Using Sustainable Products for Coloured Hair

July 21, 2022 SBS Hair 0 Comments

The importance of the earth's environment has never been so prominent in thinking and planning for your business's impact on the planet. As businesses assess their carbon footprints in correlation to reducing their emissions, ensuring that these are considered whilst also continuing to provide excellent service for your clients can often be challenging.

As a responsible seller of high-end UK salon supplies, we want to ensure that all of our customers have access to the best products, knowing they will still be able to provide stunning hair for their clients.  

Highlight Care

The history of highlights has been an almighty rollercoaster, with them coming in and out of style for many years. However, whilst the 90s were an embarrassing period for highlights, with many turning to alternative colour options, they have seen the beautiful light of day again for the past several years. With more grace and less zebra, highlights provide a stunning definition and depth to hair that a full colour doesn't.

Caring for highlights must be taken with as much importance as fully coloured hair. The shade of highlights will depend on the type of product you wish to use for your client. For clients with blonder tones in their hair, you may consider a silver range of hair care creations offered within our Nine Yards hair products. These products neutralise those annoying yellow tones often found with dyed blonde highlights and prevent the zebra effect with a more blended and natural look without the harshness blonde highlights can be renowned for. The Nine Yards Silver Lining shampoo and conditioner are designed especially for blonde hair and highlights and are also free of parabens and sulphates. They are cruelty-free and vegan, offering the confidence that when using this product, you are not only helping the environment, but no animals were harmed in developing this great shampoo.

Fully or Half Coloured Hair Care

Like with highlights, full and half-coloured hair needs suitable coloured hair products to neutralise brassiness and harsh tones. Whilst looking for a brand which offers cruelty-free professional shampoo and conditioners for your salon, you want to be sure that the products also work well, and so do we. This is why we only stock brands which offer incredible functioning and sustainable products.

One of our must-haves for coloured hair is the Innoluxe shampoo and conditioner range. This collection offers 100% Vegan products and has taken great strides in reducing plastic consumption with their packaging. Most of their packaging is made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic or bioplastic from Brazillian sugar cane. As a responsible manufacturer in the hair care industry, they have made conscientious decisions to ensure that their products don't offer further damage to the environment and are continuously looking for more ways to improve their bottles.

Heat Protection for Coloured Hair

After dying a client's hair, you want to ensure they look incredible with the perfect style. Heat protection is vital for most hair, but even more so if it has been coloured. Whilst it gives clients another reason to smile as they walk out of the salon, you need to ensure that you aren't damaging their hair in the process, which could be in a vulnerable condition post-colouring.

Straighteners, curling wands, and heat brushes can all cause damage, as can the hairdryer. If you are looking for a sustainable swap for your regular heat protection product, we have a great range of products, such as our hur. Thermal Shield https://sbs-hair.com/hur-thermal-shield-250ml.html . You can protect your clients’ new hair whilst ensuring there are no harmful chemicals as this protection spray is vegan, cruelty freeand the aluminium packaging is 100% recyclable. Simple swaps like this can help reduce the need for virgin plastic and provide your clients with excellent styles and heat protection. 

We offer a vast collection of sustainable styling and finishing hair care products to get the best outcome for your clients’ hair without increasing your carbon footprint or using harmful chemicals. Our brands cater for a range of hair types and requirements, including but not limited to;

• Reducing frizz
• Building volume
• Coloured hair protection
• Moisturing for dry hair

Post-Salon Hair care

As a salon, you want to ensure that your clients’ hair will last until their next visit. Using salon-quality products will help for their call, but providing them with a perfect aftercare regime will keep their hair looking stunning in-between treatments and make it much easier for you, as their hair stylist, when they return.

Poor care between visits can dry out their hair, especially if they have chosen a full head of colour. Here are some tips of advice to offer your client to encourage the longevity of their style;

Use moisturising and colour protection products – With our various vegan and natural products, there is no worry of too many chemicals, and they can help keep hair in great condition.

Wash hair when required– Washing hair daily can shorten the length of time before requiring touch-ups and re-dyes, damaging the hair. It is also important to not wash hair until 72 hours after treatment. This will encourage the pigment to remain as bright and beautiful as when it was first done.

Use lukewarm water to wash hair – This helps to reduce colour fading and can help protect their hair from heat damage, even if using heat protection products.

Use hydration masks weekly – keeping hair hydrated will help retain the colour and prevent hair from becoming brittle and frizzing.

We have hundreds of professional products to help all hair types to stay glowing in-between visits which you can choose to stock within your salon to ensure your clients have the option to pick up what they need after receiving treatment. Enquire online to access our trade registration and see how you can help your clients between salon visits.