Question from sissy
As an african American female it is very hard to find natural products that suit our hair type. Do you have any recommendations of hair products?
I am trying to stay away from hair relaxers and want to grow my hair natural. What is an alternative for relaxers?
Debra’s Answer
I found a website called nappturality.com that says it is a “resource for the style and beauty of Natural Black Hair…the place to find photographs, Black natural hair journals, websites, forums, information and links about the care, maintenance and politics of natural hair. Natural napptural hair.” You have to sign up as a member (free) to get into the site, so I didn’t check it out, but you may find what you are looking for there.
You also might take a look at Carol’s Daughter. Their tag line is “beauty by nature” and the product descriptions give a lot of natural and even organic ingredients that the product contains, but there is no full ingredient list, so I can’t tell you if the products contain any unnatural ingredients. Therer’s also African Wonders, which is similarly uninformative about their ingredients on their website.
There are also a number of books on the subject at amazon.com. Textured Tresses is one of them, other will come up under “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought”.
I have no personal experience with this, so this is the best I can do. Could you respond and let us know if any of these give you what you need?
Readers, any suggestions?
