How to Take Care Of Your High Porosity Hair

How to grow high porosity hair? That’s the main problem of many girls when it comes to managing their hair.

Oftentimes, we neglect the porosity while shopping for hair products. Therefore, we choose the wrong products, causing them more damage.

Knowing the porosity level of your hair can help you to determine the best products to use in your hair as well as how to put together the best regimen for your particular hair.

What is Porosity 

 Porosity is the ability of your hair to absorb water and/products. 

Low porosity natural hair has a low absorption rate, because the cuticles are stubbornly closed. Product/water cannot penetrate into the hair.

It is difficult for this hair porosity to absorb moisture.

High porosity natural hair has a high absorption rate because the cuticles are always open, but products/water evaporate out of the hair just as quickly as it enters.

It is difficult for this hair porosity to retain moisture.

Low porosity is the ideal.  The cuticles in low to medium porosity hair is rightly spaced so as to allow your hair to absorb water and keep the hair moisturized.

Unlike low porous hair, high porosity hair has the cuticles that are too far apart. As a result, the hair can easily take in moisture but lose them soon. The absorbed moisture gets enough free space to fly away.

What is High Porosity Hair?

To know the structure of your hair and to care for it accordingly, determining its porosity is crucial. Technically, they may not appear to be different than others’, but you may not tame them with products others are using.

Having high porosity means, your hair cuticle is "open" - the hair cuticle is raised rather than laying flat. This is sometimes due to genetics.

But in other cases, your high porosity can be an indicator of damage, commonly from over-manipulation/mechanical damage, poor diet, dye, bleach or heat. Under a microscope, your strands are broken or chipped. 

In any case, because high porosity strands are not lying flat, your strands catch onto each other, causing single strand knots and split ends. Yikes!

Some indicators of high porosity hair include:

• Frizz
• Extreme dryness
• Inability to retain a style
• Extreme tangles and,
• A dull-looking color. 

To check your porosity, gently grasp a section of clean, freshly washed hair. Run your fingers along the length of the strand, from the tips to the ends. If you feel any uneven, bumpy parts in the strand, this means that your cuticles are open and you have high porosity natural hair.

Think of your strands like a leaky glass: if the cuticle remains raised, any moisture you put into your hair is immediately lost.

How To Take Care Of Your High Porosity Hair 

Take a Spray Bottle: Give your hair a few sprays to moisten them. When they’re moistened enough, you can easily style with them. Moisturize your hair using mist bottle spray.

Always Use Conditioner: The more the thickness of the conditioner, the longer your hair will remain wet. Just distribute the conditioner evenly on your hair so as to avoid any tiny white balls. Check out Glammednaturallyoil Biotin Conditioner 

Apple Cider Vinegar Rinse: Once you’ve taken shower, help keep the cuticles stay close by rinsing your hair with apple cider vinegar. This rinse will flatten the hair, make it easy for them to hold a style.