How to get the green out of hair from swimming pool?

Answer 1

I have had this problems numerous times, especially after getting my hair highlighted. The way to get the green out of your hair is lemon juice (DO NOT GET IT IN YOUR EYES IT BURNS BAD)! You simply pour lemon juice all over your hair, leave it in for a few minutes, and then shampoo. Then lemon juice will strip your hair of all the oils so you need to follow up with a good conditioner. Avoid using the same pool - the chemicals may be out of balance - pH and Total Alkalinity need adjusting. It is not that the chlorine is too high. The green is from a high consentration of metals ( copper ) in the water. The cause of that is most likely a pH that is too low.

Answer 2

Wiki s have suggested:

• To prevent the green in your hair from a pool, just put hair conditioner on it before swimming (like some kind out of the shower nothing fancy). This works really well.

• Use a clarifying shampoo for chlorine/buildup. It will work just as well. Examples would be Paul Mitchell Shampoo One, Joice KPAK Clarifying Shampoo and Red-ken Chemistry Shampoo, Malabo 2000.

• Put tomato paste all through your hair and let it sit there for at least 30 minutes, then rinse it out. My Mom used to do it for me at the end of every summer.

• Baking soda. Don't use it everyday, because it will dry out your hair. But when you take a shower after swimming, just add a tablespoon of baking soda to your handful of your regular shampoo and wash your hair normally, followed by conditioner. It will keep your hair from turning green and stop chlorine buildup.

• After your hair has turned green, you can use ketchup or tomato paste or blended tomatoes as a hair mask before shampooing. Since green is opposite red on the color wheel you can use something red. Just like if you had a little redness under your eye, the makeup artist will give you a green tinted moisturizer to eliminate or neutralize the red. Make sure you shampoo twice.

On using baking soda with regular shampoo - I am a brunette, and I've had problems with chlorine for years but I no longer want to keep my hair short. I tried using 1 tbsp of baking soda with regular shampoo (nothing special, just a regular drug store buy) and a good conditioner (again, nothing fancy). It works like a charm, really. My hair hasn't been in this condition for ages. I swim about 5 times a week in a chlorinated pool. As long as you leave it in at least 30 seconds (mix baking soda into shampoo just before you use it). Then after a thorough rinse, condition and leave conditioner in for about 1 minute and voila! A beautiful head of healthy chlorine-free hair!

It would be better to avoid green hair. Do not use a copper based algaecide in the pool water, and keep chlorine level below 5 ppm.

Answer 3

As a Cosmetology student, I would advise going to your local beauty supply store, and asking a sales rep. where the shampoos are for chlorine damaged hair (such as your hair turning green). There are shampoos that correct the color imbalance. It's a quick and easy fix. And I would suggest also asking about a "gloss" to put on your hair. You apply it like any other hair coloring product. That should help your hair to NOT turn green when swimming again.

Best answer is to stay out of that pool. Or make certain that the water chemical balance is within specs in the pool(s) that you use. Make sure that the pH and total alkalinity are within tollerance of (ph 7.4 to 7.6) & ( alk = 80 to 120).

As someone who has been a licensed cosmetologist and barber for about 35 years (and was also both a cosmetology and barber instructor) and who as also worked in the pool/spa industry I would say the best way is to get some citric acid (commonly sold in the spice section of the grocery store as Sour Salt and is used in Jewish cooking) and dissolve about 2 teaspoons in a cup of hot water. If you can also get some photographer's hypo (sodium thiosulfate) add two tables spoons to the mixture. Let it cool to lukewarm. Pour through the hair and watch the green disappear. Rinse very well for at least 5 minutes then shampoo and condition. The green is from copper, not chlorine.

I used to use this in the salon (it was a method developed by the late Jheri Redding of Redkin, Jherimack and Nexxus fame.)

The citric acid acts as a reducing agent and converted the green copper complex in the hair to a soluble, colorless form that rinses out of the hair and the sodium thiosulfate destroys any traces of chlorine in the hair which can reoxidize the copper back to the green form before it can be completely rinsed out. If you do not have any sodium thiosulfate then you might need to repeat the citric acid rinse more than once since the first application of citric acid will be used up neutralizing any chlorine residue. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) can be substituted for the citric acid. You would need pure vitamin C in powedered form and use two teaspoons to a cup of hot water. This chemicals are not going to be harmful to the hair and scalp, btw.

This is identica to how copper and other metal stains are removed from the surface of a pool. First the chlorine level is reduced (usually by using sodium thiosulfate or another sulfate compound) and then either citric or ascorbic acid is added to the pool water to remove the stains.

Answer 4

You can buy a chlorine removing shampoo.

Answer 5

Don't green hair is cool

Answer 6

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