Anyone's with natural moistuized hair?

[brittanynic16]

For the past year, I really haven't been on the board very much. I've used tips that I found on Utube, personal sites, and blogs, and my hair has been better and healthier than ever. I've recently been coming back more often and noticed that there is a lot of focus on moisturizing.

I guess I find that interesting because I never moisturize my hair. When I wore my afro I had problems with my hair being dry but, I've always had an oily scalp. Now that I wear my hair straight with the BTK I never have dry hair. I use Sabrino on my hair right after washing and then brush my hair daily to distribute the oil. I don't use any other products on my hair besides shampoo and conditioner on wash day. I wash my hair at least once a week in the winter and twice in the summer with a shampoo for OILY hair.

I only point it out because I think if I would've understood that my hair needed little to no product to be healthy then I would be further a long.

Anyone else like this?

 

[ladyfay]

I have oily scalp too. My mother discovered this when I was a baby. She would oil my scalp and I would break out with a rash/red bumps all over my scalp. When I wored braids, I did oil the hair and scalp. I was willing to suffer the consequences in order to ensure I would not get any hair breakage.

I can go 3 to 4 weeks without a wash, but my hair will get really stringy and shiny. So I go every other week to maintain a fresh look. My stylist would so upset because she said that it takes a long time to wash all the oils out my hair. When I use to relax, I had to go every week.

Every now and then I might rub a little oil on my ends that hangs down my back.

 

[winnettag]

I wish! I need to moisturize twice a day sometimes.
It may be because I haven't found the right products, but I'm tired (and broke) from looking.

 

[girlyprincess23]

I have hair similar to what brittany and fay are describing ( the not having a need to put anything else on your scalp and greasy stringy hair after a week to a week and a half of not washing). I also notice that my hair naturally feels dry as a BONE unless I have just DC'ed it with a moisturizing DC. But when I wear my hair straight (like with the BKT or just a flat iron) then it does not need anything and if I put anything in it it adds nothing just accelerates the greasy dirty hair thing happening!! It is very odd. It may have something to do with the curl pattern in its natural state that makes it feel like it is ALWAYS dry!!! This is why I will be going back to the BKT the transitioning thing without it is the pits!! I also can find no leave in that does anything for my hair so I think the best thing for me to do is to step up the moisturizing DC's and throw in a Aphogee 2min every month to keep the protein-moisture balance!!! DC's seem to be the only way to get it moisturized and only with Nexxus Humectruss....Talk about finicky hair!!!

 

[Nonie]

I don't have an oily scalp, not one I know of anyway. But it seems by not applying oils to my scalp, I freed it to release its own sebum so that my scalp never feels dry. Like OP, I just use shampoo and conditioner and baggy and my hair seems to do well with just that. My hair feels soft, which I interpret as moisturized hair. So I guess I am one natural with moisturized hair that finds less is more.

 

[purplepeace79]

I have hair similar to what brittany and fay are describing ( the not having a need to put anything else on your scalp and greasy stringy hair after a week to a week and a half of not washing). I also notice that my hair naturally feels dry as a BONE unless I have just DC'ed it with a moisturizing DC. But when I wear my hair straight (like with the BKT or just a flat iron) then it does not need anything and if I put anything in it it adds nothing just accelerates the greasy dirty hair thing happening!! It is very odd. It may have something to do with the curl pattern in its natural state that makes it feel like it is ALWAYS dry!!! This is why I will be going back to the BKT the transitioning thing without it is the pits!! I also can find no leave in that does anything for my hair so I think the best thing for me to do is to step up the moisturizing DC's and throw in a Aphogee 2min every month to keep the protein-moisture balance!!! DC's seem to be the only way to get it moisturized and only with Nexxus Humectruss....Talk about finicky hair!!!

To the bold. Thats exactly it. Oil can travel down the shaft easier and quicker on straigher hair than on coily hair. So coily hair doesnt benefit from oily scalp the way straight hair does. This is why White people have to constantly wash the oil out of their hair and Afrotextured people are constantly adding moisture and oils to their hair.

 

[L.Brown1114]

with my relaxed hair, it gets dry VERY easily. it sucks up moisture like nobody's business. but my NG STAYS oily. i mean i know your skin creates a natural oil, but it was to the point that i HATED getting relaxers because i would get that sticky oily look (you know, when your hair defies gravity) in three days most girls got in 3 weeks!! but back in the day i grew up in a small catholic school with me being the only black and i hated when they touched my hair and wiped it off on their pants or shirt, so i would wet my hair every day and never oil it but it never stayed dry! so that is one of the reasons i'm transitioning to natural, because my relaxed hair never does what i want it to do lol

 

[glamazon386]

My hair isn't dry either. I don't take extra steps to moisturize. I just wash and dc then I use a leave in. But it wouldn't be dry if I skipped the leave in either.

 

[brittanynic16]

Good to know I am not alone in this world.