Winter is fast approaching, and you may be wondering how that will affect your hair growth and what you will need to help and protect your hair. Many naturals suffer from dry hair and frizz during winter. If you don’t condition, condition, condition, and give your natural curls the extra care it needs then your hair will experience more breakage than ever. Your scalp will suffer too – it will become dry and start to flake, as the temperature deprives it of the moisture it needs. Hair is hydroscopic – which means that it absorbs water from the environment. When it is warm and humid your hair can drink in moisture from the atmosphere and rehydrate itself. But in winter, the air is dry, and the hair starts to dry up and shrink more than ever. Because there’s no moisture in the air, your hair will do the reverse and actually emit its moisture into the air.

Here are 4 things you should do this winter to keep your natural hair at its best:

1. Keep it hydrated and moisturized. Take lots of water and moisturize, moisturize, moisturize…
2. Constantly wear a protective style and keep your ends tucked away as they are the most fragile.
3. Deep condition weekly or bi-weekly and use replenishing conditioners. Wear a plastic cap and apply heat during this process.
4. Avoid hash shampoos that have sulphates. Co-wash more often.
5. Avoid applying direct heat to the hair. Heat will dehydrate and weaken your Hair especially those already fragile ends.
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