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When it comes to maintaining natural hair, the choices seem endless. Amidst the array of products available, two key contenders stand out: deep conditioning treatment and protein treatment. Natural hair, with its unique texture and requirements, demands special care. Today, we will explore the benefits of using deep conditioner versus protein treatment, helping you make an informed decision on what your luscious locks truly need. Deep Conditioning Treatment: Nourishing Your Natural Tresses Deep conditioning is like giving your hair a spa day. Here's why it's so beneficial for your natural hair: 1. Intense Moisture: Natural hair tends to be drier...

Caring for your hair requires knowing your hair and committing to its care with a hair care regimen. One way of doing so is incorporating protein treatment in your regimen. Before we get into the 'why', let's first explore what protein treatment is. Protein Treatment - What Is It? From its name, this a type of hair treatment with proteins. Oftentimes, we lose proteins from the hair whilst caring for it. Protein Treatment thus adds proteins to the hair for healthier and stronger hair strands. This makes the hair less likely to experience breakage.   Why Do You Need Protein Treatment? ...

Apart from genes and great products, the tools you use on your hair plays a key role in its general health. As a naturalista and an eyanista for that matter, there are some hair care tools you should definitely have in your toolbox. Not only do they make taking care of the hair easier but fun as well.  Wide tooth comb This is a giving. You really need to have a wide tooth comb in your tool box. Why? It makes the detangling process smoother and simpler. Plus, you lose little to no hair at all compared to using other...

What does 'hair treatment' mean to you? For some of us, hair treatment is an umbrella term for bringing our hair back to life. You're not entirely wrong. However, the notion that you only treat your hair when there's hair trouble is something you need to rethink. There are different types of treatments for specific reasons. We'll touch on that later but for now, let's take a look at all we need to know about protein treatment, its do's and don'ts. What is Protein Treatment? In simple terms, protein treatment is restoring the lost proteins in our hair. We often...

At one point or another in our natural hair journey, we've experienced it before - either breakage or shedding. How can you tell the difference? The type of treatment to give your hair depends on being able to clearly distinguish between shedding and breakage. Hair shedding Hair sheds naturally. Averagely, you lose about 50 -100 strands of hair daily. That being said, any day you don't detangle or brush your hair, the strands which are supposed to naturally shed accumulate. This is why when you take out braids and detangle, the hair shed seems to be a lot more than...