Everything to know about heat protection sprays for your haircare
In the same way that sunscreen protects your skin from sun damage, a heat protectant protects your hair from heat damage. High heat from a curling iron, hair straightener, or blow dryer can damage your hair’s outer cuticle, causing dryness, split ends, and breakage. Here are the best heat protectants available right now, as well as the most important things to know about using a heat protectant.
Everything to know about heat protection spray
According to hairstylists, heat protectants work by coating the hair with a protective layer of oils (such as coconut oil and sunflower oil) and/or silicones (such as dimethicone or cyclomethicone). A heat protectant is often applied to damp hair immediately after washing and before blow drying or styling with a hot tool.
Benefits of using a heat protectant on hair
They work like physical sunscreens
You know how zinc acts as a barrier between your skin and the sun? Silicones in heat protectors have the same effect on your hair. They provide a protective layer over the hair strand’s cuticle, shielding it from the heat of your hair tools. On the back of the bottle, check for silicones that are water-soluble, such as dimethicone copolyol, stearoxy dimethicone, and behenoxy dimethicone.
Heat protectors, like sunscreen, establish a barrier that protects against free radical damage produced by UV radiation. Read More…
