Best Purple Shampoo in South Africa in 2024

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Blonde hair can start to turn dull and brassy within a few weeks of a salon treatment. Fortunately, yellow tones don’t require a salon visit. You can keep your blonde or grey hair in salon-perfect condition by using the best purple shampoo in South Africa at home.

We stock top professional brands, such as CDC, Osmo, Dalon and Crazy Color. Their revolutionary products banish yellow, brassy and orange tones with just one wash. See the difference for yourself here and in these photographs.

We have the best purple shampoos for blondes in South Africa, as well as no yellow, silver and blue shampoos for all shades of blonde, grey and brunette hair.

Our top picks will help you choose the correct purple shampoo for you.

Overall best purple shampoo in South Africa

This fast-acting formula immediately banishes unwanted yellow from bleached, grey and super-lightened hair. Super-violet pigments turn brassy tones to cool silver and ash with one just wash.

We love the fresh, fruity fragrance of the vegan-friendly, sulphate-free shampoo. It leaves your hair feeling really clean, smooth and bright. It can be used on natural or synthetic hair.

Follow with the Osmo Silverising Conditioner or Osmo Silverising Violet Mask for even brighter results.

Best affordable purple shampoo

This affordable purple shampoo produces very cool, intense tones on brassy blonde, grey, white and platinum hair. It’s enriched with nourishing ingredients, so your hair is left smooth, shiny and refreshed.

Always use with the Dalon Hairmony Silver Hair Mask for super-hydration and brightness.

Best purple shampoo to fix orange hair

Brunettes and darker blondes have a deeper warmth to their hair. These shades tend to go orange rather than yellow. As blue is a complementary shade to orange, it neutralises orangey tones in brunette and dark blonde hair.

This sulphate-free shampoo is infused with super-blue pigments to banish unwanted copper, orange and brassy tones in natural or coloured hair. In one wash, it reveals cooler, fresher tones.

It’s an enriched, cruelty-free, vegan-friendly option that’s ideal for balayaged hair and is the best purple shampoo for ombre hair. Follow with Osmo Super Cool Zero Orange Mask for intense hydration.

Best purple shampoo for yellow hair

Kick yellow tones into touch with this gently cleansing, sulphate-free shampoo with blue-violet pigments. It banishes yellow tones that make your blonde, highlighted or bleached hair dull and brassy.

It can also be used on white or grizzled hair to obtain a purer and brighter colour. Hair is left shiny, soft and deeply nourished.

Best purple shampoo for bleached hair

This is the perfect purple shampoo for bleached blonde, super-lightened or grey hair. Use it once a week if you’re seeing brassy tones starting to peek through. It will leave your locks super cool and bright.

The sulphate-free shampoo can also be used as a toner after the bleaching process in between salon appointments.

Best purple shampoo and conditioner

A nourishing line-up of amino acids, jojoba, sunflower and coconut oils make these some of the most hydrating products available to transform dull yellow strands to cool blonde.

A dual ultra-violet dye system purifies and neutralises unwanted yellow tones, optical brighteners protect and enhance blonde radiance and coconut oil infuses strength, adds shine and moisturises dry strands to reveal your iciest blonde yet. 

Use the masque weekly for a deeply-nourishing treatment that helps extend the life and vibrancy of blonde colour.

Best purple shampoo for ash blonde hair

This brand is ideal for anyone wanting to intensify the colour of their ash blonde or grey hair. The Platinum Infusion Shampoo is specially formulated to preserve the life of colour and create a cool, white look.

The purple micro-pigments instantly brighten and neutralise unwanted yellow and brassy tones, enriching hair with a new-found vibrancy. Blonde hair becomes more platinum and grey hair develops a beautiful silver sheen.

Follow with the spray-on Hannon Colour Infusion Platinum Leave-In Conditioner.

Best silver shampoo for grey hair

Osmo’s Silverising Shampoo is a sulphate-free product that’s ideal for banishing yellow and enhancing silver tones.

The gentle formula cleanses without stripping, adds shine and breathes new life into grey and white hair. It’s suitable for highlighted, bleached or natural shades of grey and blonde.

Best purple shampoo for coloured-treated hair

Use this super-hydrating product straight after a colour treatment – even before you see yellow tones – to maintain and evolve colour. It helps your hair resist fading, maintains brightness and boosts colour brilliance in all blondes, whites and silvers, foil highlights or balayage. 

We also love that it’s 100% vegan, animal-friendly – and sulphate-, paraben-, ammonia, peroxide and PPD-free.

