The Science of Black Hair: A Comprehensive Guide to Textured Hair

Author: Audrey Davis-Sivasothy
Publisher: SAJA Publishing Company
ISBN: 0984518428
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The Science of Black Hair is the ultimate consumer textbook on black hair care. Technically oriented and detailed throughout, this book was written with the serious hair care consumer in mind. Hair science, research and testimony combine in this carefully written text designed to examine black hair on a deeper level. With its light academic style it is truly the last hair book you'll ever need. Readers will learn how to: * Maintain chemically-treated or natural hair in optimal health. * Stop hair breakage with a novel, protein/moisture balancing method. * Regulate product pH balance for shinier, more manageable hair. * Grow their hair longer, stronger and healthier for life! Additional Features * Regimen Builder with extensive product listings * Ingredients glossary * Interviews * Real photos of hair at the microscopic level Are you ready to stop battling your hair? Win the war against breakage. Forever. The Science of Black Hair: A Comprehensive Guide to Textured Hair Care combines research with testimony in an authoritative reference text dedicated to the care of black hair- relaxed or natural. This powerful book introduces readers to a comprehensive healthy hair care strategy for achieving beautifully radiant hair regardless of hair type. Black hair structure, properties, and maintenance methods are carefully outlined throughout this go-to reference book to give you the tools you need to improve the health and look of your hair, TODAY. The Science of Black Hair Chapter 1: Scalp and Hair Structure, Function, and Characteristics Chapter 2: Textured Hair Properties & Principles Chapter 3: Understanding Hair Growth and Damage for Healthier Hair Care Chapter 4: What's Your Hair Care Regimen? Chapter 5: Hair Product Selection Basics Chapter 6: Protein & Moisture Balancing Strategies for Breakage Correction and Defense Chapter 7: Getting Started with a Healthy Hair Care Product Regimen Chapter 8: Low-Manipulation Hair Maintenance Strategies Chapter 9: Coloring Textured Hair Chapter 10: Chemically Relaxing Textured Hair Chapter 11: Transitioning from Relaxed to Natural Hair Chapter 12: Regimen-Building Considerations for Kids Chapter 13: How Our Health Affects Our Hair Chapter 14: Working Out on a Healthy Hair-Care Regimen Chapter 15: Final Thoughts

Natural Hair Care

Author: Susan Hollister
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978302174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
Are you ready to get gorgeous, rich and easily managed hair all naturally? Whether you want to (1) get away from harsh, toxic chemicals that damage your hair, (2) stop paying through the nose for expensive hair care products, or (3) find solutions for your specific hair challenges that actually work, then keep reading as this book will show you everything you need to know. Ditch the damaging chemicals and use easily applied natural hair care products! No more guessing; now you can know exactly what you're putting into your hair and why. You can support a healthy hair lifestyle by choosing from mixtures of raw organic ingredients to make your hair shine. These treatments are silicone free and most are gluten free. Find out what nutrients your hair needs in order to look its very best. Learn to use organic ingredients that will repair your specific hair type and will enhance its shine and manageability. Learn how to reduce the oiliness of oily hair and how to effectively moisturize dry hair. You can experience some dramatic anti-aging benefits by turning to natural solutions that are surprisingly simple to make. You'll be using ingredients you have around your house to keep your hair vibrant, luscious, and glowing all year round. You won't need fancy lab equipment to make these high quality hair treatments; everything can be easily mixed up in your kitchen, using little more than a glass bowl and a spoon. Save money and get hair solutions that actually work! Keep your hair from breaking off, flying loose, or going all frizzy on you; relax tight curls or introduce waves into straight hair; better yet, do it all for a fraction of the cost it would take if you used commercial products! You will learn how to use essential oils for more than their refreshing aromatherapy; these concentrated essences can provide powerful healing and protective energies. When you use biodegradable materials that do not harm the soil and are safe when introduced into the water system, you are also giving your hair healthy nutrients they need to grow strong, lush, and vibrant. You can have incredible hair that will turn heads. Learn what your hair needs in order to thrive. Use easy-to-follow instructions to create your own stimulating shampoos out of ingredients easily found in a grocery store or pharmacy. Make no-fail conditioners and rinses that render your hair squeaky clean and highly manageable. Use homemade styling aids that are every bit as powerful as their commercial counterparts, but are much less costly. Discover practical hair management pointers that are targeted for your specific hair type. You will also find some tips that will enhance your natural beauty and find practical advice to resolve some common hair care challenges. What Will You Discover About Natural Hair Care? How to use kitchen spices to enhance your hair's natural color. How to easily make your own shampoos and conditioners to strengthen and nourish your hair. Which bits of hair care lore actually work, and which are totally bogus! How to prevent hair loss and stimulate hair growth. How to make a simple styling gels that will add body to fine hair, without weighing it down. You Will Also Learn: The practical use of hair rinses to target specific needs. Foods you can eat that will give you healthier hair. What hairstyles work best for which types of hair. Pain-free strategies for growing out your bangs. Make your hair incredible at a fraction of the cost: Get this book now!

