Discover the ultimate solution for protecting your hair against heat damage with Kevin Murphy Heated.Defence. This advanced formula is sulfate-free, offering maximum protection with a weightless feel, perfect for everyday styling.

Key Benefits and Features
  • Hydration: Experience lightweight conditioning that keeps your hair moisturized during styling, ensuring it stays soft and touchable without feeling heavy.
  • Protection: Provides a powerful heat-defense shield against tools up to 450°F (232°C), protecting your hair from damage.
  • Weightless Styling: Achieve a clean, weightless finish that maintains your hair's natural movement and shine.
  • Frizz Control: Smooths the cuticle, offering frizz-free results even in humid conditions.
  • Sulfate-Free Formula: Gentle on both scalp and hair, maintaining natural oils for overall hair health.
Who It’s For

This product is ideal for all hair types. It is particularly beneficial for those who frequently use heat tools like blow dryers, flat irons, and curling irons. Perfect for color-treated or damaged hair seeking lightweight protection without buildup. For fine hair, use sparingly to avoid weigh down; for thick or textured hair, apply evenly from mid-lengths to ends for full coverage. Safe for daily use.

Key Ingredients
  • Sulfate-Free Base: Cleanses and conditions gently, helping to preserve your hair's natural oils.
  • Heat-Protection Polymers: These create a protective barrier, shielding your hair from high temperatures.
  • Lightweight Conditioning Agents: Enhance manageability and shine without adding weight.
  • Friction-Reducing Agents: Facilitate a smooth glide during styling, reducing stress on your hair.
How to Use
  • Shake well before use.
  • Spray evenly onto towel-dried hair, concentrating on the mid-lengths and ends.
  • Comb through to ensure even distribution from roots to tips.
  • Style using your preferred heat tools, such as a blow dryer, flat iron, or curling iron.
  • For additional protection, reapply to dry hair before further heat styling and finish with KEVIN.MURPHY styling products if desired.

Specifications

Brand
Kevin Murphy
Size
150ml
Hair concerns
Heat-Damaged
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Kevin Murphy Heated.Defence is a lightweight heat protectant spray for all hair types. Part of the Kevin Murphy range. It creates a protective barrier against heat tools while conditioning with hydrolysed quinoa and wheat protein — keeping hair strong, smooth and manageable during styling.

Best for: all hair types using heat tools (blow dryers, flat irons, curling irons); daily heat styling protection; conditioning and smoothing during the blow-dry.
Less suited to: a non-heat styling routine where a protectant isn't needed; very fine hair prone to being weighed down (apply sparingly to mid-lengths and ends only); heavy frizz control or finishing hold (use Smooth.Again or a finishing spray).

Key actives:
- Hydrolysed Quinoa — strengthens and conditions; helps protect hair structure under heat
- Hydrolysed Wheat Protein — reinforces the hair shaft and improves smoothness
- Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil) — lightweight conditioning; adds shine
- Castor Oil (Ricinus Communis Seed Oil) — nourishes and helps prevent breakage
- Sandalwood & Pepper Oils (Santalum Album, Piper Nigrum Seed Oils) — conditioning and aromatic

Benefits:
- Helps protect against heat damage up to 232°C
- Strengthens and conditions during heat styling
- Smooths and reduces frizz
- Weightless — won't flatten or build up
- Sulphate- and paraben-free; colour-safe

How to use: Spray evenly onto towel-dried hair, focusing on mid-lengths and ends. Comb through to distribute, then style with your heat tools as usual.

Format: 150ml heat protectant spray.

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