Learning About Natural Black Hair Care

To keep your African American hair healthy, shiny, and strong, a natural black hair care routine is essential. To encourage healthy hair, the first step is to combat breakage caused by harmful styling techniques and tools. Some of the best tips for caring for black hair have nothing to do with products, but have everything to do with how you treat your hair.

Tips for Natural Black Hair Care

When you go to bed, you should wrap your hair while you sleep. By doing this, you can avoid your hair becoming tangled from moving around during the night, and there will be fewer knots to brush out the next day. Using a satin or silk pillowcase can also reduce irritation to the hair, and will amount to less moisture loss than when using a cotton pillowcase.

Unlike Caucasian hair, it is also a good tip to comb your curls while you are in the shower or while the hair is still wet. When the hair is slick, the wetness can make it more manageable and easier to brush out. This means less breakage from the combing process, as well as from struggling with kinks and knots.

Also, remember not to wash your hair more than once every week, because excess washing dries out black hair in an extreme way, causing breakage and an unhealthy dry appearance. Everyone is different, and some people may need to wash their hair more often if it is oily, however others find it helpful to just rinse their hair in between washings, with water only. Many others prefer to co-wash their hair which is using a conditioner only and then rinsing it out. I co-wash every other day and wash with shampoo once a week. I also moisturize on a daily basis and this regime has worked for me and my girls.

To help with dry and brittle hair, hot oil treatments work best. A helpful way to get the most from a hot oil treatment is to let the treatment soak in for 10 to 20 minutes, and to wear a cap or wrap your head while doing it. It is not wise to use mineral oils or petroleum on your hair because these can attract dirt and dust, and clog the pores. Not only that that, but hair follicles do not absorb mineral oils and petroleum very well.

Natural oils are more effective and more desired. Remember, using the wrong types of oils can actually hurt the hair, and what is worse, make it appear dull and lackluster. Natural black hair care involves using natural oils and vitamins. Shea butter, olive oil, and jojoba oil are all effective natural oils and can help improve the health of your hair.

A healthy diet, along with hair vitamins can drastically improve hair and the way it looks. Drinking a lot of water and eating a healthy diet is also an important step in the process of keeping healthy natural black hair.

Transitioning from relaxed to natural hair is another important part of natural black hair care. Using chemical relaxers to straighten you hair, only works because they strip and break down the hair. It is much healthier to eliminate the straightening process, and to start growing untreated hair. The result of the chemicals in products used to relax hair is damage to the hair follicle, breakage and dryness.

By keeping a natural style and using natural black hair care products, the health of your hair will improve. By using vitamins for black hair and using oil treatments, your hair may also experience increased growth, as well as sheen and manageability.

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