Congratulations on your hair-discovery. I just recently learned too that my hair needed a better balance of protein and moisture. After reading
Audrey Sivasothy's article on
protein/moisture balance I instantly saw what I was doing wrong. I was over moisturizing my hair to offset applying MegaTek on my scalp 3 times a week. I wanted to ensure I didn't have protein overload but I made my hair too mushy.
I had the epiphany that the protein was only being applied to my scalp so there was no need to add
extra moisture to the length of my hair.
So to correct my mistake I used the Nexxus Emergencee reconstructor as a pre-texturizer and pre-neutralizer protein treatment. My hair responded very well to it. Since those 2 protein treatments I have a lot less breakage even though I applied the texturizer when my hair wasn't in its strongest form.
BTW I got the idea to apply the protein prior to neutralizing my texturizer from Audrey too. Here's a link to her article:
Guide to Safely Applying Chemical Relaxers