Making Natural Hair Care Products - A Beginner’s Guide

Author: Jamesha Bazemore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365096785
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Natural hair flourishes best when it is well hydrated and able to retain that moisture. The market is full of products that promise to do just that, but some do not deliver. The issues can be from the ingredients found in the products or from them being manufactured without the proper ph. range. Whichever the reason you can assure that your product is formulated properly by creating your own. Making Natural Hair Care Products, A Beginner's Guide gives you more than just great recipes that you can tailor to fit your own personal needs or for your targeted consumer. It also provides you with detailed in-depth information ingredients. More information can be found on the back cover of the book. Check it out.

Natural Hair Care

Author: Meloney Washington
Publisher: Good Hair Coaching, LLC
ISBN: 9780986407505
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Are you on the fence about going back to your natural roots? Are you struggling to transition with no success? Are you tired of spending countless hours searching for good hair tips and advice? Are you wearing wigs and weaves just because you don't know what else to do? This book was written with you in mind. Like a lot of women out there, I too struggled to transition, and once I transitioned completely, there came the issues with the upkeep for my natural hair. I wrote the book I wish I could have read when I was transitioning. Having a step-by-step guide on how to care for my hair and make it more manageable could have saved me a lot of time and undue stress. Whether you are new to the natural hair game or are already in it, this is the playbook you need. This book is the perfect companion to Nikki Walton's "Better than Good Hair." You will benefit from: - Learning how to manage your OWN natural textured hair - Saving yourself time and money - Avoiding the pitfalls associated with trial and error - Discovering basic "get up and go" protective styles just right for you - Maintaining basic transition styles for healthy hair upkeep - Feeling attractive at every stage during the transition process - Taming your hair with proven natural care techniques - Learning protection regimens for sleeping, working out, and swimming - Mastering techniques and regimens to tame your hair - Enjoying step-by-step instructions at your finger tips Purchase your copy today and learn how to get healthy, curly, natural hair

