Colored or dyed hair needs special care and the right products. If you're looking for a color-safe shampoo, read on for some tips on choosing the one that's best for your hair.

Characteristics of colored or dyed hair

Once you decide to change your natural hair color, your care routine changes, and so do your hair's characteristics. When choosing a color-safe shampoo for your hair, keep these characteristics of dyed hair in mind:

• It becomes more sensitive to outside factors like sun, pollution, wind, chlorine, sea salt, or the sulfates and parabens in some hair products.

• It tends to break more easily.

• It dries out easily and needs more hydration.

• It can gradually lose its shine and glow.

What is a color-safe shampoo?

A color-safe shampoo is, ideally, a shampoo free of sulfates and parabens with natural ingredients. Its formula has a super-hydrating, repairing effect, ideal for caring for dyed hair, which is more sensitive.

A shampoo is safer for dyed or colored hair when it:

• Has no sulfates, parabens or other chemicals that can damage your hair.
• Has a formula with UV protection.
• Is highly hydrating and nourishing.
• Has natural ingredients.

Practical tips for caring for colored hair

Besides a color-safe shampoo, you can also take a few extra precautions to keep your dyed hair healthy, properly hydrated and glowing.

Use the right products for colored hair

When choosing hair care products, take every precaution in picking shampoos, conditioners, creams, masks and any other product that hydrates your hair, renews it with every wash, promotes growth and keeps it strong and shiny.

When looking for a color-safe shampoo, you may come across what's known as a toning shampoo, an oily shampoo with dye and hydrogen peroxide. This product is meant to maintain the shade of dyed hair.

But be careful! Before using any toner, look for products with natural ingredients that nourish your hair even when it's dyed. At eva+avo, we've created formulas for every hair type with the properties of ingredients like avocado, rosemary oil and cacao.

Protect yourself from the sun

Long sun exposure can affect your hair color, so protect it with a color-safe shampoo with sun protection. You can also wear hats or scarves to protect your hair even more while you're in the sun.

Apply a hair mask once a week

Hair masks can help colored hair regain its shine and vitality. Their hydrating, nourishing effect keeps your color vivid while your hair grows healthy.

Choose leave-in hair treatments

Products like conditioners or leave-in creams can be the perfect complement to a color-safe shampoo. Your colored or dyed hair will enjoy a longer-lasting hydrating effect and look shiny and silky.

Wash your dyed hair less often

Washing colored hair many times a week can make the pigment or color fade. Wash your dyed hair every other day with a color-safe shampoo and you'll notice your color lasts longer and stays more vivid and bright.

Use essential hair oils

Essential hair oils are a powerful tool for keeping hair healthy, strong, shiny and silky. And of course, colored hair is no exception.

Use an oil every day as the finishing touch to your care routine. Besides protecting your color with shine and hydration, it helps your hair grow healthier and makes it easier to style by taming frizz and repairing broken hair.

eva+avo products for caring for colored hair

Yes, at eva+avo we have products with repairing, nourishing formulas for every hair type, including colored or dyed hair.

Our products are free of sulfates and parabens, and their main ingredients are avocado, rosemary oil and cacao, known for their excellent nourishing and repairing properties.

Besides a color-safe shampoo, you'll have other essentials at hand, like rinse-out and leave-in conditioners, nourishing masks and oils.

eva+avo color-safe Cleansing Shampoo

eva+avo Cleansing Shampoo is safe for color and for every hair type in general. A vitamin-rich blend that nourishes and hydrates dyed hair with avocado, vitamins and wild rosemary oil.

You can use it on dyed hair, and a small amount is enough to wash your hair while gently massaging your scalp and strands. You'll notice more hydration and softer, shinier hair without affecting your color.

eva+avo color-safe Hydrating Conditioner

eva+avo Hydrating Conditioner is a great complement after washing your hair with a color-safe shampoo. It gives extra hydration to keep dyed hair vivid and bright. It also makes your hair look and feel softer while it grows strong and healthy.

eva+avo Nourishing Mask

As we mentioned, hair masks can be very helpful for caring for colored or dyed hair.

eva+avo Nourishing Mask provides hydration and energy to keep hair shiny with vivid color, while repairing broken ends and softening it to make it more manageable. All with the power of avocado and its many benefits.

As you can see, there's much more to caring for dyed hair than just a color-safe shampoo. Visit our eva+avo store and discover everything we have for your hair care and well-being.