White Lotus Hair Studio
What is Olaplex?
Olaplex is your hairdresser's insurance policy. By adding Olaplex into your chemical service, we are mitigating the damage done during the process.
All hair contains millions of disulfide bonds which give the hair its strength and stability.
When bonds are intact, you have healthy hair.
When they are broken, you have damage.
Heat styling, brushing, sun, weather, pollution, rough pillowcases, chemical services, and shampoo all have a damaging effect on the hair's bonds.
When damage occurs, the disulfide bonds are broken apart resulting in single sulfur hydrogen bonds. At this point, there are two reactions that can take place:
1. The single sulfur hydrogen pairs with a single oxygen molecule, and makes a perfect happy pair-no damage.
2. A single sulfur hydrogen pairs with three oxygen molecules and creates cysteic acid which eats protein from the hair and causes damage.
Olaplex in your chemical service pairs with the single sulfur hydrogen bonds before the oxygen molecules can, preventing damage.
Olaplex as a treatment, or as part of your daily routine pairs with free single sulfur hydrogen bonds to repair damage and prevent further protein loss.
Consider No.1 the tool that fights damage during the chemical service and No.2 the tool to revive and rebuild the bonds in your hair once the chemical service is complete or in between services to allow for more processes in a shorter time frame.
Each of these home-use products contains OLAPLEX's patented chemistry for rebuilding bonds.
OLAPLEX No.0 and No.3 are at-home OLAPLEX treatments, similar to an in-salon Stand-Alone Treatment but less potent. Use at home once a week to rebuild bonds in the hair. These do not moisturize or deep condition, they only rebuild bonds.
No.4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo and No.5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner. This is the easiest way to ensure you're rebuilding bonds and moisturizing your hair.
No.6 is a leave-in styling cream and that rebuilds bonds, conditions, and omits frizz for up to 72 hours! Apply to damp hair and work the product through. A little goes a long way!
No.7 is a bond-building oil that adds intense shine, moisture, reduces frizz, and protects the hair from heat up to 450 degrees.
About Malibu C
How Minerals and Oxidizers Affect Your Hair and Skin
What is an Oxidizer?
A typical example of oxidation is the corrosion or rusting of iron. Oxidation can be defined very simply as the "addition of oxygen." Anything that adds oxygen (for example, water, sun, or air) to something else (in this case, your hair or skin) is called an "oxidizer."
How Oxidizers Can Affect Your Hair
In moderate amounts, oxidizers can cause loss or fading of hair color. Great amounts of oxidizers can break down and damage hair, eventually causing it to deteriorate.
Chlorine: Chlorine is used to kill bacteria in drinking water and pools, and as an active bleach to remove pigment in color. Chlorine can discolor hair, damage the cuticle and protein, and create an oxidizing effect on elements in the hair. Active chlorine can leave hair feeling gummy when wet, and straw-like when dry. may even change the color of certain minerals. The highly charged mineral may, in turn, damage and/or discolor the hair.
Water/Sun/Air: Oxygen in the air and water coupled with heat and light from the sun cause accelerated oxidation of the hair. The more exposure to the outdoors, the greater the amount of oxidation. For example, color-treated hair fades faster on persons with greater exposure to the outdoors, and especially during the summer.
Peroxide: A compound (H2O2) that is used as an oxidizing and bleaching agent to remove color pigment from the hair, which leaves a blond/white appearance. The more concentrated the peroxide, the greater the oxidizing effect.
Neutralizer: An oxidizer used in the second stage of the perming and relaxing process to lock in the bonds of the hair protein. If not completely removed with an anti-oxidant, such as Malibu Wellness normalizers, a neutralizer can cause burning to the scalp and breakage to the hair following a service.
Bromine: Used like chlorine, especially in hot pools, such as whirlpools and spas.
How Minerals Get Into Water
Well Water: both domestic and community wells derive their water from rain passing through aquifers, which are layers of minerals. The acidity (pH below 7.0) of the rain increases the dissolving effect of minerals; therefore, these dissolved solids are found in the water when pumped above the ground and used in bathing.
City Water: surface water comes from rivers or lakes, usually containing fewer minerals because the water has not filtered down through the mineral layers. Unfortunately, increasing populations are polluting the water, which causes additional bacterial growth. This growth is controlled at treatment facilities by adding chlorine to kill bacteria and then adding lime (a calcium compound) to help control chlorine levels.
How Minerals Can Attach to Your Hair
Minerals affecting the hair are charged positive. This attachment creates a "wall" of minerals on the protein, blocking solutions, preventing proper penetration of color, perm, and relaxer. Minerals found in water at home are continuously exposed to the hair during bathing. Since hot or warm water is usually selected to wash hair, the cuticle is opened, allowing positively charged elements, such as minerals, to get inside the cuticle and attach to the protein.
How Minerals Can Affect Hair
Calcium Effect on Hair: This mineral is in most of the water in the United States
Three ways calcium affects hair:
Calcium builds up on the hair, leaving the hair feeling dry and weighted down. It can even cause perms to be relaxed.
Calcium salts build up on the scalp and cause flaking, often know as dandruff. These deposits are much like the "bathtub ring" associated with hard water and bath soap.
- Calcium "build-up" can clog the hair at the mouth of the follicle, causing the hair to break off, and may coat the scalp, blocking further hair growth.
Copper: Oxidized copper discolors light hair, producing a green tint, and causes dark hair to tint darker. It can weigh hair down, and also cause problems in perms, colors, and relaxers.
Iron: Concentrations of iron will slowly cause hair to tint darker, add weight to the hair, and prevent proper chemical processing. Heavy amounts of iron will tint light-colored hair orange and cause dark hair to become darker with red highlights. It may cause an excessive dry feeling in the hair and may actually change the textural appearance of the hair.
Magnesium: Like calcium, magnesium attaches to the hair, leaving it feeling dry and weighted down.
Silica: Sand-like substance usually bound to calcium or magnesium and forms very hard, virtually insoluble deposits on surfaces. Water-borne silica can build up on the hair, causing the same effect as calcium - dryness, dandruff, weight, and hair loss.
Lead: Lead acetate is used in certain home remedy gray cover-ups, such as Grecian Formula. This element can build up, leaving the hair feeling dry and preventing proper chemical services, such as perms and colors, from processing properly.