Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Oils are NOT heat protectors for your hair




Wanna straighten your hair but worried about heat damage....Well let me tell you what not to do.  Oil is not your friend when it comes to straightening.  You should never put oil on your hair before straightening.  You are cooking your hair when you do that.  You will develop heat damage!   The oil I"m talking about  is shea butter, olive, castor, coconut, and etc.  A lot of those oil you cook with.  Think about frying chicken when you drop the chicken in the heated oil do it protect the chicken?...no it doesn't... so why do people think oil protects your hair from heat from a flat iron or blow dryer.  You need to use something with silicone to protect your hair from heat.  Silicones are your friend when your hair is straighten or better yet being straighten.  Silicones creates a barrier between your hair and the oil.  Think about it when you use a silicone heat protector like CHI silk infusion and rub it on your hand it doesn't absorb all the way right???  Because it's protecting the outside layer.  When you put oil on your skin it absorbs kind of quick so it's going to absorb in your hair quick too therefore not giving you much protection or any!  Now if you want to put oil on your hair after you straighten it...that will be fine but don't put it up there before straightening it.  I hope this helped someone....Remember we want to protect our strands from heat NOT cook it!

9 comments:

  1. Hes sis! Thank you for this post! I actually heard it was good to put oil over an heat protectant...Thanks for sharing!


    DatFunkyFro

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  2. Serums are also good to put on your hair when straightening, right?

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  3. @ Funbi As Long as you got that heat protector up there. But I wouldn't put oil on before straightening though.

    @Anonymous Yeah Serums have cones in them so they are fine.

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  4. This is really good to know. I never considered that it might cook my hair. Thanks.

    writerinthepink.blogspot.com

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  5. Yeah! It's not a good thing! Thanks for commenting!

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  6. Thanks for info, I was told that Grapeseed Oil is a natural heat protectant. Just curious to what is your opinion on that oil, it is a cooking oil as well so I think it is a no go.

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  7. @Chatchickchat I wouldn't use it as a heat protector.

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  8. Can you use castor oil when your done?

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  9. I use shea butter all the time and my hair reverted back I actually get more damage when I use heat prtectants like the teseme version

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