Malibu Make Over with Crystal Gel Normalizer
What It Is:
The Original Malibu MakeOver is a 2-step wellness treatment beginning with Malibu’s Crystal Gel Normalizer followed by the Miracle Repair Power Protein Builder to restore vibrant hair and healthy scalp. The Malibu MakeOver provides dramatic results and immediate normalizing and revitalizing of hair and scalp that has hard water mineral build-up and is oxidized, damaged or over-processed. Fresh-dried antioxidant vitamins and proteins of various molecular sizes replace the need for clarifiers and deep conditioners that can otherwise leave the hair dry and coated. Malibu Crystal Gel and Miracle Repair Power Protein Builder may be used as often as desired and are safe and gentle for all ages including infants and children.
In-Salon Service processed by a licensed professional includes:
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Crystal Gel
Normalizer | Miracle Repair
Power Protein Builder |
Malibu Miracle Repair Power Protein Builder
What It Is:
A powerful vitamin-enriched protein reconstructor specifically formulated for dry, brittle, damaged (oxidized), or tangled hair that needs immediate repair.
What It Does:
Penetrates the hair shaft to fill in the “gaps” where proteins are damaged. Like tiny magnets, the protein particles are drawn exactly to the areas of the hair that need protein. And unlike other conditioners, it does not simply coat the hair but rather reinforces the inner structure of hair for immediate strength, volume, manageability, moisture balance and shine. Hair will look and feel stronger, more resilient with easy comb-through.
Features & Benefits:
- Immediately repairs damaged hair
- Vitamin-enriched formula infuses vital moisture to hair
- Plant proteins penetrate rebuild inner structure of hair
- Hair feels stronger immediately
- Instantly detangles to improve comb-ability
- Increases volume and shine
- Packaged for easy single application
- Travel-friendly
Who Needs It:
Anyone exposing their hair to hard water, soft water, pools, spas, salon chemicals, or styling implements (blow dryer, curling iron, flat iron, etc.). Especially beneficial for anyone who struggles to comb through wet hair or hair that easily tangles. Beneficial for all hair types and hair textures.
How You Use It:
The eco-friendly, travel-friendly single-use packet can be easily applied in the shower or bath after shampooing hair. For best results, use once a week or as often as desired. Miracle Repair is also the second step processed under heat in the famous Malibu MakeOver service. Process after a chemical service and without heat when used in conjunction with coloring, highlighting, perming, relaxing or straightening hair.
Features & Benefits for:
COLOR, HIGHLIGHTS & BLONDES
- Immediately removes layers of “rock” on the hair caused by mineral build-up that can inhibit the successful processing of color & highlights
- Processes color faster so chemicals don’t stay on the hair as long
- Prevents brassy tones from appearing that would cause colorist to have to use a stronger chemical to correct
- Increases vibrancy
- Increases color’s staying power and helps prevent fading
- Helps remove most medication build-up (meds for blood pressure, diabetes, heart and thyroid to name a few)
- Helps prevent breakage prior, during and after service by stopping oxidation
- Minimizes burning and irritation from chemicals on clients with a sensitive scalp
- Infuses protein following chemical service for strength and integrity of the hair following oxidizing service
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PERMS
Assures perm results with “true-to-rod” curl patterns
Normalizes and prepares resistant hair to ensure maximum results
Helps guarantee hair is free of minerals, oxidizers, & medications that can otherwise inhibit perms from successfully processing
Prevents perm re-do’s
Helps prevent breakage, "melting & smoking" reactions during service
Minimizes burning and irritation from chemicals on clients with a sensitive scalp
Infuses hair with protein following service to improve strength and vibrancy
STRAIGHTENERS/RELAXERS
Prepares hair to assure the straightest results with the least damage
Helps guarantee clients' hair is free of minerals, oxidizers, & medications that can otherwise prevent the successful processing of straightener/relaxer chemicals
Helps prevent and stop breakage due to heavy oxidation or high pH chemicals
Minimizes burning and irritation to clients' scalp with antioxidant action
SCALP
Safely and gently removes mineral build-up that can exacerbate dandruff, eczema and psoriasis
Helps reduce scalp irritation and appearance of inflammation
Reduces or prevents flaking and itching
Helps normalize the natural exfoliation rate of scalp surface layers
SWIMMERS
Immediately returns swimmers' hair to a dramatically healthier condition
Safely removes chlorine and other oxidizers that can damage hair
Helps remove copper build-up from pools that can cause ‘swimmers' green’ hair
Quickly restores shine, volume and manageability
Helps to reduce itching and irritation on swimmers' scalp
Infuses proteins to help prevent future damage
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Swimmer After |
WELL WATER
Immediately returns hair to a dramatically healthier condition
Safely and effectively removes mineral build-up such as iron that causes orange hair and copper that causes green hair
Safely and effectively removes calcium (lime) build-up from hard water
Quickly restores shine, volume and manageability
Infuses protein to help slow the build-up of future exposure to minerals
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Who Needs It:
Everyone. Especially anyone exposed to hard water, pools, spas, or water softeners and oxidizing chemicals that are used to color, highlight, perm, straighten or relax hair.
