Skin, hair issues

I have been seeing commercials for the new Olay in-shower body lotion and I finally broke down and bought some (extra dry skin formula). It is amazing!! I use it in addition to a deep moisturizing body wash and I'm noticing a difference in my skin after about only a week.

Does anyone use Ultra Swim? I did for a while, but it's more expensive. Does it work better than ordinary shampoos?

Best I've found is Pert 2 then Infusium conditioner for extremely damaged hair then Infusium leave in coditioner. You don't need to use much. I've found that one bottle of pert will last almost one month. The Infusium condictioer for about 1 1/2 month and the big bottle of leavbve in over 2 months. Much cheaper & easier on your hair than any "swimming" specific product I've ever used. My oldest sister use to own beauty saloons around the Houston area. She is the one who has always recommended Infusium products.

I've found that over the counter products almost always work better than swimming specific products do.

I read a book this winter, The Curly Girl, about embracing curly hair. What was interesting is, the author says, do not use shampoo, ever, as curly hair is dry and shampoo dries hair out (for curly hair, dryness means frizz). Anyway, I stopped using shampoo. I still 'wash' my hair, I rinse with water and use conditioner and then rinse most, but not all of the conditioner out. Once a week, I wash with the conditioner. Meaning I get in and really scrub the scalp, rinse and condition again. It really works. I have frizz this summer with the humidity, but my hair is not dried out. This 'no shampoo' probably works with straight hair, too, as far as not drying it out with shampoo, but you may want to wash out all the conditioner.

When swimming in the open ocean for an hour or more, I just spread cheap petroleum jelly or tanning oil all over the body. It also helps in reducing the severity of acid stings from blue bottles. After an hour, what's left on the skin comes off easy with soap and water. The skin was protected from the sea water and looks good afterwards. clyde

Hair is just a byproduct of the body's processing. The answer is to shave yer noggin. Let it shine! Saves a lot of cabbage on hair care products, too.

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.

evidently the proponents of wet your hair before you get into the pool believe that you fill the hair shaft with water containing less chlorine than pool water, and therefore you hair won't absorb the more highly chlorinated water. No one either pro or con has been able to provide me with good hard data (LOL, who do I sound like now) to prove that this is effective or ineffective.

Now see, that all works great in places like Colorado. Ohio's a totally different animal. The weather here is confused, I think. Most times it's always humid, and the temperature this summer has gone from highs in the mid-60's to 115 on a record weekend we had not too long ago. Rain tends to just appear out of nowhere, on a completely unpredictable pattern, and winters are cold as sin. So throw a little chlorine in there, and everything's a guessing game. I think I've used every conditioner, hair trick, lotion, and face wash out there (well, maybe not EVERY, but you get my point) The results of my social experiment?: Regular shampoos work better than those swim-removers, especially for those of you with dry, curly hair. Aussie's deep conditioners are great, especially if you use that baking soda trick. Baking soda is not a good trick to use on curly hair. Most face washes for dry skin are pretty good. However, I've found that some tend to react to the chlorine in my pores, and make my skin drier than it was before - i.e. St. Ives. Aveeno, Dove, and surprise surprise, Noxema, work really well. Most lotions also work great - Olay in-shower is a miracle, I swear it. It requires a little more shower time, for those in a hurry, but it's worth it. Nivea is another god-send, but Curel works decently too. Aveeno is fantastic too. As far as face lotions, that's an open work - I usually switch mine to match the seasons here. Right now, it's pure and simple Aloe Vera. WIntertime, it's usually Neutrogena or Dove - Aveeno when I can afford it (hey, poor college student here). Now, of course, these are all based on how well they worked for me, so I'm not making any promises. But I figured I've tried them all, so I might as well share how well they work.