so after correcting your porosity...

[youwillrise]

by use of porosity control
or whatever other method there might be

did anyone re-try any of the moisture products or conditioners that they thought their hair hated/were useless
and had good results with them?

 

[larry3344]

bumpppppppp

 

[SlantedEyezMiss2003]

No, but I notice a change in my hair though.....but you could give it a try and see if it works now....but the thing is how long do you have to use the Porosity Conditioner to see a difference? I use mine after every shampoo.

 

[youwillrise]

i actually tried it today.
definitely liked the results.
without a doubt could tell a positive difference.

i just thought about perhaps giving some old products a re-try to see if my hair would accept them.

 

[gymfreak336]

I actually retried a TON of stuff after correcting my porosity issue which led me to completely change my regime.

The thing with porosity is that its not just about "closing the cuticle", it also a strengthening process. The acidic products that you can use to help correct porosity issues also help realign the ionic and hydrogen bonds in your hair with collectively account for nearly 2/3rds of your strength and elasticity. This is why everyone can benefit from acidifying, not just people with a pronounced porosity issue.

After working on my porosity, I dropped a lot of my usual methods. Some times the things we do can aggravate an underlying issue and actually help cause some of the problems we talk about. I have fine but very dense hair and one thing I have noticed with fine hair is that any extreme puts us into damage territory. The back and forth swell of the hair shaft with moisture puts us in the danger zone creating weak spots that eventually break. Since fine hair has a low cuticle to cortex ration, all that super long conditioning and moisture only product I was normally doing is a no no. It was helping to create my porosity issue. This is why I kept using acidic products because they help reinforce my fine hair, helping to strengthen the low number of cuticle layers I have. My hair doesn't lose moisture so it isn't dry, it styles much better, and its more resilient all around.

 

[youwillrise]

I actually retried a TON of stuff after correcting my porosity issue which led me to completely change my regime.

The thing with porosity is that its not just about "closing the cuticle", it also a strengthening process. The acidic products that you can use to help correct porosity issues also help realign the ionic and hydrogen bonds in your hair with collectively account for nearly 2/3rds of your strength and elasticity. This is why everyone can benefit from acidifying, not just people with a pronounced porosity issue.

After working on my porosity, I dropped a lot of my usual methods. Some times the things we do can aggravate an underlying issue and actually help cause some of the problems we talk about. I have fine but very dense hair and one thing I have noticed with fine hair is that any extreme puts us into damage territory. The back and forth swell of the hair shaft with moisture puts us in the danger zone creating weak spots that eventually break. Since fine hair has a low cuticle to cortex ration, all that super long conditioning and moisture only product I was normally doing is a no no. It was helping to create my porosity issue. This is why I kept using acidic products because they help reinforce my fine hair, helping to strengthen the low number of cuticle layers I have. My hair doesn't lose moisture so it isn't dry, it styles much better, and its more resilient all around.

thank you for this.

i also have fine hair (very fine, in my opinion)
at one point i was DC'ing more often (2-3 times a week)
because i thought it would alleviate my dryness problem
but it wasnt quite working

i've recently gone back to DC'ing once a week
so i'm not swelling my fine strands too much for no reason.

would you happen to use a protein leave-in after using acidifying/porosity products? i've read about some poeple using a protein based leave-in to help fill in those extra spots to give the hair even more of a boost.

 

[gymfreak336]

thank you for this.

i also have fine hair (very fine, in my opinion)
at one point i was DC'ing more often (2-3 times a week)
because i thought it would alleviate my dryness problem
but it wasnt quite working

i've recently gone back to DC'ing once a week
so i'm not swelling my fine strands too much for no reason.

would you happen to use a protein leave-in after using acidifying/porosity products? i've read about some people using a protein based leave-in to help fill in those extra spots to give the hair even more of a boost.

Well, let me just say I don't do "moisture only
products really, with maybe an acceptation to paul mitchell the conditioner and the HE LTR leave in. I wouldn't say all of my products are protein based either. I like bed hed ego boost leave in. I put a squirt of that on my ends and then use something the silky sexy hair leave in which has all kinds of goodies in it. The redken extreme is similar to the bed head product. They both have polymers in it that protect the cuticle.