Q. What perm & straightening solutions do you use?
A. ARIMINO (Qoline) , NOEMI (Radical Acid). All made in Japan.
Hairdresser Taka has several types of perm & straightening solutions that can be used for all hair types and scalp conditions, such as the ones listed below.
・Various hairstyles such as short and long
・Those who suffer from fine hair or thinning hair
・Those who have sensitive skin and do not want to apply chemicals to their scalp
・Those who are worried about dry or damaged hair
・Those who have colored, bleached, highlighted, or straightened hair
(※Perming and straightening are treatments that change the shape of your hair to make it wavy or straight, but the perm & straightening agents used are basically the same.)
In addition, Taka has summarized the reasons why he uses the perm & straightening solutions from the above manufacturers below.
①With the minimum amount of alkali required, you can perm and straighten with less damage.
②The chemical manufacturer displays clear ingredient content, so Taka can use it on customer’s hair with confidence.
③Since it is a large manufacturer, the possibility of manufacturing problems is extremely low, and the chemicals are stable.
With the minimum amount of alkali required, you can perm and straighten with less damage.
The main ingredients are reducing agents and alkaline agents, and they manufacture perming and straightening solutions.
Reducing agents change the shape of hair.
Alkaline agents are what allows the reducing agent to penetrate the hair.
It is said that the higher the concentration of this alkaline agent, the more easily damaged the hair.
Taka has also permed and straightened many customers, and when he performed treatments using a low concentration of alkaline agent and checked the condition of the hair several months later, he found that the quality of the hair had not been significantly impaired. He feels this deeply in his heart.
This allows customers to perm and straighten your hair regularly while minimizing damage, and at the same time enjoy coloring as well.
However thick and healthy hair may not be permed and straightened without using some alkaline agents, on the contrary, so Taka cannot say that the amount of alkali is not necessary for all.
He thinks that basically less alkali is better for all hair except for short and healthy hair of about 5 cm.
As a trivia, The coloring agent with the highest concentration of alkaline agent is the bleaching dye.
The chemical manufacturer displays clear ingredient content, so Taka can use it on customer’s hair with confidence.
Taka uses chemical agents that match the condition of each customer’s hair based on the three ingredients explained above: reducing agents, alkaline agents, and one more addition, pH.
pH is a numerical representation of acidity, neutrality, and alkalinity.
When we were students, we all did an experiment with litmus paper.
It is very dangerous to perm or straighten your hair without knowing the concentrations of these three ingredients, and there is a high possibility that problems such as hair breakage due to severe damage will occur.
Taka always strives to perform safe treatments based on these ingredients.
・NOEMI → Alkaline amount 0ml, pH 6.5, Reducing power 6.45%
References:http://noemi.tokyo/haircare
・ARIMINO → Alkaline amount 0.7~3.5ml, pH 7~8.9, Reducing power 5~10.7%
References:https://www.arimino.co.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/EngQUOLINE-Brochure-2021_compressed.pdf
Since it is a large manufacturer, the possibility of manufacturing problems is extremely low, and the chemicals are stable.
As the same can be said for food manufacturing companies, large companies supply products on a regular basis, so there are many chemicals of stable quality.
Taka can safely use it on customer’s hair with confidence.
At the end
I explained the chemicals that Taka uses for perm and straightening.
①It can perm and straighten with less damage.
②The ingredients are clearly displayed, so Taka can use it on customer’s hair with confidence.
③The possibility of manufacturing problems is extremely low, and the chemicals is stable.
The first thing Taka thinks about when doing any work is to make the customer’s hair look great.
Taka will continue to cherish this motto.
Thank you for reading all of this.
