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Creating a Hair Care Routine and Troubleshooting Your Routine

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If you start researching how to best care for your hair, it may start to seem like confusing chore. So many treatments and possibilities and when to do them and how to do them and why… There are people who like complexity in their everyday projects and there are those of us who find our complexity elsewhere. I like simple for hair.  Starting from the very basics, what do you need? 1) To clean your hair 2) To lubricate your hair 3) To provide softness 4) Protect/provide hydration (moisturize) - hydration does everything from reduce breakage to define curls to add shine and weight. Hydration is good for all hair from straight to coily and from thin to thick. Hydration keeps your hair from being flyaway and unkempt-looking. We get hydration from using conditioners to prevent water loss, from hydrolyzed proteins in products (fine, medium and less often for coarse hair), from humectants (list on this page ) and from oil pre-wash treatments in normal porosity to porous hair to prevent s...