Hair Repair Set

Hair Repair Set

A summer of pool chlorine, sea water and sun, followed by a hairdryer rushed before the school run, leaves the ends dry, rough and quick to split. Term start is when a wash-day routine can settle into a fixed shape, and the four Vitalcare Professional Imperial Argan pieces here are built to work as one routine on dry and damaged hair rather than as four separate buys. The shampoo and the mask come in 500 ml salon sizes, not sachets.

What is in the box

• Vitalcare Professional Imperial Argan Restructuring Shampoo 500 ml — a gentle-foaming cleanser for dry and damaged hair that puts argan oil (Argania spinosa kernel oil) back into the hair fibre, so the hair feels stronger and less rough.
• Vitalcare Professional Imperial Argan Restructuring Conditioner 250 ml — the six-oil complex of argan, evening primrose, wheat germ, linseed, jojoba and crambe abyssinica seed oil, left on washed, towel-dried hair for a few minutes so the lengths detangle and feel smoother.
• Vitalcare Professional Imperial Argan Restructuring Hair Mask 500 ml — the jar mask, a richer and heavier deep-conditioning feed of the same six oils, for lengths that want reloading rather than a quick smoothing.
• Vitalcare Professional Imperial Argan Restructuring Treatment 100 ml — a pump bottle of clear golden liquid-crystal serum built on argan oil with linseed oil, and the only piece in the box that is not rinsed out.

How to use it

• Step one, cleanse — the shampoo 500 ml at each wash.
• Step two, treat — one of the two rinse-off pieces, not both in the same wash. The conditioner 250 ml is the everyday choice after each shampoo; the jar mask 500 ml takes the same slot when the lengths want the heavier feed. Both go on washed, towel-dried hair, sit for a few minutes and are rinsed out, and the mask is not left on longer than the conditioner.
• Step three, leave in — the treatment oil 100 ml after every wash, pumped onto the lengths and ends only, on damp or dry hair, and not rinsed out.

Good to know

Swapping the mask in for the conditioner once or twice a week is a suggestion rather than a fixed rule; use it as often as your hair needs it. The leave-in oil smooths how split ends look and adds shine; it does not repair the split itself. Argan oil is what the brand names for the shampoo; the six-oil complex belongs to the conditioner and the mask; the treatment pairs argan with linseed.