Does shea butter strip chemical hair color?

[Patrycja]

I have 100% shea whipped with a little bit of Lavender EO and I would like to use it today for a conditioning treatment but afraid to.As some of you know-I recently dyed my hair with chemical color so my options for DT are limited.I used to swear by heavy oilings(perferrably overnight)but I know for a fact that oils strip out my color.I can use them very very sparingly but a heavy oiling was my favorite DT.I know I can do a SMT but after my curdeled disaster with that-I'm afraid to try it again(besides,thanks to recent strep throat-I'm outta honey).I want to use my shea since I have basically the entire jar left and I can't use it as a leave in(makes hair sticky and clumped up,even with a little shea on my ends)

So-calling all chemical heads that dig their shea.How does your color keep?Does your color fade any after using the butter?Also-is shea a good DT for chemical heads?

TIA

[wintersun99]

Bumping - I'm curious too

[Patrycja]

thanks wintersun! I came here to do the same thing.

[annarose]

Hmm funny, I just did a heavy overnight and heat-capped shea butter treatment last night, and I chemical dyed last weekend.

I haven't noticed any changes today and I'm usually one to get stripped from just plain old honey in an SMT, nevermind oils.

But I am only one person, wait until others have posted their results too.

[1953Diygal]

I don't know about commercial hair color, but when I would apply it to my hair, it would compromise the integrity of my acrylic nails.

[Patrycja]

yeah...I wasn't too bright the other day.I did a DT with shea and using CWC to get it out after letting it sit for an hour.My suds from my poo were red :(

soooooo--NO shea for my chemical head! At least in DT form :lol:

[Ohio Sky]

Well, while red seems to be a very hard color to keep, my black is a very hard one to get rid of, so my vote may not count, but Ive done several treatments with shea and have never noticed any color change, with chemical color or henna. The red suds while washing used to happen to me for a week or two after dying with red chemical color, depending on how much I washed, and I never found a way to avoid that.

[lora410]

I use raw shea and have no problems with it.

[shellblue1]

I use a shea butter/cocoa butter/sweet almond oil mix on my hair sometimes. My hair is chemically colored black but I haven't really noticed much fading if any at all. Of course I use demi-permanent color so my hair kind of fades a bit anyway so maybe my opinion isn't very helpful. I really just use the shea mix as spot treatment on my dry ends or as a light overnight treatment. When I use it on my hair it gets rid of frizz and adds nice shine. I've never tried it as a heavy conditioning treatment.

[whitesnake]

dont think so

[burns_erin]

They only things I could use on my bottle reds that would not strip it out were highly silicone based products, that actually seemed to slow the fade out. Anything else that prompted or protected moisture stripped the red out.