Olaplex No.3 Hair Perfector
The Maleate System
The original: the pre-shampoo perfector that started the bond category, built on the brand's patented Bond Building Technology as published.
Olaplex publishes one patented active, Bis-Aminopropyl Diglycol Dimaleate, across its whole line, and describes it as relinking broken disulfide bonds, in the brand's words. One molecule, one story, applied to every format the line sells.
Suits
Damaged looking hair of any type that needs one proven weekly treatment step: bleached, coloured or heat styled hair that feels fragile and breaks easily in brushing.
Skip if
Your hair is healthy, unprocessed and only dry. No.3 is a treatment, not a conditioner or a moisture mask, and the brand says so on its own listing; dry hair without damage is better served by the No.8 mask in this edit.
- Size
- 100 ml / 3.3 fl oz
- Format
- Pre-shampoo cream treatment, bottle
- Key Ingredients
- Bis-Aminopropyl Diglycol Dimaleate (the brand's Bond Building Technology, as published), panthenol, jojoba seed oil, sweet almond oil
- Use
- Apply generously to damp hair before shampooing, leave 10 minutes, rinse, then shampoo and condition, once weekly or up to 2 to 3 times weekly for very damaged hair, as directed by the brand
- Hair Type
- All hair types, as printed on the bottle
