Goodbye Chlorine is proud to be the heat winner sponsor for the 98th Annual Seattle Open hosted by Cascade Swim Club. The classic NW meet will be held at the Colman Pool July 6 – July 8, 2017.
Good luck to all the athletes!
Colman pool is set on the shores of Lincoln park overlooking the Puget Sound and the Olympics to the Northwest. It’s one of the most beautiful pools in the country.
For more information about the meet jump here.
Good luck to all the athletes participating in the 2017 Huntsville Sprint Triathlon. Look for Goodbye Chlorine samples in your grab bags along with a discount code for your first purchase.
This year is an exciting course change for the 37th annual event, which now includes a 400 meter swim in the brand-spanking-new natatorium.
The sprint combines 400 meter swim, 7 mile bike and a 3.1 mile run + tons of fun.
Jump to the event information here hosted by Team Rocket Tri.
The ELITE Anti-Chlorine Conditioner by Goodbye Chlorine is a hair conditioner like none other. Really, it’s that unique. Yup, and we’re not just saying that because we make it. Read on, and we’ll make our case for the best conditioner a swimmer ever had.
Are you tired of the damage chlorine does to your hair and skin? We are grateful chlorine is IN the pool, but that’s where we would like to keep it. Unfortunately, while swimming, chlorine forms a strong bond with your hair. And since normal hair products don’t release chlorine, the pool chlorine begins to accumulate on your hair. After swimming day in and day out, your hair becomes damaged and brittle–otherwise known as “swimmer’s hair“–not to mention it becomes permeated with a chlorine odor.
This accumulation of chlorine is what causes swimmer’s hair. When your hair is healthy, it is acidic and this acidity causes the cuticles to lie flat. The cuticle is the outer layer of your hair. It’s a scale-like structure that locks together and holds moisture in your hair shaft. But chlorine is alkaline. When chlorine accumulates on your hair it changes the pH of your hair and your cuticles lift. When the cuticles lift, your hair feels rough, dry and becomes brittle. This is what’s known as swimmer’s hair.
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accumulation of chlorine is what causes swimmer’s hair.
ELITE anti-chlorine conditioner addresses all these factors to make a complete hair care product for avid and elite swimmers.
First of all, it is formulated to neutralize chlorine. It effectively reduces chlorine on contact. Just work the conditioner through your hair like you would any hair conditioner.
Second, the Original Hair Conditioner Plus contains tons of conditioning oils including: Olive Oil, Coconut Oil and Rice Bran Oil as well as many other ingredients that both condition and nourish your hair.
And third, the conditioner is formulated to begin returning your hair to it’s natural pH. This is important so your cuticles will lay flat and make your hair healthy and shiny.
Best of all, our hair conditioner was formulated by ELITE swimmers who know a thing or two about dealing with the damaging effects of chlorine. Our brand is your guarantee of the quality and effectiveness of our products.
The Original Hair Conditioner is truly amazing and should be every swimmer’s essential hair care product.
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Chlorine has two personalities: one that is fantastic at sanitizing pool water, and one that can severely damage your hair and skin. Goodbye Chlorine makes Anti-Chlorine Soap, Shower Gel, Shampoo, Conditioner, Chlorine Removal Spray, and other styling products that get the chlorine off.
Organic matter attracts chlorine. And for that reason, your hair and skin attracts chlorine. Not only does chlorine disinfect the pool, it does a great job of sanitizing you too! While you are swimming, chlorine forms a strong bond to your hair and skin. This bond is so strong, that special anti-chlorine products are needed to release it.
Goodbye Chlorine’s anti-chlorine soap may look like regular soap, but it’s special formulation is anything but regular. Our anti-chlorine soap releases the strong bond chlorine has with your skin and then gently remove it. Our soap is very emollient (think soft and moisturizing). We’ve made it this way because chlorine strips oils from your skin and leaves you feeling dry and itchy. Our soap is extremely mild. It’s effective at removing chlorine and starts the process of returning your skin to its natural state.
Pictured to the left, is our Tea Tree anti-chlorine soap. We also have our Original anti-chlorine soap. If you would like a soap without fragrance, try the Natural Chlorine Removal soap.
If you prefer your soap to have a mild exfoliating effect, try our Morning Swim Soap. It has coffee grounds that are amazing!
Goodbye Chlorine’s Original Shower Gel for swimmers is a terrific option after swimming. This is not an ordinary shower gel. First and foremost, our shower gel releases the chlorine bond. Because chlorine forms a strong bond with your body, specialty products are needed to get it off.
