hi ladies this is Erica Johnston and welcome back to my channel if you're
worried about the effects of chlorine on your gray hair then this is the perfect
video for you I'm gonna talk to you about what it does to the gray hair and
I'm also going to give you ways to prevent yellowing and green hair from
happening so keep watching so I've talked a lot over the past two years
about the effects of the Sun on gray hair and chlorine is honestly just as
bad if not worse alright I'm gonna get a little technical on you to begin the
reason why we need to be so careful in chlorinated pools is because our gray
hair has lost something called melanocytes which are little tiny cells
that produce hair pigment and it's that hair pigment the color you know brunette
that really protects the hair from the chlorine so without that our hair can
become dry and brittle and start to discolor and and if you do get brittle
hair from chlorine then that's where you start getting breakage it can also turn
our beautiful gray hair yellow which is not very nice it's not something that we
want and that's due to the oxidative process of the chlorine and that's just
like a chemical reaction to our hair and that's what it does gray hair will not
turn green from chlorine but it could turn green from other elements that
might be leaching into the pool such as rust or copper or that sort
of thing so just be aware of that as well depending on what pool you're
swimming in so one thing I want to tell you not to do is to be quick to reach
for a clarifying shampoo this is only going to make your hair more dry and it
won't get rid of the actual chlorine out of your hair you need to get a shampoo
that's specifically formulated for chlorine so the first one I'm going to
show you is one that I love it's a number one bestseller it's been on the market
since the 1980s and it's called ultra swim chlorine removal
Shampoo so I bought this on Amazon and I ended up buying like I don't know five
in a pack or something like that so I've got tons of this and the reason why I
bought this is because I started training for a triathlon this year and
I'm supposed to do it in August but unfortunately it got cancelled
Due to covid which is kind of crummy but that does bring me to another article or
item I was going to say of clothing but it's not really clothing
it's the swim cap that you'll want to wear if you're swimming extensively in
the pool and so you know I started training in the pool for my triathlon
and I was a little bit scared about my gray hair but I wore my speedo swim cap
and I will say that my hair still got wet wearing this
it didn't get sopping wet but it definitely was damp throughout so I wore
this for swimming and then as soon as I got out of the pool I went straight to
the showers hit the showers and then I used my ultra swim shampoo they do have
a conditioner as well but I don't really like it it doesn't really do much it's
not very thick so I just end up using my own regular conditioner after this this
is gold this stuff is amazing it's kind of liquidy like you can hear that kind
of sound it's a clear shampoo which is really nice and you basically just want
to lather it up in all your hair you know and in the scalp rinse it out you
don't need a regular shampoo afterwards condition and you're done so I did look
online for information on this one there is no information on whether or not it's
cruelty free I looked everywhere and I don't know whether or not it is so one
thing I want to say about this one is I found a review from another grey haired
gal on Amazon and I want to read this to you because it's exciting for me like
I've had great results I had no yeah using this and samtcy says I've tried so
many shampoos to take the yellow out of my platinum gray hair to no avail
so she's tried other ones these were famous brands too then I started to go
to the pool a couple of times a week and bought this stuff ultra shampoo come
winter I stopped going the pool and went back to using my expensive blue shampoos
to remove the yellow with pitiful results then it dawned on me one day
that the yellow might be from the chlorine in the water in our home so I
decided to give this shampoo a try what could I lose well this is the best anti
yellowing shampoo available it removed the harsh yellow from my hair and
amazingly I don't even use conditioner now and my waist long hair is less
tangled than ever this product is outstanding and I am making it my only
shampoo from here on I wish I had known oh it would do this as I would have
taken pictures but alas it is now too late to show my beautiful platinum
silver hair without the brassy yellow cast so that makes me wonder if this is
even like you can replace like purple shampoo with this I don't know yeah
I've got five bottles so another really amazing shampoo that I have not
tried but has good reviews it's called tri swim chlorine removal shampoo so I'm
just gonna read this it contains aloe vera and vitamin A Pro vitamin b5 it's
specially formulated to eliminate chlorine bromine salt water hard water
minerals and chemical odor and it's apparently good for all hair types and I
guess you know triathlon swimmers use it so it should be pretty good like I said
I've still got like five bottles of this so I want to use this up first before I
try that one and then the other shampoo that I want to tell you about is Malibu
C swimmers wellness collection and this one's got really good reviews as
well vegan cruelty free and yeah looks pretty good good stuff so those are two
really good ones to try so the key is you want to shampoo your hair within 15
minutes of departing the pool very important all right so get that hair
washed as soon as you can other strategies for prevention are you can
wet your hair first with water before you go
swimming like just with regular water that will help prevent some of the
chlorine from sort of leeching into your hair a little bit I did a video about
Jack Martin's process that he takes woman from brown hair to silver hair and
he recommends if you go into the pool if you've got dyed silver hair that you
actually condition the hair and wet it before you even step into the pool so if
that's you you want to do that for sure because you don't want to mess around
with especially inexpensive you know salon treatments such as that so anyways
I hope this video helps you if you've got any other chlorine tips be sure to
let me know as well when I go swimming I try to wear a ball cap in the pool and
not get my hair wet if I can but I mean it's inevitable especially you know I'm
playing wrong with the kids and and you're gonna get splashed your hair is
gonna get wet so you want to have strategies all right so I hope you
enjoyed this video be sure to give it a like and subscribe to my channel if you
haven't already done so until next time bye for now chemical oxidizer melanin is
the hair that's what it is right melanin melanin how do you pronounce
it am I in focus I think so okay if you've got any other chlorine tips
chlorine