Author: Sarah Cole

If you’ve always been into styling and experimenting with your hair, there’s a great possibility that you’ve certainly heard of Oplex. PURC Oplex Repair Bond Reconstructor is a magical treatment that works wonders for your damaged hair that is a result of continuous hair straightening, blow drying, dying and even undergoing keratin treatment.

Various celebrities and big names of the fashion industry swear by it. Undergoing various experimental treatments to give your hair a completely different look can make it weak from the roots. Often we see the dyed hair becoming frizzy with time, as the bleach used on hair alters the moisture content. Heat styling your hair to make it more manageable also caters to making your hair brittle and more prone to being lifeless with time.

Then comes the scenario when Oplex walks in. It has recently gained much popularity and has become a known term for the regular salon visitors. But when it comes to a hair treatment, chances are you’d wait to evaluate all the pros and cons associated with it. So let’s get you through the detailed briefing of PURC Oplex Repair Bond Reconstructor so that you can decide whether you need to get it done for your hair or not.

What Is The PURC Oplex Repair Bond Reconstructor Kit? 

It is a three step hair bonding treatment that helps your hair regain strength. Our hair contains keratin, which comprises cysteine amino acids linked via disulfide bonds.

When the hair is exposed to pollution, chemical treatments and frequent heat styling, the disulfide bonds get prone to breakage and damage.

Then comes Oplex treatment to it’s rescue. It helps in rebuilding the broken bonds and giving new life to your lifeless and damaged hair. 

What Is It Made Of?

Since PURC Organics swears by providing you with the best of environment friendly and vegan products, you need to sit back and relax and throw away all your concerns.

PURC Oplex Bond Reconstructor Kit contains Bis-Aminopropyl that aims at reforming the disulfide bonds in damaged hair, to get you back your healthy hair.

It also has Sweet Almond Oil which is known for providing vital nutrients, required for hair growth. Sweet Almond Oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids like linoleic acid, proteins, palmitic acid, biotin and vitamin E.

These fatty acids penetrate deep into your scalp, provide enough nutrients and make your hair grow in a healthy manner. Apart from these two key ingredients it also has Shea butter oil, Jojoba Oil and other essential oils that nourish and cleanse your hair.

What Are The Three Steps Of The PURC Oplex Bond Reconstructor Kit?

1. Oplex Hair Perfector

Step 1 contains the highest concentration of bis-aminopropyl diglycol dimaleate, which is the most active ingredient of the entire treatment. It builds artificial disulfide bridges that repair split ends and successfully smoother rough and frizzy hair. The hair protector acts as a replacement for expensive and time taking salon treatments and can be easily done at home. 

2. Oplex Bond Maintenance Shampoo

Step 2, that is shampoo is totally sulphate free and contains about 10% of the active ingredient bis-aminopropyl diglycol dimaleate. It is used after successfully completing Step 1. If you have coloured or curly unmanageable hair, this shampoo will help you in maintaining its strength. 

3. Oplex Conditioner

Step 3 is all about conditioning your hair and giving the treatment it’s final touch. The Oplex Conditioner is enriched with ingredients like Jojoba Oil, Sweet Almond Oil and 7% of bis-aminopropyl diglycol dimaleate, our active element of the entire treatment. The conditioner aims at working against frizzy hair. It helps detangle it and keep away the dryness by keeping the moisture intact. Application of the Oplex conditioner helps you attain lustrous and voluminous hair. 

PURC Oplex Bond Reconstructor Kit

How To Use The PURC Oplex Repair Bond Reconstructor Kit?

Step 1: Take a small amount of Oplex Hair Perfector according to the length of your hair and apply it gently on slightly damp hair. Leave it on your hair for at least 10 minutes and rinse it off with water.

Step 2: Apply the required amount of Oplex Bond Maintenance Shampoo on your scalp. You don’t need to necessarily apply it on your hair shafts, instead concentrate it on the scalp. Leave it on for 5 minutes and rinse.

Step 3: Now, use the Oplex Conditioner on your hair shafts for soft and strong hair. Keep it on for a few minutes and then rinse it off. Pat dry your hair and you’re good to go.

How Frequently is the PURC Oplex Repair Bond Reconstructor Kit used?

As per the recommendations, the Oplex Treatment can be done on your hair once every two or three week. But if you feel that your hair is often exposed to heat styling and pollution and you’re experiencing extensive hair damage, it’s advised to be used once in every week. 

Can The PURC Oplex Repair Bond Reconstructor Kit Cause Any Harm To My Hair?

Since PURC Organics hair products are non-comedogenic, completely organic and dermatologically tested.You don’t need to be worried about any kind of harm or side effects to your hair. However, for best results, it is recommended to use the shampoo and conditioner from the same kit. 

