Skin, hair issues

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 Interesting. What other chemicals are being used with chlorine in the pool, if any? Is diffusion a factor? What about osmotic potential? I'm rusty at this. Chlorine chemically bonds with skin and hair proteins and is easily absorbed. Yes, cells consist of semi-permeable membranes because of the phospholipid bi-layers which have positively and negatively charged heads which can neutralized with the help of sodium ions (salt) thus making the membranes fully permeable. Never heard of wetting hair before getting in the pool but it would defy the norms of reason since chlorine is present in all of our water sources.

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 Interesting. What other chemicals are being used with chlorine in the pool, if any? Is diffusion a factor? What about osmotic potential? I'm rusty at this. Chlorine chemically bonds with skin and hair proteins and is easily absorbed. Yes, cells consist of semi-permeable membranes because of the phospholipid bi-layers which have positively and negatively charged heads which can neutralized with the help of sodium ions (salt) thus making the membranes fully permeable. Never heard of wetting hair before getting in the pool but it would defy the norms of reason since chlorine is present in all of our water sources.