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Healthy Hair Blog Series:  Questions to ask yourself when you have damaged hair

1)      What is the porosity of  my hair?

This blog  series this month will focus on damaged hair, and solutions for them.  I have found that I needed to dig deeper into how to repair damage hair.  So this series will focus on the types of products that will optimize hair repair.  This will be done by focusing on four questions that every women with damaged hair should be asking themselves.           

That first question would be, “What is the porosity of my hair?”  This  is  a very important question to ask yourself because this may be single-handedly the main road block to having healthy hair success.  To understand the porosity of hair you must understand what porosity means.  To give an easy and general definition of porosity is that porosity is how much moisture the hair can absorb.  Contrary to popular belief, hair with high porosity is not a good thing!.

 High porous hair means that the hair cuticle layer (The cuticle layer is the outermost layer of the hair and resembles shingles of the roof.  This is the main barrier or shield for the hair)  is damaged and can not lie down and takes in a lot of moisture in but also loses a lot of that moisture. When this cuticle layer can not lie down, it is lifted up and is an indication of damage.  So in a sense getting moisture to penetrate the hair may be good but not if it is losing that moisture just as fast as it is receiving it and at the expensive of a damaged cuticle layer! Below is a summary of the symptoms of Over Porosity/ Moisture loss:

Ø      Hair easily gains and losses moisture and other substances

Ø      Coloring solutions and chemicals process quickly

Ø      Hair dries fast

These three symptoms result in:

Ø      Natural moisture escapes from the inner fiber (the cortex which is the centermost part of the hair shaft) into the atmosphere causing dryness

Ø      Cuticle damage because the cuticle layer is no longer properly aligned and providing adequate protection for the inner most part of the hair shaft.

Now that we know that we don’t want over porous hair, the only thing left to do is figure out how to repair over porous hair if we have it.  Below is a great prescribed solution for Over Porosity/ Moisture Loss:

Ø      Deep Conditioner

Hydratherma Deep Conditioner

Ø      Reconstructor Monthly (aka Protein Treatment)

Hydratherma Protein Treatment

Ø      Daily Moisturizer

Hydratherma Moisturizer

Quenched Curls Moisturizer

Ø      Leave-in Conditioner

Hydratherma Leave-In Conditioner

Lacio Lacio Leave-In Conditioner with Mink Oil! (My favorite conditioner.  It has agents in it that smoothes the cuticle layer.  It’s like a conditioner with built in hair polish/laminate/blow-drying lotion!)

Lacio Lacio Leave-In Conditioner

Ø      Hair Polisher (Aka Laminate) and/ or Blow-drying Lotion

Lacio Lacio Leave-In Conditioner with Mink Oil!

Lacio Lacio Leave-In Conditioner

All is all when trying to repair damaged hair, you must get to the root of the problem, no pun intended.  Knowing that your hair is damaged is not enough.  You need to look deeper into problem to find the solution.  Today when just went over one of the possibilities but later on through the month we will explore other reasons as to why hair becomes damaged along with solutions!

Work Cited

AN Syed, H Ayoub - Cosmetics and toiletries, 2002 - dralisyed.com
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