A Parent's Guide to Natural Hair Care for Girls

Author: Lulu Pierre
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530508938
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A PARENT'S GUIDE TO NATURAL HAIR CARE FOR GIRLS A how to guide for healthy and gorgeous black hair plus and introduction to natural hairstyles Written for mothers of all races who have a child of black or mixed decent, A Parents Guide to Natural Hair Care for Girlsis your ultimate step-by-step guide to caring for your daughter's natural hair from birth to early childhood. You will learn the best techniques, products and styles for beautiful and healthy hair, no matter the texture. If you have you ever wanted to bring out the full health and beauty in your black or bi-racial daughter's natural kinky, curly, or afro textured hair then this book is for you. If your little girl suffers with dry, brittle, dull, tangling hair that doesn't seem to grow then this book will show you exactly what to do to overcome these issues so your daughter can have healthy, long and beautiful natural hair that she can be proud of. You see contrary to what you might believe, the problem is NOT your daughter's hair. There is no such thing as bad, tough, or difficult hair. The problem may be with your approach, you may simply not know the techniques, products and styles required to give your daughter the long, healthy and beautiful natural hair she is capable of. A Parent's Guide to Natural Hair Care for Girls will help you take action and help your daughter avoid the hair dilemmas, issues and problems often associated with kinky, curly or afro textured hair. You will learn how to: * Eradicate dry hair permanently * Eliminate short hair and grow long luscious tresses * Stop hair breakage and promote hair length retention * Wash, condition and style hair for maximum health benefit * Select the best hair products for healthy and vibrant hair * Evaluate hair to find out what it really needs and why * PLUS learn how to plait, cornrow and twist natural hair. All our readers can get FREE, bonus book visiting www.naturalhaircareforgirls.com/amazon-bonus For more information visit www.naturalhaircareforgirls.com

Hair Rules!

Author: Anthony Dickey
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 0307415384
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Kinky, curly, or wavy hair isn’t “problem” hair—it’s just hair with a different set of rules! For too long, hairstylists and hair-care companies have ignored the needs of women with kinky, curly, or wavy hair, focusing on it as “problem” hair rather than celebrating its unique texture. But now hair-care and style expert A. Dickey, considered by top magazine beauty editors to be the foremost authority on caring for, cutting, and styling curly hair, has written Hair Rules! to end the frustration faced by women with curly hair every day. Hair Rules! is chock-full of simple tips for all types of curly hair and covers everything from the best shampoos and conditioners to use, to damage-free hair-drying (dust off that hood dryer!), the use of natural oils, and the safest coloring, styling, and chemical relaxing techniques—as well as guidelines for maintaining healthy, gorgeous hair. “My mission,” writes Dickey, “is simple: to advise and encourage all women with nonstraight hair to strive to attain their beauty, whatever their ethnicity, and whatever their tastes.”

Self-Care for Black Women

Author: Oludara Adeeyo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1507217323
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Prioritize your wellbeing with these 150 self-care exercises designed specifically to help Black women revitalize their outlook on life, improve their mental health, eliminate stress, and self-advocate. Between micro- and macro-aggressions at school, at work, and everywhere in between, it’s tough to prioritize physical and mental wellness as a Black woman, especially with a constant news cycle highlighting Black trauma. Now, with The Self-Care for Black Women you’ll find more than 150 exercises that will help you radically choose to put yourself first. Whether you need a quick pick-me-up in the middle of the day, you’re working through feelings of burnout, or you need to process a microaggression, this book has everything you need to feel more at peace. You’ll find prompts like: -Map out your feelings about a microaggression -Make a list of your safe spaces -Detail out an entire day dedicated to your self-care -And more! It’s time to put yourself first and prioritize your self-care once and for all—and this book is here to help you do just that.

Better Than Good Hair

Author: Nikki Walton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062123777
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
The fresh new handbook on how to achieve and maintain stylish natural hair, from the savviest and most revered expert on coils and curls These days there's a revolution going on. Relaxers are out. Weaves are so yesterday. Tired of damage from expensive chemical treatments and artificial enhancers, women of color are going natural thanks to Nikki Walton of CurlyNikki.com, the natural hair blogger and online hair therapy expert. In Better Than Good Hair, this gifted "curl whisperer" educates women on how to transition from relaxed to completely natural hair, with advice and styles for every length—from Fierce Braid-and-Curls to Fancy Faux Buns. She also counsels those considering the "big chop"—cutting it all off at once to sport a bold and beautiful "teeny weeny afro." Here, too, is essential guidance for parents of mixed-race children dealing with new and unfamiliar hair textures and styles. Combining Walton's expansive knowledge with tips from other experts in the field, Better Than Good Hair includes: Product recommendations Home hair care recipes Advice for parents on how to manage their children's natural hair Tips for using henna on gray hair Guidance on dealing with detractors Step-by-step illustrated directions for nearly two dozen hairdos, from frohawks to twist-outs Full of indispensable information, as empowering as it is accessible, and with a foreword by actress and comedian Kim Wayans, Better Than Good Hair is a must-have natural hair care bible that will help women of all ages and styles achieve their natural beauty.