Can It Only Be Used For Bleached Or Chemically Damaged Hair?

Even if you’re someone who doesn’t actually dye hair, your hair might be familiar with heat styling or perming.

Often we feel the urge to straighten out our curls at home, get them permanently waved up at salons or even expose the hair to blow drying. These hair styling techniques usually end up damaging and weakening the innermost core of our hair.

Damage is damage, even if it comes to you by heat styling instead of bleaching.

Since bleaching is considered to be the hardest on your hair than any other treatment that could be imagined, a product that works on it will unarguably be able to resolve your other hair problems too. So with Oplex treatment, you can reverse your damaged hair, whatever may be the reason for it turning lifeless. 

With the urge to have long, smooth and healthy hair, comes the responsibility of maintaining it. Using products like mask and leave-in conditioners that deeply nourish your scalp is very important. With the use of various chemical based products or techniques, you can get a healthy looking hair, but the damage which comes with it, is sometimes irreversible.

Often people go in for hair treatments like hair smoothing to get an instant sleek and smooth hair texture that’s likely to remain maintained for 3-6 months. But the damage that walks in after the smoothing begins to fade away can actually be a nightmare for you. While keratin treatments like these aim at giving you straight and smooth hair, we can attain the latter with minimal efforts at home.

Hair care is not a piece of cake. It involves a lot of effort, research and consistency. But doesn’t good hair deserve it all? Absolutely yes. With a little switching and regularity, and a pinch of knowledge, you’re good to follow your hair care regime. 

As we all know hair conditioners are totally a life saver. The magical potion you apply in hair to flatten your frizz and attain a comparatively smooth ends is obviously a part of your hair wash day. What if I say there are more magical conditioners available out there that’ll deeply nourish your hair, even more than the regular conditioners? I know you’re too desperate to know, and they are leave-in conditioners and hair masks.

What Are Leave-In Conditioners?

Leave-in conditioners are more of an advanced form of regular rinse out conditioners. While the regular conditioners are designed to be used on freshly washed hair.

Leave-in conditioners are designed to be used on damp hair, without the need of rinsing them out. The leave conditioners are totally lightweight and free of thick oils that might weigh your hair down.

How To Use A Leave-In Conditioner?

Honestly speaking, there can never be a choice made between the two. Rinse-out conditioners are designed to curb the frizziness to a small extent. They’re applied only on the hair strands and not on the roots. So they act like a fragile protectant to your hair, giving you a little smoothness. Also, they’re designed for your regular use, after you have successfully washed your hair. Since shampoos can dry out your hair, the conditioners walk in and rehydrate your hair and help tame frizz. 

When it comes to Leave-in conditioners, they’re designed to make your hair look healthy by actually nourishing them. You can use them between hair wash schedules to cut down the damage caused by hair styling, pollution and exposure.

What Are Hair Masks?

It would be safe to say that hair masks are an amalgamation of rinse out and leave in conditioner. Hair masks are designed to treat your brittle hair. They aren’t heat protectants or products to ease out your everyday hair styling. It is a product that contains highly hydrating and enriching oils and butter that condition your hair and make them stronger and shinier. 

The concept of hair masks are similar to that of a face mask. You don’t add them in your everyday skincare regime. Instead they’re used once a week to rejuvenate your face. Similarly, the enriching ingredients in your hair mask help rejuvenate your hair by providing it the much needed moisture.

How to use hair masks?

Hair masks are products that are basically applied post hair wash on damp hair and are ideally kept for about 15 minutes. But if you think your hair needs more care, apply it before your hair wash. You can either leave it for 15-20 minutes or even overnight, the choice is completely yours. For better results, choose to wrap your hair while the mask gets to it’s work at night. 

How does it work?

While the conditioner is used on your hair length and helps smooth out the cuticles, the hair masks are created to apply from root to tips. The moisturising ingredients of the mask penetrate deep and repair damaged hair from the roots.

Add this in your hair care schedule and use it once or twice a week, depending on the quality of your hair. But using it more than that is not advisable.

Heard of PURC Magic Treatment Mask?

Since I’ve given you a brief insight into rinse out conditioners, leave-in conditioners and hair masks, it’s time to even tell you about a magical hair mask.

Since various hair masks and conditioners are completely chemical based, I feel it’s better to let people know about completely vegan and environmentally friendly products, one of them being PURC Magical Treatment Hair Mask.

Coming to it’s content, it’s made up of fresh and natural ingredients like keratin, argan oil, shea butter oil and plant extracts. Coming to Keratin, it is the most essential ingredient. 

