Sun and hair
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Printed Date: August 04 2025 at 3:31am
Topic: Sun and hair
Posted By: Bubble
Subject: Sun and hair
Date Posted: May 10 2002 at 12:52pm
Hi, how can I protect my hair from the sun. Please could you give me types of produts to use not the name of the product. ie. Color shampoo, not Loreal color shampoo.
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Love ya, Bubble !
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Posted By: christopher
Date Posted: May 19 2002 at 4:23pm
I dont know if there is anything that protects it from the sun really...I wonder this too...
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Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: May 19 2002 at 6:19pm
Hi! According to Paula Begoun, the consumer advocate author who likes doing vicious exposés of the hair/cosmetics industry, Christopher is right: no product can protect your hair from the sun. Now I don`t agree with everything she writes (she has serious issues with anything shimmery in cosmetics and is obsessed with sunscreen) but according to her book, Don`t Go Shopping for Haircare Products Without Me, products claiming to contain sunscreen aren`t regulated uniformly....so until they start putting SPF numbers on the labels, there`s really no way to police these kind of claims. That`s what she says. Personally, I don`t think a shampoo/conditioner could do much to protect your hair from the sun, since you wash it away and down the drain. Perhaps there will be a protective spray with a specific SPF number someday, who knows. If you`re trying to keep hair color from fading, there are some ingredients you should watch out for: sulfur is one that can strip color.
The best thing you can do is protect your hair with some kind of covering, be it a beach umbrella or a hat. That`s all I know! :-)
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Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: May 19 2002 at 6:25pm
Also, there is a GREAT online glossary of hair product ingredients:
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/4266/gloss.html - http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/4266/gloss.html
This is a great resource. I printed it out and bring it with me whenever I buy shampoo/conditioner so I know if it`s really going to work for me. Good luck!
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Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft
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