LOC or LCO Methods

Hey guys,

We all know that hair isn't alive (well if you didn't you know now), well what we comb and style and colour and what not, is not alive but dead.
What is alive is the hair follicles in our scalp. With that being said, we still need to take care of our hair because whatever problems we have with our hair will travel down to our hair follicles.


Our scalp secretes natural oils that coats the hair strand to lock in the moisture that it needs (our bodies do amazing things yeah?).  The problem with us curly and kinky hair people the oils does not make it all the way down to the tips of the strand because of all the curls and kinks are blocking it and our hair gets dry and brittle and then tends to break, so what do we do?


We need to add in the moisture and the oils to lock in the moisture for ourselves... bummer!
Now when I attended the Cher Mere talk on natural hair the lady said something that stuck with me. She said "when your plant is dry and wilting, you do not run out with some oil from your kitchen and rub down the leaves" I thought this was funny but she has a point. Oil does not moisturize your hair, water or water based leave in conditioners does. Oil locks in moisture or blocks out moisture. This is very important to note when putting in products into your hair.

You straight haired gals and guys have the problem of too much oil and moisture in your hair and have to always be washing it out because all the oils gets it limp and heavy right? That in and of itself is a problem but i'm a curly head gal so imma deal with the curly headed problems ok.

Here is a great article on how to deal with moisturizing your hair from Naptural Dany.
http://www.napturallydany.com/2015/02/moisturizing-natural-hair-loc-vs-lco.html


I hope this article helps and have you trying both methods to see which works for you.
Always remember though, love your kink!
Kadella