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Nonie, so do you find any great benefits from baggying this way every night or is it just your way of protecting your hair at night?
Khaiya Well, I have baggied for years because I hate greasy pillow-cases and scarves and back in the day I used to use very "oily" products. I started baggying during Jheri Curl days. Then I would use Paltas on my new growth then or when relaxed or on my natural hair when I was natural, and it was uber greasy. I also know hair products used to give me acne, so keeping them off my face, especially when I slept was a bonus. After I misunderstood a regimen and thought it called for no leave-ins, I found baggying w/o products didn't hurt me. People complain of having mushy hair due to too much product. I don't have that. Others complain of itches, I don't have that. And on the point of itches, I know that I cannot DC overnight because my scalp itches something awful so yes, that's another benefit: no product means no itches for me. Some people also say that it takes forever for their hair to dry when they take the baggy off. I don't have that problem. Also there are those who have sinus problems or headaches from "wet head". I don't have that problem. I find baggying seems to encourage sebum production because even w/o any products my hair seems to get soft. I consider soft hair as moisturized hair, so it's like my hair can receive the natural moisture w/o anything in the way. I also love that baggying w/o product means my hair doesn't have a weird smell of fermented grease. I usually just smell conditioner on my hair. Then there's also the blessing of not having product rubbing on my neck and ears if I wear my hair down.
I suppose you can call all these benefits I get from baggying bare hair. I am just one of those people who doesn't fix what isn't broken, so while I discovered bare baggying just by chance, it hasn't caused me any problem so I don't know what benefits I'd get if I changed this and not really interested in messing up a good thing. I don't lose any internal moisture my hair has to scarves or hats or my beddings. Even when I wear headwraps or hats, I wear a baggy.