Hot summer days can take a toll on your hair. Intense sun exposure, humidity, sweat, and more strip away moisture, making hair dry, frizzy, dull, and lifeless. Solution? Building a summer hair care routine tailored to your hair type is essential to keep your hair clean, healthy, and shiny.
The hair care experts at L'Oréal Professionnel have crafted a guide to help your hair combat scorching heat with professional-grade summer hair care products. Identify your hair type, address hair concerns, and keep your hair fresh, shiny, and well-nourished all summer long!
Different hair concerns in summer and solutions
1. Frizzy hair
High humidity in air during summer can aggravate frizz. Wondering how? Hair absorbs moisture from the air causing the cuticle to swell and lift and making it unruly and unmanageable. Focusing on hydration and a smoothing-based hair care routine can help you notice positive results in winter. Here’s a great summer hair care tip to avoid frizzy hair, limit the usage of heat styling tools.
Products recommended:
• Tackle frizzy hair during summer with L'Oréal Professionnel Liss Unlimited range. With shampoo, mask, and serum, this range offers up to 96 hours* of frizz control, smoothens dry, unmanageable hair, and increases shine and softness in the hair.
• People with unruly and overprocessed hair can rely on L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care range. This range offers 48 hours** of frizz & volume control benefits. Alternatively, you can choose L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care sulfate-free shampoo and L’Oréal Professionnel Xtenso Care sulfate-free masque to tame unruly hair and protect it against humidity. Additionally, you can restore strength and flexibility and add softness and shine to unruly hair with this gentle sulfate-free formula.
*Instrumental Test: Shampoo + Mask + Serum vs. Non-Conditioning Shampoo
**Instrumental test: shampoo + mask + serum vs non-conditioning shampoo.
2. Greasy and oily scalp
The hot and humid days of summer trigger excess sebum production, making your scalp feel greasy. Increased sweating, pollution, and frequent use of heavy hair care or styling products further lead to oil buildup and itching, leaving you with flat hair. In such circumstances, you might feel overwashing can help combat greasiness. But in reality, you might end up stripping the scalp’s natural oils, causing it to produce even more oil as a defense mechanism. The key to managing a greasy scalp in summer is to follow a rebalancing hair care routine to keep your scalp fresh and healthy.
Products recommended:
• L'Oréal Professionnel Anti-discomfort intense soother treatment helps soothe scalp irritation and discomfort instantly. Formulated with Niacinamide, this professional treatment works effectively on tangled ends and sensitive scalps without weighing down the hair fiber.
• Enriched with 3% concentrated AHA formula and lightweight gel texture, L'Oréal Professionnel Scalp Advanced anti-oiliness dermo-purifier shampoo purifies your hair, ensures 78% less scalp sebum in 1 use*, and offers up to 67% more nutrition*.
*Instrumental test, shampoo + clay
**Instrumental test
• L'Oréal Professionnel Scalp Advanced Anti-oiliness 2-in-1 deep purifier clay is another innovative scalp shampoo that works both as a clay mask and regular scalp care shampoo. This scalp shampoo minimises 78% less scalp sebum in 1 use* and helps deliver 24% instant volume**. Purify your scalp and get rid of dirt, sweat, and oil with this scalp shampoo.
*Instrumental test, shampoo + clay
**Instrumental test
• Upgrade your summer hair routine with L’Oréal Professionnel Scalp Advanced 5-in-1 serum. It’s the first anti-oiliness scalp serum that helps defeat 5 scalp deregulations from week 1* - oiliness, sweat, discomfort, impurities, and odor.
*Consumer test results
• Indulge in a professional in-salon scalp detox treatment with L’Oréal Professionnel Hair Spa DX creambath for a detoxified, flake-free, and soothed scalp. Pay a visit to the nearest L’Oréal Professionnel partner salon and allow the hair pros to take care of your hair.
3. Hair loss
Most people suffer from hair loss during summer. Harsh UV rays damage the scalp, increased sweating and humidity clog hair follicles, exposure to chlorine water, and staying in air-conditioned rooms make hair dry, leading to shedding during this time of the time. Applying dedicated anti-hair loss products can help prove to be one of the best summer hair fall solutions.
Products recommended:
• L’Oréal Professionnel’s Aminexil Advanced anti-hair loss activator serum is an effective hair serum that helps reduce hair loss in 6 weeks* & offer 87% stronger hair.**
*Clinical study with 130 mens during 6 weeks.
**Instrumental test after 1 application.
• Boost hair growth with L’Oréal Professionnel Serioxyl Advanced hair density activator serum. Powered with 5% Stemoxydine, this hair serum helps you get 1000+ new hairs in 6 weeks.*
*Clinical study with 79 during 12 weeks.
4. Dry hair
Intense sun exposure, heat, and humidity can cause dryness in hair. Harsh UV rays pull away natural moisture, making hair brittle and dull. Additionally, spending time in swimming pools can further dehydrate hair due to the presence of chlorine in water. Hydrating hair products and sun protection help prevent dryness.
Products recommended:
• Take care of your dry hair during summer with L'Oréal Professionnel Absolut Repair range. The advanced range offers 13x resistance to hair damage*, provides deep nourishment, and gifts you deeply nourished, repaired, and conditioned hair.
*Instrumental test: Absolut Repair Shampoo + Mask on damaged hair.
Dehydrated, dry hair, and hair frizz are some of the drawbacks of the summer months. However, you can easily tackle these hair concerns with the right hair care and best-in-class hair products. For further hair care assistance, take the L’Oréal Professionnel Hair Quiz and get a tailored hair care routine within 2 minutes.