Open hair cuticles?

[Holla]

I read the thread where someone asked about closing cuticles. I'm asking the opposite.

How do you open cuticles?

I just learned about porosity and that I have low porosity hair. Biggest hair break thru for me in the last 5 years. As I understand it, I have to open my hair cuticles to condition and moisturize my hair.

I heard the following works to open cuticles:

heat (heating up conditioner, heating hair with dryer after putting in conditioner, using really warm water, etc.)

steam (using hair steamer or using a wet hot towel under hooded dryer)

castile soap (forgot where i read this but it said to add a bit of castille soap to conditioner)

Anything else?????

 

[Saludable84]

ITA.

Another that helps me is using sulphate poo as it helps with lifting and staying away from smoothing shampoos.

Avocado is another ingredient that I find too smoothing in before conditioning and AVG is just a big mo at all times.

Experiment and see what works for you.

Please excuse my iPhone; it's trying to get it together

 

[GreenBloodyShoe]

You need something alkaline like:
Baking soda
Shampoo bars
Anything else with a high pH above 7.