Hair Cycling

Hair cycling is a rotational hair care approach that alternates products to improve the efficacy of active ingredients and your hair outcomes.

Cycling or rotating your hair care products uses the concept of skin cycling – rotating skin care products to maximise results, and applies the same approach to your hair.

Hair cycling also aims to deliver the key elements which keep your hair healthy, strong, soft and resilient. Hair needs both a boost of protein and hydration to maintain optimal health, condition and performance. Hair which is healthy will be soft, strong, shiny and will absorb and hold colour well, leading to better colour outcomes.

Weak, porous or damaged hair may not hold colour (colour will rapidly fade) and it can be brittle, snap and break or fall, resulting in thin, fragile hair that resists colouring.

Hair Cycling Difference:

Instead of adding more and more products to your hair care regimen, this gets back to basics, hair cycling focuses only on 2-3 quality products.

The key is to ensure that each product which you use delivers real benefits to your hair and is free from nasties which can irritate your scalp and weaken your hair over time.

You don’t need a lot of products to hair cycle. We suggest rotating 2-3 high quality treatment or deep conditioning products, which each have different active ingredients. Your shampoo and conditioner should also be quality, natural origin products.

Rotating products will deliver a wide range of ingredients and nutrients to your hair and scalp. The objective is to avoid over-using and over-supplying your hair and scalp with the nutrients and benefits of one specific product.

There can be too much of a good thing, and even the best product, if over-used, can have diminishing benefits.

Hair Cycling Routine:

A good approach would be to alternate an oil treatment one week, and a deep conditioning mask another week and a protein treatment every 1-2 months.

Like skin cycling, it’s also important that your hair cycling routine includes rest days, or days that you don’t wash or apply any treatments to your hair. Skipping a wash once a week will let your natural oils hydrate your hair. You can plan your hair styles around your product usage too – Tie your hair up on the days that you skip a wash or try a treatment bun with an oil treatment.

Different hair types and textures do have different needs from their products. Natural oils from the scalp don’t often extend along the full length of curly hair, so curly hair is often naturally drier and will most benefit from more frequent oil treatments.

Overall, the objective is to maximise outcomes and condition of your hair, without buying too many new products. Product quality is critical.

Products We Use For Hair Cycling:

Weekly/biweekly hydration focus: We keep it simple, pure and botanical.

We alternate using Repair Mask and Tsubaki Oil as weekly or biweekly treatments.

Tsubaki oil is 100% pure oil, pressed from camellia flowers grown on a volcanic Japanese island. It is very high in oleic acid, proteins and glycerides, which are essential to keeping hair healthy, strong and shiny. It repairs and rebuilds hair, by deeply nourishing and hydrating the hair. A lightweight oil, which when used weekly as a hair mask before showering will soften and strengthen your hair.

Repair Mask is made from a nourishing blend of organic botanicals which hydrate the hair, repair damage and restore condition to your hair. It is a gentle cream mask which will add strength, softness and shine, and is suitable for sensitive skin.

Monthly protein boost:

Your hair is naturally composed of around 90% protein. Protein itself is made up of amino acids. Healthy hair contains protein that adds fullness, elasticity, bounce, and sheen.

Our Protein Rebuild Treatment is composed of pure protein and amino acids as well as rose petals and key vitamins which boost hair health, strength and shine.

Having too much protein can cause it to become dry, dull, and brittle — a condition known as protein overload, so we recommend a protein treatment once every 4-6 weeks.

Used as alternating treatments these products will repair, rebuild and restore condition, strength and shine to the hair, and keep your hair feeling, looking and performing at its best. .