Cowashing with relaxers

[Mena]

For those of you with 4a/4b hair that cowash freq with relaxers...how long does it take for your hair to revert? and when it does do you apply some sort of heat until the next relaxer?

 

[mezzogirl]

I don't think my hair ever reverts. It is either fully relaxed or it isn't. I do start getting ng after 3 or 4 weeks post.

 

[Tamrin]

My hair does not revert. I wash every day. I start to see new growth around 3 week. I do not use heat. I stretch for 6 months at a time. I usually wet bun or roller set and air dry. I rarely roller set these days and I have used heat maybe 4 to 5 times this year.

 

[almondjoi85]

I cowash frequently as well and my hair does not revert either. I get new growth around 3 weeks post also

 

[MissMusic]

Mine doesn't revert. It shouldn't revert, once its relaxed its relaxed. I co-washed for 5 months with no reversion. I did run into one "problem", an abundance of new growth !

 

[Mena]

so what do you do with the new growth?

 

[Tamrin]

so what do you do with the new growth?

I usually use a little Aloe vera gel on my edges for a smooth bun, or I do a braid out like in my siggy. I leave my NG alone. I make sure they are stay moisturized, specially the dermacation line between ng and relaxed hair.

 

[Makenzie]

Mine doesn't revert. It shouldn't revert, once its relaxed its relaxed. I co-washed for 5 months with no reversion. I did run into one "problem", an abundance of new growth !

That's what I was thinking. I'm singing the praises of rollersets so ng don't phase me. My last stretch was 16 weeks and I was cool. I am looking forward to flat ironing my hair this winter. Haven't seen my hair straight in a minute now.

 

[Mena]

chemicals make ne nervous i dont know if i can do it

 

[MonPetite]

Conditioners aren't going to revert relaxed hair. I co-washed daily relaxed and texlaxed and grew my hair to BSL without issue or reversion. I'm doing the same as well as washing daily now heading back to BSL (BCed to natural earlier this year).

 

[*Muffin*]

Relaxed hair doesn't revert from washing, and I co-wash my hair every other day. Relaxers may not get your hair bone straight, but your hair is going to stay as straight as the relaxer gets it. The only reversion that happens is when you heat straighten your hair and then you wet it. Then the bone straight look will disappear (if you don't have bone straight relaxed hair, which I don't) and any waves or curls you still have in your hair will reappear, just like with natural hair.

 

[Simply_Kelz]

Relaxed hair doesn't revert. My new growth comes in somewhere around weeks 4-6, and when it does, I either use the scarf method to airdry into a bun, or I do a braidout.

 

[MizAvalon]

My hair doesn't revert. I start seeing NG after about 6 weeks or so.

 

[marla]

Mine doesn't revert. I use evoo mixed with a leave-in after I co wash and I get great results.

 

[MissNina]

Yeah, I agree with what everyone says bc mine doesn't revert. If anything it helps me stretch my NG out a lot longer. I'm at 8 weeks and it's not even hard. AND I'm on MT

 

[MizzBrown]

Umm, when did we go back to believing that stuff reverts your hair? I thought we abolished that myth when we signed up on this forum??

Relaxed hair doesn't revert. PERIOD. NOTHING can change it.

 

[The Princess]

I co wash every 2-3 days and start seeing NG around week 4, (which im at right now). I usually increase my Co wash, just to tame the wilderness. I don't use heat either. I keep aloe vera on the scalp to make the NG soft, and moisturize and then tie down w/silk scarf. In the morning my hair is laid slick. This usually last 2 days at the most, cause the NG will puff up from the sweat then repeat the cycle for the next remainder weeks for my relaxer time.

 

[vnaps]

once the hair is relaxed the bonds are broken permanantly. relaxed hair does not revert

 

[Mena]

I felt like b4 I had lhcf..my hair reverted or got wavy after awhile when i had a relaxer...lol maybe i have a bad memory...i havent had a relaxer in 6 years

 

[kittie43]

I have been cowashing everyday but I am not sure if I am retaining all of my new growth. After washing I normally put conditioner and jojoba oil in my hair, comb my hair with a shower comb and then twist up the ends and tie my hair down to air dry. Do you think that it is too much manipulation? There is never a time when there isn't hair in the comb.

 

[Anna9764]

Just wanted to say...I recently over processed my aready past shoulder length hair prior to LHCF relaxing my edges and nape between relaxers. I lost a lot of length in the back as well as most of nape. Just wanted to say ladies be extra careful, a wrong decision could cost you your hair. Take it from me, I learned the hard way Anna

 

[Je Ne Sais Quoi]

Just wanted to say...I recently over processed my aready past shoulder length hair prior to LHCF relaxing my edges and nape between relaxers. I lost a lot of length in the back as well as most of nape. Just wanted to say ladies be extra careful, a wrong decision could cost you your hair. Take it from me, I learned the hard way Anna

I am very very sorry to hear that Anna. Is your hair recovering?