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07.12.2022
Our Swimmers Guide to Healthy Hair and Scalp
Our Swimmers Guide to Healthy Hair and Scalp
There is nothing more relaxing during the hot summer months than cooling off with a refreshing swim! Pool time is always so serene until you experience hair and scalp damage from chlorinated water and sun exposure. Keep reading to learn how to minimize damage and some of our summer care must haves. While regular tap water contains chlorine, it usually doesn’t contain enough to be become problematic after regular showers. Unfortunately, swimming pool chlorine is essential to eliminating bacteria in the water but it often it strips the natural oils your body produces to protect your hair and scalp. In addition to irritating your skin and scalp, UV exposure from time in the sun also leads to hair breakage, dry scalp, and irregular color. It doesn’t matter if you swim once a month or once a day; people with specific hair types are more susceptible to chlorine damage than others.
This includes people with:
- Thin or fine hair
- Color-treated hair
- Bleached hair
- Chemical-treated hair
- Dry hair
- Hair with existing damage
Tips & Products to Protect Your Hair
1. Rinse and wet hair before and after swimming
This is a crucial step to remove any dirt and oils from your body, so they don’t end up on the bottom of the pool, but it’s also helpful to prevent chlorine damage to your hair. Rinsing your hair with shower water allows the hair to absorb clean water, minimizing the amount of chlorine water that is absorbed.
2. Apply protective products on wet hair
If you have blonde hair and are especially worried about the effects of chlorine and sun on your hair, you can purchase a product to apply to your hair to help block chlorine from penetrating your strands & block UV.
Beautifying Spray for color vibrancy, detangling, and smoothening. This beautifying balm leave-in spray visibly enhances color vibrancy. For beautiful, tangle free and smooth to touch hair. . With Brilliance-Blend™: Copper encapsulating molecules maintain vibrancy. Histidine and Vitamin E help to control the oxidation process after coloration and to protect color. With Lime Caviar which is known to contain various anti-oxidants and vitamins.
Create a teasable hair texture with unique shine by using Wella Professionals EIMI Pearl Styler. Formulated to help protect hair from the effects of UV, this professional styling gel provides a pearl shine finish and definition to the hair. Wella hair gel gives flexible, strong hold, enabling you to craft tousled and texturized hairstyles.
Get creative with expressive shaping on rock solid styles by using Wella Professionals EIMI Sculpt Force. This professional gel with its fast-dry formula ensures extra strong hair styling, giving a high-definition shine to the hair. EIMI Sculpt Force hair gel is designed to help protect hair against the effects of UV rays.
**3.**Apply a leave-in protectant on dry hair and wear a swim cap
Essential care oils act as a protective layer to prevent sun, chlorine, and other pool chemicals from being absorbed into your hair.
This professional beauty balm repairs and moisturizes hair, adding shine and smoothness for a luxurious feel. Wella lightweight hair lotion tames fly-away hair and frizz, while protecting the hair from the heat of styling tools.
Create an undone beachy hair texture with Wella Professionals EIMI Ocean Spritz. This professional salt spray helps protect hair against dehydration and negative effects of UV rays. Wella Ocean Spritz hair spray with natural mineral salt provides light hold and adds texture to the hair, enabling the creation of natural-looking beach waves using just your fingers.
Craft and finish any hairstyle with Wella Professionals EIMI Stay Firm. This professional workable finishing spray helps to protect hair from the negative effects of humidity, UV rays, and heat. Fix or work any hairstyle, giving a strong hold and finishing touch to the hair with Wella versatile hairspray.
Finish your glamorous style with dazzling shine thanks to this luminous shine spray. Formulated to help protect hair from the effects of humidity and UV.
4. Condition before and after swimming
Extra hydration is the foundation for hair protection.
Provide hair protection against breakage formulated with silk amino acids leaves hair feeling cared for and helps to increase resilience against breakage.
Intensive Restructuring Mask for Colored Hair that provides strengthened hair structure, shine and lasting manageability. With bond structuring agent from WellaPlex.
INVIGO Blonde Recharge Color Refreshing Conditioner. Helps to fight brass for blonde brightness and vibrancy.
5. Use clarifying shampoos after swimming
Clarifying and follow up with a conditioner after swimming, regardless of your hair type. This helps wash away any remnants of chlorine from your hair.
A clarifying cleanser to be used weekly that is specifically formulated for all hair types. Gently neutralizes the “hard water” mineral deposits on hair and removes chlorine effect, styling product, and other environmental build-up.
6. Moisturize your scalp
If your head is dry or flaky, avoid too much sun exposure and hydrate your scalp.
Leave-on treatment that soothes immediately sensitive, dry, and itchy scalp, while helping to increase the thickness of each hair strand. Formulated without parabens and colorants. With Aloe Vera, a scalp neutral pH, and a clean label fragrance.