Condition: Color Correction
Color Correction is usually NOT the salon professional's fault. Most often, color is applied correctly to match a swatch that is the guide. However, when the color is applied to a swatch, there is no presence of minerals, product buildup, and/or oxidizers. Therefore, if the color is applied to hair without first removing minerals, styling product build-up, and oxidizers, the color will last less than two weeks leading to the need for Color Correction.
Hard Water under Hair Solutions to learn more about which minerals in your water can discolor your hair. Additionally, cigarette smoke residue and oral medications can also affect how well color remains in the hair.
Color Correction is usually associated with:
Color Fadage and loosing vibrancy
Highlights getting dark or cloudy looking
Reds not lasting
Brassy tone
Color not matching the swatch
Unevenness of color
Assuming the color was applied properly and the correct colors were used in the formula, the problem is almost always elements that were on the hair before the color was applied.
Wellness Solution
Before any attempt to re-color or highlight hair, it is IMPERATIVE that first a treatment using fresh-dried vitamins and natural chelators be applied to the hair. As indicated in the Condition description, mineral build-up can sabotage successful color results. Therefore, removing the minerals to normalize the hair will immediately solve the problem and you might find there is no need to have your color corrected.
If mineral build-up is severe, we recommend a freshly-activated vitamin treatment processed with heat in the salon to prepare the hair for color correction and to ensure successful results.
Our wellness approach using naturally-derived, fresh-dried vitamins will:
Remove minerals and oxidizers
Remove styling product buildup
Remove most medications that have seeped through the scalp
Remove yellow discoloration caused by cigarette smoke
Malibu Wellness, Inc. was founded by Tom Porter and his wife Deb in Malibu, California in 1985, the first company to develop products with fresh-dried Vitamin C and Vitamin E for external use. The company has been formulating and marketing these unique technologies under the brand names Malibu 2000 and EC Mode.
The company's philosophy is Total Oxidation Management, which is about understanding the connection between the environment and the human body, and salons and their clients are finding solutions to common hair and skin conditions using this approach.
Total Oxidation Management recognizes that oxidation is the process that results in the formation of free radicals, the culprits which appear to cause aging. The company is built upon the philosophy that if you manage your oxidation, you prevent the formation of free radicals, thereby slowing the aging process and the signs of aging.
Regular weekly classes at the Malibu Wellness Institute teach professionals how to help their clients prevent damaged hair and skin with the use of fresh-dried Vitamin C and Vitamin E, and also how to reverse damage caused by every day elements such as water and other factors unique to each client's environment.
Total Oxidation Management with Antioxidant Vitamins E & C
If oxidation is the primary cause of damage to our skin, then an antioxidant is something that has the ability to stop or prevent damage. Antioxidant vitamins are essential in protecting the epidermis from damage by free radicals.
The use of the right vitamins on your skin—in the correct percentages, in the correct pH and in an effective delivery system—can change your life, or at least how you look and feel. And no other minerals or chemicals have as far reaching benefits as the topical application of the 12% L-ascorbic acid form of Vitamin C, followed by 5% natural Vitamin E.
The core of Malibu Wellness technology is the use of fresh-dried antioxidant vitamins E and C.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C is a superior antioxidant. And the L-ascorbic acid form is the most versatile antioxidant vitamin because it provides so many different benefits all at the same time, including:
Antioxidant protection
Preventing photo-aging
Normalizing skin exfoliation
Inducing and benefiting collagen synthesis
Slowing the synthesis of melanin
Reducing inflammation
Vitamin E
Vitamin E plays a crucial role in protecting cell membranes from oxidative free radical damage. The application of 5% Vitamin E is imperative following application of Vitamin C to help drive Vitamin C deeper into the skin layers, creating a trans-epidermal seal to hold in moisture. The benefits of Vitamin E include:
Provides antioxidant protection
Protects against UV radiation
Improves elasticity and firmness of skin
Acts as a trans-epidermal seal
Softens and smoothes skin
Inhibits and reduces scare tissue
Vitamin E & Vitamin C are Better Together
The only thing better than using the 12% L-ascorbic acid form of Vitamin C and the 5% natural form of Vitamin E separately is using them together. Vitamin C appears to travel deeper and is more concentrated through the lipid layers of skin if it is used in conjunction with Vitamin E. Vitamin E appears to have more activity when used in conjunction with Vitamin C.
