Why, after a licensed hairstylist prescribes a product would a person walk right past the salons display case and purchase that same product from a drug store and/or super market? Would you leave your Doctors office and fill your prescription in a salon?
Many questions arise on how that professional product makes it into the drug store and/or super market. Did they fall off a truck? Go out the back door of the manufacturer, distributor or salon? Are they bootleg? Are they stored properly? How old are they? On the other hand most products found in a salon are knowingly shipped directly from the manufacturer and/or a distributor, keeping the professional link intact.
On the same prescription pad we highly recommend before getting a big service like hair extensions, hair straightening, etc, you do your research. After completing the proper training many manufacturers will reward the stylist with a Certificate of Completion. For example Brooklyn Attitude’s MaryAnn is the only stylist in the (518) area code that is Certified in the Cinderella Hair Extensions and Glenn is an Educator and Certified in the CHI Transformation System a scientific approach that transforms hair from Frizzy, Curly, Wavy to Silky Controlled Straighter Hair.
So next time your prescribed a product by your stylist fill it in the salon and leave the melons and bananas to the produce manager and the drugs to your Pharmacist.
People buy products from the supermarket simply because they are cheaper. Salon products might come straight from the manufacturer as you say but it comes with quite a mark-up in price, at least 20-50%.
Thats a lot of money for most people.