I washed with CON-the old one with he yellow top-conditioned for 20mins, blow dried it with canto leave in, LacioLacio leave in, Organix cocnut milk, and afterwards, put ORS green lotion in and ran the blowdryer on high for 30 secs.....then realized I'd be doing this ev-ryday during finals week and went and got a sew-in LOL!