What it is: A pre-shampoo treatment that seals the cuticle and balances hair`s pH level to protect color from wash-related fading.
Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily
Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick
Key Benefits:
- Color Safe
- Protects Against UV Rays
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Grape Leaf Extract: Helps to protect against harmful free radicals.
- Red Wine Extract: Helps to protect hair`s color, soften, and condition.
- Amino Acid Complex: Smooths the cuticle and keeps color vibrant.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This pre-shampoo uses amika’s key ingredient sea buckthorn berry superfruit which is an unsurpassed source of antioxidants, vitamin C (15 times more than an orange), vitamin A (three times more than a carrot), vitamin E, and omegas-3, 6, 9 and the rare omega-7. It helps shield against hard water, saltwater, and chlorine which also contains filters to protect against harmful UV rays.
Clean at Sephora
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-Grape Leaf Extract: Helps to protect against harmful free radicals.
-Red Wine Extract: Helps to protect hair`s color, soften, and condition.
-Amino Acid Complex: Smooths the cuticle and keeps color vibrant.
Water/Eau/Aqua, Polysorbate 20, Glycerin, Propanediol, Polyquaternium-59, Propylene Glycol, Quaternium-80, Vitis Vinifera (Grape/Raisin) Leaf Extract, Wine Extract, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Germ Extract, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root Extract, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Argousier) Fruit/Seed Oil, Triticum Vulgare (Wheat/Blé) Germ Extract, Glycine, Alanine, Arginine, Aspartic Acid, Histidine, Isoleucine, Phenylalanine, Proline, Serine, Threonine, Valine, Lactobacillus Ferment, Lactic Acid, Sodium PCA, Sodium Acetate, Sodium Lactate, PCA, Cellulose, Polyquaternium-39, Dimethicone, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Polyquaternium-37, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Calcium Gluconate, Gluconolactone, Sodium Benzoate, Butylene Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol, Isopropyl Alcohol, Sodium Chloride, Fragrance/Parfum, Hydroxycitronellal, Limonene.
Clean at Sephora products are formulated without the following banned or restricted ingredients (please see Clean at Sephora landing page for full list of specific restrictions and allowances by category – this is not an exhaustive list):
Acrylates, Aluminum Salts, Animal Musks/Fats/Oils, Benzophenones and related compounds, Butoxyethanol, Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), Butylated hydroxytulolene (BHT) under 0.1% , Carbon Black or Black 2, Coal Tar, Ethanolamines, Formaldehyde and Formaldehyde Releasing Agents, Hydroquinone, Lead and Lead Acetate, Mercury + Mercury Compounds (Thimerisol), Methoxyethanol, Methyl Cellosolve, Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone, Mineral Oil, Nanomaterials (restrictions for specific nanomaterials only), Oxybenzone, Parabens, Petrolatum and Parrafin (USP grade only), Phenoxyethanol under 1%, Phthalates, Plastic Microbeads, Polyacrylamide & Acrylamide, Resorcinol, Retinyl Palmitate, Styrene, Sulfates, Talc (no detection of asbestos) , Toluene, Triclosan and Triclocarban, Undisclosed Synthetic Fragrance (under 1% and formulated without Acetaldehyde, Acetone, Acetonitrile, Benzalkonium chloride, BPA, EDTA, Methylene chloride, PTFE, PFOA), 1, 4, Dioxane (ingredients must comply with impurity thresholds), Octinoxate, PFAS compounds, Nitromusks and Polycyclic Musks, Ethoxylated Ingredients (including PEGS or polyethylene glycol must meet contamination limits for 1’4 Dioxane and ethylene oxide), Cyclic Silicones, EDTA and derivatives (allowed if no technical substitute under 0.2%)
Suggested Usage:
-Apply to dry hair prior to shampooing from roots to ends.
-Leave in for one to two minutes.
-Rinse.
-Follow wash routine as usual.