What it is: A biotech-engineered, weightless oil that works on all hair types to strengthen, repair damage, reduce frizz at two levels of the hair fiber, and improve shine.
Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily
Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick
Hair Concerns:
- Frizz
- Shine
- Damage, Split Ends, and Breakage
Key Benefits:
- Reverses damage caused by frizz
- Smooths frizz and flyaways
- Enhances shine and color vibrancy
Highlighted Ingredients:
- K18PEPTIDE™: Reverses hair damage that causes frizz, promotes strength and smoothness.
- Hemisqualane and Squalane: Reinforce hair's moisture barrier, smooth flyaways, enhance shine.
- Avocado Oil: Provides heat protection up to 450°F (232°C).
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This strengthening, smoothing hair oil works on two levels of the hair fiber to fight frizz. The K18PEPTIDE™ works to address deeper level damage that causes frizz, repairing and strengthening damage at the innermost layer of the hair fiber to reverse damage that leads to frizz.
On the surface of hair, natural oils like avocado and sunflower oil and hemisqualane and squalane nurture while smoothing frizz and flyaways to improve color vibrancy, enhance shine, and provide heat protection up to 450°F (232°C).
Fragrance Description: Fresh floral scent
Clinical Results: In a 3rd party clinical study, one use of the K18 Molecular Repair Hair Oil delivered:
- 24-hour frizz control*
- 104% improvement in shine**
- 78% reduction in split ends***
*Results observed on curly, frizzy hair after 24 hours in 80% relative humidity, with one application of molecular repair hair oil on dry or damp hair
**Results observed after a single application of molecular repair hair oil on dry hair
***Results observed on bleached/damaged hair after one application of molecular repair hair oil on dry hair
-Designed to be used on both damp and dry hair for maximum impact.
-This is a highly concentrated formula. Start with one to three drops and build as needed.
-Apply to damp hair from mid-lengths to ends before styling.
-Apply to dry hair as a finisher.
-Can be used after the K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask (after four-minute processing time, sold separately) for enhanced softening and styling benefits.
-K18PEPTIDE™: Reverses hair damage that causes frizz, promotes strength and smoothness.
-Hemisqualane and Squalane: Reinforce hair's moisture barrier, smooth flyaways, enhance shine.
-Avocado Oil: Provides heat protection up to 450°F (232°C).
Caprylyl Caprylate/Caprate, Squalane, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Oil, C13-15 Alkane, Undecane, Benzyl Alcohol, Tridecane, Castor Isostearate Succinate, Propanediol, sh-Oligopeptide-78, Fragrance (Parfum), Tocopherol, Cinnamal, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool.
Acrylates, Aluminum Salts, Animal Musks/Fats/Oils, Benzophenones and related compounds, Butoxyethanol, Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), Butylated hydroxytoluene (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 Paraffin (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%).
