Do you Low Porosity Girls like deep conditioning?

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I've heard a lot of people saying that they love to DC about once a week. But I also noticed that a lot of recipes for DC's contain a lot of protein. Isn't protein bad for low porosity hair? Sorry if that's a stupid question, I'm new to knowing that I'm low porosity, and don't know much about it.
Also, do DC's help moisturize hair?
Also, do DC's help moisturize hair?
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On the other hand, my fine, low porosity hair cannot tolerate deep conditioning treatments other than a pre-shampoo oil treatment.
Emollients, especially those which bond to the hair have a powerful softening effect. Protein gives it support. So you have to walk the line between softness and protein (most people say moisture vs. protein).
Protein helps hold moisture on/near the hair, like a humectant, and hydrolyzed proteins bond to hair rather than rinsing away.
If I use too much conditioner, I get overly soft hair which is flyaway and doesn't want to curl as much. Thus DTs are not necessary.
But my hair is pretty healthy now. Hair that feels rough might need more emollients (conditioner) for softness and detangling. If you do a strong protein treatment, your hair might feel rough and need a bit of conditioner to detangle. But otherwise, low porosity hair doesn't have that open cuticle which encourages loss of water, protein and breaks up the natural oils that should coat the hair shaft (although curls break that up too) so it doesn't need as much stuff added to it.
If you have low porosity hair and you're putting on eggs or yogurt for protein, generally those protein molecules are thought to be too large to do much good as a PT, but you'll get conditioning from these ingredients.
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I too have coarse hair and LP. What kind of DC's do you use? Do you have any homemaid recipes? Thanks for the help. :)Thanks for the help, everyone. You've really helped me alot.
My usual DC is what I call a doctored up cheapie conditioner. LOL
Which usually consists of:
Tresemme Naturals
Honey
EVOO
Works for me pretty well.
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Lol! I like that name. :)I actually have all of those ingrediants! (except for the Tresemme.. I'll have to use my Vo5 conditioner)How much of what do you use? How often do you DC?How long do you leave it on?Thanks for the help!
Hm, well I use like a 5 second squirt of honey (I don't use spoons or measurements, just go by sight). Two maybe three capfulls of EVOO and then like 3 long squirts of Tresemme Naturals. LOL .
I leave it on for how ever long I feel like. Sometimes an hour or sometimes if I'm really lazy over night. I DC pretty much every two weeks.
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I absolutely could not have said this better myself.
I get soft, shapeless flyaway curls from moisturizers too. Proteins are my ally. Does our particular (fine, low porous) hair still need a decent amount of moisture though? I say this because I straightened my chest-length hair yesterday (I do this maybe 5 times a year), and I noticed that the hair from my ear-length to the ends is very dull and dry/processed looking even though my hair is not colored. I can't provide any solid reasons for it looking this way other than:
1. Then ends are old and need to be cut?
2. Maybe the ends of my hair are rubbing against chairs, making them weak and unhealthy?
3. I need to add more moisture in my diet?
I've been unable to figure out why I have the hair texture of an 90-year old for years now.
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Wow... ok... so does this mean I should be doing more protein treatments as opposed to deep conditioning treatments and then follow up with some kind of conditioner for moisture? My hair is fine, thin, dense, and very low porosity.
Should the protein treatments be light because of the fineness of the hair?
What are some suggested protein treatments?
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