Green Hair
This question comes up all the time. Swimmers and spa goers complain that the chlorine in the pool or spa has caused their hair to turn green, their fingernails blue or turquoise and their bathing suit blue-green. The short answer is: It’s NOT the chlorine, it’s the copper.
A simple explanation: Chlorine after all, is bleach. When you add laundry bleach to the washing machine, it makes clothes whiter, removes discoloration and stains, and kills organisms – it does not make your clothes green, blue, turquoise or any other color. Any amount of chlorine in water more than about 15 ppm (parts per million) starts the bleaching process. Although typically a load of laundry in a washing machine has about 600 ppm of chlorine.
So, if it is the copper, what do you do to get the green out of your hair?
There are many shampoos on the market that will take the green out of your hair. We recommend Ultra Swim Chlorine Removal Shampoo. This product can be found at most major retailers and drug stores. Although this product is primarily used to remove chlorine from your hair, “It also helps remove copper deposits and other oxidized metals that can cause lighter colored hair to take on a greenish cast.” as quoted by their website, www.ultraswim.com