Hello beautiful people, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. I certainly enjoyed mine. Spending time with family is always good right? I even got to spend time with family I haven't seen in a very long time. Any who, let's go ahead and welcome in 2013!! I don't know about you but I'm looking forward to what's to come in the new year.
Ok so let's get to it! This time it's going to be a little different, instead of doing a product review I'm going to share a little bit of what I know about keeping your hair moisturized during the cold winter months. Since I've been natural, winter has been my hair's worst enemy. For the first two years I just struggled through it because I didn't know what to do, what not to do or if there was even anything I could do. Was I doing something wrong? All I knew is that the products I was using in the summer, the products that my hair seem to love, were not working in the cold winter months. My hair was dry and brittle no matter how much moisturizer I was using. I would have to add some type of moisturizer almost daily, and this in turn would cause product build up on my hair. I would then have to wash my hair by the end of the week or even the middle of the week. Washing my hair would cause more dryness, even if I used a sulfate free shampoo.
Now the resolution...LOC method
Liquid, Oil and Cream = LOC. I have been doing this for the past 2 months and so far so good!!! I'm not sure where this method originated from but it is very popular on the blogs and vlogs for natural hair. You can also YouTube the method to get a visual. This is what you do; after washing or co-washing, condition and or deep condition, use whatever you've been using for a moisturizer as your leave-in, then layer on an oil, and finish with a heavy cream or butter Not a watery or semi creamy moisturizer but a thick cream or butter and viola!!! You will have moisturized hair until you are ready to wash it. You don't have to continue adding moisturizers or water and you can now save money on all the product you were continuously using.
So let's do a recap of the LOC method
Liquid (water) first, then use the leave-in to lock in the moisture of the water. Use an oil to lock in the moisture of the water and leave-in and finally use a heavy cream or butter to lock in the moisture of the water, leave-in and the oil.
Just a few examples of oil and heavy cream or butters that you might want to try are: jojoba oil, sweet almond oil, coconut oil, Camille Rose twisting butter, Camille Rose aloe whip gel, Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie or just a simple DIY whipped shea butter mix will do. I hope this information helps and I encourage you to give it a try. Until next time my lovely people...
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