Amika The Protector Color Protect + Strengthen Shampoo 275ml

Gently cleanse coloured hair while helping preserve its vibrancy with Amika The Protector Color Protect + Strengthen Shampoo. This colour-protecting formula removes impurities without stripping or shifting your shade, leaving hair feeling soft, smooth and refreshed.

Its Color Longevity Complex combines colour-locking polymers, peptides and colour-retention silicones to help prevent dullness and fading. A High-Refractive Glossing Polymer smooths rough cuticles and enhances shine, while black currant extract and sea buckthorn provide antioxidant-rich care for coloured hair.

Who Is It For?

• Suitable for all colour-treated hair types
• Designed for hair types 1A to 4C
• Ideal for permanent and semi-permanent colour
• Suitable for highlighted and professionally coloured hair
• Ideal for hair prone to fading or dullness
• Beneficial for weakened hair vulnerable to breakage
• Suitable for keratin-treated hair
• Perfect for maintaining colour between salon appointments

Key Benefits

• Gently cleanses without stripping or shifting colour
• Clinically proven to help prevent colour fading for up to 40 washes
• Delivers hair that is up to 11 times stronger
• Helps reduce breakage by up to 91%
• Rinses quickly without leaving residue
• Helps reduce time spent beneath colour-stripping water
• Leaves hair feeling moisturised, soft and manageable
• Smooths rough hair cuticles
• Enhances shine so colour appears more vibrant
• Vegan and cruelty-free
• Free from sulphates, parabens and mineral oil
• Features Amika’s signature pink grapefruit, apricot and vanilla fragrance
• Convenient 275ml size

Performance claims are clinically proven when the shampoo and conditioner are used together as a system.

Key Ingredients

• Color Longevity Complex: Combines colour-locking polymers, peptides and colour-retention silicones to help preserve vibrancy and prevent dullness and fading.
• High-Refractive Glossing Polymer: Mimics naturally occurring ceramides and forms a lightweight film that helps smooth rough cuticles and enhance shine.
• Black Currant Extract: An antioxidant-rich fruit extract that helps protect against oxidative stress that may affect hair colour.
• Sea Buckthorn: Amika’s signature superfruit, naturally rich in vitamins, antioxidants and omega-7 fatty acids.
• Hydrolysed Rice Protein: Helps condition and strengthen vulnerable hair.
• Panthenol: Helps support moisture retention, softness and manageability.

How to Use

1. Wet the hair thoroughly.
2. Apply the shampoo and massage from the roots through to the ends.
3. Work into a rich lather.
4. Rinse thoroughly.
5. Repeat if required.
6. Follow with Amika The Protector Color Protect + Strengthen Conditioner.
7. Complete the routine with Amika The Protector Color Protect + Strengthen Treatment for additional leave-in protection.

For thicker or especially dry hair, use Amika Hydro Rush Intense Moisture Mask whenever additional hydration is required.

Safety Information

Avoid contact with the eyes. If contact occurs, rinse immediately and thoroughly with water. For external use only. Keep out of reach of children.

Ingredients

Water/Aqua/Eau, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Cocamide MIPA, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Glycol Stearate, Ribes Nigrum (Black Currant/Cassis) Fruit Extract, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Argousier) Fruit/Seed Oil, Hydrolyzed Rice Protein, Panthenol, Amodimethicone, Sodium Polyaspartate, Polyquaternium-113, Polyquaternium-53, Polyquaternium-7, Polyquaternium-92, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Caprylyl Glycol, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Sodium Carrageenan, Ethylhexylglycerin, Aminomethyl Propanol, Phenoxyethanol, Polysorbate 20, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Metabisulfite, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Chloride, Fragrance/Parfum, Benzyl Benzoate, Hydroxycitronellal, Limonene, Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes.