So I can just imagine all the dryness everyone suffers from swimming in chlorine, bromine, etc.
What is the best way to prevent damaged hair & over-dry skin?
Moisturize, moisturize & moisturize is all I seem to do as of late.
Are there methods that really work? Give a shout, i would love to know. :confused:
Originally posted by tuck
I wet my hair in the shower and wear a cap. Your hair soaks up the pool water, if it's full of clean water before hand it won't soak up as many chemicals. This also keeps moisterizers and conditioners out of the pool.
Yes this is 1 of the tricks I do use. So at least I am doing something right.
For the skin, I use Curel. It's one of the few lotions that does not have mineral oil which is actually a drying agent. I use it on my body and face both. It doesnt cause any irritation or greasiness. The chlorine doesn't seem to bother my hair much but that could be because I don't have much hair! Sorry, I couldnt help on this one.
Forgive me for sounding like an ad here...but to keep my hair from getting too dryed out when I wash it I also condition with dove intense moisture...I really like it and my hair isn't dry at all.
I wet my hair in the shower and wear a cap. Your hair soaks up the pool water, if it's full of clean water before hand it won't soak up as many chemicals. This also keeps moisterizers and conditioners out of the pool.
The other day, my granddaughter, who swims age group, went to get a hair cut. The stylist told her to mix a teaspoon of baking soda with her shampoo. Wash her hair as usual then do a deep conditioning, like the Aussie 3 minute conditioner or the VO5 conditioner. She tried it. I have never seen her hair so soft, conditioned, shiney and blonde. It looked really good.
Olive oil is a great moisturiser (I use the 'Kiss My Face' brand, which has olive oil in it; my DH uses straight olive oil)...
Baking soda with shampoo? What a great idea- I'll try it tomorrow...
evidently, the baking soda strips chlorine and other chemical deposits out of your hair. I think she let it sit on her hair for a little bit. Remember you have to use one of the deep conditioners afterwards.
In reference to the wet your hair before you get in the pool...
osmosis--Diffusion of fluid through a semipermeable membrane from a solution with a low solute concentration to a solution with a higher solute concentration until there is an equal concentration of fluid on both sides of the membrane.
It would seem to me that human hair would act like a semipermeable membrane and that over the course of a swim chlorine would move across the membrane from the high concentration (pool) to the low concentration (shower water in your hair) until the chlorine was equal on both sides of the membrane.
POP QUIZ: Why doesn't this principle hold for human hair? Or does it, and the wet your hair before you get in the pool just an urban legen?
Lainey
Originally posted by laineybug
evidently, the baking soda strips chlorine and other chemical deposits out of your hair. I think she let it sit on her hair for a little bit. Remember you have to use one of the deep conditioners afterwards.
In reference to the wet your hair before you get in the pool...
osmosis--Diffusion of fluid through a semipermeable membrane from a solution with a low solute concentration to a solution with a higher solute concentration until there is an equal concentration of fluid on both sides of the membrane.
It would seem to me that human hair would act like a semipermeable membrane and that over the course of a swim chlorine would move across the membrane from the high concentration (pool) to the low concentration (shower water in your hair) until the chlorine was equal on both sides of the membrane.
POP QUIZ: Why doesn't this principle hold for human hair? Or does it, and the wet your hair before you get in the pool just an urban legen?
Lainey
So then what is the answer?
