Heat Protectants and Your Hair by Courtney Jensen

Why should you use heat protectants in your hair styling routine?

When using thermal irons and blow dryers on your hair, the hair can become over-worked and brittle. When you add a little heat protectant to your daily styling routine, this helps to reduce the friction between the heated styling tool and your hair. To keep your hair looking healthy and beautiful, heat protectant is a go to product.


How to apply heat protectants:
Step 1. Pick out your favorite heat protectant that works for your hair type
Step 2. After washing, towel dry hair and add heat protectant to damp hair
Step 3. Dry your hair and style as desired


Salon Sanity's Top 5 Favorites:
1. Play Safe, a leave in treatment that protects the hair up to 450 °F. This product is infused with plant based protein and tourmaline to strengthen and keep the hair sustainable. Play Safe, reduces the appearance of split ends up to 70%, and prevents the hair from any future damage due to excessive styling.


2. Rebel Tame, this is a multifunction heat protectant cream. Which protects hair up to 450 °F, tames unmanageable frizzy hair, and is Sodium Chloride and sulfate free. Rebel tame contains Babassu Oil, which is a non drying vegetable oil, that gets extracted from babassu palms. 


3. 21 Benefits Leave in Treatment, also acts as a heat protectant. This all inclusive leave in conditioner treatment primes the hair, to prevent and heat damage that may be cause from thermal ironing tools. This product also is packed with vitamins and nutrients to protect color, add luster, and reduce breakage.



4. Iron Shape 11, is a thermal holding spray. This means the product will hold curls, add shine, help prevent frizz, as well as protect your hair from heat damage. 





5. Smooth Perfection Intense Smoothing Cream, is a product that not only protects hair from heat damage, but it also smoothes and controls coats frizzy hair. This multitasking cream is also 100% vegan.



The next time you go to grab a blow dryer, flat iron, curling iron or wand make sure to protect your hair! 



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