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1) Structure of Your Hair

2) Chemically Processed Hair (Permed, colored or bleached hair)


3) We're all familiar with the damaging effects of perms, color or bleach (chemical processing) on hair. Did you know that UV radiation, sunlight and environmental pollution can be equally damaging?


4) The Potential Effects of UV Light on Your Hair

5) Environmental Pollutants and Your Hair

6) Styling Products and Your Hair

7) Dull vs. Shiny Hair

8) Isoionic Balanced Hair

9) Hair Growth and Isoionic Balanced Hair



Structure of Your Hair

 

Cortex - Layer of keratin that gives hair strength and elasticity.

Cuticle - Outermost layer of the hair shaft.

Follicle - Invisible sac from which hair grows. Contains the internal root sheath and hair bulb.

Shaft - Visible part of hair composed of highly organized, keratinized cells.



                    



Chemically Processed Hair (Permed, colored or bleached hair)



These damaging effects are caused by chemical processing of your hair:
  • Oxidative degradation
  • Alkaline degradation
  • Porosity increase
  • Cuticle damage leads to cuticles opening, and eventual loss
  • Loss of sheen and luster
  • Disulfide bond cleavage
  • Loss of resiliency and tensile strength
  • Split end formation and breakage


Tip: Now, you can identify which treatment is required!

Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Before Treatment After Treatment
 


                    


Due to high porosity and the opening of the cuticles resulting from chemical processing, hair becomes more susceptible to environmental pollutants........


We're all familiar with the damaging effects of perms, color or bleach (chemical processing) on hair. Did you know that UV radiation, sunlight and environmental pollution can be equally damaging?



The ozone layer doesn't filter as much as it used to, so we are more exposed to the sun's damaging rays than ever before. UV radiation and pollution trigger the creation of free radicals which cause internal hair damage. This damage requires a specialized treatment to stop the damage, correct the problem and optimize hair's health and appearance.

Even "normal" hair is attacked by environmental toxins, sunlight and hard water residues. UV rays attack the hair shaft while environmental toxins are absorbed into the cortex, causing free radical formation resulting in structural damage. Hair appears dull, dry and brittle, and conventional conditioners do little to correct the real problem.

Chemically processed hair is more porous, and research shows that it is even more susceptible to further degradation caused by pollution, sun, or the wrong hair products!

Free Radicals...The real problem

UV radiation, sunlight, acid rain, smoke, smog and environmental pollutants combine to form highly reactive molecules called free radicals. Free radical chain reactions trigger a degenerative process. This damaging process affects our skin, hair, body and overall health and contributes to the aging process.

Free radical attack on hair is continuous. Damage first occurs in the cuticle, leads to cuticle loss, and results in loss of moisture and shine. Once in the cortex, free radicals destroy hair's protein resulting in loss of structural support. Without a sound inner structure, hair loses strength and resiliency. As damage accumulates, hair appears dull, dry, often unmanageable and prone to breakage.

What exactly are free radicals?

Most molecules, making up our body and hair, are stable with an even number of paired electrons. Oxidation is a constant degenerative process i.e. metal rusting..., sliced apples browning..., premature aging. UV light and pollutants when coupled with oxidation cause stable molecules to lose an electron creating an unstable molecule, or free radical, with an uneven number of electrons. Free radicals try to become stable by capturing an electron from a neighboring stable molecule, thus starting a damaging chain reaction.

To stop and prevent damage caused by free radicals, an antioxidant is needed. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals. Antioxidants have extra electrons to lose to a free radical, stabilizing them to stop the damaging chain reaction.

If hair has been attacked by pollutants and sunlight, it is usually acidic and needs a treatment to adjust the pH to a True BALANCE. If hair has been chemically processed, it's often too alkaline and needs a treatment to adjust the pH to a True BALANCE. In a state of True BALANCE, hair is in the optimum healthy condition with a tightly closed cuticle and protected inner structure of protein. Hair is shiny, resilient, and most resistant to breakage and damage. Different lifestyles, styling routines, pollutants and chemical treatments push hair into one side or the other of a True (isoionic) Balance - each requiring a different treatment to bring hair back to the ideal isoionic range.

