Green Hair Shampoo

Hi W.,
Found this online for you.............
Your hair turns green from the presence of hard metals (copper, iron, and manganese, in particular) in the pool water. Huh? Think old pennies and the Statue of Liberty. The metals are oxidized by the chlorine and then bond to your hair, causing the greenish hue.

What can be done to prevent this from happening? You can wet your 'do and/or run some conditioner through it, and then put on a tightly fitting swimming cap so that there's less of a chance for pool water to contact or be absorbed by your hair. People who maintain pools also need to monitor the level of hard metals in the water so that they can add chemicals that'll neutralize or remove the metals before they oxidize.

If her hair is already green, buy shampoo that's specially formulated for swimmers and contains either chelating (metal removing) agents, such as ethylenediamene tetracetic acid (that's EDTA for those of you not fluent in chemistry), erythorbic acid, and possibly acetylsalicylic acid (also known as aspirin), or antioxidants, such as vitamins A and B. Too much swimmer's shampoo, however, is not recommended, so it's a good idea to quit when you get your original color back, or as close to it as possible. For more info on healthy hair for pool paddlers, check out Chlorine effects on hair in Alice's General Health archive.

UGH!!
glad my kids are brunettes!!!
All those swim shampoos are supposed to prevent that from happening. Plus, if you apply a leave in conditioner made for blondes before she goes out in the sun/swim, that would also help. I think she may have to spend some money on adult versions to get the full benefit, but it would be worth it!!

Try adding a little salt in a cup, add hot water, and use on hair at the last rinse in the tub.

Also in the future she needs to wet her hair with clean water before entering the pool, helps to neutralize. Much like water and bleach.

Also Rinsing the hair after she gets out of the pool.with clean water.

good thing to do, is keep a bucket of water near by so when she takes a lunch break she can dip her head into it LOL

this will help.

M

Hi! We use California Baby Shampoo for when my daughter goes in the pool. She's really young, so I can't attest to lenght of time working - but it gets the chlorine smell out of her hair.
http://www.californiababy.com/swimmers-defense-shampoo-bo...

We really like their products! When I was younger, I swam constantly. I'm not sure if they still sell it, but I used ultra swim.