How do minerals and chlorine attach to the hair?
Our hair, scalp and skin have an electrical charge and that charge is negative. Minerals and oxidizers are charged positive. When a positively charged mineral comes in contact with our hair, scalp, or skin, it attaches on like a magnet. Chlorine – unlike the other elements listed above, chlorine is not a mineral but an oxidizer. Chlorine is put into drinking water and swimming pools to kill bacteria. In addition to the following effects chlorine has on hair, due to it’s oxidizing effects, chlorine also oxidizes minerals onto the hair causing worse effects of those minerals. How chlorine effects your skin: • Chlorine can damage proteins of the skin and hair. • Chlorine can cause the air and sun to oxidize skin and hair • Chlorine can cause skin and hair to feel dry. • Chlorine can cause hair to become brittle. • Chlorine can cause hair to lack shine. • Active chlorine in the hair can cause hair to feel gummy when wet and straw-like when dry. Swimmers are some of the most flexible and to