Benefits of Vitamin E and Vitamin C for the Hair and Scalp:
Acts as a protective barrier against damaging ultraviolet rays
Helps stop and prevent further oxidation of chemicals used in perming, relaxing and coloring that can cause breakage, itchiness, and flaking
Vitamin C helps to remove minerals and oxidizers while closing the cuticle to promote shiny, healthy hair
Vitamin E replenishes moisture to hair
Helps to control the symptoms associated with dandruff and eczema
Can help prevent the oxidation of testosterone - a major cause of hair loss
Benefits of Vitamin E and Vitamin C for the Skin:
Helps reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles
Helps normalize natural exfoliation rate of skin
Helps to protect the skin against ultraviolet radiation
Stimulates natural collagen development (connective tissue of skin)
Helps speed the healing process of wounds
Improves skin elasticity and firmness
Vitamin E helps soften skin
Vitamin E improves smoothness of skin
Controls the inflammatory response associated with ultraviolet light
Helps fade age spots
Helps prevent and reduce scar tissue
Helps to control the symptoms associated with eczema
Helps to control the symptoms associated with acne
Internal Benefits of Vitamin E and Vitamin C:
Vitamin E stops the oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol to prevent the build up of plaque in the arteries, which leads to cardiovascular disease
May help prevent certain cancers
May help prevent cataracts
Helps boost the immune system
Vitamin E helps stabilize cell membranes
He began his formal study of oxidation and the aging process while he was pursuing his doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University at Bloomington in the 1980's. While Tom and his wife, Deb, were making the transition from Bloomington to Malibu, Calif. in 1982, a near fatal car accident caused his face to crash through the windshield of their car at 60 mph. The emergency room physician who sewed over forty-five stitches into his face told him he would undoubtedly need the services of a plastic surgeon to perform a series of surgical procedures in the hopes of restoring the original appearance of his face.
Tom immediately began applying a daily solution of the freshly-activated L-ascorbic acid form of Vitamin C. After the stitches were removed, he began following the Vitamin C with an application of concentrated Vitamin E directly to all affected areas of his face. Two months later at his follow-up visit, the plastic surgeon was surprised at the accelerated healing of Tom's skin. The daily topical application of these active vitamins had accelerated the healing of the skin and had minimized scar tissue, ultimately preventing the need for plastic surgery altogether.
Tom's experience led him to found Malibu Wellness, and for the past 18 years, he has continued to explore the benefits of fresh-dried Vitamin E and Vitamin C to accelerate wound healing, slow the signs of aging, and manage other common skin conditions. Tom's educational program—which he teaches to hair care and skin care professionals worldwide at the Malibu Wellness Institute in Malibu—is known as Total Oxidation Management, which includes the use of freshly-activated 12% Vitamin C applied to the skin and hair, either alone or with its partner, 5% natural Vitamin E.
He regularly visits cities around the U.S. to test local water supplies for levels of chlorine, peroxide and pH to discover what might be hiding in the water supply that causes skin and hair to "age" faster. He explains how the ordinary things we all do as we go about our daily activities speed up how fast we appear to age—things as simple as the sun we're exposed to walking from our offices to our cars, being around people who smoke, inhaling exhaust fumes from cars as we walk across the street, to the chlorine and other chemicals and minerals found in our bath water. And how Total Oxidation Management gives us have more control than we think over how old (or oxidized) we look.
Tom's book on skin care—"You're Not Aging…You're Just Oxidizing"—explores what accelerates the signs of aging and causes chronic skin conditions, with tips on how to slow and even reverse the aging process by using fresh-dried Vitamin C and natural Vitamin E.
DEB PORTER
Co-Founder, Malibu Wellness, Inc.
Malibu, CA
Deb Porter is co-founder of Malibu Wellness, Inc., established in 1985, the first company to develop personal care products using fresh-dried Vitamin C and Vitamin E for external use. Deb has 19 years in the health and beauty industry, and has dedicated a total of 25 years to the health and wellness fields.
