A good maintenance of your styling iron is needed due to avoid the accumulation of dust, waste and bacterium off the hair.  So, in order to keep your hair bright and always perfect, you must clean periodically your favourite hair straightener, in that case, we know that is the Black Velvet hair straightener. The cleaning time schedule will depend on the use, so it’s important to revise the plates surface and when waste will be seen, it will be time to do the cleansing.

If the hair straightener is used daily, it is important to deeply clean the plates, their contours and also the case once per week at least. Further all, it is necessary to do the cleansing process after treatments, like keratin, hydrations or straightening; because of the big amount of waste and  after the fullfilment of those kind of hairdressing processes.

There are two main steps to correctly clean the hair straightener:

1. Once we had the styling iron disconnected and almost cold, moisturize a cotton cloth with hot water. It is important to perfectly drain the cloth due to avoid water filtration to the styling iron’s electric system.
2. Rub the plates with the moisturized cotton cloth emphasizing the movement when arriving to the contours because it may influence the tilting plates system. If using the cloth they don’t finish perfectly cleaned, you can use a cotton wet in alcohol to get a perfect result.

The velvet embellishment of the Black Velvet hair straightener is one of the novelties that includes which is sophisticated and anti-slippery. Next on, we exlain how to clean easily this kind of surface.

The most appropiate product to clean this kind of material is the ammonia. Alcohol could also be useful due to eliminate the residual glues or silicones remaining from used finishing hair products, but it could deteriorate the colour of the embellishment.

It’s very important to do this type of cleaning in a well-ventilated zone, because the ammonia expels toxic steam if we inhale them.

These are the steps:

1. Prepare a container to mix water and ammonia
2. Mix them in a 1+1 proportion
3. With the mixture ready, moisturize a cotton cloth and drain the excess liquid
4. Humidify the cloth and rub the outside part of the styling iron to eliminate properly the dirt. If the dirt were too attached to the surface, you may use non-diluted ammonia and rub it with a cloth into the case. You could repeat this action until the styling iron’s surface lasts already cleaned.

This advice can be applied to the Black Velvet hair straightener, the paddle brush, the Evolution hairbrushes handles and all objects which have this kind of velvety material.

And remember: a correct maintenance of the styling iron and their plates, not only will let you work efficiently but also it will make the hairdressing products last longer.