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TeraBond™ is a reactive system that convalently bonds to amino acids and keratin fragments in human hair, including broken disulfide linkages. It is a natural, high performing Plex bond multiplier.

INCI Name: Arginine, Aspergillus Ferment

Functions: Restoring Agent, Smoothing Agent

Labeling Claims: Credo Clean Standard, From Renewable Resources, Natural, Ulta Beauty's Conscious Beauty

Benefit Claims: Color & Look, Conditioning, Prevents Hair Breakage, Strengthening

Technical Data Sheet
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Identification & Functionality

Cosmetic Ingredients Functions

Features & Benefits

Product Benefits
  • Reduces client & stylist exposure to toxic chemicals
  • Repairs hair to the same standard as leading Plex products
  • Increases sheen & strength
  • Repels moisture, less breakage
  • Conditions without quats or silicones

Applications & Uses

Application Format
Color Cosmetic Applications
Recommended Uses

Salon services where developers and neutralizers (peroxides or enzyme oxidizers) are used.

  • Bleaching, Balayage, Highlights
  • Demi and Permanent Color
  • Perms or Hair Relaxer treatments

TeraBond™ also repairs bonds in home-use formulas. Add it to conditioner and leave-in treatments formulas to restore hair without quats or silicones

Properties

Physical Form

Technical Details & Test Data

Efficacy Studies

Sustainability And Flexibility

TeraBond is a powder, twelve times more concentrated than Olaplexâ Step

  • It can be used as-is and added directly to salon processes.
  • It can also be formulated into two-part salon systems as well as at-home treatments

Hair Lightening

Virgin black hair tresses repeatedly bleached (50 minutes, five times, 40 vol developer) followed by an extreme two hour bleaching. Trained panel evaluated the No Treatment, TeraBond and Olaplex treated tresses.

Moisture Resistance

TeraBond repairs keratin bonds which allows hair to repel moisture.

Moisture Retention after 1hr Air Dry

Actera Ingredients TeraBond Efficacy Studies - 1

Color Treatment

Untreated tress:

  • Dull, blurred (diffracted) shine band
  • Thinner fibers and lower tress volume (thin and flat)

Bond Multiplier tresses:

  • TeraBond and Olaplex create distinct, bright white shine bands
  • Visibly thicker individual fibers and tress volume

Color Fastness

The photo below shows detergent washing of colored hair. The middle photo was TeraBond treated and very little dye. The Untreated (left) and Olaplex (right) had high levels of dye removed form hair during washing.

Actera Ingredients TeraBond Efficacy Studies - 2