Doing the Deep Conditioning (DC) on your Natural Hair

Without speaking too much grammar, DC is an abbreviation for Deep Conditioning. Over time, doing the DC regularly changes the texture of your hair, makes it softer and more manageable. The most encouraging part of this is that it is very easy. For me, DCing with natural products is the way to go for naturalistas and you can almost predict the results of doing this regularly with natural products.

So how do you do a DC on your natural hair?

Everyday DC

 The simplest form of doing DC is by mixing water and olive oil in a spray bottle and spraying it on your hair, before covering it with a satin scarf or bonnet. Some other methods is mixing rosemary or coconut oil with water. It just depends on the one you are most comfortable with. Though, I must mention that coconut oil and olive oil are the two oils that have been known to penetrate the hair easiest. When doing the DC, please, make sure you try to reach every area of your hair. In about three minutes, you are done. The change is faster if you do this every morning and night.

Please note that having extensions or weaves on your natural hair shouldn’t stop you from doing the DC. In fact, that is when you should DC the most because your hair is more prone to breakage in that state. Lift your braids or weaves up and spray the mixture on the scalp and you hair line. This is very important

DC before you wash (some call it prepoo)

There are so many methods of doing this. You can get our African Naturalistas Deep Conditioning Mayonnaise here. You can also mix olive oil, mayonnaise, shea butter, coconut oil, honey and tea tree oil. Some others mix avocado, egg, vinegar and other essential oils. You just have to find what works for you, but the important ingredient is the olive oil, honey and any form of protein. After mixing your DC ingredient, apply it all over your hair and cover with a plastic bag before and then a satin bonnet or scarf. You can sit under a dryer for about for about thirty minutes to one hour or just leave it on for about one hour, some regions are warmer than the others. To get better results, you can keep it on over night or for the whole day. I used to keep it on for one hour before but I liked what I saw when left it on overnight. Some others leave it on all day and just tie a turban when going out. My advice is that this form of DC should be done whenever you want to wash your hair.

Please, if you want to put extensions on your natural hair, this form of DC is strongly advisable before you go ahead to do put anything on your hair

Benefits

• It provides the hair follicle of the required nutrients
• It adds shine to the hair
• It boosts the health of our hair by constantly hydrating it
•  It prevents hair damage and if the hair is already damaged, it helps in repairing it
• It improves hair elasticity

There are lots of other benefits that I can’t begin to count. But one thing I know, try the DC and you will be glad you did