A leave-in hair treatment from K18 designed to repair damaged hair, including hair affected by bleaching, coloring, heat styling and chemical treatments, after shampooing.
Water (Aqua) (Eau), Alcohol Denat, Propylene Glycol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dicaprylyl Ether, Cetyl Esters, Behentrimonium Chloride, Polysorbate 20, SH-Oligopeptide-78 (K18Peptide™), Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydrolyzed Wheat Starch, Isopropyl Alcohol, Tocopherol, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid, Fragrance (Parfum), Geraniol, Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Benzyl Alcohol
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17 experts · Strong agreementWhat the gurus are saying
Bleached, colored or heat-battered hair is where this leave-in mask earns its fans, with gurus noticing frizz settling and natural texture coming back. The catch is the routine: you use it on towel-dried hair after shampoo, skip conditioner, and a dime-size amount on the ends goes a long way. Not everyone is sold, though, as one camp didn't have luck with it and questioned the formula, and others called it pricey.
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The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.
“Another bond repair treatment I use regularly is K18.”
Skin Obsessed Mary, watch at 8:00
“I think it's a worthwhile investment for anyone with damaged, bleached, or chemically treated hair, particularly if you're dealing with thinning or breakage”
Doctor Anne, watch at 6:47
“These just help to re-approximate temporarily the bonds in the hair, especially if you have color treated hair with a lot of damage that ends up getting frizzy in humidity”
Dr Dray, watch at 9:18
Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.
Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.
Peptides are short protein fragments meant to signal repair. The evidence for them is thinner than for retinoids or vitamin C, and it varies a lot by the specific peptide, so the category is more promising than proven.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.
A leave-in hair treatment from K18 designed to repair damaged hair, including hair affected by bleaching, coloring, heat styling and chemical treatments, after shampooing.
Mostly yes. 14 of the 17 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 81%.
K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask holds a Guru Score of 81%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 17 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.
K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask is generally suited to dry skin and sensitive skin.
In their reviews, experts say K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask is good for damaged or breaking hair (10 experts), thinning hair (1 expert) and frizz (1 expert).
10 experts who reviewed K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask say it is. Skin Obsessed Mary put it this way: “Another bond repair treatment I use regularly is K18.”
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