When you dye your hair, using a sulfate-free color-protecting shampoo is key for maintaining its vibrant hues. These gentle formulas gently cleanse without stripping strands of their color – while still leaving behind plenty of dirt and oils!
Experts advise using them two to three times every week to preserve your vibrant hue and to find your ideal pair, we have curated our favorites here.
2. K18 Peptide Prep Smoothing pH Maintenance Color-Safe Shampoo
Gentle cleansing shampoo designed for everyday hair washing that is color-safe and skincare inspired. Formulated with K18Peptide to hydrate while eliminating product build-up for a clean foundation.
K18Peptide’s optimized pH balance perfectly protects hair + scalp from damage from excess cuticle swelling during washing – keeping hair strong, smooth, healthy and clean! Plant-derived surfactants create high foaming power without stripping strands of their natural oils; its protective shield reduces protein loss during the wash process to keep hair feeling soft, strong and hydrated.
This non-stripping clarifying shampoo provides your locks with the ideal base to allow the full potential of K18 treatments, products and styling services to shine through. It removes 99% product build-up, 95% sebum production and 76% copper for revitalized and renewed locks.
3. Love Beauty and Planet Murumuru Butter and Rose Blooming Color Shampoo
When it comes to caring for colored hair, a shampoo that both cleanses your scalp and preserves its color is necessary. Love Beauty and Planet offers such a product with its lightweight formula sourced from natural sources that is cruelty-free and vegan-friendly.
Its low pH helps prevent color fading while its antioxidant blend of Japanese musk rose and goji berry provide nourishment to your strands for maximum color retention and protection.
Reviewers rave that this blue shampoo effectively decreases brassiness on dark locks almost instantly and leaves them looking healthy, shiny and fresh.
This sulfate-free shampoo from Brazil contains murumuru butter to give your locks soft, glossy shine while offering ethically-sourced Bulgarian rose petals to leave behind a pleasing, natural aroma.
4. Kevin Murphy Angel Wash
If you dye your hair blonde and are experiencing brassiness issues, reach for this sulfate-free shampoo which features subtle violet pigments to neutralize any unwanted warmth and boost shine. Not only will it nourish and boost shine for healthy locks; but it’ll also nourish and nourishes to ensure they remain looking vibrant instead of dull!
This sulfate-free shampoo was developed specifically to support all over color processes such as highlighting and all over retouching, helping prolong your shade by strengthening strands while also protecting them against color fading. It features the proprietary Hair Protecting Complex as well as argan oil for maximum effect in protecting and prolonging hues.
This sulfate-free shampoo was specifically created with curly hair in mind and features shea butter, lavender extract, goji berry oil and musk rose oils to delicately cleanse and prevent color fading and damage. Pair this sulfate-free formula with Angel Rinse Restorative Conditioner for optimal results.
5. Olaplex Color Restoring Shampoo
This shampoo not only nourishes colored hair and absorbs excess scalp oils between washes, but it also guards it from sun damage that can fade its hues. With an UV filter to preserve color integrity and an Sulfate and Paraben-free formulation.
Clarifying shampoo can be drying to color-treated manes, so this one was specifically created to keep them strong and healthy while clearing away buildup and fading. Reviewers of this sulfate-free solution note its reduction of brassy tones as an added perk.
Clients with virgin hair are an anomaly in a busy salon–they avoid chemical processes that damage it (coloring, lifting and texture changes). But every head needs Olaplex; this at-home treatment works to restore broken bonds for stronger and healthier strands no matter the processing they’ve undergone.
