Top 8 reasons why Organic Color Systems is simply better
1. It’s 100% ammonia free.
The oil base of the color is alkaline so it raises the pH of the hair, but at the same time it acts as a conditioning agent softening the hair’s cuticle and allowing it to be opened with gentle heat. This eliminates the need for ammonia. Ammonia is a very effective way of opening the cuticle, however it opens the cuticle so much that while the color is going in essential moisture and proteins are going out.
2. Certified Organic Ingredients
Organic Color Systems is the only permanent color line available today with certified organically grown ingredients. These include aloe vera, organge, grapefruit, natural soya, comfrey, wheat, coconut, vitamin C, vitamin E, and corn. It is as natural as possible, while still allowing you to obtain exceptionally professional results.
3. It maintains the integrity of hair
Ammonia blows open the cuticle taking the hair into the 10.5 – 12 range on the pH scale. We use a moisturizing oil base with a small amount of ethanolamine to swell and open the cuticle to a pH level of 9. We are able to close the cuticle back down with our Organic Care line returning the hair to it’s isometric point of 5.5, which is the ideal pH of hair.
4. It is unique and proprietary
We commend other color lines that have removed ammonia from their formulas as it is an extremely harsh chemical and no longer needs to be in hair color. Unfortunately, the vast majority have replaced it with ethanolamine which poses no health concerns as long as the amount used is reasonable. However, because they are only replacing the ammonia with ethanolamine and with no other alkaline base, they are using a very high percentage and consequently have not decreased the pH level that the hair is taken to, so the same amount of damage is occuring.
5. Complimentary products that maintain and even restore the hair’s integrity
Our treatments are reconstructors and they work inside the hair shaft rather than applying a high percentage of silicone to the outside of the hair shaft. Although that gives the hair shine and a silky feel, it is entirely cosmetic and eventually becomes detrimental as it builds up on the hair shaft and does not allow color to penetrate. By doing a wet stretch test you can determine exactly what the hair may be lacking before any color or perm service allowing you to prepare the canvas before creating your work of art.
6. Lowest percentage of ppds.
Eliminating ammonia allows us to use a much lower percentage of ppds since ammonia breaks down the natural pigments in the hair when mixed with peroxide. Therefore, ammoniated colors require a lot more pigment – otherwise it would all wash out at the shampoo bowl.
7. Lowest Percentage of Ethanolamine
This color line contains about half as much ethanolamine as any other non-ammonia color line (8% or more). We use it as a pH adjustor and it is organically derived from coconut.
8. Pharmaceutical Grade Activators
All permanent hair colors contain oxidative pigments which means that they have to come into contact with oxygen in order to materialize. Peroxide is simply H2O2. water with an additional oxygen molecule that can be split off easily to activate the pigments. Our peroxide is pharmaceutical grade which means it is the same peroxide found in eye drops, and therefore gentler then industrial grade peroxide.
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