3-Hour Scalp Cooling Kit
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3-Hour Scalp Cooling Kit
Continuously apply maximum cold to your scalp for over 3 hours during your chemotherapy sessions with the Icekap 3-Hour Scalp Cooling Kit. No need to re-freeze packs during your session — just swap fresh packs into each cap once you've used it for 30 minutes.
✔️ 3 cold caps with gel packs included
✔️ 3 extra sets of gel packs
✔️ Total: 3 cold Caps + 6 sets of gel packs
Be sure to follow the instructions on our sizing chart to get the fit most snug to your head.
Cold capping doesn’t work for everyone — but it’s the best chance of keeping your hair during chemo.
The Mayo Clinic reports a success rate of around 66%1, with success defined as ‘maintaining at least half your hair.’ It’s the most scientifically-validated way to protect your hair during chemo.
Your mileage will vary — depending on the drugs used, the complexity of the treatment, and how long your chemo sessions last.
When you use them properly, cold caps give you a chance to try something… during a time when you have too little control over too many things.
And remember:
Your hair will grow back, no matter what. For 99.5% of chemo patients, your hair will grow back.
And in 6 months to 2 years, everything really can feel normal again.
But… if you’d like to try cold capping, Icekap can help.
How cold capping works — and what makes Icekap a simple, affordable option if you’d like to try cold capping.
Cold capping requires following a specific protocol: applying scalp-level cold to your head throughout every chemotherapy session.
Your hair grows from specialized cells called follicles — which, with their rapidly-dividing cells, become targets for chemotherapeutic agents. Cold is believed to slow down the cellular metabolism, reducing their exposure to this toxicity.
One of the best ways to get cold close to your follicles is with a specially-designed hat. This hat is lined with gel packs that can be frozen. The right cold cap gets a long-lasting cold as close to your scalp as possible.
The “right” cold cap should have these features:
✅ Snug and cozy, sized to fit your head
✅ Long-lasting gel packs, ideally medical-grade
✅ Soft gel packs that conform to your head shape
✅ Adjustable straps to get the cold tighter to your scalp
✅ The ability to maintain a very low temperature for a long time
This last point is crucial. You’ll want to cool your scalp down before your chemo session, and maintain that cold until at least half an hour after it ends.
Most cold capping systems use expensive, cumbersome methods to maintain that level of cold — heavy-duty pumps, powered coolers, and other features that may be effective, but add up to a hefty price tag. Many of them send you 8 caps or more, which you may pay thousands of dollars a month to rent.
The Icekap scalp cooling system is simpler, but still provides hours of cold when used properly. Our affordable caps have removable gel packs — so all you need are two caps and a cooler full of extra gel packs.
All you have to do is wear one cap while swapping fresh-from-the-freezer packs into your spare cap, ensuring you change to new packs every 30 minutes.*
Our cold capping systems empower everybody — not just people with disposable monthly income — to follow a cold capping protocol that has the highest chance of success.
We created our Cool Cap as a migraine-relief device: medical-grade gel packs, in a cozy fleece cap with adjustable straps so you can get as tight of a fit as you need.
Over the years, we noticed that a lot of people were buying Icekap Cool Caps to help with chemo. And when you compare it to the other options out there, it’s not hard to see why:
✅ Medical-grade gel packs that are soft when frozen, so they conform to your head
✅ A patented ponytail loop that helps you get hair out of the way and maximize scalp contact
✅ Adjustable tension straps that get the cold closer to your head
✅ A design that lets you swap out ice packs as they warm up
✅ A cozy fleece cap that provides comfort when you need it the most
And it costs a fraction of the price of other cold-capping systems.
How cold capping can help you try to minimize hair loss during chemotherapy.*
Cold capping has been used since the 1970s to counter the sometimes devastating impact of chemotherapy on your hair.
Hair loss happens during chemotherapy because chemo drugs target cancer cells based on their rapidly-dividing nature, hair-follicle cells get targeted too, risking damage and hair loss.
Extended cold to the scalp works in 2 ways:
Protects hair follicles
Scalp cooling constricts blood vessels which can reduce blood flow and allow fewer chemo drugs to reach hair follicles.
Slows metabolic rate
Prolonged cooling of hair follicles can slow cells’ rapidly-dividing nature removing them as targets for chemo drugs.
EXPLORE OUR CONTINUOUS COOLING SYSTEM
Cool your scalp before, during and after every chemo session.
For the best shot at reducing hair loss, chemo patients need sustained, maximum cold, kept close to the follicles — during their session, and for 30-60 minutes before and after the session as well.* For most people, this is 3 hours or less.
We help you make that happen with our 3-Hour Cooling Kit: three caps, with extra swappable ice packs that you can rotate through during chemo sessions.* For those with longer, specialized treatments, we also offer a 6-Hour Cooling Kit.
If you're just looking for comfort and relief for symptoms at home, we recommend the Cool Cap, which comes with one cap and one set of packs.
6-Hour Cooling Kit
If your chemo sessions go the distance, this is the kit for you — get 6 straight hours of cooling without re-freezing your gel packs.
Be sure to follow the instructions on our sizing chart to get the fit most snug to your head.
✔️ 3 Cool Cap Kits (regular price: $119
each)
✔️ 6 extra sets of gel packs (regular price:
$39.99 each)
✔️ Total: 3 Cool Caps + 9 Sets of Gel Packs
3-Hour Cooling Kit
Designed for 3 hours of continuous scalp cooling, without needing to re-freeze packs. This is our most affordable, truly no-frills option.
