WHAT IS THE RIGHT WAY TO MOISTURIZE MY HAIR?
Moisturizing your hair properly prevents moisture loss by sealing moisture into your strands with oils and creams.
Moisturizing your hair is the most effective strategy to prevent hair breakage and keep your hair length. Some people moisturize their hair and yet experience hair breakage, while others have hair that doesn’t retain length even while they moisturize. Why? This is because they are not properly moisturizing their hair.
Let’s look at how to moisturize our hair properly. Do you know that hydrating your hair also functions in accordance with the porosity of your hair? Yes, it does. Click this link to learn about your hair porosity. https://medium.com/@ayobamiifeoluwa001/knowing-your-hair-part-ii-58dd07c646d6
Using LOC/LCO is a way of you moisturizing your hair:
LCO
L- Liquid
C- Cream
O- Oil
LCO implies you use liquid (water or leave-in conditioner) first during moisturizing, then add your cream and oil to seal it up. This method is used for low porosity hair.
LOC
L-Liquid
O- Oil
C- Cream
Moisturizing your hair with the LOC method implies using your liquid (water\leave in conditioner) first on your hair, then the oil, and finally the cream to seal it up. LOC method is used for high porosity hair.
HOW SHOULD YOU MOISTURIZE YOUR HAIR PROPERLY?
During a wash day, after deep conditioning your hair, dry your hair with a microfiber towel or an old t-shirt, but your hair should still be slightly wet.
Then to moisturize, you can moisturize your hair with water but not with water alone.
When water comes into contact with your hair, it softens it. However, it becomes dry after a while because the water was not trapped in your hair strands. When it dries, it becomes hard. As a result, it departed in the same manner as it had arrived.
To overcome this problem, thoroughly moisturize and seal in the water.
PRODUCTS NEEDED FOR MOISTURIZING
1] Water
2] Leave-in conditioner
3] Oil
4] Butter/ cream
Steps in moisturizing your hair.
It would be best if you always started with clean hair, which is you have deep conditioned your hair and shampooed it.
It would be best if you always started with clean hair, which means you’ve shampooed and deep conditioned it.
1] Divide your hair into three or four sections and knot it up, or use a hair band/sectioning slip to keep it in place.
This will allow you to care for each region of your hair without losing it and make it easier to work on getting the oils, butter, and conditioners to touch each strand.
2] Spray liquid generously on your hair strands using water or a diluted leave-in conditioner (with water) and massage well.
If you don’t want items to build up on your scalp, don’t use a leave-in conditioner.
3] Pay more attention to your ends. Apply more oils and creams to it; that’s a way to retain your hair length (longer hair).
Check how you moisturize if you’re suffering breaks. You will still encounter breakage if you do not perform it correctly.
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