Summer Hair Care Tips

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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.

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• 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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