You won’t envy hair in the summer - they are always in sight and suffer from this in full. They have few natural defenders.
Only melanin andkeratin: they are part of the hair, but endowed with too weak powers. And in adverse conditions, their reserves are completely depleted.
After returning to the city at the first moment, you may not notice that the curls lost their luster and elasticity, became dry and brittle. But a week or two will pass, holiday euphoria will end, and the damage brought from the marine climate will be obvious. Trichologists are inclined to blame all the heat, all the troubles from it. And the facts speak for themselves: high temperatures evaporate moisture from the hair, ultraviolet rays destroy color pigments and reduce the strength of the hair, and salt and chlorine destroy its protective layer.
Even being in the sun just a little, do not forget about hats, panama, bandanas. Especially from 12.00 to 16.00, when the sun is at its zenith. For reliability, spray hair with a protective complex against the sun before going out.
Moisturizing for hair
In addition to conditioners and masks, use moisturizing sprays and creams for the ends of your hair. Pay attention to funds with shea butter, extracts of thermal plankton, lavender and avapui (Hawaiian ginger). They saturate the hair with moisture and prevent delamination.Creams are applied before styling, and sprays can be used throughout the day.
Hair Mask
Shampoo alone is not enough for hair care. Think about restorative products that will include oils: apricot, mango, pine nuts, as well as coconut milk, silk proteins, seaweed extracts, collagen and vitamins.
After sunbathing
Use a neutral pH delicately cleansing shampoo, and be sure to apply a moisturizing conditioner after washing. Before tanning, apply a generous layer of conditioner over the entire length of the hair - this will prevent moisture loss. Try to use shampoos in the summer with the instructions Sun Protection Filter, SPF. They will help protect your hair from drying and damage.
Eliminate stress
Avoid bleaching and dyeing your hair before you leave, or use gentle dyes. This is stress for the hair. And coloring plus the sun is a double blow. After vacation, you will need intensively moisturizing masks - with amino acids, hyaluronic acid, vegetable oils and extracts (15-20 minutes 1-2 times a week). For dried and thin hair, panthenol products are good. Penetrating into the hair, it attracts water molecules and prevents them from evaporating, and at the same time gives an additional volume. After the mask, you can use the usual conditioner. The first results of care will appear in 3-4 weeks.
Hair tips - special care
It is impossible to cure the cut ends, just cut it off. Smoothing serums are suitable for prevention: due to the content of silicones, they glue the flakes until the next wash.It will take at least a month and a half to rehabilitate hair severely damaged by the sun. The main assistants are intensively restoring agents: masks, conditioners, serums with hydrolyzed proteins, lipids, mineral complexes. Even shampoo should contain useful additives - plant extracts (nettle, sage), amino acids.
Hair also needs to be cleaned
Do not rinse off particles of sea salt and bleach from the pool with ordinary shampoo. Accumulating inside the hair, they destroy protein bonds and lead to fragility. After vacation, deep cleansing will be helpful. This will require a highly alkaline shampoo (pH of 8 and above) with maximum penetration. Such a “deep wash” is needed no more than once every 3-4 weeks.
Rehabilitation Tools
Special ampoules for hair are another remedy for rehabilitation. In them, the most concentrated active substances are vitamin complexes and proteins. The composition is applied to clean wet hair and rubbed into the scalp. They are applied in a course, usually after one wash. The course lasts about a month.
Salon care
AMERICAN CARE "JOICO HAIR RECONSTRUCTION"
It contains a complex based on a keratin molecule that repeats the structure of keratin in human hair. Restores the inner layers of the hair, fills the voids that have arisen due to damage. The treatment itself takes from 30 to 40 minutes and consists of 4 stages: washing the head with a deep cleansing shampoo, applying a balm to seal off the cuticle (hair sheath), applying a reconstructing mask of deep action.Complete the procedure with a tool that improves elasticity and mobility of the hair.
Course: from 3 to 7 procedures with an interval of 3 weeks. The result is visible immediately.
"HAPPINESS FOR LEBEL HAIR"
The procedure is needed if, after the sea and the sun, not only hair but also scalp was damaged. The procedure consists of 3 stages: applying restoring serums to the internal and external structure of the hair. Then a mask for the scalp.
Course: from 3 to 6 procedures, depending on the condition of the hair. Once every 2 weeks.
KERATIN HAIR SMOOTHING
This treatment combines nutrition, hair restoration and straightening. The procedure lasts about 1.5 hours, during which there is a deep cleansing of the hair, applying liquid keratin and straightening. Such care can be done every 8 weeks, the procedure has a good cumulative, prolonged effect.
The article was published based on the materials of the magazine "Good advice" 8/2013
Text: Victoria Vovk. Photo: A. Platonov /Bildfabrick; Legion-Media.
Material prepared by Julia Dekanova