She established and directs the Malibu Wellness Institute, located on the Pacific Coast in Malibu, California, for the advanced education in the wellness approach to beauty using Total Oxidation Management. This unique education for salon professionals focuses on the relationship between the human body and the environment—outdoors, at home and in the salon. Total Oxidation Management incorporates the topical use of fresh-dried Vitamin C and Vitamin E to reverse damage to the hair, scalp and skin caused by every day elements such as water and other factors unique to each clients' environment.
Deb also developed the company's innovative web site, www.MalibuWellness.com, for online education of salon and spa professionals and their clients, which includes many interactive tools to better educate people about adopting a Total Oxidation Management lifestyle.
Chlorine:
Chlorine is an element used to kill bacteria in drinking water and pools, and as an active bleach to remove pigment in color. Chlorine can discolor hair, damage the cuticle and protein, and create an oxidizing effect on elements in the hair. Active chlorine can leave hair feeling gummy when wet, and straw-like when dry. Chlorine can alter the electrical charge on minerals in the hair, causing them to bond stronger to the hair, and may even change the color of certain minerals. The highly charged mineral may, in turn, damage and/or discolor the hair.
Bromine:
Used like chlorine, especially in hot pools, such as whirlpools and spas.
How Minerals Get Into WaterGround water and surface water are the sources of water for homes and businesses.Ground water comes from under the ground. Both domestic and community wells derive their water from rain passing through aquifers, which are layers of minerals.
The acidity (pH below 7.0) of the rain increases the dissolving effect of minerals; therefore, these dissolved solids are found in the water when pumped above groundand used in bathing.
Surface water comes from rivers or lakes, usually containing fewer minerals because the water has not filtered down through the mineral layers. Unfortunately, increasingpopulations are polluting the water, which causes additional bacterial growth. This growth is controlled at treatment facilities by adding chlorine to kill bacteria, and then adding lime (a calcium compound) to help control chlorine levels.
How Minerals Can Attach on to Your HairMinerals affecting the hair are charged positive. This attachment createsa "wall" of minerals on the protein, blocking solutions, preventing proper penetration of color, perm, and relaxer. Minerals found in water at home are continuously exposedto the hair during bathing. Since hot or warm water is usually selected to wash hair, the cuticle is opened, allowing positively charged elements, such as minerals, to get inside the cuticle and attach to the protein.
How Minerals Can Affect Hair
Calcium Effect on HairThis mineral is in most of the water in the United States and unfortunately, causes serious problems not usually recognized by most professional stylists andtheir clients.
Mineralized calcium is found naturally in the ground, especially where limestone is present. Calcium (also known as lime) is injected into most water systemsas part of the water treatment process.
Three ways calcium affects hair:
Calcium builds up on the hair, leaving the hair feeling dry and weighted down. It can even cause perms to be relaxed.
Calcium salts build up on the scalp and cause flaking, often know as dandruff. These deposits are much like the "bathtub ring" associated with hard water and bath soap.
Calcium "build-up" can clog the hair at the mouth of the follicle, causing the hair tobreak off, and may coat the scalp, blocking further hair growth.
Copper: This mineral bonds strongly to the hair and originates either from underground water, particles from copper water pipes, or most commonly, copper sulfates added to pool and drinking water to control algae growth. Oxidized copper discolors light hair,producing a green tint, and causes dark hair to tint darker. It can weigh hair down, and also cause problems in perms, colors, and relaxers.
Iron: Found usually in well water in areas that have concentrations of iron in the ground. Concentrations of iron will slowly cause hair to tint darker, add weight to the hair, and prevent proper chemical processing. Heavy amounts of iron will tint light-coloredhair orange and cause dark hair to become darker with red highlights. Oxidized iron actually functions as an oxidizer in hair in much the same way that mildperoxide attacks the hair. It may cause an excessive dry feeling in the hair and may actually change the textural appearance of the hair.
Magnesium: Magnesium is abundant in the soil and is very much a part of the mineral complex associated with hard water. Like calcium, magnesium attaches tothe hair, leaving it feeling dry and weighted down.
Silica: Sand-like substance found in areas of volcanic or desert-like areas. It is usually bound to calcium or magnesium and forms very hard, virtually insolubledeposits on surfaces. Water borne silica can build up on the hair, causing the same effect as calcium - dryness, dandruff, weight, and hair loss.
Lead: Lead acetate is used in certain home remedy gray cover-ups, such as Grecian Formula. This element can build up, leaving the hair feeling dry and preventing proper chemical services, such as perms and colors, from processing properly.
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