10 Natural Products for Maintaining Natural Hair
The natural hair team, popularly known by the hashtag term #teamnatural, seem to be gaining grounds in today’s lifestyle. With a collection of both natural and processed hair care products, the market is becoming a lucrative one, attracting new adherents by the day. Natural hair can be maintained the natural way. There are quite a […]
Hair Care: Could Enemies Be Lurking in Those Friendly Jars?
The kind of alcohols present in hair products is vital to hair health and progress. In Chemistry, there are Short Chain alcohols (volatile alcohols) and Long Chain alcohols (fatty alcohols). The former possess very few carbon atoms in their chain structure, thereby making them highly soluble in water and can leave hair or skin feeling […]
Origin of Hair Relaxers
In 1910, Black American inventor, Garrett Augustus Morgan, while working at a sewing machine repair shop and attempting to invent a new lubricating liquid for the machine needle, wiped the liquid off his hands on a wool cloth. He returned the next day to discover that the woolly texture of the cloth had smoothened out. […]
The Economics of Hair Extensions
Hair extensions- beauty or vanity? Depends on how you look at it. Or doesn’t it? Your opinion doesn’t really matter in the end. Hair is big business, and there’s a lot of money to be made. Because hundreds of millions of women the world over are willing to change their looks as often as possible. […]
7 Money Saving Tips for Your Next Hair Salon Trip
Hair business, they say, is good business, but should that be at the expense of customers like us who aim to spend wisely and manage money effectively? It’s bad enough that life’s daily activities can be on the pricey side. Why should looking good break the bank as well? You’ve heard them all; the stories of ladies […]
Following the Natural Hair Journey
By Ebun Oluwole For many of us (ladies), the concept of a healthy hair journey seemed like an utopian task especially before the popularity of the internet. It was an ideology we could only connect with via foreign movies and music videos. In order to satisfy this far- fetched need, our local industry began to manufacture synthetic weaves. […]
How To: Protect Your Hair This Dry Season
By Ada Arinze As Africans, we tend to unknowingly cause damage to our hair. We do this in so many ways; through the chemical processes of relaxers, permanent hair dying, use of inappropriate combs and hair products, heating tools without heat protection, and so on. Our environment does not do much to help matters, as […]
Eating Your Way To Healthier Hair.
By Oritsegbubemi Peace Pessu. I look at some ladies’ natural hair and I go, “Wow!” That’s because their head of hair is strong, well moisturized, nourished and has its shine. I’ve got to admit it makes me very jealous especially when my own hair is not under a weave and you can see how thin […]
7 STEPS TO PROMOTE LONG HEALTHY HAIR
Growing up, I remember how my girlfriends and I would stare longingly at Caucasian or Indian girls and wish we had hairs as long.