Be sure to follow the instructions on our sizing chart to get the fit most snug to your head.
✔️ ✔ 3 Cool Cap Kits (regular price: $119
each)
✔️ 3 extra sets of gel packs (regular price:
$39.99 each)
✔️ Total: 3 Cool Caps + 6 Sets of Gel Packs
Cool Cap
Use your Cool Cap at home to help manage chemo-related symptoms including nausea, headaches and hot flashes. NOT recommended to help minimize hair loss during chemo sessions.
Embrace its soft, fuzzy interior for hours of colling relief.
Includes:
✔️ 1 Cool Cap
✔️ 1 set of gel packs
* 1-time payment. No monthly rental.
No deposit. No hidden fees
Superior scalp-level cooling at a far superior price.
Icekap for Chemo is the first fully direct-to-consumer cold capping system for chemo.
Meaning you get to pay less for our system because we don’t charge you for unnecessary frills or our staff.
✅ No-frills system
Competitors add unnecessary extras into their products like combs, coolers and a permanent marker. Whereas we believe you either have these items already or can easily
✅ The right built-in features
Icekap for Chemo comes already equipped with built-in features like a built-in ponytail loop and a velcro compression band. So we don’t have to send you loose, separate objects.
✅ No dial-a-nurse
You have all the information you need to try cold capping on this page. This lets us keep your cost down during what could be the most challenging time of your life.
✅ No expensive sales staff
Other cold cap systems require you to call them so their staff trained at selling their systems can persuade you to buy. We’d rather empower you with the information you need to decide on your own. (But feel free to reach out to us at support@icekap.com if you have questions).
Compare Icekap Cool Cap to see that there’s no comparison.
| Icekap® Cool Cap | Arctic Cold Caps | Chemo Cold Caps | DigniCap | |
 |  |  |  | |
| Price | $299 + shipping. 1-time fee. | $808 including shipping and deposit. Plus $379 every single month. | $500 including shipping. Plus $425 every single month. | $1,500 to $2,000 for a full course of chemo. |
| Rent vs own | Keep your cap or donate it to a cancer center | Rental system must be returned | Rental system must be returned | Rental system |
| Cooling | Maximum cold lasts 30 to 90 minutes | Swap caps every 20 minutes | Swap caps every 15-25 minutes | Large cooling unit that you attach to and plug in |
| Sizing | 4 sizes to choose from for a custom fit | Unknown | Unknown | Cooling wrap fits around head |
| Compression | Built-in adjustable straps help you maintain constant scalp-level cooling | Velcro straps separate from the cap included | Velcro straps separate from the cap included | ❌ |
| Ponytail loop | Patented, strategically- placed loop for better cooling coverage | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Washable | ✅ Machine washable | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Returns | 60-day money-back guarantee. As easy as an email. | Unknown | 30-days | 30-days |
How to use our Continuous Cooling system before, during and after every chemo session.
For all the information you need about freezing, fitting and wearing your cold cap, scroll to the bottom of this page.
1: Freeze thoroughly
1-2 days before each chemo cycle, place your cold cap system in a portable cooler with dry ice or a biomedical freezer at your infusion center and keep it there for the duration of your cycle.
(Find more information about freezing your cold cap in the FAQ section at the bottom of this page.)
2: Fit to your scalp
Your cold cap system’s built-in features ensure a snug, scalp-tight fit.
- Draw long hair through the patented ponytail loop
- Pull the built-in tension straps and velcro in place
- Get full scalp coverage with 5 medical-grade gel packs
Be sure to follow the instructions on our sizing chart to get the fit most snug to your head.
3: Wear your cap
Wear your cold cap:
- For at least 30 minutes before each session
- For the duration of your chemo session
- For 90 minutes to 2 hours after your session
Rotate your caps and gel packs every 30 minutes to guarantee maximum cold.
(See FAQ section for more information on how to do this.)
Extended, reliable cooling — guaranteed.
If your Icekap® Cool Cap isn’t what you need for any reason, contact us within 60 days for a refund. No questions asked.
We donate returned Cool Caps to charity, where they're used in medical settings to provide soothing relief for chemo and brain trauma patients.
Feel more in control. And more like yourself.
— JW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“This is an amazing product. After doing some research I bought 2 caps and one refill. The cap needs to be placed on 1/2 hour before chemo treatment begins remain 90 minutes after chemo treatment is completed. We found that one was good for an hour and a Half. So we bought a cooler with the refill packs, dry ice and one extra cap to her chemo treatment.”*
— Jessica ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I can’t afford the $1,200 unit for chemotherapy so I got this! My hair is thinning but not falling out like they said it would by now! They had warned me and a friend who went through this had said by their 2nd chemo their hair started to fall out. So far mine is just thinning a bit but no clumps have fallen out anywhere besides my arms and legs!”*
— Susan G ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“I am using this to prevent/minimize hair loss from chemotherapy. Before I found this cap, I was making my own using cold packs and a bandana to hold them on my head.
This cap works the same way but much easier to use. And even though I'm doing a notoriously wicked chemo (nicknamed "the red devil"), I haven't lost much hair at all. I STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT ANYONE UNDERGOING CHEMO WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT HAIR LOSS TRY THIS CAP.
IT CAN'T HURT.”
Frequently Asked Questions
*Please note that products and claims on this site and any have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not meant to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any illness or disease.
1-https://www.breastcancer.org/treatment-side-effects/hair-loss/cold-caps-scalp-cooling
2-https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/scalp-cooling-therapy-prevents-hair-loss-during-chemotherapy