Summer Hair Survival Guide: How to Protect Your Hair While Traveling, Swimming & Soaking Up the Sun
Summer is made for adventure. Whether you’re boarding a flight, packing up the car for a beach vacation, or spending weekends by the pool, your hair goes through a lot more than you may realize. Between dry airplane cabins, hotel water, chlorine, saltwater, intense sun, and coastal humidity, even the healthiest hair can end the season feeling dry, dull, tangled, or faded.
Summer is made for vacations, beach days, pool parties, and weekend getaways. But while you're making memories, your hair is working overtime.
Between airport travel, hotel water, chlorine, saltwater, UV rays, and heat styling before nights out, it's no surprise that so many people return home wondering why their hair suddenly feels dry, tangled, faded, or impossible to manage.
The good news? A little planning goes a long way.
At 40 Volume Salon, we believe healthy summer hair starts before your vacation—not after. That's exactly why we created two of our favorite July promotions: our Carry-On Hair Event and our Malibu Swimmers Bundle.
Whether you're headed to the beach, boarding a plane, or spending every afternoon by the pool, here's how to keep your hair looking just as good on the last day of vacation as it did on the first.
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The Hidden Cause of Dry, Dull Hair: Hard Water & Mineral Buildup
Have you ever felt like you're doing everything right for your hair, but it still feels dry, dull, rough, or difficult to manage?
Maybe you've invested in professional products, use heat protectant faithfully, and schedule regular salon visits. Yet somehow your hair still doesn't feel as healthy as it should.
The culprit might not be your products, your styling routine, or even your hair itself.
It could be your water.
What Is Hard Water?
Hard water contains high levels of dissolved minerals, primarily calcium and magnesium. While these minerals aren't harmful to drink, they can create challenges for your hair over time.
Every time you wash your hair, tiny mineral deposits can attach themselves to the hair shaft. At first, you may not notice a difference. But over weeks, months, and years, those deposits begin to accumulate.
Think of it like soap scum building up on a shower door. The buildup happens gradually, making it difficult to spot until the effects become obvious.
For your hair, those effects can be significant.
Signs Your Hair May Have Mineral Buildup
Many people assume their hair is simply damaged when the real issue is mineral accumulation.
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Kérastase Luxury Haircare
Everyone wants exceptional hair, but finding the right combination of products to address your particular needs can be challenging. Introducing Kérastase, the prescriptive luxury haircare brand, created with intention to address all the different variables that can keep you from achieving the hair of your dreams. Kérastase was born in Paris, France in 1964, and has built its reputation by offering exceptional, targeted products and powerful in-salon treatments, all backed by scientific expertise. "Kérastase adopts a care-first philosophy that extends beyond its products: to care for all hair types and all individuals, as well as the world we live in." -Kérastase Paris
Elixir Ultime L'Huile Original Hair Oil
Kérastase's #1 best selling hair oil - crafted with a blend of argan oil, camellia oil & marula oil and suitable for all hair types. This hydrating oil serum nourishes, adds strength and shine, and decreases frizz. Lightweight and subtly fragranced, this hair oil can be used in a variety of ways: Multi-use hair oil may be applied the following ways: before shampooing to remove impurities and add an extra dose of moisture, on wet hair before blow drying, and on dry hair to control frizz and add shine. The first step on your journey to simply beautiful hair.
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