My hair hates protein!

pazyamor

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I've tried it at all: heavy proteins like Aphogee, light proteins like KeraCare, but without fail, after every protein conditioning, my hair feels dry, brittle, and just plain gross!!!! I even conditioned with my honey/conditioner mix after this time and my hair still felt like if I touched it too hard it would snap off. What can I do? I know my hair needs protein, but it seems to hate it so much. Can I sneak it in? or does anybody else find that their hair does better without protein? Can my hair live without protein added in?:ohwell:
 
Why don't you try a light one, on your dry hair before shampooing and deep conditioning. And only one it once a month and be sure none of your other products have protein.
 
The stylist I recently visited gave me a solid lecture on protein vs moisture. He said sometimes an individual might think they need protein and over do it, adding to a damaged head of hair. In these cases, he said use moisture to combat the problem with treatments and conditioning cremes. Hope that helps!
 
Too much protein will cause you problems. I would lay off it and get a product into your regimen that has a light protein. That should be enough. Have you tried an ORS pak?
 
Before I joined, I was clueless about protein; it was my nemesis - I needed it but did not know how to use it properly. Since that time, I started using silk and wheat proteins - my hair is strong and happy. Maybe if you try a different type of protein?
 
I have tried light proteins, but they have the same effect, but I may have to try different forms of protein. Do you know of any products with silk and whey proteins? Like a good deep conditioner or moisturizer?
 
I have a similar problem. It's gotten better because I pretreat and go heavy with the moisture for a few days before and then super heavy afterwards.

Also I started oil rinsing recently and that helped immensely.

When you use protein do you prepoo at all? Maybe try a deep conditioning pre poo or oil treatment then try a mild protein. Then more DC/oil treatment. HTH.
 
The stylist I recently visited gave me a solid lecture on protein vs moisture. He said sometimes an individual might think they need protein and over do it, adding to a damaged head of hair. In these cases, he said use moisture to combat the problem with treatments and conditioning cremes. Hope that helps!

I think this is the case with my hair. There are times when my hair starts breaking and when I apply a good moisturizer to my ends and roll it up for the night or use Carusos - breakage stops! in those cases, protein would have made it worse!
 
My hair doesn't seem to need much protein. The only time I use it is when I texlax, every 8-10 weeks. If I overdo the moisturizing, which is rare, then I use Motions CPR Protein Treatment for 10-15 minutes, then follow with a moisturizing deep conditioner.
 
I have a similar problem. It's gotten better because I pretreat and go heavy with the moisture for a few days before and then super heavy afterwards.

Also I started oil rinsing recently and that helped immensely.

When you use protein do you prepoo at all? Maybe try a deep conditioning pre poo or oil treatment then try a mild protein. Then more DC/oil treatment. HTH.


I always do a very heavy oil rinse and preepoo before every shampoo I do, which is once a week, and I DC every time I trun my darn head, I stay walking around with a plastic cap! So I don't know if I'm lacking moisture...well, I don't think I'm lacking moisture.
 
I have tried light proteins, but they have the same effect, but I may have to try different forms of protein. Do you know of any products with silk and whey proteins? Like a good deep conditioner or moisturizer?

How about you just lay off the protein for a while? If you hair has too much protein and it's causing problems, you probably shouldn't add anymore at all.
 
How about you just lay off the protein for a while? If you hair has too much protein and it's causing problems, you probably shouldn't add anymore at all.

^^^What she said

I fought breakage all last year and it turned out to be from too much protein. Even after I moved down to light proteins, I still was having problems. Lay off the protein completely. Keep doing the moisture only thing until you notice signs of being overmoisturized. Then you can do protein as needed. I had to do this and stop having preschelduled protein sessions.
 
^^^What she said

I fought breakage all last year and it turned out to be from too much protein. Even after I moved down to light proteins, I still was having problems. Lay off the protein completely. Keep doing the moisture only thing until you notice signs of being overmoisturized. Then you can do protein as needed. I had to do this and stop having preschelduled protein sessions.

There ya go, OP. :up: Once your hair gets the right balance, you probably will only need to do the protein every once in a while.
 
I'm not an expert on this, but I'm afraid to use Aphogee and stronger proteins on my fine 4b/a strands. I like to use Surge 14 spray which has protein in it.
I usually wash my hair, condition it, rinse, detangle then spray the Surge 14 before I blow dry.
Surge 14 is my friend and i think that besides eating proteins like tuna and my met rx protein bars that is the only protien i will be using.
So....maybe u should ingest more proteins instead of putting them ON ur hair.
 
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