Swimmers Hair Care For Straight & Curly Hair

Hey everyone welcome today's video. Today'S video is going to be all about swimmer's hair. So during this time of the year uh, this is uh summer time when i'm filming this one of the biggest questions i get on emails and text, facebook messages, instagram messages and questions for my clients relates to chlorine in their daughter's hair or their child's hair. Usually so i got some notes. I got a couple of products that i'll have links down below, so you can check those out and i wanted to cover what it is. The two main reasons that people uh deal with when the damage is already done. That'S one and what to do is a preventative for chlorine, because once chlorine gets into the hair, it goes inside the hair and deposits. These minerals that start to make the hair feel funny. It starts to make it feel dried out. It feels weird when it's wet, it feels weird when it's dry and it starts getting a bluish or greenish casting to it and by that time it's already a little bit too late, but you can do something about that. So that's going to be part of the next section, uh, the the next part of this uh training today. This is this - is an intensive curly, hair, artistry intensive about swimmers, hair, so uh there's two parts to it, and it's all in this one video. What to do when the damage is already done and what to do as a preventative, so, let's cover first preventative so um when this is not going to be possible for everybody. I don't think everybody has the patience to go through all this, but this is really what you should be doing when your child and i'm gon na say daughter. So, let's say daughter because a lot of uh there's some boys that have longer hair there's a lot of daughters with longer hair and most of the issues are with children with longer hair. So i'm just going to say daughter, for this example say your daughter has long hair and what needs to happen first is: usually you have to go into a swimming pool to go into the swimming pool. You have to take a shower first, so you should get the water into the child's hair and even put a little bit of conditioner and just leave it in all of it, even because some of it comes out into the swimming pool. But when you take a dry sponge and put it into water, it soaks up everything, but if you take a wet sponge and put it in the water, it doesn't soak up as much. So if you wet your child's hair, it won't soak up as much chlorine. So a lot of people that have chlorinated pools. This is what applies to you. Some of you have saline solution pools. I have yet to find out anything wrong with people's hair. If anything, it dries out a little bit, but that's nothing compared to chlorinated swimming pools. So wet the hair down apply a little bit of conditioner and as your child goes swimming and they come out when the hair is starting to dry out from the sun. That'S when the majority of damage happens. So the best thing to do is take a spray bottle, put some conditioner in it and you don't need much. You can put in maybe a little bit of conditioner and a lot of water and when your child comes out just spray. Their hair down with this conditioner and as it dries in the sun, it dries with some conditioner in it, and that is pretty easy. Or i mean if you're already taking a tube of suntan lotion, take a tube of conditioner and that conditioner will help to hydrate. The hair, as it dries so another thing that uh a big part of what people do, but the majority of people don't do this one, they don't. They don't put a swimming cap on their child's hair, but that is also one of the best things you can do is wet. The child's hair down apply a little bit of leave-in conditioner and put the swimming cap on. On top of that, and most of the people that come into my studio, this is my studio here they tell me, their child's hair is, is, is they're, smarmer swimming, and i couldn't even tell the difference because it's been protective. So that's one of the things that you can do is wear a swimmer's uh cap, but you know a child will wear goggles but uh a lot of times. The child won't wear a swimming cap and i am not going to worry about wearing a swimming cap myself. My hair is short, so most short people with short hair. Don'T really have chlorine or or weird hair from the minerals of going into the hair. They don't have really swimmer's hair, so coming out and drying in the sun is where the damage happens. So, if anything uh before the child, if you're not going to bring a bottle, if you're not going to bring conditioner along with suntan lotion, then they should go into the shower and just get their hair wet and put some conditioner in. They don't need to worry about shampooing it at this stage, so the time that you start to use shampoo in the hair is for prevention of more buildup of minerals. So when you go home after the swimming pool or if you're showering before you go home, that's when you want to use a little bit of shampoo and a lot of times shampoo, just knots up the hair. So a lot of times i just say, use conditioner, have your child use conditioner until they reach a point where they're taking and maintaining their hair to the point where it's not uh, it's it becomes a way of life, and that usually happens around 10. 11. 12. 13, but when they're, four five and six and you shampoo chlorinated hair, it's knotting up you're, getting frustrated the manufacturers, all want you to buy swimmer, shampoo and, and it knots up every time you do that. So the majority of your time, you should be doing something. Counterintuitive using conditioner only and then once in a while use a shampoo now, a part of getting your hair on a healthy basis is what i call a detox to get rid of the minerals in shampoo. You have to use something like this malibu packets for swimmers. This malibu packet for swimmers is a when you look on the ingredients in the back. It has absorbic acid, so i like to go to whole foods and buy the 365 vitamin c and when you open it up, it looks like powder, it's a sugar, so you can see it's very fine. It looks like sugar and this is straight up. L-Absorbic acid. Don'T buy something else that has minerals and all these things in it and in copper and magnesium and bill absorbic acid can can you suppose you have vitamin c tablets? I get this question and can i grind them up in my mortar and pestle as long as they're l-absorbing acid? So that's what's inside here. So this is like 10 bucks, and this is like 10 bucks and you have 50 applications. You have one application for either one you sprinkle it in your hand, and i would not use a full packet. Rub your hands together and on wet hair. You work it in you squeeze it in, and the l-absorbing acid removes a lot of minerals and starts to restore the hair. Now it's acidic so it closes down the cuticle a little bit as well, because if you do, research on swimmer's hair you'll find out that some people like to use baking soda baking soda can be used in a pinch. If you have a box of it at home, you put in like a quarter cup and you add enough water to make a paste and you take the paste and you put it on the chlorinated hair, no