Importance of Moisture

            DRY                               MOISTURIZED

I know..I know...

If you've researched hair care techniques you've heard this a million times before, "make sure you moisturize". It's probably going in one ear and out the other by now and I don't blame you. However, because it's so important I felt like I had to say it one more time.

Moisturizing and sealing are the number one best thing you can do for curly, coily, and kinky hair textures. No one could ever scientifically back up saying that their hair does better when its dry and brittle. Hair breaks and becomes unhealthy when its dehydrated so moisture is key. However, just adding moisure is not enough for curly/coily/kinky textures. This is because the natural oil produced in our scalps (sebum) cannot effectively coat/and lock in moisture as well as straighter textures. It is harder for sebum to flow down the swerves and angles of our hair strands. This is why we must seal in the moisture manually with other oils (some frequently used oils are Olive oil, Coconut oil, Jojoba oil, and Castor oil). Because there is less sebum being distributed naturally on the hair strands the further we get from our scalps, we have to pay close attention to the ends of our hair when both moisturizing and sealing.

Benefits to Moisturizing and Sealing:
1. Health: moisturizing and sealing keeps your hair healthy. Dry and brittle hair is damaged hair. The hair strand splits and breaks if not properly cared for.
2. Hair growth: Moisturizing and sealing protects your ends. The less likely your ends break, the more likely your hair will retain growth.
3. Shine: Because curly/coily/kinky textures don't reflect light as easily the extra oil helps to give our hair more sheen/shine and appear even healthier.

4.Curl Pattern: If you're natural or texturized and are interested in having curl definition, moisture is essential. Generally, the more moisturized your hair is the more defined your curls/waves/coils/and crimps will be.

Sorry for the haircare repeat. Hope it helped anyway.

~less than. three ~

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Ms. Larutan