Is there anything that will help people with poofy frizzy hair?

make it more manageable?

I would try a coconut oil or olive oil treatment. Wash and rinse hair, towel dry, rub oil throughout and leave on for around an hour (covered in plastic bag or shower cap). Rinse again and comb through with a wide-tooth comb, as opposed to a brush.

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"We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease, to learn the truth" ~Hippocrates~

I like poofy frizzy hair

on a guy, poofy hair is no good....

a man isn't meant to have full body in his hair....

Right! I was thinking women

You need to get involved in automotive mechanics.
A little chassis grease with a dab of old engine oil will keep your hair glued down for hours, even in a strong wind.
But you want to stay away from differential oil as it has a foul smell.

The reason your hair is like that is because of your water, it has a lot of minerals in it.

There's one shampoo that removes the minerals, it's Neutrogena anti-residue. Now, if you rinse with distilled water, your hair would be great.

If you washed and rinsed with distilled water you would get really soft silky hair....and used Pantene conditioner....it would shine and feel like silk.

If you got a water softener installed in your house, it removes the minerals. Also good for clothes washing (makes them soft) and cuts the mineral buildup on pipes and faucets.

You should use less soap with soft water, and rinse more, as the minerals are abrasive and pull the soap out of your hair.


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As a female, I don't like frizzy hair either, limitme. I'd try Kind2C's coconut
oil suggestion. I used to do an overnight mayonaise treatment, covering
my hair w/a plastic bag. Worked great tho messy.
If I needed it again, I'd do the coconut oil treatment.

Using oils is just covering up the minerals that are stuck to the hair.

If you want hair that you can run your fingers through you have to remove the minerals.

so you're saying everyone can have nice silky hair that falls down, if they just rinse with distilled water?

I'm going to buy a gallon tonight and see....

so, some people don't have poofy hair naturally?
every asian person I know has poofy straight black hair....
so, if they all rinsed with distilled water, that would change?

Well, if you're in an environment where it's humid right now, it'll take a few daily steps. Shampoos with a pH lower than 5.5 & moisturizers are going to become your best buddies!
For your hair to be healthy it needs the right balance between natural oil, moisture and protein.
Once you have purchased the proper products, begin by using the very mild shampoo. Squeeze some of the water out & follow with a vinegar rinse. What that essentially does is it removes residues buildup from shampoo & conditioners. And helps bring the natural scalp pH balance back to normal.
Apply a moisturizer, rinse.
Do not use any styling products that contain alcohol as they will dry your hair out more - mousses, gels and hairspray.
You could also use an additional stay-in conditioner to give it an added coating to keep the cuticle layer down.
Since hair are filaments composed primarily of proteins, roughly 88%, it makes sense to add a protein pack treatment once a month.
Protein pack treatment- follow directions. Usually need to use plastic shower cap & heat source for 15mins to a half hour.

Okay, so here's the lineup to make your hair more manageable:
*Shampoo (under 5.5 pH)
Vinegar rinse (once a month)
*Moisturizer (to trap moisture under the cuticle layer)
*Stay-in conditioner (to lay cuticle down)
Protein pack (once a month) It's probably a good idea to do the protein pack within days of doing the vinegar rinse..



Or during humid seasons, why not finda good hairdresser & keep your hair cut to the length you can live with when it poofs?

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And there ya have it!! Not only will you have slick hair, you'll learn how to keep your car in tiptop shape!!

Yes, limitme, it's just minerals in the water that make your hair dry, brittle, poofy and fuzzy. Of course - if you have a whole lot of minerals you will need to shampoo with the Neutrogena anti-residue shampoo (it says on the bottle not to use it more than 5 times, because it strips your hair) a couple times. And if you want it really soft and shiny then both shampoo and rinse with distilled water, and use Pantene. I use Pantene every time, it's the only shampoo and conditioner made by a pharmaceutical company especially lab tested for hair ~ Roche ~ Swiss, now it's been sold to someone else, but they still have the ingredient list.

Curls will be softer.

Some girls don't like what I tell them, as they have short hair and want it to have "body", they say, "now it's flat, doesn't have the fullness, and I have to backcomb it."

Cookies recommends a vinegar rinse....vinegar cuts minerals....that's why that works. But it only works a little because she follows it with tap water full of minerals. So, she must use a stay in conditioner to grease it up, cover the dry poof.

Hair 101, the quickie version... according to Cookie

If you have thick hair (not the amount of hair on your head, the actual thickness of an individual hair) there would be 3 layers to the hair; The cuticle is the outer layer which forms overlapping scales. The cortex, the middle layer. The medulla is the inner layer, which is generally only found in thick hair.




The cortex (middle layer) is where the components are found which determines a person's hair texture. It also provides the strength factor via nourishment from the blood. Even though hair is essentially dead cells held together by proteins, nutrition is the usual route in order to rectify a 'problem' with hair, skin or nails. Limitme's hair texture can't be changed since it is a product of his genetics, but we can limit the amount of frizzies through gentle shampoos & moisturizers to limit dryness and other products to get the cuticle layer to lay down.

Basically, people pron to frizzy hair have a constant cuticle layer 'lift' which means the hair remains open, thus moisture is released. It has a difficult time keeping moisture in.


cuticle layer, magnified ^


When it's humid outside, moisture quickly penetrates into the cortex and gets absorbed in different ratios between ortho & para (proteins). The difference in moisture absorption creates an uneven swelling, causing the hair to wave and become unruley.

I'm doubtful that distilled water can change frizzy genetics in the cortex layer.

Trust me, limitme, 25 years from now you'll be yearning for the day when you had "poofy, frizzy hair"!