How To Protect Your Hair From Chlorine and Saltwater

  • July 12, 2009
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Everybody into the pool! Or the ocean! But not before you take measures to prevent your hair from getting fried.

You Will Need

  • Leave-in hair conditioner with sunscreen
  • Club soda
  • A clarifying shampoo
  • A sulfate-free shampoo
  • A deep conditioner
How To Protect Your Hair From Chlorine and Saltwater: Wet hair before swimming

Step 1: Wet hair before swimming

Wet your hair and use your fingers to apply a dollop of leave-in conditioner with sunscreen before swimming. It will help block absorption of salt and chlorine.

Don’t comb the conditioner through your hair; hair is most vulnerable when it’s wet.

How To Protect Your Hair From Chlorine and Saltwater: Rinse it afterwards

Step 2: Rinse it afterwards

Rinse your hair with fresh water as soon as you come out of the water, then apply another layer of leave-in conditioner. If you were in a pool, try rinsing with club soda; the bubbles help wash away the chlorine.

How To Protect Your Hair From Chlorine and Saltwater: Clarify it

Step 3: Clarify it

After a day of swimming, wash your hair with a clarifying shampoo; it helps remove chlorine, salt, and pollutants. Use a sulfate-free shampoo the rest of the time; it will be less harsh than standard shampoos, and summer hair needs all the tender loving care it can get.

Clarifying shampoo causes dyed hair to fade faster, so limit use to once a month if your hair is colored.

How To Protect Your Hair From Chlorine and Saltwater: Deep condition weekly

Step 4: Deep condition weekly

Deep condition your hair weekly in the summer, especially if you swim every day.

It’s not the chlorine in pools that can turn hair green, it’s the copper from both the pipes and some of the chemicals used to clean pools.

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Rhiannon13

Omg thanks for posting this video it really helped me last summer!!

10 months ago by Rhiannon13

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