Professional stylists, hair gurus, old timers, and so called black combs...

[Lovelylocs]

Answer this!

How do you balance ph in your hair? I see that certain products (cough, cough Keracare... cough, cough ALFAPARF!!!) have the ph levels listed on the products. Other products like Duotex has "low ph" written on the bottle. What do you do with this information?

I think that this is a hardcore principle that every LHCF member should learn to master.

Sadly, I'm no where close I dont think. But, the answer has to be out there. Why else would it be written on the bottles.

 

[Lovelylocs]

Bumping!!!! No one knows?

 

[JustKiya]

I don't know if this is the 'right' answer, but personally, I balance the pH in my hair by using acidic products - most notably the ACV I put in my DC, and the citric acid rinses I use when my hair is calling out for a good smoothing by acting all crunchy and velcro-like.

I'm natural and I don't use shampoo and most of my leave-ins are either neutral (so much water) or mildly acidic though, so the usual culprits of hair getting out of balance (chemical treatments, ammonia & sulfates (which are both bases, if I remember correctly) - I don't have to deal with. Water, by itself, can shift pH more basic than hair might 'want' to be, but I think that's low-level enough that it doesn't have to be addressed daily.

The French Stabilizer Plus is also a good pH balancer, as I understand it. And I think that - arrgh, there is another product that I suspected was an acidic rinse for the hair, but I can't remember what it was called, now.

 

[Lovelylocs]

I don't know if this is the 'right' answer, but personally, I balance the pH in my hair by using acidic products - most notably the ACV I put in my DC, and the citric acid rinses I use when my hair is calling out for a good smoothing by acting all crunchy and velcro-like.

I'm natural and I don't use shampoo and most of my leave-ins are either neutral (so much water) or mildly acidic though, so the usual culprits of hair getting out of balance (chemical treatments, ammonia & sulfates (which are both bases, if I remember correctly) - I don't have to deal with. Water, by itself, can shift pH more basic than hair might 'want' to be, but I think that's low-level enough that it doesn't have to be addressed daily.

The French Stabilizer Plus is also a good pH balancer, as I understand it. And I think that - arrgh, there is another product that I suspected was an acidic rinse for the hair, but I can't remember what it was called, now.

Thanks for taking a stab at this, JustKiya!

 

[PinkPebbles]

This is a good topic...and I would like to know too. Bumping.....