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Soma Hair Care

This fully vegan line has incorporated the most sophisticated plant ingredients to give superior results over conventional professional product lines. All of the ingredients go through stringent testing to ensure quality. Ingredients are quarantined and tested to meet their compliance. Stability, purity, and testing for micro-organisms are just a few of the quality assurances given to each and every ingredient. No compromise is made, thus providing the consumer the most scientifically safe product available. All SOMA products are formulated with a paraben-free and formaldehyde free preservative. This preservative is one of the only globally approved preservatives available and provides yet another reassurance that SOMA Hair Technology products are safe and offer no toxic hazards.

MOISTURE SHAMPOO

Keep your hair hydrated and healthy with superior moisture from Soma’s Moisture Shampoo. Made with Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein: A moisturizing complex that penetrates the hair cuticle, drawing up to four times its own weight in moisture to quench your hair. Nourish your hair and preserve your color with this Sulfate-Free Shampoo.

MOISTURE CONDITIONER

Infuse new life into damaged hair and let it shine with superior hydration, luxurious color, and no more tangles. Made with Acetamidopropyl Trimonium Chloride: An earthly derivative with improved Humectant properties to retain moisture. Contains no silicones, so even the finest of hair won’t be weighed down.

WEIGHTLESS SHAMPOO

Give limp hair a lift with long lasting volume, shine, and manageability. Formulated with Polyquaterium-55, a vital copolymer that adds volume without weight, Keratin Protein, a restorative cuticle binding protein for hair shafts, and Wheat Protein that penetrates the hair shaft and draws moisture to swell the hair itself. This shampoo is Sulfate-Free and helps preserve hair color.

WEIGHTLESS CONDITIONER

Those with fine hair can finally use a conditioner without worrying about adding weight. This lightweight conditioner still packs a punch with excellent conditioning proteins and botanicals to keep hair healthy and luminous.

COLOUR PROTECT SHAMPOO

Give your hair color a boost of vibrancy and up to six more weeks of freshness. As with all Soma shampoos, the pH range is between 4.5 to 5.5 to guarantee that your hair cuticle remains closed – locking in color. This Sulfate-free shampoo detoxifies hair while providing integral proteins to ensure a healthy post-color recovery.

COLOUR PROTECT CONDITIONER

A major contributing factor of fading color is UV degradation. To reverse this, Soma has added Cinnamidopropyltrimonium Chloride, a crucial, highly-active, UV absorber, and Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) seed extract a free radical neutralizer. Color Protect Conditioner instantly improves hair condition with essential oils and proteins.

CLARIFYING SHAMPOO

A professional, deep cleansing shampoo created to remove all buildup and trace materials from styling products – all while keeping hair colour as it’s meant to be. Ideal for swimmers to eliminate chlorine stains.

SILVER SHAMPOO

An improvement on our Color Protect Shampoo, this product transforms gray or blonde hair into a vibrant, bold look – without a brassy finish. Best for natural blondes or natural gray/silver/white hair.

SCALP THERAPY SHAMPOO (Dandruff/Psoriasis)

Get relief from itching, irritation, redness, flaking or scaling associated with Dandruff or Psoriasis. The active ingredient is long- proven coal tar liquid (2% strength). Although it works exceptionally well on scalp irritations, its unique formulation is made to be very gentle on your hair. It won’t strip or stain color and is designed to promote hair health. It may not smell like mom’s apple pie, but it sure works!

LEAVE-IN CONDITIONER

Undo damage caused by coloring, hot tools, and UV rays and revitalize your hair. Made with organic Keratin Protein, a natural cuticle-binding protein that replaces lost acids, and Cinnamidopropyltrimonium Chloride, a highly active UV absorber. An alcohol-free detangler that will not weigh down even the finest of hair. Protects your hair year round.

RECONSTRUCT

There is nothing too challenging for this conditioner. Reconstruct is packed with the best proteins and ingredients available on the market to heal hair cuticles with just a couple of uses. Revolutionary permanent-bond formers such as Keratin and Wheat proteins carry an abundance of amino acids to promote shine and gloss to dry hair – with immediate improvement you can see and feel.

CURLY CUE ENHANCING GEL

Enhance everything – from slight waves to full-on curls – while adding moisture, enhancing shine and eliminating frizz. This non-resin based, alcohol-free gel uses hair’s natural humidity to pull up the curl, leaving it soft and shiny. Curly Cue won’t flake and is humidity resistant.

FINISHING SPRAY

Can your finishing spray maintain maximum hold without weighing your hair down? Provide luster with low alcohol levels? Or protect hair with proper pH levels? This one does.

WAVE SPRAY GEL

Intensify curls, tame frizz, and maintain moisture with this humidity-resistant gel. Perfect for use with hot rollers, Velcro curlers or a diffuser. Pull your curls up and feel like there’s nothing in your hair at all with this alcohol-free spray gel.

