If you have not learned the ‘truth’ about afro hair care, not the nonesense many ‘professional’ salons teach but the actual truth that moisture aka water is your friend and not your foe, you may have a hard time convincing other black women on hair care techniques. Not too long ago, a relative and I [...]
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And wearing your hair natural is not a political statement When did how a black woman chooses to wear her hair become a political statement rather that what it is; a hairstyle? I recently saw a thread on a black hair forum about relaxers being no different in terms of self hate than skin lightening [...]
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Do you have to be obsessive in hair care in order to be successful? A question I get often from friends and family ‘So what’s your obsession with hair anyway?’ It makes me smile when I hear it because I know that I tend to bleat on about benefits of deep conditioning, co washing blah [...]
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Now usually I am of the opinion that anything that you can eat is perfectly acceptable in your hair, hence the caramel treatment or avocado moisturizing mask. But how about baking soda? I’m not one to use it often on my own hair but it has been touted often as a good alternative to shampoo [...]
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Does mineral oil really deserve it’s ‘evil to black hair’ image? So what’s the deal with this oil anyway and why does it deserve our cold shoulder? Mineral oil or liquid petroleum is a liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other petroleum based products. It has a multitude of uses [...]
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I had a conversation recently with a good friend. She has had natural hair for the same amount of time that I have but she is part of the ‘stuck at shoulder length’ brigade. We were just chatting generally when the subject drifted to hair (as it usually does) and she mentioned wanting to take [...]
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So coconut oil has been making the rounds in the good health community for a good few years now. This yummy healthy fat is extracted from the kernel or meat of matured coconut harvested from the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Throughout the tropical world it has provided the primary source of fat in the diets [...]
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Since the beginning of time women have been trying to change their hair color to one more suitable for them. During the Iron Age women used limewater to bleach their hair to achieve a stark white. In ancient times the Greeks used mixing potash water with yellow flowers to get a yellow color. Roman women [...]
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