Our best advice for keeping hair healthy, strong, and lustrous this summer.
Protecting your tresses against oppressive heat and sun exposure takes a certain level of care. Some common problems associated with the summer season include dryness, excess oil, split ends, faded colour, and chlorine damage. Follow our top 10 hair care tips to make sure your healthy locks survive the approaching summer days unscathed.
Harsh UV rays can "sunburn" your hair in a similar way to your skin. How? The sun practically sears the cuticles that surround and protect your strands, leaving them stripped of the natural oils needed to lock in moisture. In turn, hair becomes dry and prone to absorbing moisture from the environment, and you know what happens then: frizz. Discover our SU range, formulated with healing, hydrating, and nourishing Italian-grown citrus specifically to reduce the effects of UV damage on hair.
Keeping hair hydrated starts on the inside, so keep yourself quenched with the recommended six to eight glasses of water a day. You should drink even more than that when you're out in the sun on a hot day. Drinking water energises both the hair and body, waking up your strands and promoting growth. Dehydrated hair, on the contrary, looks dull, frizzy, and brittle.
What do chlorine, salt water, and sunshine have in common? Besides being joy-inducing symbols of summer, they can all sadly wreak havoc on hair colour. Nothing will dull a hair dye faster than UV radiation. Keep your colour vibrant all summer long by always covering it up with a hat or scarf in the sun and treating it with products formulated for coloured hair. Our MINU range, amino acid and colour-protecting phlyphenol-rich thanks to caper blossom extract, is just the thing. Wash with the MINU Shampoo, then treat with the corresponding MINU colour-protecting treatment mask, rinsing after 10 to 15 minutes.
Another way to prevent hair from drying out and becoming frizzy in the summer is by deep conditioning. Unlike daily conditioners — which detangle and smooth over the hair cuticle, moisturising only the surface of your strands — deep conditioners are formulated to repair hair from the inside out. You should be using a deep conditioner like our Renewing Conditioning Treatment, for all hair types, two to four times a month. Or - if your hair feels really brittle - opt for Nourishing Vegetarian Miracle Conditioner.
Summer is not the time to showcase your long locks with extravagant blowouts and trailing tresses — unless you don't mind the feeling of sweaty hair on the back of your neck. Instead, pull the hair back away from your face in loose, breezy updos that allow the scalp to breathe while keeping the hair off your skin (which prevents it from clogging your pores). Try beachy braids on a casual day, or an accessorised ponytail for something more polished.
Boost your hair's defense against environmental factors with a hair serum, which coats the hair shaft and acts as a protective agent against extreme heat, sun, and pollution. For coloured hair, our MINU Hair Serum is formulated to protect and brighten colour despite summer's attempt to dull it.
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