| Summer Hair Care Tips |
| Karen Marie Shelton - Copyright 1998 - 2008 - All
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| Revised Date: 05/23/08 - Original Publication
Date: 3/15/98 |
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Summer may bring glorious visions of natural highlights
and long windblown hair. The reality is that summer sun and humidity can damage
your hair's cuticle and result in dry, drab, split, brittle or frizzy hair and ends.
Sunlight can be just as damaging as a hot blow dryer.
Naturally curly hair is often a major victim to summer frizzies.
Consider some of these other tips for great summer hair care:
1. Prevent static electricity when you shampoo by
applying a rinse out hair conditioner that instantly adds moisture and shine.
If your hair is fine or thin, you may wish to skip the rinse out
conditioning step and apply a "leave-in" conditioner
instead.
2.
After towel drying
tresses apply a drop or two of a great leave-in product, like
Phyto's
#7 or
Phyto #9, to the palms of your hands. Rub your hands
together and then distribute the leave-in product throughout
your strands.
3. Hair care products that advertise "replenishment" are designed to add moisture
back to dry strands. Products advertising volume enhancing
benefits are designed to add body.
Hair care products designed to add shine, may only add shimmer
but not necessarily add moisture. Be sure to read all ingredients on
the hair product labels to understand what benefits the product is
designed to provide to your strands.
Consider these additional summer hair care tips:
- If you normally use hot hair tools (blow dryers, hot irons,
electric curlers)
every day, try and give your hair a break during the summer months. Consider letting your
air dry. Take a break from hot curling.
Hair braided when wet will air dry into
beautiful waves.
- For sun exposed or sun damaged tresses perform regular deep
hair conditioning treatments utilizing fabulous hair repair
products such as
Phytokarite Intensive Treatment,
Phytocitrus
Mask or
Rene Furterer After Sun Repair Mask.
- Jojoba oil applied to the ends of your strands will help
soften them. Jojoba oil also works wonders on frizzy hair.
Jojoba oil can also be utilized as a pre-shampoo treatment or
applied to dry strands for protection during the day.
- For extra conditioning treatment apply a deep conditioner to
damp or dry tresses, wrap in plastic wrap or a shower cap just
before bedtime. Allow the deep conditioner to soak into
damaged hair sections overnight for extra repair and
re-moisturizing benefits.
- When you find yourself out in the sun, at the beach or at
the pool without pre-planning, reach for a hat to cover delicate
strands. If a hat won't do, great the next best thing
which is the sunscreen.
Slather a regular SPF product on your tresses making sure to
concentrate the product onto your scalp as well as your tresses.
Although not a perfect solution, it will help save your tresses
from major sun damage.
- If you are wedded to your
blow
dryer, use a leave- in
conditioner designed to protect your hair when blow drying.
- When the summer heat is hottest contain potential
frizzies by wearing your hair up in a
knot, bun or
braids.
- Be careful using shine products to control frizzies.
They often contain silicone and can coat your hair after just a few times. This will
only make the problems worse in the long run.
- Be religious about your trims. Since summer heat can
be so pump up the frizzies, make sure you have the ends trimmed every 6-8 weeks during the
summer months. When your ends are fizzy, its a sure sign that they are either damaged,
split or both.
- Wear a hat at the beach, in your convertible or out
in the hot sun.
Hair can get sunburned just like the scalp. The only way to
deal with severely burnt
hair is by trimming the damaged sections off. Prevention is the safest plan. Frizzy hair is often the result of too
much sun time.
- Hanging out in the sun without protection for your
hair and scalp is the worst thing you can do. Use leave in hair products with SPF
protection when you know you will be at the beach is you are unwilling to wear a hat or a
cover-up.
- Hair needs to be treated more gently during the summer.
Consider switching to a more moisturizing and overall gentle
shampoo like
Phytonectar or
Phytojoba (which is one of Phyto's most gentle shampoos).
- For summer months consider switching to hair care products
that are as all-natural as possible.
Select hair care products which are devoid of any harmful chemicals.
Keep in mind it is best to avoid any hair care or styling products
contains alcohol or
formaldehyde since they can be excessively drying to the hair.
- Wash your hair less often during summer months to allow your
tresses to absorb maximum moisture. When
possible, finish with a cool to cold rinse to seal the hair
cuticle and impart natural shimmer and shine.
Summary
Take care of your hair during the summer and you won't have to
spend the Fall and Winter working to repair your hair.
Prevention is always the best action for your hair.
Note: This article was originally
published in March of 1998 -
Revised 7/2001, 8/21/2004, 11/11/2005,
3/15/2006, 5/02/06 and 3/20/08. |
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