How to get that Super soft and Shinny hair
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1, Spritz spritz and spritz!
You can never go wrong with spritzing your hair. How I love the cool feeling down my scalp I mean this is what look forward to doing always. I simply love it! To spritz your hair, get a spray bottle, add 80% water and 20% oil, shake and spray on your scalp at intervals. I see this as sowing a seed and watering it, we all know that without water, seeds won’t grow. Water moistens the soil and prepares the seed for growth. Same goes with our hair, spritzing does the same work by watering the scalp and activating the cells for growth.
2 Shampoo when due. So many naturalists choose their own routine as to when to sham wash and co wash. It’s really up to you to decide, for me I shampoo every 2 weeks but on rare occasion, I can go 3weeks without shampoo or soap. Soap helps wash away build ups from the hair so when buildups are gone, the strand is clean and soft. Conditioners alone won’t remove build ups from styling products and oils but soaps will. So get a mild shampoo to wash them off then your strands can get softer.
Heat up your conditioner (2mins) and cover up with steaming cap/towel for about 30mins. This is because heat helps products work faster.
Do not joke with your leave-in conditioner. Leave-in conditioners helps the hair maintain moisture and when your hair is well moisturized then it can’t be hard. There’s a lovely leave-in brand I discovered lately, will be doing the review soon. If you can’t get a good one, mix aloe vera juice and your conditioner; add little water and you have a leave-in conditioner.
Stretch your hair with thread immediately after wash, this helps retain softness than leaving the hair to dry out and become hard. How to do it? First, apply your leave in conditioner or oils to freshly washed hair and braid or twist to dry, you can cut hair into 2 fat strands, and twist or thread. In the second cycle, unravel the dry twists or braids, rewet lightly with water and reapply a small amount of leave in or oil once more. Retwist or rebraid and allow to dry once more then you’ll get a really good, well stretched and soft hair.
Do not over use protein in your hair routine. Protein is important; it helps reinforce your hair strands which keeps them strong and prevents breakage but using too much of it, however, will make your hair hard and brittle. On the other hand, if you have fine hair, your hair actually needs protein, and over moisturising hair can, ironically, leave it feeling hard and dry.
Some may ask – So how do I know if I have protein in my products? There are words you should look for such as-
protein
collagen
mayonnaise
keratin
amino acids &
cholesterol
In addition, common ingredients used by we naturals in our hair that are protein based are: coconut milk, eggs, yoghurt and mayonnaise. It’s equally important to know that these are not as effective as hydrolized proteins found in processed products because of the size of the molecules but they are still good when you need some protein boost.
In spite of all these, it is important to note that external factors such as weather, manipulation etc can affect the state of our hair even after observing these points. Understanding your hair is key and it comes with time and experience, but in the meantime, we should focus on moisturizing and conditioning, by doing a moisture treatment once a week and a protein treatment once a month or as it suits your hair.
I want to introduce this to our newbies who may not have inkling what this could do to their hair. a mixture for softening natural hair cos most of you know it, it’s the Crisco you use in baking and frying your chicken, turkey etc.
Most naturals know about it but this particular recipe was what I formulated and its working wonders for me and my baby now.
Crisco contains fully hydrogenated cottonseed oil and partially hydrogenated soybean oil. This simply means that what used to be a liquid oil has gone through a chemical process and has solidified at room temperature.
This process makes the chemical structure of liquid oil more like that of fats for making candles and soaps. You can use it alone on natural hair (and even skin) or use as a base for a homemade hair product mix.
When a Crisco mixed product is applied to wet natural hair, it smooths and conditions hair. You can use Crisco to seal moisture into hair after moisturizing.
It can also be used to give definition for a braid-out, twist-out or finger coil hairstyle. Not only will your hair have sheen and feel soft, but Crisco gives your mix a good amount of hold for stretching purposes. This is especially beneficial to ladies whose hair types shrinks up to 75% of their full length.
Getting this mixture right, your hair will thank you for it.
RECIPE-
PROCESS-Take three tablespoons of Crisco (for medium sized hair, double for longer hair)
Shea butter
1 spoon of vegetable glycerine
1 teaspoon of Olive or Coconut Oil
3 Spoons of VO5 Conditioner (optional)
4,A drop of Lavender oil.
Mix all, apply on your hair, cover for 20-30mins and rinse with warm water.
You can also apply on dry hair.
My baby used to dread combing his hair, combing time used to be ‘war time’, he fights with the comb and also with me so I waited for him to get to 7months before I introduced this to his regime now combing time is fun time for us!
I didn’t add VO5 and essential oil to his mix(essential oils are not good for children).
Crisco also helps to get defined curls as can be seen in my pic below but that's with another recipe.
You should be cautious to maintain the soft texture acquired eg make sure you sleep with a satin cap on to trap in the moisture from the process also observe other practices that would ensure your hair remain healthy and well maintained eg GHE, clarifying the scalp, tea rinse, etc we shall be discussing them as we proceed in this series.
Please note
This might not work for everyone as our hair types differ but try it out and let us know how your hair felt.
With this, you don't need a texturizer. You can take that to the bank.
Crisco can be bought in Grocery stores, baking Stores, big supermarkets like Shop rite etc.
I hope this helps.