Our shower gel contains special ingredients that release and gently remove the chlorine.
Try our Original or Mango shower gel.
Our shower gel will eliminate the lingering chlorine odor and help stop the damaging effects like dry, itchy skin.
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Chlorine Hair, otherwise known as “swimmer’s hair” is dry, brittle hair that has been severely damaged by chlorine. Under the right conditions swimmer’s hair may even have a greenish tint to it. Fortunately, swimmers hair is easy to prevent and fix if you do this one thing.
Jump to: How To Fix Chlorine Hair
In the most basic sense, chlorine hair is hair that has been severely damaged by chlorine and may have a greenish tint. Swimmer’s who spend hours in the pool or who swim every day are subject to the damage caused by chlorine if they don’t work to prevent it.
Chlorine is a great chemical for keeping our pools sanitized–and thank heavens for that. Nobody wants to swim in a filthy public swimming pool. However, chlorine is highly toxic. It is even deadly in high concentrations. Just to give you an idea of how deadly chlorine gas can be, it has been used in chemical warfare.
Obviously, the concentration of chlorine in swimming pools is much lower (only about 1 ppm), but you’ve probably notice some of the side effects: red eyes, coughing, dry skin, and even chlorine hair.
Chlorine damages your hair after prolonged swimming. It’s attracted to organic matter–and you guessed it–your body and hair is a giant chlorine magnet. Chlorine forms a strong bond to your hair and the more you swim through the water, the more chlorine bonds to your hair.
The chlorine is alkaline which makes the cuticle of your hair lift. When your hair is healthy and shiny, the cuticle lies flat and locks moisture into your hair. When your cuticle lifts, more chlorine can strip the moisture from your hair and they cycle continues. Because your hair cuticle have lifted is one reason why your hair feels dry, brittle and rough after swimming.
We’ve previously written this comprehensive article on how to prevent swimmer’s hair. Here is the summary:
It is impossible, however, to keep chlorine off of your hair. The pool water will rinse out oils and conditioners, and no matter what swimming cap you wear, pool water will find its way inside. It’s a good idea to use a swimming-specific shampoo and conditioner after swimming to remove the chlorine that has attached to your hair and prevent the long-term buildup of chlorine.
Normal shampoo doesn’t release the strong chlorine bond has with your hair. A swimming-specific shampoo like these do. Normal shampoo is also designed to remove dirt while swimming specific shampoo is gentle and designed to gently remove impurities such as the neutralized and residual chlorine.
Strong detergent shampoos will only make chlorine hair worse. A swimming-specific shampoo is best for removing chlorine after swimming.
The best way to fix chlorine hair is to use ELITE Conditioner. If you have chlorine hair–and we mean chlorine hair of the worst kind, then follow this procedure:
ELITE Conditioner is different than any other conditioner you’ve used and here’s why:
ELITE Conditioner also works well as a solo product to maintain and protect healthy hair. If you only want to carry one hair product to the pool, we recommend this one.
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If you are like other people who are swimming every day, you are probably wondering: How do I get the chlorine off?
Although simmers are happy the chlorine keeps the swimming pool sanitized, they would rather not have it on their skin and hair once they leave the pool.
It’s an age-old problem swimmers have dealt with. Read on, and we’ll give you our top Three Chlorine Protection Tips You Need to Know.
Goodbye Chlorine is committed to manufacturing high-quality personal care products that make swimming more enjoyable by combating the damaging effects of chlorine. Shop for all of our chlorine removal products here.
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Dragging yourself to morning workouts is hard. Here’s a chlorine removal soap that won’t make the challenges of morning workouts any easier, but will make the reward a little sweeter.
No two ways about it, morning workouts test the willpower of every swimmer. The early morning alarm, the cold splash of the pool, and sore muscles are something swimmers have grown to tolerate. Morning workouts are relentless. There’s nothing easy about them.
After a hard morning workout, a warm shower is a short reward to reflect on the accomplishments of the morning. After all, swimmers accomplish more in a morning workout than most people do all day.
Goodbye Chlorine’s AM Swimmers Soap gives swimmers that little something extra to look forward to after a hard morning workout.
Like all of our soaps, the Morning Workout Swimmers Soap releases and gently washes away the chlorine that accumulates on swimmers’ bodies. There is no worse reminder or a hard workout than to walk around smelling like chlorine until you hit the pool again later the same day.
