Healthy You, Beautiful Hair

Lovely locks are often seen as evidence of good health.  Medical conditions, medications and health can all have an impact on our hair. Our diets and the products we use, also affect the way hair looks. For many of us our hair is a crown we wear and if that crown is tarnished it can have a detrimental effect on our self-esteem.

            Alisa Hall, owner of Revive Organic Salon, has seen how improving someone’s appearance with healthy hair can impact their lives.  Through Revive, Hall helps clients regain their luscious locks, naturally. Revive strives to create a stress free relaxing salon atmosphere and uses the highest quality products.

            “We’ve got a fabulous new line from Organic Systems called Organic Way,” said Hall.  “All of Organic Way products come in pharmaceutical grade amber colored glass bottles and jars in order to preserve the purity of the botanical formulas.  It is actually biodynamic which is above organic.”

            Organic Way comes from Italy.  Hall and her staff have been using the color line with great success.  “Absolutely phenomenal results we have not seen a product like this before,” added Hall.  “The hair feels amazing. We thought it would difficult to get our customers to transfer to this line after using the Organic Salon Systems for so long, but the results have been so amazing it has been easy for us.”

            Revive Organic Salon is a chemical free environment which is better for clients as well as the stylists.  Revive utilizes and sells natural hair products including ones that help regrow hair.  They can also custom order high quality wigs. 

            Wigs sometimes come into play for cancer patients.  When Hall started working in the Roanoke area in 2008, she began volunteering with the American Cancer Society’s "Look Good, Feel Better" program which helps improve the self-esteem of women undergoing cancer treatment by helping them manage “the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment.” 

            After arriving in the Star City, Hall also added Hair Restoration Specialist to the long list of accomplishments she has made during her more than two decades in the hair industry. In 2013, one of her clients, Christine Slade, asked her to take over Revive Organic Salon.  Slade had started the business, but had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Hall agreed and embarked on a new journey as a salon owner.

            The staff at Revive Organic Salon focus on the wellbeing of their clients through education, experts cuts and styling as well as natural products including essential oils, Aveda, Organic Salon Systems and Organic Way, just to name a few. The end result is healthier hair and happy clients. For more information, visit www.reviveorganicsalon.com or call 540-798-5406.

Denise Allen Membreño is a Roanoke area writer