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Summer Hair Care Tips and Products

Updated on August 1, 2025 | 4 min read

Jaclyn LaBadia, Davines Writer

The goal of summer hair is to look effortlessly sun-kissed, messy and undone. But saltwater and chlorine can dry out your hair while the sun strips colour, weakens hair bonds, and irritates the scalp. All while sweat and humidity bring on the frizz. So maintaining healthy, manageable hair in the face of summer damage is a must for your best summer strands. We have the summer hair care tips and products to protect and nourish your hair during hot, humid, sun-exposed months.

Key Takeaways

How to Care for Your Hair This Summer

UV rays, chlorine, and humidity can damage your hair—causing dryness, frizz, fading, and breakage.
A dedicated summer hair care routine is essential to protect and repair your strands through sun, sweat, and saltwater.
Signs of summer damage include increased split ends, brittle texture, dullness, scalp irritation, and frizz.
Shield your hair like your skin—use SPF-infused products, cover up with hats, and style protectively.
Pre-wet your hair before swimming to minimize chlorine absorption and rinse immediately after.
Deep condition weekly with hydrating treatments to replenish moisture lost from sun and heat.
Use anti-frizz oils for quick fixes on dry or humid days.
Products like Davines' SU line protect against UV rays while softening hair and restoring hydration.
Between sun-exposure days, maintain softness and shine with gentle, sulfate-free shampoos and conditioners.
Regular trims and minimal heat styling go a long way in maintaining healthy, sun-kissed strands.

In This Article

Why Summer Hair Care is Essential

Signs Your Hair Needs More Care

Top Summer Hair Care Measures to Incorporate Into Your Routine

Product Recommendations for Summer Hair Care

Your Summer Hair Care Routine

FAQs

Why Summer Hair Care is Essential

Maintaining a healthy summer hair care routine is essential to combat the damaging effects of the summer on your hair. Summer’s warmer, sunnier, temps mean more time interacting with UV rays, humidity, sea or pool water. Each of these elements can wreak havoc on your hair causing dryness, frizz, colour-fading, and scalp sunburns. A targeted hair care routine that addresses these problems is the best way to treat and prevent them.

Signs Your Hair Needs More Care

So how do you know if your hair has summer damage? Summer-damaged hair can reveal itself in several ways, and knowing what to look for can help you stop the damage in its tracks. From split ends to an irritated scalp, these are the most common signs your hair is suffering from summer damage.

You have more split ends than normal.
Your texture is brittle.
Your hair is dull and lackluster.
You have excessive tangling.

Your hair is uncontrollably frizzy.
Your colour is faded.
Your scalp is itchy, irritated or uncomfortable.

You have more split ends than normal.
Your texture is brittle.
Your hair is dull and lackluster.
You have excessive tangling.
Your hair is uncontrollably frizzy.
Your color is faded.
Your scalp is itchy, irritated or uncomfortable.

Top Summer Hair Care Measures to Incorporate Into Your Routine

These hair care tips for summer will keep your hair healthy through all the season’s harshest elements.

Protect your hair before spending time in the sun, just like you do with your skin, by using hair products with spf.
Keep your strands hidden from harmful UV rays anytime you’re in the sun for extended periods of time. Think protective hairstyles, hats and scarves.
Pre-wet your hair before entering a chlorine pool can help protect it. The moisture in your hair, the less of a chance it will absorb chlorine.
Deep condition with hydrating masks and summer hair treatments regularly throughout the summer to help restore moisture to parched strands.
Reduce heat styling and air-dry when you can, embracing your natural texture and minimizing damage.
Keep an anti-frizz hair oil on hand to combat dryness and smooth frizz and flyaways in pinch.

Product Recommendations for Summer Hair Care

We can’t talk about summer hair care products without mentioning the importance of UV Protection. Our SU family is a complete routine to protect your hair and skin before and after sun exposure. Formulated with antioxidants to protect hair and skin cells from free radicals caused by the sun.

An absolute must-have for the season is SU Milk, a softening leave-in spray great for use both before and after sun exposure. SU Milk protects the hair thanks to anti UV-A and UV-B filters, preventing it from drying out and becoming damaged by the sun’s rays. Use it after sun exposure too, as an additional conditioning treatment after SU Hair & Body Wash, a hydrating shampoo that moisturises your hair and skin after being outside.

And if you’re really feeling sun-kissed, restore and hydrate your skin and strands with SU Aftersun and SU Hair Mask; a soothing, mineral-rich skin gel and restorative and hydrating anti-aging treatment.

Your Summer Hair Care Routine

Your hair care routine for summer is all about keeping your hair strong, hydrated and healthy in the face of seasonal stressors. Incorporate our summer hair care tips and use only the highest quality products in your strands. All Davines summer hair products including shampoos, conditioners, hair products with spf and special treatments, are formulated using high quality natural ingredients and without harmful ones, to nourish and care for your summer hair.

FAQs

How do I take care of my hair during summer?

Care for your hair during summer with hydrating shampoos and conditioners, deep conditioning treatments and hair products with spf. Avoid overwashing and excessive heat styling, and keep your hair covered in the sun.

What is the best summer hair care?

The best summer hair care prioritizes moisture and protects against damage from the season’s harsh elements like UV rays, saltwater, chlorine and humidity.

Should I oil my hair during summer?

Oiling your hair during summer is beneficial as it helps to combat dryness and frizz, protect from sun damage, manage humidity and soothe a dry scalp.

How do I protect my hair from sun and chlorine?

Protect your hair from sun and chlorine by applying a sun-protecting leave-in before swimming. Rinse thoroughly after and use a clarifying shampoo to remove chlorine buildup, followed by a deep conditioning treatment.

Should I put oil in my hair before swimming?

Putting oil in your hair before swimming can keep your hair safe from the harmful effects of the chlorine, as it creates a protective barrier around your strands.

What do you put in your hair in the sun?

Using a hair sunscreen with anti UV-A and UV-B filters before sun exposure, like SU Milk, will prevent your hair from drying out and becoming damaged by the sun’s rays.

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