Keratin is the building protein element of our hair and imparts strength along with elasticity to the hair strands. Apart from that, Argan oil is rich in antioxidants, essential nutrients and anti-inflammatory compounds. It is also rich in oleic fatty acids and linoleic that help in retaining moisture. The antioxidants present in argan oil promote cell production and the vitamins in argan oil promote healthy scalp. So all in all, argan oil is one of the best agents to aid your hair growth and strengthen them at the same time. 

PURC Organics Magical Hair Mask

PURC Magical Treatment Hair Mask is formulated from exquisite natural ingredients that aims at illuminating dry and lifeless looking hair. It is free from sulfate, silicones, parabens, harsh chemicals and artificial fragrance. It is suitable for all hair types so you can keep away your worries aside. It is best suited for dry and damaged hair as it moisturizes your scalp and smooths your hair, reducing friction.

PURC Organics Leave-In Conditioner 

While we’re done discussing the magical hair mask that can be used around once or twice a week, let me also tell you about a deep nourishing leave-in conditioner that you can use according to your wishes.

Sometimes, a bad hair day can eventually get you in a bad mood, but then, the PURC Organics Leave-In Conditioner can totally be your saviour.

We often need to style our hair before we step out of the house. But with continuous styling, comes the damage. While continuous heat styling can make your hair rough, even straightening or curling won’t be able to smooth it down.

So in this case, you can use the PURC Organics Leave-In Conditioners. You can use it to make your hair more manageable, and give it a healthy look full of irresistible volume.

The Leave-In Conditioner doesn’t need to be washed off. You need to leave it on your hair like a normal heat protectant or a serum, and go on with your styling. It has a creamy and non-greasy texture that makes it easy to apply and spread. It makes your hair frizz free and more convenient for you to manage.

PURC Organics Nourishing Leave-In Conditioner

ask offers a plethora of hair benefits. It is enriched with completely natural ingredients such as Keratin and Argan Oil that curbs down the lifeless hair. While the vitamin E in argan oil prevents dry hair and treats hair loss, keratin strengthens the hair and provides volume, both at the same time. 

How does the nourishing leave-in hair conditioner work?

The leave-in conditioner is formulated to penetrate deep in your scalp providing it with the required nutrition. Argan oil present in the conditioner improves the blood circulation, thus enhancing the quality of your hair. Full of natural ingredients, the conditioner works wonders. It calms your scalp and successfully reverses the damage caused to your hair due to prolonged exposure to heat and pollution. With regular usage, you will be able to see a noticeable difference in your hair. 

So I hope you look after your hair properly and choose the products that might help you attain naturally healthy looking hair.

In the guise of complex chemical compounds on product labels, we consume many ingredients derived from animal exploitation. These products can sneak into your everyday routine without your awareness.

From blood, bones, and guts, to the organs – everything is extracted from dead or living cats, dogs, cattle, bugs, etc. These products are used in various manufacturing processes. 

While this seems unethical, major corporations do not care for such natural substitutes and leave it on us consumers to make such conscious changes. Animal-derived ingredients can easily be avoided by switching to easily-available alternatives. 

We’ve listed surprising everyday items like; crayons, toothpaste, perfumes, etc, and some substitutes in detail below.

1. Perfume and Cologne: Contains Animal Ingredients

Hidden under the broad category of ‘fragrances’ on the label, perfumes include:

1. Musk extracted from secretions from the genitals of otters, beavers, cats, and musk-deers
2. Castoreum, present in vanilla-scented perfumes, from beaver genitals
3. Ambergris from whale sperm secretions
4. Hyraceum from Badger’s urine and feces fossils. 

Try to opt for naturally derived perfumes and essential oils to make this practice a disincentive and also to avoid these icky ingredients.

Before purchasing ‘luxury fragrance’, think about the trauma that those animals went through to make you smell better. Yes, it is disturbing. It only takes a second to change your habits for the greater good.

2. Toothpaste

Your toothpaste contains glycerin, a colorless and odorless liquid derived from animal (cattle) fats and bones.

Glycerin prevents the toothpaste from drying out.Most product labels do not mention the source of their glycerin.

Besides, animal-based glycerin toothpaste could be harsh on your teeth and even cause tooth decay. Try switching to a natural substitute on your next purchase.

Consider the bigger picture, what’s the point if your toothpaste is doing more harm than good? Is it justified to have animals killed for a bit of shine on our pearls? Veganism is virtuous.

3. Shampoo & Conditioners

Animal by-products have forever been used in the hair care and cosmetic industry. Traditionally used in small quantities as a natural remedy, animal fats and other products are now sourced from factories that process dead animals from restaurants and farms.

According to organizations like PETA, shampoos and conditioners include various animal-derived ingredients such as: 

• Panthenol 
• Amino Acids
• Vitamin B 
• Glycerin 
• Gelatine 
• Stearic Acids 
• Keratin
• Cetyl Alcohol to name a few. 

