Pre-Swim Hair Defense | Prevents Chlorine Damage + Softens Hair | Color Safe, Great Smelling | Made in California | 16.9 oz

It works really well

I like the smell and helpfulness of using this pre-conditioner. I smooth it in my hair, particularly on my hair along the hairline, and where my scrunchie goes, just before putting my cap on and swimming laps. When I go to wash out my hair after swimming, it is soft and not stripped of natural oils like it is when swimming without a pre-conditioner. It also seems to help my cap last longer. (I use a fabric-type cap with water resistant coating on the outside.)With that said, it is not great if I leave it in my hair longer than a few minutes before swimming. I have had a couple of instances where I couldn’t swim when I had planned and it dried in my hair and made it feel brittle and more breakable until I could rinse it out. It works great if you swim and then rinse off right away. Don’t let it fully dry in your hair if at all possible before swimming/rinsing off. If you do, don’t comb or brush your hair until you rinse it off. (I suspect this would be the case with most conditioners, honestly.) This is my second bottle—it is worth the money. It really helps protect my hair when swimming and I will keep using it.

I used a little bottle and then bought the huge bottle. Yes, it works well, but I do have the feeling that coconut oil might be just as good, or even a cheap hair conditioner. I'll need to test out my theory. We'll come back and write more afterward. Definitely helps your hair when you swim. Afterward, it rinses out well and leaves your hair soft. It even returned some wave and curl to mine. So fun to use, just not sure of the price point okay.

I absolutely love this product! It’s been a total game changer in keeping my hair soft in the pool. I’m in the pool 5 days a week for 3-5 hour shifts and I always put this in before I get in the pool. immediately when your hair gets wet it detangles and becomes soft. At the end of my shift I wash it out with shampoo (not necessary) and put a hair mask on my hair. With all of that together my hair is able to stay relatively healthy while in the pool. On days I don’t use this product my hair often gets tangled and feels very dry in the water, this makes sure your hair stays protected inside the water and keeps it soft after rinsing it out. I don’t know what I’d do without this!!!

I have bleached blonde highlights in my hair and I love to swim which is normally an issue. I've been using this product for a few years now and I highly recommend it. It has a nice almond smell and has prevented my hair from getting the green tint that happens to blonde hair when it reacts with the chlorine in the water. My hair is very soft after swimming but I would recommend wearing a swim hat when you have this on your hair.

I’ve used the product before and I know it works great, I was just disappointed it arrived damaged and leaking. Not worth trying to return.

I started using this product last swim season (roughly June - September where I live) because I was doing an hour or two of laps every day and was very concerned about the likely damage to my hair. I was skeptical, both because of the price and because of the additional "pre-swim" prep using this product added to my routine -- basically, having to wet my (long) hair in the sink, spread this stuff all over, and then drip water annoyingly on myself while I got ready to swim. (I also found the pump bottle extremely hard to get working when I first opened the bottle ... I'm hoping that's been improved since last year.)BUT. All this minor kabitzing aside, the stuff WORKS. It really does work. I swam in a well-chlorinated pool for two hours a day for four months last year, and my thin, stupidly fine hair did not become brittle or fragile or broken, as I remember it doing when I swam regularly as a kid. So I have just ordered another (expensive) bottle, because I'm too old to be sanguine about losing hair unnecessarily.Caveat: I do also regularly use a (much less expensive) chlorine-removing shampoo in my post-swim shower. But I'm still very satisfied with this product, which is why I just bought another (very expensive) bottle for this new season. :-)On a follow-up note ... the company that makes AquaGuard (Underwater Audio) makes an underwater audio player that has literally changed my swimming life. I can swim for literally hours now listening to CLEAR audiobooks and music while I do it. If you're not already aware of such products, I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend Underwater Audio's Delphin audio player (and underwater earbuds). Worth every penny. I wish this company charged (a lot) less for AquaGuard, but I will always be grateful to them for my Delphin(s).

This stuff is full of chemicals! The one time I used it, I wetted my hair first and then applied this product. It was so lugubrious that my swim cap kept slipping off. And they suggest you just let it go into the pool! After it dripped down into my eyes during my swim, they were stinging and red for a couple of days. Fortunately, Amazon was willing to let me return it. This product has not yet been rated by EWG, but here is the list of ingredients. Use at your peril, and the peril of everyone else who shares the pool with you.Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearalkonium Chloride, Glycerin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Trimethylsiloxyamodi-methocone, C11-15, Pareth-7, C12-16, Pareth-9, C10-18 Triglycerides, Trideceth-12, Dimethicone, Panthenol, Quaternium-91, Behentrimonium Chloride, Myristyl Myristate, Disodium Edta, Amodimethicone, Laureth-9, Glyceryl Stearate Se, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Glycerides, Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba (Guar) Gum, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Fragrance.