If you have curly hair, fixing the damaged, brittle ends of your hair can be one of your biggest challenges.In curly hair, the more damaged your hair is, the more prone to damage, frizz, broken ends and limp, flat ends. In general, this can happen due to lack of moisture, (not to mention detangling necessary to avoid snarls, which leads to damaged, open cuticles and strands prone to breakage. Curly hair is far more prone to this type of damage and tangling, due to its inherently delicate structure.
Environmental factors such as harsh sunlight, wind, pollution, hard water, harsh sulfates and chemicals, overwashing, and using heat/blow drying/excessive styling cause damage and further strips your hair of natural moisture. Eventually, this leads to crunchy, frizzy, and dry hair ends.
Spa-quality products together with the right hair care can very effectively hydrate and heal these damaged strands.
Here’s how you restore the beautiful curls to its former health:
Symptoms of Crunchy Hair
Damaged curly hair feels hard, stiff, and crispy. Texture wise, your hair can be dry, brittle, rigid, and there’s lack of smoothness and shine. Additionally, some of the other common symptoms of crunchy hair can be:
- Unmanageability, frizziness, and hard manageability.
- Easy tangling.
- Loss of shine.
- Has brittle ends and is prone to splitting and breakage.
- Makes a distinct audible sound when touched or styled.
Restoring Softness & Life
The first process to restore life to crunchy hair is removing build-up, hair-dulling residues, and factors that result in coarse and brittle hair.
The Clarifying Shampoo is designed to break this cycle of damage, leaving your hair clean, healthy, and beautiful (learn more). It has ACV, Goldenseal, Aloe-Vitamin-Sea Mineral blend, pure cold-pressed oils, and botanical extracts – with African Black Soap as the base. In 2-3 hair wash cycles, these unwanted residues are freed and there is an onset of damage restoration.
Once build-up is removed, you can use the treatment shampoo 1-2X per week thereafter for maintenance. With curly hair, avoid overwashing and over-processing your hair.
Gentle Conditioning Practices
After shampooing, use a gentle conditioner with ingredients like coconut oil, meadowfoam seed oil, aloe vera gel, and vitamins that soften those crispy curls and add nourishment. You can opt for either Everyday Conditioner, Revitalizing Conditioner, or Volumizing Conditioner based on your requirements (dosha) and hair texture.
Regular Deep Conditioning and Hair Reconstruction Treatment
Styling with straighteners or curling irons at high temperatures is one of the primary causes of curly hair damage. Make sure to protect it first with Shine On Serum. The formula is thermal protective and restores moisture, helping to prevent dryness, brittleness and breakage.
This proactive plant-based powerhouse with rose and calendula flower petals, extra-lightweight Hemp Seed Oil and Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and more.. improves damaged hair, split ends, breakage, dry or frizzy hair, poor shine, and manageability. Also, protects from environmental stressors, and likelihood of any further damage.
Limit Heat and Use Only Organic Styling Formulas
Always detangle your hair either with fingers or a wide-tooth comb, starting at your ends and then working upwards. If you have to use heat, limit it to no more than 1X time a week.
But most importantly, replace regular chemical-based styling products with organic and natural Leave-in Conditioning Styling Gel. It is made to protect your hair from repeated *hygral fatigue (*this is caused by over-conditioning with protein, causing repeated swelling/shrinkage of the hair shaft, causing breakage over time), humidity, and heat. Our formula is free from synthetic styling polymers, silica, toxins, and artificial fragrances or dyes.
Vitamin infused Aloe Vera, fast-absorbing oils of Grapeseed oil, Apricot oil & Evening Primrose oil, and essential Oils of Rosemary and Litsea Cubeba, penetrate easily into the hair cuticles, infusing moisture and nourishment without adding product build-up.
Why Choosing the Right Hair Care Product for Crisp/Brittle Hair is Important
Our hair softening formulas are free of harmful chemicals and make use of only natural ingredients. This is a great start to remove product build-up and help restore hair vitality, strength, and softness within 2-3 weeks of use. These high quality ingredients ensure that your crunchy hair stays well-hydrated and nourished for an extended time.
Not sure where to start? Identify your Hair Type (or Dosha) and receive a recommendation for your very own personalized hair care line made from natural ingredients, free from petroleum, dyes, perfumes, parabens, and other synthetic/ toxic chemicals. Note that PVO’s formulas are concentrated (but without commercial surfactant (SLS) they do not lather a great deal, as that is attributed to chemical detergents), so a little goes a long way! (We use Black African Soap bark for cleansing which will leave your hair super-clean but without stripping your hairs natural protective pH barrier)
