The season your shedding chapter wasn’t expecting.
So what happens when the conversation collides with a Mediterranean July? Because for hair that’s already shedding, summer isn’t a soft season. It can be a stress test in disguise.
The hair shaft is made up of keratin, a type of protein structure with a layered cuticle that holds in moisture, lipids, and color. Sun degrades it; elements like salt and chlorine swell and lift it (think: fading and frizz). Heat, including the kind that comes from the sun above, the sand beneath, and the styling tools you use only speed up the breakdown.
Maybe you used to restore the season’s wear and tear with a good treatment come September. For hair that’s already in a thinning phase, the math compounds. Strands that were already entering ‘rest’ become drier, more porous, more brittle. The breakage that wouldn’t have shown up before on healthier hair is more visible with weakened strands. The shedding pattern that was settling starts to get interrupted.
It’s not that summer makes GLP-1 hair loss worse, but the heat can make the hair you do still have harder to keep. And that distinction changes our strategy.
If you’re navigating your GLP-1 experience (or any form of seasonal thinning) and want to make it through summer with as much hair as possible intact, here is the ritual we’d build for you.
The biggest difference you can make can be done in thirty seconds or so. Before swimming (regardless of pool, ocean, or lake) layer in Iles Formula Finishing Serum, or for the curly girls, Iles Formula Curl Revive; working through damp hair from mid-length to ends. This step makes sure to seal the cuticle, blocks the absorption of chlorine and salt, and delivers nutrients to hair while you’re in the water. You’ll rinse off with significantly less damage than you would have without it.
Applied once a week or monthly, the Iles Formula Hair Mask will restore moisture, repairs the cuticle, and rebuild strength. Use for twenty minutes, then rinse. Nutrition keeps the strands you have from breaking before they’re ready to fall.
It helps to remember that GLP-1-related hair loss is, in most cases, a chapter in our lives, not a forever thing. The body recovers. The shedding settles but the hair may become comprimed, by using our botanical Booster the good hair your DNA promised you, will be the hair that returns. We’ll be here helping you through it all.
