help for Dry, Damaged Hair

Posted by Amy On February 24 2009

4 Simple Solutions for Correcting Hair Porosity Written by Audrey Sivasothy at AssociatedContent Hair porosity refers to the hair’s ability, or inability, to absorb water or chemicals deep into the cortex. Unfortunately, damage to the hair shaft can affect the hair’s level of porosity. Too much porosity reduces the hair’s ability to retain moisture, move [...]

More haircare products

Posted by Amy On September 15 2008

Other couple of haircare products are my favorites. They are: Tigi and Proclaim. Tigi is a salon brand product while Proclaim can be found at any Sally Beauty stores. Tigi This line of haircare products are really nice. I really like their ‘Dumb Blonde’ products because being a blonde can be really damaging so what [...]