Best sulphate-free purple shampoo

This aloe-based, sulphate-free purple shampoo leaves your hair smelling fragrant as it is refreshes and revives dull, brassy tones.

The gluten-, soy- and paraben-free product gives a unique aromatherapy experience with vanilla bean and blood orange fragrance that’s absorbed by the hair.

Use with the Loma Violet Conditioner, which has scents of lemon and eucalyptus.

Best vegan purple shampoo

This is the purple shampoo if you’re looking for a more sustainable and environmentally-conscious hair-care brand. As well as being 100% vegan, the FFØR (Free From, Organic, Real) range is ethically sourced and comes in fully-recyclable packaging.

The shampoo is intensely hydrating and effectively removes yellow and brassy tones from grey, silver and bleached-blonde hair. It contains enriching organic lemongrass, lavender and cedarwood, so it smells bright and fresh. 

Best toner for blonde hair

Add these colour drops to your favourite shampoo, conditioner or cream-based styling product to turn it into a toner. The colour pigment is very concentrated, so a little goes a long way.

Toning drops instantly impart colour to lightened blonde hair and neutralise unwanted brassy tones. They’re keratin-infused and packed with oils – castor, almond, coconut, jojoba and rosehip – to hydrate, strengthen and moisture damage cuticles. Hair is left silky and shiny.

FAQ

We answer your questions about purple, no yellow and silver shampoos.

It’s to do with colour chemistry. During the colouring process, hair is bleached and the natural pigment is removed or diluted. Any new colour that’s deposited gets gradually washed out, leaving brassy tones.

During the bleaching process, hair becomes more porous. Porous hair soaks up the metals and minerals in water, as well as pollutants, such as smoke and grime, from the environment. In time, these elements turn blonde hair yellow and brassy.

Also, blonde hair absorbs light instead of reflecting it, which makes it even more prone to damage that makes hair yellow and dull.

These factors all make bleached and coloured hair more likely to turn brassy and yellow.

The shampoo enhances blonde or lightened hair, as well as natural grey and white hair. It contains purple or violet pigments that colour-correct brassy tones to restore the former cool colour.

If you have blonde, silver or grey hair that tends to turn yellow, purple shampoo is your new best friend.

Purple shampoo removes yellow tones through a simple but very clever process. Yellow and purple are opposite each other on the colour wheel, which means they cancel each other out.

When you wash your hair with shampoo that contains purple or violet pigments, the pigment is deposited in the hair and yellowy tones are neutralised.

No. To get the best results, follow the instructions on the shampoo bottle.

Usually, the recommendation is to massage the shampoo into wet hair and leave it on for three to five minutes. Depending on your hair type and the result, you may want to leave it longer or less next time you shampoo your hair.

If you leave the shampoo on for too long, it might add a lavender tinge to your hair. It’s also more likely to have a drying effect.

We recommend starting to use the shampoo once a week and building up as needed, depending on your hair type, its condition and colour. Alternate with a colour-safe shampoo like Osmo Colour Save Shampoo.

The shampoo provides a fast, easy and affordable way to maintain cool blonde hair colours in between salon visits.

Make it a regular part of your hair-care routine so your hair colour stays fresh and cool-toned.

Silver shampoo doesn’t look silver. It’s also purple or violet.

All purple, silver, violet and blue shampoos work to neutralise brassiness and maintain colour by depositing purply-coloured pigment.

The shampoo you choose should depend on your hair and the colour you want. You may choose silver shampoo if want to maintain a cool, platinum shade in your grey, silver or blonde hair.

If your hair is porous, some purple shampoos can be drying. Always use a professional-quality shampoo and conditioner.

Sulphates give shampoo that foamy lather and help lift oil from your scalp, but they can also accelerate drying and fading. Choose a purple shampoo that’s sulphate free if you have dry hair.

Follow with a hair mask. Masks are intensely hydrating and replenish lost moisture while neutralising yellow tones.

Try the Perfect Blonde Trio from Pravana. You get a shampoo, conditioner and mask in one.

The shampoo is formulated to return yellow and brassy to cool, blonde tones. If used correctly and with a conditioner and mask, it won’t break your hair.

However, if your hair is very dry and damaged and you use purple shampoo incorrectly, it can leave buildup on your hair that can make strands brittle, dull and prone to breakage.

Purple shampoo doesn’t cause hair loss. If you have very bleached, damaged hair and overuse purple shampoo – using it too frequently or leaving it on too long – it could lead to hair breakage that looks like hair loss.

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