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Goodbye Chlorine Sponsors Huntsville Sprint Triathlon

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Goodbye Chlorine is a proud race sponsor of the Huntsville Sprint Triathlon. The event will be held at the Brahan Springs Natatorium in Huntsville, AL on August 15, 2015.

The sprint triathlon will consist of:

  • 400 meter swim
  • 7 mile bike
  • 3.1 mile run

The event is hosted by Team Rocket Tri of Huntsville.

Good luck to all the athletes.

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Protect Your Hair Color Before and After Swimming

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Your summer plans will undoubtedly include spending time at the pool, and when you do, it’s important to protect your hair color before and after swimming.

Sable Yong at StyleCaster offers up some great tips for protecting your color and keeping your hair looking good.

She writes about what to do before, and after swimming.

Sable Recommends This After Swimming

Wash it out. Rather than shampooing before swimming (which makes no sense), it does help to wash your hair with a bit of clarifying shampoo directly after swimming in a pool. The chlorine and other drying chemicals lingering in your hair will do more damage if left in, so removing it throughly will prevent that damage altogether.

We agree! And there is no better product on the market to instantly remove the chlorine from your hair than our Original Shower Gel for swimmers.

Read Sable’s post to read all of her hair color protection tips, and remember, pack Goodbye Green’s shower gel for swimmers with you this summer when you head to the pool.

Although Sable has great advice, here are four of our best tips:

Protect Your Hair Color Before and After Swimming

  • Wet you hair in the shower before swimming.
    Take a shower and getting your hair wet before swimming. It is one of the best things you can do to protect your hair. By doing so, your hair absorbs tap water and then is more resistant to absorbing pool water.
  • Use a leave-in conditioner.
    Put a small amount of leave-in conditioner on your hair before you get in the pool. The best conditioner to use is our hair conditioner. It is formulated to neutralize chlorine, so it will create a barrier between the chlorinated pool water and your hair.
  • Wear a swim cap.
    If you do put a conditioner on your hair before you get in the pool, you should also wear a latex swimming cap. Not only will this help keep the conditioner in your hair, it will also act as a physical barrier to keep the pool water off your hair.
  • Use Goodbye Chlorine conditioner after swimming.
    Our best tip is to use our conditioner after swimming. It should be the only thing you need to keep your hair looking great. Our conditioner restores moisture, releases chlorine and gently cleans your hair. We have formulated our conditioner with Aztec Clay which bonds to impurities and carries them away. Think of our conditioner as the inverse of a conditioning shampoo. It’s a cleaning conditioner. Our hair conditioner is formulated for swimmers and it should be the only product you need to keep your hair looking great after swimming. If you must, then use our shower gel to shampoo your hair.

Goodbye Chlorine makes products for swimmers. We manufacture soap, shower gel, conditioner and styling products for swimmers. They all work to eliminate chlorine.

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Spring Into a New Hair Color

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Spring motivates us to do lots of things, including getting a new hair color. Gina Rivera, founder of Phenix Salon Suites gives some good tips about what to do when considering lightening your hair color.

Gina writes about the stress swimming can have on your hair:

Really, the stress on your hair is coming from all sides. The sun dries your hair, swimming washes out all the moisture, chemicals in the water can leave deposits on your hair, as can the dirt and dust from all those happy trails.

Chlorine can have incredible damaging effect on your hair. Remember to use Goodbye Chlorine Shower Gel after swimming to gently and immediately remove chlorine from your hair.

Competitive and recreational swimmers no longer have to live with the damaging effects of chlorine. We manufacture products that remove chlorine and return the pH balance and moisture to swimmers hair and skin.

Spring is a great time to change your hair, and exercise routine. If it includes swimming, then don’t forget to take Goodbye Chlorine products with you to the pool.

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Swimming with Blonde Hair? No Problem.

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It used to be that swimmers with blonde hair wouldn’t go swimming, but now thanks to Goodbye Chlorine products, swimmer can follow any hair color trend they want.

Recently bleach blonde hair has been making a comeback in the fashion world. Here is an expert article on the subject of going blonde by Mellissa Hoyer.

How Swimmers Maintain Blonde Hair:

  • Use a leave-in UV protection spray as this as this will protect your hair as it is at a very porous state once is has been bleached. You want to look like a chic, not tortured blonde.
  • Using a ‘blonde’ shampoo each week should counterbalance any brassiness or yellowing of your blonde locks.
  • Smoking can help turn you hair a fairly bad shade of yellow, so do your entire body a favour by giving up the fags.
  • If you swim in a chlorinated pool, chances are your blonde may turn murky green as the chlorine attaches itself to bleached hair. Go the swimming cap.
  • Just like your skin, remember to moisture your hair: summer and aircon takes it out of our skin and our hair is no different.

