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Black Hair Care Regimen

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Black Hair Care Regimen Creating a Black Hair Care Regimen By Karma Amarande For optimal black hair growth and health, you should develop a week by week regimen of what you will need to do to your hair in order to keep it clean, healthy and growing. To create a basic hair care regimen, you need to determine the following things: --DAILY-- 1.**Figure out what times of day you need to moisturize and what products work best for your hair. You should have at least one moisturizer for adding moisture AND another moisturizer that specifically says it contains protein or that it is "Anti Breakage". Alternate between these two moisturizers as needed. I will tell you in another post how to tell if your hair needs more moisture or more protein. 2.**Oils and Sealants To keep moisture in your hair after using your moisturizer, you will need to apply an oil to "seal in" the moisture so your hair wont get dried out. Good oils to use are olive oil, coconut oil, jojoba oil...

Black Hair Care Industry

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Black Hair Care Industry If you can find the products you need (quality and selection) at your local Asian Beauty Supply store, should you go out of your way to buy them somewhere else? How far should you go? How much more should you pay? Only you can answer those questions. A running poll on BOBSA shows that most of the women who answer the poll say they will make at least some effort to buy from black owned companies. But, polls are often skewed simply by who the people are being polled. The women answering the poll on BOBSA's site are a.) on the Internet and b.) on a website all about trying to improve the situation of Black Suppliers in the beauty industry. We think that skews the results. Our intuition tells us the broader population buys from the source that is the least expensive and most convenient. And, more than ninety percent of the time that is going to be the Asian Beauty Supply store on the corner or the White-owned grocery or drug store. Black Hair Care Indus...