Hair Tips from LHCF

Hey y'all!

I started my healthy hair care journey by visiting the popular African American hair care forum LongHairCareForum.com There is a thread which members list hair tips and I've compiled my favorite tips from the thread below.

Have fun reading!

• Make "vitamin paks": 

Purchase 2" x 2" or 2" x 3" small plastic ziplock bags. You can make a month supply of "vitamin paks" by placing your daily supplements in the bags and putting them in a little storage container on the counter, shelf, or in the fridge. You can grab a pak each morning to make sure you take your daily supply of vitamins. You can even keep paks at work as back-ups for those days you forget to take your daily vitamin pak from home.

• Put an applicator top on your shampoo bottle or transfer your shampoo to an applicator bottle. This helps to apply the shampoo directly onto your scalp to help with massaging and cleansing the scalp. 

• Most conditioners work fine without heat. In fact, deep conditioning with dry heat (sitting under a hard bonnet hair dryer) will make your hair dry and difficult to deal with (I just use my own body heat to "warm up" my deep conditioner by applying a plastic bag on my hair while deep conditioning). 

• When shampooing/conditioning or detangling in sections, try parting those sections straight with a rat tail comb. It will keep breakage around the parted area at a minimum, else the breakage will become more noticeable over time. 

• Whey protein (powdered form for protein shakes) can accelerate hair growth. 

• When using oil, place it in a  spray bottle  and lightly spray throughout hair for even distribution, focusing on the ends; comb through. This will prevent hair from being too oily and weighed down.