What can I use to stop my hair from bushing out?

[msminnamouse]

I have dry, frizzy, bushy hair. It has a lot of static when dry. It's not afro hair, it's I dunno, Jewish hair. I wash it every other day (it gets incredibly dry if I wash every day) and I use Moroccan Oil after washing, I brush it, let it air dry and that's it. I use a 2 in 1 conditioner and I don't use anything with alcohol on my hair because I found that it dries it out more. I also don't use heat on my hair.

That's my hair care.

I want to start brushing it every day, instead of every other day when I wash it, to hopefully distribute oils and get my hair more moisturized. That means I'll have to brush it when it's dry and it'll bush out. Is there any product I can use to help prevent this from happening?

 

[katana]

Why don't you brush it everyday? Is there that much hair coming out?

You should be brushing your hair everyday to distribute natural oils, detangle and prevent knots and smooth your hair out.

Everyone looses hair when they brush it but thats normal.

 

[internetchick]

I never brush my hair (I detangle in the shower with conditioner in my hair using my fingers), but I have curly hair. I would look like Diana Ross if I brushed my hair out.

I have healthy hair (if I do say so myself lol), and I condition it every day even though I don't wash (I use gentle, sulfate free shampoos) every day. I do deep conditioning once per week or so with a heat cap. My styling products do not have alcohol in them either.

 

[Dragonfly]

Why use a 2 in 1 shampoo? It will clean ok but does not have enough conditioning agents for your hair.

Also, silicon serums will moisturize your hair a lot better than Moroccan oil.

But if you are insistent on using an oil, consider coconut oil - it has the ability to penetrate your hairs' cortex and actually help strength/repair damaged hair.

I'm not sure what you mean about applying alcohol to your hair. Look for stearyl alcohol and cetyl alcohol in conditioners as they will help make your hair less dried out.

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Try this and see if your hair doesn't look feel better:

Consider washing your hair every 3 days.

Gentle sulfate free shampoo

Conditioner meant for dry hair - mix with a tsp of coconut oil - apply to hair and leave on for 5 minutes.

Rince well

Apply a tsp of the conditioner/coconut oil to hair, and leave in instead of the Morrocan oil.

Comb through and let air dry.

 

[Firefox7275]

Welcome to the fluffy/ poofy/ frizzy/ curly/ wurly/ static-y club! Read this thread, well look at the pictures anyway

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curltalk/general-discussion-about-curly-hair/47609-post-your-before-after-cg-pics.html

Then ...

1. Donate all your sulphate shampoos to a women's shelter

2. Wash your hair with a cheap, light conditioner, daily if you wish! (Suave or V05)

2. Liberally apply a silicone free conditioner containing emollients/ humectants (Fructis Triple Nutrition as a leave in)

3. Throw your brush out the window and order a rake comb instead

4. Switch from terry cloth towels to a microfibre towel

5. Deep conditioning with coconut oil because the fatty acids are small enough to penetrate hair

6. Air dry as before.

I can honestly tell you my hair calmed down and my scalp became less oily from the first week of stopping using sulphate surfactants and silicones! My hair was damaged to the point of breaking off when I started but has not now needed to be trimmed in ten months! This is what dilute SLS does to skin in four weeks, imagine what the ~20% in shampoo does to dry hair over many months of use

"volunteers who do not have eczema applied aqueous cream to their arm twice a day, leaving it on for 10 minutes, for 4 weeks.  The effects were then measured using laboratory tests - comparing the skin ‘treated’ with aqueous cream to adjacent ‘untreated’ skin.  The research team measured the comparative thickness of the outer layer of the skin (the stratum cornea) and tested for transepidermal water loss. Overall the areas that had been ‘treated’ were 12% thinner than the untreated areas.  There was also an average 20% increase in water loss through the thinner ‘treated’ areas.  This research also pinpoints one ingredient in aqueous cream as doing the damage - sodium lauryl sulfate, a harsh surfactant that truly has no place in a cream meant to treat eczema. ... Prof. Guy has confirmed to us: ‘Aqueous cream contains 1% sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) and this is the ingredient, we believe, that causes damage to the skin barrier. "

http://www.eczema.org/aqueous_cream.html

 

[Firefox7275]

Sorry Dragnofly but you are mistaken about silicone styling products: they are usually anhydrous, cannot add any moisture to hair and will build up without harsh sulphate shampoos. Silicones can actually lock water out: that is how they maintain a flat ironed style in humid conditions. For that reason they are useful for heat protection and mechanical damage (better to avoid this). Other than that couldn't agree more!

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curl-products/whats-the-scoop-on-silicones

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curl-products/the-real-scoop-on-silicones

http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/curl-products/curlchemist-amodimethicone-and-other-amine-functionalized-silicones

Originally Posted by Dragonfly /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Why use a 2 in 1 shampoo? It will clean ok but does not have enough conditioning agents for your hair.

Also, silicon serums will moisturize your hair a lot better than Moroccan oil.