As the sun starts to shine brighter and vacations plans are finalised, it is time to shift your focus to something you might be overlooking—your hair. Summer may be the season of sunshine, beach trips, and carefree style, but it can also be one of the most damaging times of the year for your hair, especially if it is fine, thinning, or prone to breakage. This is why preparing your hair in advance is essential.
Here is your complete guide to summer hair care, learning how to strengthen your hair before summer, and which products can help you arrive at your destination with strong, radiant and healthy hair.
Why Your Hair Needs Pre-Holiday Care
During summer, hair is exposed to many aggressors: the sun’s UV rays, saltwater, chlorine, humidity, and increased washing due to sweat or beach outings. These elements can weaken the hair structure, leaving it brittle, frizzy, and dull. If your hair is already fragile, skipping a pre-summer care routine can mean returning from holiday with more split ends and breakage than before.
How Summer Affects Your Hair
Let’s break down some of the key reasons why hair suffers during the warmer months:
Sun exposure: Just like your skin, your hair needs protection from harmful UV rays. Prolonged exposure can damage the cuticle, the hair’s outer layer, leading to colour fading, dryness, and split ends.
Saltwater and chlorine: A refreshing swim is not so great for your strands. Salt dehydrates the hair while chlorine can strip natural oils and even weaken the hair fibre.
Heat and humidity: These can make your hair more porous and susceptible to frizz, especially if you frequently style with hot tools.
Air conditioning and frequent washing: These both dry out the scalp and strands, further aggravating fragile or already dry hair.
If you’ve ever wondered, why is my hair so dry in the summer? The answer lies in this cocktail of environmental and lifestyle factors.
The first step in every haircare routine
The Cleansing Purifying Scrub with Sea Salt is renowned for its luxurious feel and remarkable effectiveness. This cult favorite goes beyond traditional shampoo. Specially designed for sensitive, oily, or irritated scalps, it acts as a revitalising treatment that resets your scalp and elevates your entire haircare ritual. Used as the essential first step, it provides an intense cleanse that refreshes and rebalances, leaving your hair feeling weightless, healthy, and radiant.
The formula transforms into a rich, foamy lather when mixed with water, gently exfoliating while toning the scalp. The refreshing fragrance lingers subtly after each wash, making the entire experience feel like a spa treatment at home.
Introducing the Christophe Robin Fortifying Range
The perfect solution to strengthen hair before summer? Christophe Robin’s Fortifying Shampoo & Conditioner—specially designed to make hair stronger and more resilient.
This power duo includes:
Fortifying Shampoo with Amaranth Peptides: A gentle formula that cleanses while actively helping to reduce hair loss due to breakage.
Fortifying Conditioner with Amaranth Peptides: It provides deep nourishment without weighing hair down, making it ideal for daily use in the lead-up to your holiday.
Why it works:
Amaranth Peptides are rich in proteins and amino acids, offering exceptional strengthening action and adding texture to the hair fibre, making the hair visibly thicker, fuller and more resilient. Combined with Lupin Biomimetic Peptides, which mimic the effects of collagen, they help reduce breakage and shedding.
Scientifically proven, this new routine reduces hair fall due to breakage by 5 times from the first use, leaving hair visibly stronger and more resilient*.
Whether you’re prepping for a tropical escape or a staycation, incorporating this range into your daily routine at least 2–3 weeks before your trip can make a noticeable difference.
In addition to using fortifying products, here are some hair care tips for summer to ensure your strands stay strong, shiny, and healthy:
Start your prep early.
Apply a weekly nourishing mask.
Give your hair a deeper dose of nourishment. The Regenerating Mask with Prickly Pear Oil is an excellent add-on. This luxurious, ultra-nourishing hair mask that deeply conditions, repairs, and smooths hair for a sumptuous, glossy finish.
Daily hydrate.
Use the Hydrating Leave-in Mist with Aloe Vera | Detangles & Hydrates | Christophe Robin UKUse the to revive and refresh your hair. This lightweight, leave-in mist detangles and hydrates, leaving hair smoother, more manageable, and luminous.
Protect hair from the heat.
The Regenerating Serum with Prickly Pear Oil is a luxurious, silicone-free serum for heat protection and shine.
The Payoff: Healthier, Resilient Summer Hair
Following these tips help you enjoy the summer while saying goodbye to breakage, dryness, and frizz. Instead, you will welcome silky, shiny, and manageable hair that looks just as good after your holiday as it did before.
Are you ready to give your hair the care it deserves? Say goodbye to breakage and hello to healthy summer hair!
*Based on instrumental testing after application of the Fortifying Shampoo & Conditioner vs. control sample.