Tip: Now, you can identify which treatment is required!

Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from further exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Before Treatment After Treatment



                    



The Potential Effects of UV Light on Your Hair



These damaging effects are caused by UV light on your hair:

  • Photo degradation
  • Free radical formation
  • Photo oxidation of peptide groups
  • Disulfide bond cleavage
  • Formation of hydrogen peroxide
  • Formation of acidic groups
  • Cuticle damage leads to cuticle loss
  • Destruction of melanin pigments result in cortex damage
  • Loss of sheen and luster
  • Loss of resiliency and tensile strength
  • Split end formation and breakage


Tip: Now, you can identify which treatment is required!

Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Before Treatment After Treatment


                    



Environmental Pollutants and Your Hair



Sources:

  • Transportation
  • Fuel combustion in stationary sources
  • Industrial processes
  • Solid waste disposal
  • Chemical-toxic waste disposal
  • Forest fires


Major by-products:

  • Sulfur dioxide
  • Nitrous oxide
  • Hydrofluorocarbons


These damaging effects are caused by environmental pollutants:

  • Acid rain
  • Earth poisoning
  • Greenhouse effect
  • Forest decimation
  • Ozone depredation
  • Abundant levels of UV light
  • Building, steel & glass destruction
  • Aging acceleration, wrinkling and skin cancer
  • Hair cuticle loss and cortex damage - These pollutants penetrate into the hair shaft changing its condition to an overly acidic damaged hair.


Tip: Now, you can identify which treatment is required!

Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from further exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Before Treatment After Treatment


                    



Styling products and Your Hair



Styling products are mostly acidic and are damaging to your hair. The acidic medium created by the styling products would expedite the stage for the environmental pollutants and free radicals to damage hair further. Hair that is chemically processed is more susceptible to damage caused by styling products, much like the effects of environmental pollutants on chemically processed hair.

Tip: Now, you can identify which treatment is required!

Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from further exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Before Treatment After Treatment


                    



Dull vs. Shiny Hair

Dull Hair Shiny Hair
 


Dull hair results when the cuticles are lost or wide open and there is no reflection of light. Instead, light goes through the hair and hair has a dull look.

Shiny hair is evident when the cuticles are tightly closed and packed onto the cortex. Any type of light will reflect back and hair has a shiny look.

Tip: Now, you can identify which treatment is required!

Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Before Treatment After Treatment
 

             


                    



Isoionic Balanced Hair



The isoionic balance is reflected by the equilibrium of acidity and alkalinity of the whole hair fiber. At isoionic balance, the cuticles are tightly closed and packed onto the cortex, and hair is at its full strength. Isoionic balanced hair is healthy beautiful shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Tip: Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Isoionic Balanced Hair


                    



Hair Growth and Isoionic Balanced Hair

The easiest way to understand the relationship between hair growth and isoionic balanced hair is to first look at the relationship between hair growth and cuticle loss.

Hair Growth and Cuticle loss



If the rate of hair growth is the same as the rate of cuticle loss, then hair length stays the same.

And...

If the rate of cuticle loss exceeds the rate of hair growth, the result is loss of hair.

Now, let's look at Hair Growth and Isoionic Balanced Hair:



The ability to withstand wear increases at hair's Isoionic Balance, where the cuticles are tightly closed. Because the cuticles are tightly closed, brushing and combing will encounter no resistance and hair won't break. Hair will grow stronger, longer and healthier with no loss of cuticles.

If there is no loss of cuticles, hair growth will be faster, stronger and longer!

Tip: Thanks to a worldwide patented technology, you can Analyze Your Hairä to determine the true condition of your hair, and identify the True Balance Corrective Treatment and/or Maintenance program that is right for you. With one True Balance treatment, hair can be restored to the ideal healthy state of true isoionic balance, returning shine and silky resiliency. Follow with the True Balance Maintenance program and the damaging effects from exposure to the environment and free radical damage can be minimized. You will achieve and maintain healthy, beautiful, shiny hair that will grow stronger and longer!

Isoionic Balanced Hair


                    








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