FOAMING MOUSSE

A weightless, alcohol-free, pH-balanced mousse that adds body and volume to flat hair, while providing a vibrant shine.

GRAVITY HAIR STRAIGHTENER

Formulated to straighten coarse, curly or wavy hair. Anti-frizz and protein complexes leave the hair soft, smooth, and shiny while remaining resistant to humidity. Made with Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, a thermal protector and frizz eliminator.

PRISM SPRAY SHINE

Recharge fading colors, supercharge highlights, protect your hair from humidity and static fly-aways: All with Prism Shine Enhancer. Its lightweight and non-greasy pure silicones make Prism a great addition to flat iron styling.

SOLACE ANTI-FRIZZ

Close split ends and control frizz, while adding amazing shine and lubricity to unmanageable hair. A unique, alcohol-free blend of eco-rich silicones makes Solace a lightweight and non-greasy alternative for shiny hair without the hold.

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Products

While we don’t bleed for any manufacturer, there are some companies that we currently support. We have sifted through all the manufacturer’s marketing schemes and found products that do their job with the proper ingredients and proper pH!

The following is a list features we look for when deciding what products we will suggest to our clients:

pH balanced to 4.5-5.5

If it doesn’t say the actual numbers on the bottle, the pH could be too high or too low, resulting in frizz, color fade, dryness, etc..) For more on why this is important see our “Why pH matters” page.

Moisture

Different hair types need different amounts and types of moisture. Straight hair needs proteins such as keratin, silk, soy, or wheat. Curly hair needs EFA’s (essential fatty acids), and chemically treated hair needs both proteins and EFA’s.

NO Salt

Sodium Chloride is used in shampoo as a thickening agent. It will strip your color and dry your hair out!

Salt shows up in even the most expensive product lines. Why? It’s a thickening agent and it’s cheap. It also dries out your hair and pulls the color out. If your shampoo has sodium chloride listed in the ingredients, none of the good ingredients even matter.

*Sulfates and Parabens

Here’s where it gets tricky. Sulfates are NOT bad! Sulfates clean the hair, that’s literally their job. It’s a fancy name for “surface cleansers”. When sulfates are paired with a pH balanced shampoo, washing with a product that has sulfates is like using Tide; when you use a sulfate free shampoo that is also pH balanced it’s like washing with Woolite. Sulfates are magnetically charged, one end is attracted to dirt, oil, etc.., while the other end is attracted to water. This allows the shampoo to lift the stuff we don’t want in our hair off our hair and be washed away in the water. Sulfate free means those magnets are weaker. NOTE – if your shampoo IS NOT pH balanced then sulfates or not – doesn’t matter – your playing roulette with your hair.

Parabens are preservatives and they’re in everything! Preservatives are in your makeup, your food, etc… As far as cosmetics and hair products go, parabens can cause skin irritation in people that sensitive, damaged, or broken skin, but according to the FDA “it is against the law to market a cosmetic in interstate commerce if it is adulterated or misbranded. This means, for example, that cosmetics must be safe for consumers when used according to directions on the label or in the customary way, and they must be properly labeled.… FDA scientists continue to review published studies on the safety of parabens. At this time, we do not have information showing that parabens as they are used in cosmetics have an effect on human health.” 

Marketing has done a real number on these ingredients. When combined with other poor ingredients or when used on the wrong types of hair, these ingredients can become bad for our hair. If the products we recommend have these things in them, we have determined that the rest of the ingredients either cancel these out or work in tandem to do their job properly. BE TAUGHT, NOT SOLD!

Product ingredients, NOT product lines, make good hair days!

How to read your ingredients

The higher up on the list, the more of that ingredient there is. So if keratin, silk, oils, etc… show up towards the bottom of the list there isn’t a whole lot of it in there. This doesn’t mean it’s bad, it just might not work for your hair type.

How to decide what products will work for you

When we suggest a product to you, it is like a doctor prescribing medications; they start you at a certain level and you go home and take the prescribed medication. After some time using it, you go back and talk to your doctor about how you feel with the new medication and they will either lower, maintain, or raise your dosage based on what you tell them. The same goes with hair. What works for Sally might be awful for Sue. It’s trial and error mixed with science. We are your hair doctors. We give you product suggestions based on what you tell us you like or don’t like about your hair. No one wants a product graveyard under their sinks…. please see our refund page for how to return product you truly don’t like.

WE ONLY GUARANTEE MY CHEMICAL SERVICES IF YOU ARE USING PRODUCTS WE HAVE RECOMMENDED!

You invest A LOT of money in your hair services.

WHY WOULD YOU BUY PRODUCTS WITH INGREDIENTS THAT WILL DAMAGE AND REVERSE ALL THE TIME AND MONEY YOU SPENT TO HAVE BEAUTIFUL HAIR?

SOMA PRODUCTS

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