Re: URGENT!!! HELP NEEDED FOR FINE HEAT DAMAGED HA
How nice of you to help your friend!
For shampoos - fine hair tends to go limp easily - esp. when it's damaged. Lanza Protein Plus, Home Health Olive Oil and any of the Herbal Essences Shmapoos all claen my hair without stripping but ensure that my fine hair gets clean enough to still look clean when i'm done washing. This is not the case with many standard "moisturizing shampoos".
As to the conditioners - I have a bot of a different opinion. As a fellow fine hair I recommend a gentler approach. Fine hair can react much more strongly to seemingly harmless products like Aphoghee - fine hair break quite easily and this might be too strong a treatment for her just yet. I'm not saying it isn't a good idea or won't work - just that it might be a good idea to work your way up to a treatment of this kind on her, and see what her hair can handle first.
If her hair is not breaking uncontrollably (hair all over the floor and shoulders when combing dry then you MAY just have some time to work with. If it is breaking this severely - then I say absolutely start with a concentrated protein treatment like Aphoghee. Note: I personally can't use Aphoghee - I use Nexxus Emergencee for my concentrated protein treatments and only directly after a relaxer - every 2-3 months. I use this one and not the Aphoghee because the Nexxus doesn't get hard on the hair while Aphoghee does. That crispiness that Aphoghee requires could be too much for her fine damaged hair to handle. This is true of mine. I even limit the Nexxus, as I said before, to once every few months to be safe. My hair is dyed, relaxed and higlighted several times over - so this should work well for your friends heat damaged hair as well.
La Maur Bone Marrow, Mermade, HI PRO PAC, Dudley's Hair Rebuilder and Jherri Redding's Protein Pac are all milder alternatives - they all contain a good amount of protein, but all have moisturzing qualities as well and will give the benefit of the protein without many of the downfalls one can encounter when treating the hair in this manner. I would always follow with a good mositurzing treatment as well. Both can be applied for 30 minutes each - with or without heat. I do it weekly. When my hair feels really good and healthy and like it's not compaining about anything,
I limit that to every two weeks and treat it with moisture the rest of the time (mois. conds.). For mositurzing conditioners I like NACIDIT Olive Oil Conditioner. If that's too hard to fnd the Keracare Humecto recommendation should work just as well.
I always use a good detangling conditioner (I use Pantene DMR) to detangle well and leave the hair soft before rollersetting.
Airdrying and rollersetting is obviously benenficial and is preferable to direct heat. But you already know that.
