High Axisity Vs Low Axisity: Recognize Types Of Hair And Tips For Choosing Proper Care Products

JAKARTA - Problems with hair, such as dry hair, damaged hair, too oily, or difficult to regulate, can interfere with daily life and greatly affect everyone's confidence.

Have you ever followed someone else's hair care routine, but doesn't fit or work optimally on your hair? Apparently, the way to care for each person's hair is also different. This is due to hair porosity that affects hair type and how to care for it.

Hair porosity or hair porosity is the ability of the hair to absorb and retain several things into the hair, such as hair care products, nutrients, and moisture. Dominantly, the porosity of the hair is determined from genetics which also affects the size and shape of the hair citcule. Each hair has a protector of the quartics that has a layer that overlaps with each other. Some of these layers are quite open and some are tightly closed, so that the water or nutrients of hair care products are difficult to absorb.

The following are the types of hair porosity and how to care for them.

Hair with low porosity has a very tight type of kutikula. This makes hair with this type of porosity difficult to absorb hydration such as water and even the nutritional content of hair care products such as shampoo, hair mask, or hair oil, so hair is prone to limp and looks oily. On the other hand, this quatila meeting has advantages, namely not too prone to branching hair.

Types of low porosity hair are usually characterized by water flowing above the surface of the hair without wetting hair thoroughly when you shampoo, almost like morning dew that is above the leaves.

If you have low porosity hair, use light hair care products for shampooing and styling, such as shampoos that have circumventing or clearing properties. Avoid products such as solid and heavy hair oil. Choose products that contain a lot of humectants that will help moisturize your hair, so that nutrition can be absorbed by the hair.

Water and hair care products will be easier to absorb into the hair if you have hair with high porosity. However, this moisture will not last long or be absorbed in the hair because of the large size of the citcula and its non-tight nature. This type of hair is very prone to dry, branching, or tangled.

For maximum maintenance of high porosity hair, use a high protein product in your hair care routine so that it can strengthen hair roots and help hydrate damaged hair. Also use a leave-in conditioner that can moisturize deeply. If you want to organize your hair, don't forget to use a heat protection or heat protection before doing blow trading or using straightening so as to reduce hair damage.

Those are two types of hair porosity in general. To find out your hair porosity, try doing this experiment! Take one strand of your hair and place it above a glass of water. If your hair remains on the surface of the water, you have hair with low porosity. On the other hand, if your hair is washed into the middle or bottom of the glass, you have hair with high porosity.