Hair Porosity: Should you be concerned?

 ***written ~2 month ago***
I never had much of an issue with my hair's porosity, so I never paid too much attention to it. I thought as long as my moisture and protein were in balance,who needs to care about porosity, right? .... WRONG! This week has proven to me   that there is much need to  pay attention to my hair's porosity, especially when it's  feeling and doing something strange while maintaining my normal regimen.

Here are some informational tips that I plucked from a few different sites  that I feel are most important and capture the essence of hair porosity and how deal with it.

Porosity = how much water your hair can (or can't)  hold and absorb  into the cortex

Highly  porous hair = no good

         

  More porous= greater water absorbed when wet= more water loss as it dries

More Water absorbed = more stretched hair = weaker hair

  Porous Hair = Lifted Cuticle Layer ( think lifted shingles on  a roof)

There is no way to truly 'fix' hair that has been damaged. There are some treatments and tips that can be done to temporarily solve the problem.

Protein treatment will patch up the missing spots on the hair shaft 

ACV  rinse as the final rinse will help close and tighten the cuticle layer

Using acidic deep conditioners or 'for color treated hair type' conditioners will also help close the cuticle

I examined my hair and could visually identify the scaly- like shingles that were raised on my strands. I'm not sure if the dc I mixed up with another caused my hair to react in this manner or what. I did the protein once, the acv after every service and moisturized and sealed 2x daily for a week until my hair returned to normal.

Here are a few places you can refer to if you want more information

http://blackhairscience.com/fix_porous.html

http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=566887   *CherryPie* 's entry on how to tell if you have porous hair

Hard hair, Porosity, and Rhassoul

My hair has been feeling awfully porous...from what I know about porosity, I am having a hard time figuring out why or how my hair became like this. Well I need to fix it. so of course I tried a few treatments, mainly moisturizing, but I really need some protein. 

I've been oiling my hair with the coconut oil which has helped a little, but I need something drastic, so I decided to do a rhassoul treatment. I get lots of strength that mimics the protein, so hopefully this will help. 

I need to do a moisturizing treatments afterwards, along with an ACV rinse. I will check back in later to record how this experience went.

**Side Bar**  

I did a rhassoul treatment in my 3 year old's natural (3b-4b) and  almost waist-length hair----what a project! It was so HARD to rinse out-- It was like he had gone swimming in the ocean and then rolled around on the beach. He had sandy-like particles that just didn't want to come out- I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed, then conditioned and rinsed some more!  My hair is not COMPLETELY  natural so maybe this was it? Or was it because I wasn't washing my own head that it was harder to get out? Idk, but if you DO, please feel free to leave a comment! I'd love to hear what my readers,  if any , have to say!


So it's later ( lol) and I did the rhassoul, according to my usual treatment. This definitely 'FIXED' my hair, by making it feel soft, strong, and manageable.  I was having my main issue in the top of my head and this part is now very soft. My new growth is also soft and I can  no longer feel  the coils that I do have  ( my hair waves more than curls in most places).

Once I get all of my treatments just the way I like them, I will post a page of just recipes for me ( and you) to refer to.

This brings me to again *Another* Realization of products that I will blog about soon. Boy, that man upstairs is really revealing things to me in a very special way!

My one of my next blogs I  will discuss porosity, which I was thought was not a necessary issue. And it really isn't a huge one, IF your MOISTURE AND PROTEIN are balanced, but obviously there are other factors that are important that could throw this off.