Hair stripping is a chemical process designed to remove unwanted artificial color from hair.
Stripping hair involves a specific chemical reaction to eliminate deposited hair dye without necessarily affecting your natural pigment level. This process works by targeting the artificial color molecules that have been added to the hair shaft.
According to the provided reference, stripping hair uses a sulfur-based product. The application of this product triggers a chain of events within the hair:
- The sulfur-based product raises sulfite levels within the hair structure.
- An increase in sulfite levels makes the hair more porous.
- Crucially, this process reverses the oxidation of the artificial color molecules.
By reversing the oxidation, the large color molecules that were formed during the dyeing process are broken down or altered, allowing them to be rinsed out of the hair. This effectively removes the unwanted deposited color.
Think of it like undoing the process that locked the artificial color into your hair. Instead of lifting natural pigment like bleach might, hair stripping focuses on chemically altering and removing the artificial dye molecules.
