Swimming Hair Care Tips

It's that time again...

Avoiding Pool Hair

Summer is approaching and many of us will be hitting the pool!  To avoid the damage chlorine can wreak on the hair, simply wet your hair with tap water (with a one tablespoon per pint of leave-in conditioner) before you jump in.  This will prevent the hair from soaking up pool water and reduce the damage!  

Summer’s here and so are swimming pools and Chlorine
Summer is here and many stylists are getting this lovely shade of swimmers green sitting in your chair. Remember your childhood as a white blonde who’s hair turned green each year. Leaning over the kitchen sink pouring tomato juice over your head, catching it in a basin and pouring it over again, and again. The tomato acids worked to remove the copper minerals (blue/green) but was very drying on fragile blonde long hair.  YES, Catsup works, too

Always remove the minerals causing the green (use Malibu C), rather than trying to cover them up (darken or tone) with haircolor or worse bleaching the minerals out of the hair.
 
Aspirin and Water Can Get Rid of Chlorine Green
Taking aspirin with water won’t help, but rinsing your hair with aspirin dissolved in water will, according to Manhattan dermatologist Amy Wechsler. It’s actually the copper in chemically treated pools, not chlorine, that makes blonde swimmers’ hair go green. The acids in aspirin and water, as well as in tomato and lemon juice, can neutralize copper, helping get the green out.

To prevent further greening, before swimming rinse hair in cold water to tighten the cuticle, then put on conditioner and a swim cap. After swimming, wash hair with swimmer’s shampoo, which binds to the copper on the hair to remove it.
 

From the archives of "The Beauty Blog"
7 Excellent Ways to Protect Your Hair when in the Pool

Have a great summer!