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Summer Hair
Chris Moody of Moodyhair tells us what products we should be using to help keep our hair healthy throughout the summer months.
Sun, sea and sand may be good for lifting the spirits, but they’re not so great for our hair. Exposure to the suns rays even for a short time can contribute to dry and damaged hair, as well as faded colour, so you need a shampoo, conditioner and treatments with built in UV protection to protect your hair and help your colour and condition stay its best!
We all take care to apply protective sun creams to our skin, but it pays to remember that our hair is also prone to the same damages and stresses.
Hair is already dead when it comes out of the scalp, so when it gets damaged, unlike our skin, you can’t feel any of the tell tale signs of sun burn, also unlike our skin, the hair has no way of repairing itself unless we do something from the outside to help.
Specialist sun protection hair products contain ingredients that actively help and protect your hair and its pigments in the same way that your more familiar sun protection lotions do for your skin.
After sun shampoos cleanse the hair of harmful salts and chlorine deposits, while using anti-oxidants to neutralise harmful free-radicals. After sun conditioners gently moisturise and smooth, helping to detangle and soften the hair. It’s well worth investing in a “leave in” treatment that can be applied to hair through out the day. These products contain SPF sun screens and physically protect your hair while exposed to the sun.
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For a treat...
 For a real treat and high performance results go for professionally prescribed products such as Redken’s UV Rescue Range.
Before or during exposure to the sun try out:
UV Rescue Blonde Guard Swim Cream £14.85
A light leave-in moisturising cream to protect the hair
from green discolouration whilst swimming. Non-greasy and weightless with natural extracts to help maintain the brightness of blonde colour.
UV Rescue Shimmering Defense £14.85
Targets all coloured, sun-stressed hair. The lightweight miracle formula coats each strand to protect and repair UV damage. Shimmering Defense achieves a smooth appearance without weighing the hair down.
After you’re done in the sun try out:
UV Rescue After-Sun Shampoo £10.00
This luxurious shampoo, cleanses your hair and scalp to remove minerals, chlorine and salt deposits. Use at the end of the day to cleanse after sunbathing or swimming.
UV Rescue Recovery Treat £14.85
Recovery Treat provides deep conditioning and intense repair for sun exposed hair and scalp. To use: Substitute your regular conditioner for this nourishing masque and rinse after 10 minutes
A little cheaper...
 If you’re looking for something a little cheaper but with a professional pedigree try out the Matrix Biolage Sun Repair range
Matrix Biolage After Sun Shampoo £7.00 purifies sun, sea and pool exposed hair, removes salt and chlorine while adding moisture and manageability to leave hair healthy, soft and shiny. Contains Sunflower Seed Extract, rich in Antioxidants and UV filters, helps provide hair with environmental defence, moisture and sun-reflecting shine.
Matrix Biolage Sun Repair Treatment £8.50 is an Intensive conditioning cream to help mend hair exposed to sun, chlorine and sea salt.
Contact Matrix UK on 0208 762 4857 for stockists.
High street alternatives...
 Finally for some great high street alternatives look out in your local stores for these products from highly respected hairdressing names.
CW Suntime Takeaways Sun Wash UV-Protection £2.99 Shampoo. Great little travel size bottles of shampoo that gently rinse away salt, chlorine and pollutants, and condition with a unique anti-UVB protect and repair system, which leaves your hair strong, supple and shiny.
Mark Hill Holiday Hair Suncare Shampoo £2.00
Holiday Hair Suncare Shampoo is a lightweight cleanser from two times British Hairdresser of the Year Mark Hill from Hull. It has unique antioxidant complexes to revitalize sun-stressed hair.
Also comes with an after sun conditioner.
Mark Hill Holiday Hair Aftersun Conditioner £2.00
Garnier Fructis Color Last (£3-£5) haircare range with Water & UV Resistant Agents. Is fairly new range that is designed to help protect your hair colour in the sun, and leave hair looking fresher for longer. This range uses fruit extracts to provide condition and protection. The range comes in a shampoo, conditioner and intensive treatment mask.
All these products are available at good high street outlets.
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