Hair Care Guide

Author: Celena Montalvo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
For many people, making the transition to wearing their natural hair is all about growing strong, healthy, chemical-free hair. For some, this may mean eliminating the use of any products that contain chemicals or turning from the chemical relaxers and/or chemical hair dyes to more natural alternatives. Some just enjoy making their own products. Whatever your reasons, mixing up hair care recipes at home is a cost-efficient and much healthier alternative to using a lot of products that you see on the shelves. In this book, you will learn over 60 natural hair growth potion recipes that you can create yourself to use in your natural hair care routine to assist in retaining length and restoring moisture in your hair.

A Beginner's Guide to Natural Hair Care

Author: Nuria Mari
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
The first thing you need to know about hair care, is, the hair care product manufacturer is not your friend. Yes, that is why it's not a problem for them to include ingredients like sulphates and parabens in their formulations. Even though they know that Sulphates will probably leave you looking twice your age in a few years, and parabens can make it difficult for you to get pregnant, or increase your risks of developing breast cancer, they still use these ingredients anyway. A company's gotta make some cheddar you know. Hair care manufacturing companies are not non-profit organizations. Their major goal for setting up shop is to get that mulla. But the, your hair is said to be your crowning glory, and it's normal to want to improve your hair if it's not to your satisfaction. You see, in order to grow and maintain your natural hair, you must have a perfect understanding of what natural hair is. There are many definitions of the term "natural hair," but I'll let you in on the most common definition, and the one we'll talk about most often in this book. "Natural hair is a relaxer-free hair. It differs greatly from chemical-free hair. on the surface, chemicals are often considered as toxic and dangerous, but this is usually not the case most of the time. Most of the chemicals that you use on your hair are harmless and perfectly safe." The perfect model for black natural hair is the African American natural hair. It is sometimes tagged as "nappy hair" that needs to be corrected with a relaxer. We've heard stories of women facing some form of discrimination in their workplace and in religious settings due to their hairstyles. It is said that some employers consider these hairstyles unprofessional, while religious leaders consider it as a sign of immorality. Many have been denied promotions or jobs because of their natural hair. And the big one - it has caused issues in many relationships. A Beginner's Guide to Natural Hair Care is about teaching you what you need to know about your natural hair and providing you with the right information and resources to help you grow that beautiful hair you've always wanted. I've done a very intensive research on this subject because I want to give you the opportunity to learn how best to care for your natural hair. Of course, one of the best ways to learn is by reading and analyzing the experiences of others. What's more? You get encouraged when you see the photos of women with their beautiful and well-groomed natural hair, while they testify and speak positively about their hair care journey. These testimonies are evidence that you also can be successful if you can invest the energy and the time into learning the right techniques of natural hair care. Is there a reason you're struggling on your hair care journey? Some of the tips given online are faulty. That's it! You see, many product manufacturers or hair advisors will stress that you have to search for and find the perfect products (usually tagged holy grail products). Some may say that you have to understand a specific technique, like the baggy method or protective styling, before you can record some degree of success in your natural hair journey. If you've tried these techniques without success, then you probably know that the tips you're following are nothing more than generic recycled advice. That's the primary reason why I wrote A Beginner's Guide to Natural Hair Care. The tips in this book are based on a well-crafted blueprint for having a successful natural hair journey. If you need long-term results, then this book is for you. It will help you build a solid foundation that will guarantee you success for life on your natural hair journey. Cheers to your beautiful, black, natural hair.