What heat protection does your hair need?

How to protect hair from heat and high temperatures?

Split ends, dull locks, faded colors, and even hair loss – this is what we get when overlooking heat protection for hair. Today we are going to explain how heat and your tresses can go together with minimal damage caused.

How to Protect Your Hair from Sun Damage

With so many SPF hair products on the store shelves, even the stupidest of us can take the hint–the sun’s rays are bad for our hair. But how does the sun damage hair? In several ways, actually. The UVA and UVB rays attack the hair cuticle, which is the outer layer protecting the hair shaft, ultraviolet oxidizes sulfur molecules in the shaft and destroys amino acids from which keratin is built. As a result, our locks lose moisture, strength, elasticity, shine, and color, of course.

The latter is especially critical for natural blondes and redheads, as their strands contain more of pheomelanin. This hair pigment is not that effective in UV filtering as eumelanin, a black-brown pigment. So, blonde- and red-haired women are in great need of sun protection for hair, as well as girls with fine tresses. Finer strands lack thickness, which makes them more vulnerable to harsh UV effects and thus more dependent on some sunblock to save them from damage. This is also true for color-treated hair, particularly if it’s lightened – less pigmentation means weaker natural UV hair protection. And African-American curls top the list since their tightly coiled shape makes them more fragile.

By KIN Cosmetics So, how to protect hair from the sun? Here is our guide:

– Wear a hat

Or a cap, a bandana, or whatever. Headwear is the best sunscreen for hair, especially the wide-brimmed kind. This also covers wearing a swimming cap when splashing in a pool, as chlorinated water makes our tresses even more naked to the sun.