As there is no way of telling whether these ingredients are sourced artificially, via plants, or animals; choosing vegan and cruelty-free shampoo bars on your next shopping list should be a wise choice.

4. Fabric Softeners

Most fabric softeners list Di-hydrogenated Tallow Dimethyl Ammonium Chloride in their ingredients which is the jargon for ammonium mixed with animal fat procured from cattle – mainly, sheep, and horses.

The substance is obtained by boiling animal carcasses obtained from farms, labs, slaughterhouses, roadkill, and shelters. This component is also present in certain detergents. It covers the surface of the fabric with a layer of fats to make it softer.

Fabric softeners are loaded with many more potentially harmful chemicals and fragrances that may even trigger allergies. As the risks far outweigh the benefits, it’s best to chuck softeners out of regular use in your household. But if you still wish to, choose from a range of natural alternatives.

The awareness about using vegan products is spreading but is not acknowledged enough. It starts from home and what can be more basic than incorporating goodness while doing laundry?

5. Tires

In the vast majority, tires are manufactured with the use of Stearic Acid, a saturated fatty acid derived from cats, dogs, and cattle. This chemical substance promotes flexibility, strength, and grip in rubber and is used in many other rubber products besides tires.

Certain brands such as Michelin tires have started to offer vegan alternatives made from plant-based stearic acid. Their method uses vegetable fats and oils such as palm oil.

On the roads, ‘the more is NOT merrier’. Each vehicle has an average of 4 tires, and each of them has a history of animal killing. So next time when you change your wheels make sure they’re ‘clean’.

6. Candy

Think before you indulge in gummies. What they’re made of might not seem as sweet as they taste. Gummies use gelatin which is mostly derived from the skin and bones of cows and pigs. They may also be full of animal-based food dyes such as carmine (red dye) that is extracted from crushed bugs!

It doesn’t end there. Candies with a shiny hard exterior are covered in Confectioner’s glaze or edible shellac that is produced with the excretion of female lac bugs. No thanks! We’d much rather munch on some nutty and vegan candies. Make vegan candies your holy grail, they don’t have dark secrets to unveil!

7. Plastic Bags

As if this non-biodegradable product wasn’t already adding to a pile of threatening garbage, plastic bags contain something known as slip agents. The slip agent allows the product to reduce its friction and give a smooth and transparent finish to it. 

Unfortunately, it is made from chicken feathers and stearic acid from beef fat giving you yet another reason to abandon these filthy things. Switch to a sustainable and eco-friendly option such as reusable jute bags!

The hatred for these poly-bags is rising by the minute, yet we refuse to give them up. What a ‘toxic’ relationship. Along with your garbage, throw these nasty pieces and welcome things that do not suffocate nature.

8. Sugar

Refined sugar in all its forms, white or brown, goes through the process of ‘char filtration’ i.e., charcoal made out of burnt bones of cows. It allows the sugar to be decolorized to get that crystal white color. However, brown sugar and confectioner’s sugar also include some level of processing with char – making them non-vegan.

Some certified vegan brands offer sugar that involves alternative refining techniques through ions or granular carbon. You can also use unrefined sugar that retains the nutrients of sugarcane – making it healthier.

9. Crayons

Have you noticed the distinct scent that crayons give off? Turns out it’s the smell of processed animal fats that’s been giving you a whiff of childhood nostalgia. This could just break a gazillion heart-warming memories of our childhoods.

Stearic acid, a compound extracted from cow or pig fat is a major component of crayons. Some brands now offer crayons made with natural substitutes such as beeswax or soy.

Let us try not to put our next generation through this heart-break. We are sure they’ll thank you along with mother nature.

10. Wine and Beer

Who knew drink contains something right out of a fish bladder? Wine and beer use a compound called Isinglass in filtering and clarifying the alcohol during the brewing process. This compound is procured from the bladder of fish to filter out yeast extracts from the drinks. 

Wine and beer manufacturing may also use gelatin, casein, chitin, and dyes made out of insects. While these substances aren’t a direct ingredient of the final product, they can be a point of concern.

PETA maintains a list of vegan and cruelty-free companies that include some great alcohol brands.

Our intent is not to instill fear or disgust in the use of these products, but to help us make mindful choices of brands that follow a cruelty-free protocol. Even if you’re not vegan, avoiding these ingredients would help you make cleaner and holistic choices.

Our generation has been celebrating vegan and clean choices for a long time. It is time to bring a revolutionary change by our actions too. These small steps may not show significant results overnight, but we are sure that you will live a wholesome life knowing that you are giving back to a world that made you ‘YOU’.