My daughter is 3 years old, she black/white mixed. Her hair is very curly, dry, flyaway, and easily knotted. Her hair is not thick but she has a lot of hair. We've used everything from Pink Oil to LIV to grease (the blue magic and coconut ones) to hair lotion.....point is, we've tried a lot and nothing really works.
I refuse to put anything chemical on her hair so I'm not looking for those type of products. What else would work? i've figured she needs a good moisturizer but her hair just soaks it up and dries out again.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Very tight curly, dry hair, please help!? Being mixed race myself, I feel I'm in a position to answer this. First off, I hope you're not washing the hair too much, you should, at most, be washing it once a week ideally ten days to two weeks- do not use a shampoo which contains alcohol as this dries the hair out further. Every time you wash it you should give the hair a deep conditioning treatment e.g. hot oil, put a shower cap or similar over the hair and run a blow dryer over it, this enables the hair to really soak up the oil. Then style as normal. Grease the scalp and use a product on the hair. Liv is actually a really good product, it's surprising it hasn't tamed the hair. I've never rated pink oil moisturizer. Carrot Oil by organics is a good one.
Another tip- you can't treat this hair like it's European hair. Don't leave the hair out- even if it looks cute- she won't thank you when it's time to comb it (speaking from experience here)! Learn how to cornrow or do little cute plaits, that way it will be neat and won't get as dry.
One more tip, you should really be buying products that are designed for kids...adult products can have things like placenta extract for protein. This isn't really something you want to use on a 6 year old. Liv is fine/ carrot oil should be fine.
good luck
Very tight curly, dry hair, please help!? i'm glad u asked that question cuz i've always asked myself that question. and guess wat? i've found the answer...the texture of your hair is not necessarily genetic, it can be changed naturally. the reason why some people have that smooth, soft hair and other have coarse, tightly curled hair is because their body makes different amounts of two very important things. i figured this out while i was taking genetics class in college.
if u notice, hair texture doesn't neccessarily go with race although most time it does as more caucasians, asians, etc have smooth, soft, shiny hair. and also i don't want to go into the fact that indians are really black ppl with straight hair(if u know ur history and about the dravidians who then later mixed with the aryans which led to the hindu caste system in india...also, have u ever heard of the untouchables?) and not to mention the aboriginals in australia.
so we can see that hair texture is not a race thing its biological and totally based on diet. yes, it's totally based on diet. ur diet over a period of time affects ur hair especially when two certain nutrients are present. everything u eat affects not only ur hair but ur reproductive organs. if a group of ppl have a diet rich in certain nutrients, it will show up in a man's semen and a woman's reproductive organs. if a mans semen is rich in two nutrients and a woman's reproductive organs are rich in two nutrients then their offspring will have soft, smooth hair. it's that simple. their child's body will continue to produce those nutrients. it's really simple to have a super smart, strong, healthy baby through diet.
also, let me point out that there is no genes that makes someone hair straight or curly. also there is no genes that makes someone skin black, white, yellow, pink, red or blue. genes only contain information that tells your body to produce alot of melanin, jus a little melanin or somewhere in between base on what u inherit from your parents. For example, if a baby is mixed (say, one parent is black and the other white), then half of the genes he/she inherits will tell its body to produce a lot of melanin while the other half will tells its body to produce little or no melanin閳ヮ洑o balance out the baby will come out somewhere in between or what we would call brown. (although it閳ユ獨 more complicated than that i'm just trying not to use genetic terms such as incomplete dominance and polygenic traits, etc. which some ppl may not understand) but that's what would happen in simpler terms though. and the same goes for hair. so in essence, you can easily change the color of your skin to lighter or darker based on what u put in ur body which will then tell your body to produce less or more melanin. if u notice, there's alot of ppl living in hot climates for countless generations and still have light-skin while others have dark skin. it's really just based on their diet. don't get me wrong, the sun will give u a tan, i'm just saying overall their diet will prevail.
what's really funny is that ppl make a big deal out of hair texture and skin color when they both can be easily manipulated through diet. and it's also funny that these two superficial things is what ppl use to put someone in a certain race. let me also point out that race is not biological it is a social construct. there is no such thing as a black race, white race, asian race, hispanic race(although i use those terms in my writing, it's only for differentiation purposes). There is only one race閳?the human race. the physical traits that make so called "races" different is very small. for example, humans and chimps shared 98.6% of their DNA and look at the profound difference. in fact, only about .01% of genes make humans phenotypically different from each other. so blacks, whites, asians, etc share 99.99% of the same genetic material. also there's more genetic variation within one population("races") as opposed to two different population(or "races") of ppl. so the things that make us different are trivial and superficial looking at it from a genetic point of view. we can inter-breed and produce fertile offsprings etc, etc so that goes to prove we're all the same. And not to mention the fact that in organ transplants, ppl from different 閳ユ笧aces閳?can be a good match and a good donor for a organ transplant. We are all the same inside and out.
for some reason i have a strong feeling that those big top scientists know about this but are reluctant to tell the public. u know, it's all about profits. and they prefer to sell you tons of products and make billions of dollars off ur ignorance. that's how it is in the real world. in fact, some top L'Oreal hair scientists said they found the difference between straight hair and curly hair. they said the difference had to do with the hair follicle. round follicles produce straight hair and curly follicles produce curly hair. while that is true, what is missing is that there are two things involved in the development of hair. one thing makes hair straight or curly and the other thing determines hair texture. so u can have a person with soft, smooth, shiny hair with curls or someone with thick coarse straight hair. blacks have a over abundance of the nutrient that causes hair to curl while they have little of the nutrient that gives their hair that smooth, soft, texture(in fact, they have the nutrient, it's just that their body use it for other purposes...the only way it affects the hair is if their body has a surplus of that nutrient then it will change their hair texture). in essence, blacks can actually naturally change their hair texture by providing their body with this important nutrient. and not only will it affect their hair texture but also the hair texture of their offsprings they have in the future. since i'm a upcoming scientist though i'm planning to educate ppl on this topic, which, as you can see, i'm very passionate about. if anyone wants more info you can email me.
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