Does any of You Ladies know how............

[Leesh]

to check the actual Ph Balance of Your hair itself?

 

[Leesh]

Hellowww! Bumping!

 

[crazydaze911]

i've always wondered about this too. they used to have those ph papers in JHS that turned color but u had to dip them in liquid so that wouldnt work for hair...

bumping...

 

[Leesh]

bumping for responses!

 

[Leesh]

Anyone, Yea I'm still trying.

 

[Nonie]

I'm not sure if there's a way to know the exact pH unless you tested the pH of the "liquid" you were going to use on your hair, which I assume would leave it with that pH or close depending on what pH you previously used on it.

You can tell if your hair is not acidic because the cuticle will be raised and hair will feel rough and look dull. Acidic hair reflects light due to closed cuticles so appears shinier and feels smoother. If you use a very concentrated acidic solution, you hair can be weak due to protein breakdown, while a slightly acidic would not affect the hair's resiliency but would leave it with all the positive properties of shine and smoothness which would make tangling less likely to happen.

It is this need for hair to be slightly acidic that makes some of us complete our washes with an ACV rinse. I prefer to err on the side of caution by diluting the ACV a lot than risk it being too strong an acid and destroying the keratin in my hair.

Hey, I just had a brainwave.... If you were to wet your hair with distilled water aka 100% neutral liquid, and then held litmus paper against it, my guess it you'd be able to tell the pH of your hair by looking up a chart the color the paper turned to. N'est-ce pas?

 

[Leesh]

I'm not sure if there's a way to know the exact pH unless you tested the pH of the "liquid" you were going to use on your hair, which I assume would leave it with that pH or close depending on what pH you previously used on it.

You can tell if your hair is not acidic because the cuticle will be raised and hair will feel rough and look dull. Acidic hair reflects light due to closed cuticles so appears shinier and feels smoother. If you use a very concentrated acidic solution, you hair can be weak due to protein breakdown, while a slightly acidic would not affect the hair's resiliency but would leave it with all the positive properties of shine and smoothness which would make tangling less likely to happen.

It is this need for hair to be slightly acidic that makes some of us complete our washes with an ACV rinse. I prefer to err on the side of caution by diluting the ACV a lot than risk it being too strong an acid and destroying the keratin in my hair.

Hey, I just had a brainwave.... If you were to wet your hair with distilled water aka 100% neutral liquid, and then held litmus paper against it, my guess it you'd be able to tell the pH of your hair by looking up a chart the color the paper turned to. N'est-ce pas?

Thank You So Much! You are right, I will pick some up Today and give it a whirl. Thanks again.

 

[Blue_Berry]

I read on someone hair blog before that you have check the balance of your hair by putting it in water to see if it will float. If it doesn't come to the surface that mean your hair is not in good condition. If it floats at the surface, that means you hair is in good balance and condition.

 

[crazydaze911]

I read on someone hair blog before that you have check the balance of your hair by putting it in water to see if it will float. If it doesn't come to the surface that mean your hair is not in good condition. If it floats at the surface, that means you hair is in good balance and condition.

i heard that too...from a lady at an aveda store..

 

[Taleah2009]

I read the same thing in a thread somewhere on here

I read on someone hair blog before that you have check the balance of your hair by putting it in water to see if it will float. If it doesn't come to the surface that mean your hair is not in good condition. If it floats at the surface, that means you hair is in good balance and condition.

 

[Nonie]

I read on someone hair blog before that you have check the balance of your hair by putting it in water to see if it will float. If it doesn't come to the surface that mean your hair is not in good condition. If it floats at the surface, that means you hair is in good balance and condition.

i heard that too...from a lady at an aveda store..

I read the same thing in a thread somewhere on here

The reason the hair sinks is because it's porous. Think of porous hair as hair full of holes so that water enters it and makes it heavy so it sinks. Open cuticles make it easy for water to enter the hair. Also hair that has a damaged cuticle has holes in its surface which again allow water to enter the hair and make it heavy so it sinks.

Protein treatments can help patch up holes in hair that is damaged to make it less porous, if I'm not mistaken. Acidic products can help close the cuticle so that again the hair isn't "open". When hair is porous, it absorbs water/moisture fast but loses it just as fast.

Traycee writes about Porosity in her blog: http://keepitsimplesista.blogspot.com/2009/09/porous-hair.html