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Is our Hair studio organic?
We truly live our mission: to embody, promote, and facilitate a healthier planet, green living and sustainable
YOUR SALON IS GOING GREEN, BUT HOW GREEN IS YOUR SERVICE?
After a few years of working as a “holistic hair stylist”, every single day it is like a new day, full of challenging clients deciding between beauty or health and new horizons what to conquer on the beauty industry trying to be environmentally friendly.
Every hair show I’ve been to, I found myself hopeless, wandering around looking for Green products to add to my holistic services, and trust me… they don’t offer that much.
I am not surprised about the movement to become green, most of hair salons are very busy trying to show how green they are: they paint their walls green colored with a low VOC soy paint! They are recycling, reducing carbon foot prints, re-using, trying to keep the best air indoor quality and much more.
They are concentrating on their branding and the concept, but at the time of evaluating how green are their services, the reality is that hair salons are loaded with chemicals every day.
Everybody claims to be green but when you read the ingredients of the products used, it’s just the color of their bottles that’s changed, and the false claims on the front labels.
Picture this: you are sitting down, having a “green service” and at the same time many stylist are working around you with different products… and not all of the are green, you don’t have the control!
Do you know how many hair dyes have gluten, nickel, chromium, and cobalt? Some symptoms caused by them are hypersensitivity reactions, dermatitis, and chronic rhinitis. It took me a while to really find a definition for what it means to be a holistic hair stylist on a green salon.
How can I choose the service that will satisfy my clients, fulfill their expectations and be happy?
HEALTH & BEAUTY BALANCE
Consultation is a clue, but at the same time you need to understand your products’ cons and pro facts.
We evaluate life style, scalp and hair condition, skull bone structure and other much complex personal aspects, like hair addictions and image distortion disorders.
We acknowledge and embrace hair issues and put a seed of love an intention to it. I educate my clients on how to handle their hair -especially curly hair clients have the tendency to manage hair as straight-; we also teach them to use hair products.
I suggest following the moon chart protocol for length, strength, root work, beautifying. The trimming of the ends every 4 to 6 weeks are essential to maintain a healthy hair .
We regularly do clay, vitamin C, apple cider vinegar mixology for scalp & hair detox, and very important – hair nutrition with eco-friendly, easy to read ingredient labels, like coconut oil, Shea butters, argan & jojoba oil.
How can you reduce toxicity on your services? You need to be creative and willing to take the time, every client is a unique case, trying to not touch scalp, reducing time exposure, do henna’s color or simply get the courage to stand up to society, have a nice hair cut and Go Gray!
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Henna, Indigo, Amla, Buxus, Cassia are amazing 100% natural hair-coloring plants. I do the traditional henna methods, with excellent gray coverage .
The good… it is the natural way, the results are amazing, shiny, healthy, earthy, not chemical smell.
The bad… it takes time to staining the hair, from 1 to 3 hours average, and in many cases colors are warmer.
The client who decides for henna is choosing health, and is grateful about what henna and Nature offers.
Start practicing love and compassion every time you look at yourself at the mirror. Make a priority list or rearrange the ones you have.
Reach for help if you do not understand of how you are a prisoner of your hair.
Again… your salon is going green, but how green are their services?
How green is our studio?
Our approach & intention is to “Reduce toxicity” as much as possible. Generally, our studio is about 75% holistic vs. 25% conventional. Responding with honesty, I personally do not believe a hair salon could be 100% organic; it is misleading.
On the salon service aspect, if you read all the ingredients on the products and analyze them you will be surprised. Even the organic label products may contain a combination of ingredients, including some chemicals.
I reduce toxicity, research, train and look at the alternatives; I always choose the less invasive, damaging or toxic resource available.
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In general, clients choose services based on a need and results, without knowing the long-term side effects.
Beauty or Health? You choose! Many times health does not go together with beauty. You will have to decide and adjust to what you really want…
Most of our products are manufactured by green, sustainable companies, who follow strict environment-friendly manufacturing.