What it is: A conditioner that protects against damage from UV rays, environmental aggressors, and mechanical styling, while helping soften, detangle, and enhance shine.

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Damage, Split Ends, and Breakage
- Frizz
- UV Protection

Key Benefits:
- Protects hair from daily damage to help maintain hair health
- Detangles, softens, smooths frizz, and enhances shine
- Biomimetic shield protects without film-forming silicones and waxes

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Biotech-Produced Polysaccharide: Protects and shields hair from pollution and environmental aggressors.
- Fortifying Ceramide Blend: Seals damage sites, smoothing and protecting hair from future damage.
- K18PEPTIDE™: Replenishes protein lost during washing to fortify hair.

Ingredient Callouts: It is gluten-free and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This conditioner helps prevent damage and maintain hair health while weightlessly nourishing and conditioning. It is pH-optimized to minimize excess cuticle swelling during washing and help prevent frizz, preserve color, and enhance shine. This formula is also made without film-forming silicones and waxes that can build up over time and weigh hair down.

Fragrance Description: This conditioner has a clean citrus scent.

Clinical Results: Results observed in a consumer test of 35 subjects after 1 day of usage of the K18 DAMAGE SHIELD protective conditioner:
- 94% agreed hair did not feel weighed down
- Clinically shown to provide conditioning protection against damage from UV rays, mechanical styling, and environmental aggressors for up to 3 days

Biotech-Produced Polysaccharide: Protects and shields hair from pollution and environmental aggressors.
-Fortifying Ceramide Blend: Seals damage sites, smoothing and protecting hair from future damage.
-K18PEPTIDE™: Replenishes protein lost during washing to fortify hair.

Water (Aqua) (Eau), Isopropyl Palmitate, Stearyl Alcohol, Propanediol, Isopen1yldiol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Tocopherol, Tocopherylacerate, Sh-Oligopeptide-78,Alteromonas Ferment Extract, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweer Almond) Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Phospholipids, Jojoba Esters, Calcium Gwconate, Hydroxypropyl Guar Hydroxypropyl­Trimonium Chloride, Ceramide Np, Phytosteryijisostearyijceiyij Stearyl/Behenyl Dimer Dilinoleate, Polyquaternium-16, Stearalkonium Chloride, Isopropylalcohol, Bij1ylene Glycol, Gluconolactone, Phenoxyerhanol, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Fragrance (Parfum), Hydroxycitronellal.

Suggested Usage:
-After shampooing with the DAMAGE SHIELD pH Protective Shampoo (sold separately), squeeze out excess water.
-Apply a small amount of conditioner from mid-lengths to ends.
-Rinse thoroughly.
-For best damage repair and prevention results: Use the detox shampoo + K18 molecular repair leave-in mask (sold separately) weekly to repair damage, and use the DAMAGE SHIELD shampoo (sold separately) and conditioner on non-mask wash days, to help prevent additional damage.