How to care for your relaxed hair

Many black women in the UK and in Europe are starting to view and treat their hair differently. This Afro Hair movement started in the US but has quickly arrived to our shores. This has shattered all our wrong beliefs that was passed onto us for generation, myths and beliefs such as black women with kinky afro hair cannot have long hair, or you should not time and time again, an even now some so-called hairdressers still persist in maintaining these beliefs. Well, sorry but black women can retain their hair length and get long hair. Yes, black women can have long hair, it doesn't have to stay at shoulder length forever and we will show you how.

There are now at least two distinct categories, the ‘naturals’ and the ‘relaxed’. Our society is more and more concerned with living in chemical free environment and this is also reflected in what we decide to do with our hair. Chemical or chemical free?

If you choose to have your hair relax, know that relaxed hair doesn't have to be damaged. you can achieve waistlength hair even if you hair is relaxed.

10 easy step to help achieve healthy long relaxed hair:
- Moisturise your relaxed hair twice daily, preferably morning and evening, with water based leave-in conditioner. An easy and very effective moisturiser is a mix glycerin and water.
- Seal the moisture with light oils such as olive oil, jojoba oil, coconut Oil , avocado oil , oil castor, almond oil or other. Seal with natural oil every  time you moisturise your hair (twice daily), just put a small amount of oil in your palm and rub it on your ends. The ends of your hair is the most fragile part of your hair because it's the oldest and the driest part.
- Co-wash at least twice a week. Co-washing is washing your hair with conditioner (no shampoo)
- Deep condition every time you wash your hair with shampoo, you can also deep condition after your co-wash but it's less necessary.
- Avoid combing
- Sleep with a satin or silk scarf, to keep your hair from rubbing on your cotton pillow.
- Baggy your hair
- Protein conditioner some good ones are CPR motions, A phogee is good to but it's a very heavy treatment and is recommended to be used every 6-8 weeks only.
- Avoid heat
- Use heat protectant if you must use heat Google+