Between humidity, sweat and sunburn, there are a lot of factors at play while trying to look and feel your best in the summer — especially when it comes to your hair. So we consulted an expert hair stylist for tips on keeping hair healthy, hydrated and well-coiffed all season long. Plus:

• Jeep Wrangler 4xe: Americans are smitten with this particular PHEV.
• Smithey Cast Iron: Why we recommend this one over any other.

The Ultimate Men’s Summer Hair Styling and Grooming Guide

With the long hours of sunshine, high humidity levels, beach activities and outdoor soirees, hair grooming in the summer differs from the cooler months. The season is ripe for al fresco adventures, but through all the travel, swimming and inevitable sweating, you want to maintain a cool hairstyle while protecting your follicles. We consulted with Chrissie Schwalje, owner of Parlor Hair Studio in Montclair, NJ, to get expert advice on how men can protect their hair from the sun, choose the best styling products and maintain overall hair health.

The Improbable King of Plug-In Hybrids

Among out-of-the-box off-roaders, there are few choices that better balance capability, price and trail-cred than the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. Holding court as high priest of a cult that spans multiple decades, Jeep’s ever-popular SUV seemingly defies the winds of change, clinging to its solid axle, body-on-frame design with the same tenacity as it guards its doors-off, roofless body shape that shares DNA with its earliest WW2 ancestor.

We sat in with the Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon X to get a feel for what is won, and what is lost, when opting for the greenest rock crawler on the market.

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Why I Recommend Smithey Skillets More Than Any Other Cast Iron

Twenty years ago, you didn’t have much choice when shopping for a cast iron skillet. The legendary makers of old, like Griswold and Wagner, had ceased production of their legendary pans, and the companies still churning them out had introduced new production techniques that led to heavier, rougher and — to be frank — uglier cookware. But that didn’t really matter, because you probably weren’t looking for one anyway.

Then American-made cast iron came back in a big way.