The first steps in your natural hair journey can be exciting, scary, joyful, nerve-racking, frustrating or all of the above. It is easily the most nerve-wracking process especially for women who have never experienced their natural hair since they were a child. As you begin to embrace your journey more often than not, you find yourself accumulating a large inventory of products, most of which do not give you the desired effect you want from your hair.
Here are 5 Tips for choosing the best natural product for your hair that might just help you save a few extra bucks.
1. Understand Your Hair.
Get familiar with your hair! Buying products based on a scent, recommendation or even a pretty bottle can be futile if you do not know what your hair needs. Make a note of the overall health of your hair. Is it dry, dull, breaks easily? Do you know your hair porosity? Build a loving relationship with your hair and really zero in on what you think it needs.
2. The 5-Ingredient Rule.
Follow the 5-ingredient rule: The first five ingredients make up the majority of what's in the product so, these are the ones that matter the most. If the first five ingredients are made from natural ingredients, it's probably a product worth considering.
3. Avoid Harmful Chemicals.
Avoid chemicals with parabens, formaldehyde or methane glycol, cyclosiloxanes, DEP, fragrance, sulphates, petroleum, lead acetate, calcium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide (lye), retinal palmitate, and resorcinol.
4. Know Your Product’s Purpose.
Make sure you know what your hair needs and choose your products according to that never forgetting to establish a good moisture-protein balance. There is a difference between a clarifying shampoo which will give your hair a deep clean and a moisturising shampoo which has ingredients that
not only cleans but replenishes your hair’s natural moisture.
5. Know Quality When You See It
When you know your ingredients you know what you’re paying for and you’re not throwing money away on bad products. Your hair may not love the product formulation (this is where the trial and error comes in) but at least you know that the ingredients in them are good and not harmful to your hair or a useless waste of your money.
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