need to do it all over. I think it's just fine to use it on half the hair or three quarters of the hair. You don't have to put it on all over now, it's a little bit alkaline. It is alkaline, it's not a little bit it's alkaline and what that does is open up the cuticle and that can start drying out the hair. Now you don't want to do baking, soda and apple cider, vinegar, you don't want to do apple, cider, vinegar and baking. Soda all at once that can cause a chemical reaction and there are people online doing uh baking soda. That raises up the cuticle and they're closing down the cuticle. With this and they're wondering why their hair is a mess, it starts getting deteriorated over time. It may work great once but over time with repetition, it gets really bad and starts breaking off. So please use this knowledge with maturity and and me and your common sense just do one or the other, not both and uh. So those are some really great options to be able to start getting your child's hair back now. What do you have to do after you do a detox? Do you have to shampoo? Some people do, but i think shampoo blows up the hair a little bit. So i say initially do a detox and then just condition your child's hair leave a lot of it in, even if it looks a little bit greasy or it looks a little bit like there's product in it. Initially, the hair will start getting better over time, but the hair will get better over time and initially it may look a little bit greasy so take care with using conditioner leave more conditioner in the child's hair. Like all the time you know a kid is going to be a kid they're going to run their fingers through the hair they're, going to wear helmets they're going to take naps on it. Let a kid be a kid it's usually when they start getting old and learning how to manage this themselves, that they can all of a sudden start taking care of their hair in a way that doesn't involve the mother. The mother, a lot of times, has to as another thing to do, taking care of the hair they're starting to brush through it they're starting to detangle. The kid is starting to hate having their hair touched by mom and then there's a little battle that starts going on to get around. That is detox. The hair very gently put some conditioner in it run your fingers through the hair, even use a detangling comb. Very gently and let the hair dry with some conditioner in it. You can squeeze it gently with a t-shirt or a fabric and gently squeeze it and let it air dry and then the kid's hair will be super soft and it usually doesn't tangle as much over time once the porosity of the hair starts to even out some Of the tangles will be less or reduced greatly, so that's very important to that. So, in my opinion, these are like really important uh items to keep like in your medicine cabinet, where you put your band-aids, where you put your aspirin, where you put um some of the things that you use once in a while sunbath sunburn, lotions, uh and oils. These are important things that you should have year round and they should also be in your cabinet and travel with you on vacation or or in the summer time. So one of the things that when the damage is already done now, those things are preventative when the damage is already done. Just take your child's hair and get it wet, try one of the detox methods, but if you don't have that just put some conditioner in the hair run your fingers gently through it use a large tooth detangling comb as needed work the conditioner in rinse it out A little bit put some conditioner in a spray bottle spray it in and let your child's hair air dry with conditioner in it, and that is better uh to get their hair in more hydrated shape. Once the hair is hydrated, the hair starts to even out, but you destroy the evening out process. You destroy the hydration process by putting shampoo in the hair, shampoo and chlorinated hair makes a detangling mess. It starts getting matted up, it starts getting dreaded, it dreads up. As at night as the child sleeps, so to counter that you have to do something counterintuitive, instead of using shampoo detox as needed once in a while and buy some conditioner that you learn to leave in your child's hair. Now, what's interesting, when you get these packets, the manufacturer wants you to use these all the time they want you to buy more of them. They want you to buy a package of them and i do believe they work. I believe in this they're just expensive for a lot of people, so um as you learn to use this you'll learn to replace this with the vitamin c powder, and that really helps counter that with with that - and these are more gentle on their hair - the acidic Ones, the ones with the l-absorbic acids are a little bit more gentle on the hair, and this is a way of cleansing your hair without using shampoo and so over time. They tell you to use this on a weekly basis. In my opinion, that's much now, if you're in the swimming pool with your child five times a day for seven days a week. You may want to use this once a week, but some people use them once every two weeks. So that's twice a month. Sometimes the hair starts getting a little chlorinated feeling it starts getting a little tangly. That'S a sign that you do something do this with it. That'S a time so one of the things that you're, so the best thing that you can do is detox and hydrate that that is your preventative care. Along with what you do at the top of this video, where i mentioned uh put the swimmer's cap on get your child's hair wet leave some conditioner in use the spray bottle when they come out of the pool so bringing a bottle of conditioner with you should Be right, along with suntan lotion and those things combined together, will keep your child's hair in better shape. So finally, the best thing that you can do is keep your child's hair trimmed up because a lot of times a lot of people love to keep their child's hair long and it starts getting stringy on the ends and when it's stringy, that means the hair is Breaking off and it's starting to come to a point and it's really thinning out a little bit and it becomes tangly really easy. You want to cut that off before it happens, so you want to cut your child's hair before they really need it, and that's usually, i i think every three months is a good time to to trim child's hair a good inch, at least with that. So trim is needed. Many many parents love their child's hair long, but it needs to be trimmed to prevent stringy ends from getting matted up and tangled. So, along with trims along with detoxing along with hydration, you will have some really good tools to keep and manage your child's hair throughout the summer, a lot better than what it's doing right now. So, if you have any questions, leave some questions down below i'll. Be glad to answer them as well as uh leave me. Some comments make sure you subscribe to this channel. We have updates and we're gon na, do more intensives coming up soon with different topics, and this will help you to embrace your hair, embrace your family's hair over time and come out with successful hair that you learn to love and embrace throughout time. You guys have a great day,