Yes, water messes with your head.
People often overlook the importance of water when it comes to hair care. Buy all the hair products you want; if your water isn’t healthy, your hair won’t be either.
That’s because all the minerals and chemicals found in the Bradenton and Sarasota city water supply directly affect the shape and feel of your hair and scalp. Day after day, you’re washing your hair while exposing it to more and more damage. So if you don’t have a residential water treatment system, you’re setting yourself up for a bad hair lifestyle.
Why is Sarasota Water Bad for Hair?
Every municipally treated water supply comes with its own side effects. That’s because it’s primarily important to ensure that the supply is free from dangerous microorganisms as well as dangerous amounts of contaminants, both chemical and mineral.
But in order to keep those microorganisms at bay, a chemical disinfectant is needed—ie chlorine.
And while our municipal water is filtered, it still contains enough of the natural mineral deposits found in the Florida aquifer—ie calcium and magnesium—to affect your hair as well as the soaps you use. In other words, Sarasota water is hard water.
And between those two factors—hard water with chlorine in it—your hair suffers.
How Does Chlorine Affect My Hair?
If you’ve spent any time in swimming pools, you’ll know how chlorine can leave your hair feeling dry and unmanageable. That’s because chlorine strips your hair of its natural protective oils. Without those oils, your hair is less flexible and more prone to breaking and split ends.
And that’s not all it strips. Chlorine also removes hair coloring, so you’ll need more frequent trips to the salon for touch-ups.
On top of that, chlorine damages your scalp, too. This is, in part, because it’s doing exactly what it was put in the water supply to do: kill microorganisms. Not only does chlorine strip the oil from your skin, it also damages your skin’s healthy microbiome—that is, the millions of microscopic organisms that work with your body to maintain a healthy, balanced state.
How Does Hard Water Affect My Hair?
Calcium and magnesium also remove the healthy oils from your hair and scalp.
Plus, the same qualities of hard water that make it bad for your appliances and plumbing make them bad for your hair. That is, they stick together and get left behind. In other words: buildup.
Notice water marks and gross lines on your coffeemaker? An appliance you use just once a day? Now think about that same buildup happening on your head.
Compounding that buildup is your shampoo’s limited effectiveness. Yes, hard water hinders soap. So not only are you depositing minerals on your hair, but there’s not much you can do to get them off.
Sarasota Water Treatment for Healthy Hair
Of course, the solution is the right home water treatment. A simple water softener quickly and easily removes the vast majority of those pesky minerals. And an effective filter gets the chlorine out, too.
In order to ensure that you’re getting the right treatment system for your home’s water problems, the first thing we do is test your water so we know exactly what’s going on. Then we sell and perform the water treatment system installation.
After that? You’ll find out how happy and healthy your hair can truly be.
Deckard & Company.