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is this like relaxing where it looks better but damages your hair, or does it make it look better and also help it?
Good Question, i would like to know that too.
Hot oil treatment (or oil treatment, it is only less efficient) helps dry and fragile hair. You can use it before shampooing to attenuate the drying effect of shampoo.
But it has no relaxing effect at all. It can help if you have puffy or very frizzi hair (sign of dry hair), that's all. It also protects hair against various agressions, such as heat, cold, chlore, salt.
Dreammm
I found that it turned my hair into one huge puff ball! I would certainly NOT recommend hot oil to anyone going through the awkward stage.
Saul
Can you be more precise in what you exactly did ?
What oil did you use ? And how ?
Personnaly, I use coconut oil (monoi exactly) and it solved my problem of dryness. And no more puffy hair either ...
But of course I never blow dry my hair, and shammpoo my hair only once a week.
Dreammm
I can't remember the brand name (could be by Wella??) It was the type of oil that you heat, leave on the hair for 60 seconds and them shampoo out.
I should point out that my hair is VERY unruly, so it's not that surprising that oil works differenlt on us! ;-)
Saul
Hot oil treatments will only do two things for your hair: make it hot and make it oily.
Hot oil is not boiling oil ! Less than 40° Celcius for me (just put the bottle in hot water until it melted).
So "hot" oil don't make your hair hot (slightly less for instance than a shower).
And not all the oil have an oily touch and look : coconut of jojoba for instance are light oil, very quicly absobed by skin of hair. By using this kind of oil in the right proportion, you don't have the oily look.
Anyway, a hot oil treatment is genrally done before a shampoo, and the excess of oil is then removed. But some oil have benefical effect on hair (generally not because of the oil, but due to things IN the oil). For instance, it's better to use monoi than just coconut oil, because the tiare flower are good for the hair. The oil is here just a medium : when the hair absorbs oil, it also absorbs active elements.
Dreammm