The Morning Workout Swimmers Soap has a nice refreshing twist. It contains coffee grounds that provide a mild exfoliation scrub. Do you like a little grit to your soap? Then this bar will be perfect. Nothing says wake up like coffee and this bar helps get you ready for your first cup o’ Joe.
Not that the cold splash into the pool, or a hard heart-pumping working didn’t already get you going like the Roadrunner on speed, but just in case–the AM Swimmers Soap bar has a nice refreshing essential oil that is sure to make your post-workout shower just a little better.
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Have you ever wondered how elite swimmers put up with the chlorine day in and day out? They use a specialized body wash after swimming.
Keep reading, we’ll tell you how elite swimmers manage chlorine and show you two of the best body wash products available to swimmers.
I imagine you are like most swimmers and have tried just about everything to get the chlorine off after swimming. You’ve probably first tried washing extensively after swimming. Have you also tried a variety of D.Y.I. remedies like other swimmers?
The reason normal showers and D.Y.I. remedies don’t work is because chlorine sticks.
Chlorine is widely used in pools to sanitize the water. This is a good thing. Swimmers want the pool water clean and chlorine does an excellent job of cleaning it. When thinking of chlorine, think of bleach. It does a great job cleaning, but can quickly dry out your skin and damage your hair.
Chlorine levels in pools are deemed safe, however high exposures to chlorine gas can be harmful.
Organic matter acts like a magnet to chlorine. When you dive into the pool, chlorine is attracted to you. The more you swim, the more chlorine accumulates on you, and also the more sanitized you become. And sadly, the more negative effects of chlorine you will experience–like dry skin and damaged hair.
Chlorinated pool water does a great job of cleaning, and after swimming, swimmers are super-clean. Showering with strong detergents will not remove chlorine and will only make your skin more dry and hair more damaged.
The best thing to do after swimming is to use a swimming-specific body wash. Specialized products for swimmers are formulated to break the chlorine bond and gently remove the chlorine. Body washes for swimmers should:
Elite swimmers know how damaging chlorine can be to their skin. And that’s why they use specialized products that combat dry, itchy skin. Here are two products you should consider:
ELITE Shower Gel, for elite athletes.
Goodbye Chlorine Shower Gel, for fitness fanatics.
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Shampoo avid swimmers use to win the chlorine battle.
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You may have noticed that after swimming you smell like chlorine. No matter how hard you try the chlorine just sticks to you. You may have tried different types of soap, body wash and shampoo, but the chlorine just sticks. Many swimmers have tried D.I.Y. home remedies such as tomato juice, vinegar and even ketchup. But these methods don’t seem to work either. Help! Do you just want to get the chlorine off? Keep reading.
Well, some swimmers do put up with dry itchy skin and even the chlorine smell. But if you would rather leave the chlorine in the pool and have hair that looks normal, then keep on reading.
No doubt about it, chlorine smells. You can smell a swimming pool from a block away. Going to a swim meet? As you walk around looking for the pool, sometimes your nose is better than a GPS. Yup, that’s the pool, smells like chlorine.
Chlorine creates a strong bond with your skin and hair. As you swim, it tries to sterilize everything organic, and you are the largest chlorine magnet in the pool. Quite simply, chlorine loves swimmers and it creates a strong bond with them. After swimming, swimmer’s hair and skin are very clean, however, they also have lots of chlorine on them.
Did you know the first chemical agent used in warfare was chlorine gas? Yes, it is a very toxic substance and can kill you. Itis deemed safe if used at levels prescribed for use in pools, but like any chemical, accumulation can raise these levels far above what health experts would like. Have you noticed how your eyes burn after exposure to the swimming pool, or how your skin gets dry and itchy. This is the effect of accumulation.
When chlorine accumulates on your hair, it will cause it to be dry, brittle and unmanageable. This is commonly called “swimmer’s hair” or “chlorine hair”.
The key to getting chlorine off is to use products that break the chlorine bond and gently wash it away. You don’t need a strong soap, but you need a gentle soap designed to get the chlorine off.
Use these swimming-specific products to get the chlorine off after swimming:
Swimmer’s Hair: How to avoid it and fix it.
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What causes “swimmer’s hair” and how to care for it.
Should you use anti-chlorine soap, or anti-chlorine spray?
Shampoo avid swimmers use to win the chlorine battle.
The Science of Chlorine: Why it’s important for public health.
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