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Science-y Hair Blog Oil Blend or SHB Oil Blend Recipe This natural oil blend is a pre-shampoo treatment, a sealer, a frizz-controlling shine pomade/serum, can be added to your conditioner for a deep conditioner. This oil blend adds softness and flexibility to your hair. It helps your hairs align with each other for gloss and definition. Adds weight to control frizz or reduce the volume of "poufy" hair. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 This mixture is blended to be similar the fatty acid component of the oils from your scalp, but still using oils that are fairly easy to find. It works differently than any single oil alone. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Recipe: (makes about 1/4 cup) Extra Virgin Olive oil               2 1/2 teaspoons (12 ml) Coconut oil                              1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons (7.5 ml to 10) (1 1/2 tsp if liquid, 2 if solidified) Shea butter or Cocoa butter ...

If you're the kind of person whose hair reacts badly to hair styling products sometimes, often something like polyquaternium is to blame. These ingredients provide hold, may reduce frizz and can condition the hair. But they also bond to the hair and do not rinse or wash off easily. They don't build up for everybody - so I want to show you what it might look like if they build up on your hair. This is wavy hair on day one with a hair gel containing Polyquaternium-4. Day one with polyquaternium-containing gel. The same product was used again for the photo below, probably just rinsing the hair in between. But the second use revealed the ugly side of polyquaterniums. Everything was done the same as the day before. But the result was quite different. Stringy, crunchy, less volume, dull, less wave definition, kind of sparse and a little frizzy. Second use of polyquaternium-containing gel. So now you know. If this happens to you and your hair gel (or shampoo or conditioner or mousse o...

As a result of doing hair physical analysis (shop link on the right), and especially working with my and my husband's hair, I am learning about which allergens stay in your hair and why. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 What do I find the most? Mold. Mold is fungi and fungal spores (the fungal equivalent to pollen) are very small and very "sticky." I'm finding spores that are common mold allergies like Alternaria , but also other species. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 I have seen some weed pollen from plants with air-dispersed pollen (ragweed, lamb's quarters). I have also seen starches (the foods you touch leave starch on your hands). ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Tree pollen not as much, but it's not tree pollen season here and that is bigger, so it probably won't stick to individual hairs, though it definitely gets caught in your hair as a whole. Fungal spore stuck to a hair. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Keeping allergens out of your hair About those fungal spores and po...

If you mix up your own hair rinses or protein treatments or hair gel, at some point you need to have some pH test strips or paper. You can read why here  and here . ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 There are 2 brands I use. I often buy them online because I can get the brand I want at a good price. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 One is Hyrdion (also labeled as pHydrion). Make sure to look for test strips or paper with a range from pH 0-13. Don't get pH test strips made for urine and saliva testing, the range is not great enough. ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 A brand that reads very clearly is ColorpHast with a range of 0-14. There are differently-colored pads on each strip that you match up to a scale on the case. This assures a better match than only one color. That's good for use with indoor lighting or in products with a slight color. While they may seem pricey up front, one package should last a long time unless you get very interested in testing pH and it is better to test pH now than to ...