So, last time I talked about hair follicles and how they not only affects how a person's hair is shaped but also the density, thickness and growth rate of said hair. Today I will be talking about how a person's hair follicles also affect a hair dryness as well.
Now, what causes dryness? Dryness is usual cause by either one hair not making enough oil or the hair inability to keep in moisture. The first reason why a hair might not be producing enough oil for the hair is that of the thickness of said hair and the density as well. The second reason has to do with damages done to a person's hair due to the usage of the wrong product over a period of time. Today I will be discussing the first reason why a hair made be dry.
Now the scalp is producing oil but because an individual hair string is thicker it usually requires more oil to moisturize it. Add to that that most thick hairs are also density and you have those with thicker hair strings being more prone to dryness and in turn breakage. This also applies to density. The more hair a person has on their head the less oil from the scalp the is to cover the whole area. For instead remember how Hermione from the harry potter movies when she was younger used to have this very thick hair that was also prone to frizzing? Yeah, it was because her hair was dry due to being both thick and denser. In other words, the human scalp can only produce a limited amount of oil.
So what does this all mean? Well if you would notice most people of Asian descents has less density and their hair strings are usually not very thick. They are also known for having sleek hair. This is due to the fact that the amount of hair oil being produced by their scalps are enough to cover the not very thick and less dense hair upon their heads. So you may not have realized it but when you think Asian hair you usually envision thin, straight and sleek hair.
Now as you would recall from our last post, Asain hair is usually straight to wavy, less dense and grow faster. Asian hair is then followed by Caucasian hair which is usually wavy to curly, bit denser then Asain hair and grow at a slower rate than a Asain person hair. Then last but not least you have Afro hair which is light curly to very very curly, more denser and grows a lot more slower.
So what does this have to do with anything? Well as you may remember the thicker and denser a hair the less oil is actually able to be created in order to cover the whole head leading to dryness. In order words, I am proposing that the reason that some of the products being created by the hair beauty industry are able to work on some black women hair and not others is due to the amount of oil ratio in said products. What I am saying is that these hair products could work the same for Afro women as it does Caucasian women if the oil ratio was increased in said products.
This is my experiment for this month to recreate the products that are found on the shelves in the stores pertaining to hair but with the ratio of oil in said product being high then what is usually being used. This is my experiment. I look forward to seeing if my hypothesis is correct or not.
