Launching October 2026
Designed in Australia 路 Mulberry Silk Liner
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Absorb sweat and improve comfort
Pre-launch 15% off
Pre-launch 15% off October 2026

The upgrade your hard hat has been waiting for.

Built from premium mulberry silk to help reduce hair breakage, absorb sweat and improve comfort during long days on site.

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Fibre Premium mulberry silk
Fit Most standard hard hats
Care Cold wash
Design Designed in Australia
Footage from a working coal handling plant in Central Queensland: a HALO Lid Liner being fitted into a hard hat, crews in hi-vis wearing them on site, and both the black and the pink liner shown together.
The fabric 02

Tough on sweat. Easy on hair.

Premium mulberry silk
Designed in Australia
Cold wash
Two white hard hats resting on rock in hard sunlight, the near one fitted with a pink HALO Lid Liner and the far one with a black liner carrying the orange Halo Equipt logo
The research 02.1

Standard synthetic sweatbands can create friction in the same spots every shift while trapping sweat against your scalp. HALO Lid Liners replace traditional sweatbands with premium mulberry silk, delivering a softer, more comfortable fit while helping minimise friction throughout the day.

Hair doesn't just wear out. It fractures. Under repeated friction and mechanical stress, the fibre fatigues until it splits and breaks.

Peer-reviewed fibre mechanics 路 Royal Society, Interface Focus (2024)
Why it's better 01 / 03
01

Less friction. More protection.

Our Lid Liners use a premium mulberry silk to create a smoother surface against your hair and scalp. Less friction means less pulling, rubbing and breakage throughout the day.

02

Less sweat. More comfort.

Sweat, heat and uncomfortable sweatbands are part of the job. Halo Lid Liners help manage sweat while providing a soft, comfortable fit that feels better from start of shift to knock-off.

03

Less waste. More value.

Most sweatbands are designed to be replaced. Halo Lid Liners are washable, reusable and built to handle life under the lid, shift after shift.

On site Central Queensland
Four workers in hi-vis walking towards camera on a coal handling plant, all wearing white hard hats
Crew, coal handling plant
A worker in blue hi-vis wearing a white hard hat with a pink HALO Lid Liner visible at the brow, in a warehouse
The pink liner, worn
Two white hard hats resting on rock, one fitted with a black HALO Lid Liner and one with a pink one, a coal stockpile behind
Both colourways
What they said Four testers
I would normally have a rash on my forehead from my sweatband, but not with this lid liner.
Zoy S Kestrel Coal
Makes me feel like I'm wearing a cap, much more comfortable.
Nathan C Director at BlickBlocks
I don't even use a sweatband because they are itchy, but after wearing this lid liner I won't go back.
Toby P Kestrel Coal
Highly recommend! 馃憣馃徏 Hygienic, breathable and most importantly protects my hair. So glad I made the change.
Kate E Batchfire

These liners were given to workmates to test. The words are their own, and nobody was paid for them.

Why it exists Joe Ramsey, founder
I wasn't trying to invent a new sweatband; I was trying to solve a problem.
Joe Ramsey in orange hi-vis and a white HALO Equipt hard hat fitted with a Lid Liner, looking out across a coal handling site under a clear sky
The problem

After years in a hard hat I had the same itchy scalp and hair breakage everyone gets, and like everyone I put up with it as part of the job.

The question

Then Chloe reminded me why we had bought silk bedding when our eldest was a baby, because of how gentle it is on delicate hair. If silk is trusted to protect hair overnight, why not under a hard hat all day?

The work

That question turned into years of testing fabrics and manufacturers, until the liner was one I would actually wear myself. Halo Equipt is Australian owned and family run, and it started at our kitchen table.

Joe

Better shifts under the lid start here.

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