While these are all great tips, we would add one to the list: If you go swimming, don’t forget to pack the Goodbye Chlorine Shower Gel. Goodbye Chlorine was made by swimmers for swimmers, and it immediately neutralizes chlorine. Swimmers no longer have to fret having damaged hair or dry skin because of chlorinated pools.

Don’t worry. If you want to go blonde this summer and swimming is in your plans, just remember to pack chlorine removal shower gel.

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5 Tips for a Perfect Spring Break

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Here are 5 great spring break tips by fashion blogger Kara Weymouth.

You have to go to the jump to see all the snarky GIFS in this post, but one of our favorite tips is: #2. Wax Early!

Here is one tip we would add to the list:

#6 Don’t Dance Alone

Most certainly your spring break will include pool parties, so don’t forget to pack Goodbye Chlorine products. They contain formulas that quickly and safely neutralize chlorine, so you don’t smell like you’ve been in the pool all day. There is nothing worse than when you’r working up a sweat on the dance floor to suddenly smell eau de chlorine. Nobody wants to do the Boom Shakalaka alone.

You can read more of Kara’s posts on her blog the Bostonista.

More articles:

Does anti-chlorine swimmer’s soap work?
Swimmer’s Hair: How to prevent chlorine from damaging your hair.
Use this shampoo for swimmers and look great out of the pool too.
Spring into a new hair color.

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How Swimmers Protect Their Hair and Skin

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Here is a great article: Swimming And Chlorine: How Swimmers Protect Their Hair and Skin by FreeDrinkingWater.com.

The author details two routines swimmers can use for protecting their hair and skin from the damaging effects of chlorine—an unfortunate side effect all swimmer experience.

How Swimmers Protect Their Hair

  • Apply a thin layer of oil to your hair before swimming. You can pour olive oil, baby oil or coconut oil onto your hands and just rub it through your hair to protect it.
  • Wet your hair with non-chlorinated water prior to swimming will lessen the amount of the element that can be absorbed.
  • Purchase swimming-specific shampoos and other pre-swim conditioning treatments that can keep hair healthy when swimming. (Check out Goodbye Chlorine’s hair and skin products for swimmers.)
  • Re-wet your hair frequently to rinse of the chlorine and keep it saturated with clean non-chlorinated water.
  • Use a bathing cap to keep water from contacting your hair.
  • Add a post-swim routine of deep shampooing, not using the high setting on the blow dryer and using a wide-tooth comb instead of a brush.

How Swimmers Protect Their Skin

  • Apply a waterproof sunscreen designed to protect against chlorine sensitivities.
  • Shower frequently between swims to reduce the amount of overall chlorine your skin will absorb.
  • Shower again after swimming. This will remove all traces of chlorine. Use soap this time.
  • Apply after-swim lotions that are specifically designed to neutralize chlorine’s causticity.

This was excellent advice before Goodbye Chlorine’s products were developed. All of our products have been developed by swimmers for swimmers and combat the damaging effects of chlorine.

Swimmers no longer have to have a lengthy pre- and post-swim routine just to keep their hair and skin healthy. Now simply use Goodbye Chlorine products. Use them separately, or together to maximize the results.

Our products do what they are intended to do. Goodbye Chlorine shower gel removes chlorine naturally and gently washes your skin and hair. Our conditioner also releases chlorine and also re-hydrates your hair.

Simplify your swimming routine, use Goodbye Chlorine products. It’s another reason swimmers love our products.

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Please Don’t Ask Swimmers These Questions

Don't ask swimmers these questions.

It’s no secret that the top nags from swimmers are related to chlorine: chlorine damaged hair and dry skin. It’s also not a surprise that when SwimSwam.com announced their snarky list titled, 11 Things You Shouldn’t Say to a Competitive Swimmer that these two were on the top of the list:

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Hair and Skincare Options for Swimmers

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Swimming is an incredibly healthy sport, and until now, it has come with a cost—bad hair and dry, smelly skin. Swimmers have always just put up with the annoying and damaging effects of chlorine. Now Goodbye Chlorine offers swimmers great hair and skincare options.

This article by Health.com does a pretty good job of outlining all the home remedies swimmers have tried over the years.

Swimmers are just plain tired of pouring vinegar over themselves, or using sprays or products that use chemical strippers to get the chlorine off.

Until now, there hasn’t been a reliable and effective way of treating the damaging effects of chlorine. It’s why we developed Goodbye Chlorine’s products. Our formulas are developed by swimmers for swimmers. All of our products are made to neutralize and remove chlorine gently and effectively.

That’s the first step—neutralize the chlorine. Then each of our products do what they are intended to do. Shampoos and body washes gently clean you hair and skin. Our conditioners and lotions add moisture back that has been depleted by the chlorine.

Now you can enjoy swimming and ditch the annoying side effects of chlorine. It’s why swimmers love our products.