Stripping Your Hair
March 6, 2009
Hair stripping involves using chemicals in order to remove the artificial color present in the air without causing any damage. The chemicals used in this process are otherwise known as reducing agents. Most often, hair tends to lose its structure during the process of hair stripping regardless of the chemicals or conditioner used. In most cases, uneven streaks of the color still remain on the surface of the hair.
The main purpose of the stripper is to break the pigments of the hair color into smaller colorless particles or fragments, which can be easily washed away through the cuticle. The stripper contains some alkalis, which make the cuticle more swollen than when the hair was being colored. The alkalis open the chain of keratin that holds the color pigment and hair protein together.
The texture of the hair becomes softer during the process of stripping. Hence it is essential to wash the hair in order to remove all traces of the stripper. A good conditioner should then be applied on the hair. The acid in the conditioner will give some more life to the hair and make it more manageable.
Alkaline strippers take away the moisture content in the hair leaving it very dry. Though creams are present in the stripper, they only help to avoid excessive damage to the hair and do not help in conditioning it. Simply rinsing the stripper will not restore the chemical balance in the hair or reaffirm its bind with the cortex that was broken by the alkali.
Some metal strippers, which contain sodium sulphoite, are used to strip hair that has been colored using hair color that contains metals. These hair colors do not respond well to tint stripper that contains hydrogen peroxide. The amount of heat generated when tint strippers are used might cause the hair to dissolve.
Hair-restorers that contain metal salts or lead sulphide are used for coloring grey hair. Metal strippers cannot be used on hair that has been colored in this manner. The best way to remove metallic hair color is by chopping off that portion of the hair once it has grown sufficiently.




















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