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SPF for Hair

SPF for Hair

June 26, 2025

We know that too much sun wrecks our skin. For two generations we’ve been drilled about SPF sun cream, and we use it.

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How to Grow Your Hair Longer this Year - ready for that summer holiday you missed last time

How to Grow Your Hair Longer this Year - ready for that summer holiday you missed last time

June 11, 2025

7 Simple Tips - Don’t obsess about the growth. Keep yourself healthy and your body takes care of that, happily pumping out half inch a month, night and day. 99% of achieving longer thicker hair, is about looking after what you have. Stopping the rot, the shrinkage and breakage of the hair-shaft once it’s birthed into day

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Difficult Blondes

Difficult Blondes

May 16, 2025

Where were you standing when you decided to adjust your hair colour? Do you stand there often?

At the first salon I worked as a junior, back in the last century, the colourists at the salon had an interesting technique for showing clients their finished results; escorting them to the ladies toilet where a single electric wall light seemed to cast a favourable glow.

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Haircare Dirty Secrets #4 – The Truth about Toners

Haircare Dirty Secrets #4 – The Truth about Toners

May 08, 2025

Does your colour change or fade too quickly? Does your comb snag on dry coarse ends? You may be getting the wrong toner. When things aren’t going right in life, it may be a small problem or...

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Your Scalp Detox Routine

Your Scalp Detox Routine

April 04, 2025

The Winter Season is a great time to consider our personal care rituals. One area that’s often overlooked is scalp health. Like elsewhere it can become clogged and dull.

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Size Isn't Everything

Size Isn't Everything

March 28, 2025

How can I get more volume in my hair?” is a question so often asked and I’d like to clarify an important distinction between size and body.

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The ‘Drug Pushers’ of Haircare – Creating a cycle of need and addiction

The ‘Drug Pushers’ of Haircare – Creating a cycle of need and addiction

March 06, 2025

“What’s he going to tell us now?” I hear you say. “Taliban warlords make shampoo in their poppy fields! Colombian cartels launch new crack-cocaine conditioner!”

Not quite, but...

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How to Handle Curly Hair

How to Handle Curly Hair

February 14, 2025

Wavy and curly hair can be the most enchantingly gorgeous, but for some people it can be a beast to manage. Here we go through the whys and the wherefores.

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The Secret to Thicker Shiny Hair - it's not what you think

The Secret to Thicker Shiny Hair - it's not what you think

December 13, 2024

We’ve been taught as a society to reach for a pill when something's wrong. A quick fix, often with a sting in the tail that’s rarely mentioned. For thicker hair, people like to think...

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Do You Care What's on Your Hair? - how to read ingredient lists

Do You Care What's on Your Hair? - how to read ingredient lists

November 22, 2024

I’ve spent decades formulating products. When I read the ingredients list of many high street products, I’m attuned to the toxins and the superfluous guff that pads out the formula. Most of it adding nothing to hair health and...

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Want to Know More About Sulphates?

Want to Know More About Sulphates?

October 25, 2024

We're passionate about beautiful, strong, shiny hair and our entire Van Clarke product range is created to deliver Healthcare for Hair.

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Hair Loss - Semantics and Misunderstandings

Hair Loss - Semantics and Misunderstandings

October 16, 2024

1. Miss X sees 'hair loss' as a whole hair having fallen out and gone.

2. Mrs Y interprets 'hair loss' as the hair still being there, but each hair half as thick, maybe split and broken too.

Both are right. But most people fear No.1 whilst suffering the most loss of volume from No.2.

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