It significantly enhances water uptake into the hair, which in turn helps ward off dehydration, breakage, and splitting. Panthenol (aka Pro-Vitamin B5) is a humectant and hydration boosting ingredient. There are 3 ingredients that make Therapy Session like gold for me: panthenol, Keravis protein, and dimethicone (yes, dimethicone). However, there is a method to the madness - a reason I keep coming back. So without further delay, here are my deep conditioner recommendations for ladies with medium/high porosity hair:ĭon't tell me you didn't see this one coming! Therapy Session is like, deep conditioning bae. If gone unchecked over time, you may end up feeling like your hair "isn't growing", or have reached a length plateau - and your hair's medium/high porosity may be to blame. The lack of internal hydration found in medium/high porosity natural hair can lead to brittleness/decreased elasticity, increased split ends, breakage, and of course, not meeting your length retention goals. This same cuticle structure lends itself to medium/high porosity hair not as easily retaining moisture, and feeling dried out in the days following wash day. Water and water-based products don't just cascade off of or sit on top of the hair, they are "soaked in" because cuticles may be lifted in some areas (damaged), and less tightly compacted in others. Medium/high porosity natural hair is characterized by the ability to absorb penetrating ingredients quite easily. I'd like share some information for the ladies who's levels are similar to mine - on the high end of medium porosity (or heck, even high porosity). The truth is, there are tons of resources available online for ladies with low porosity hair (and thank you all for chiming in via comments to help educate me on lo-po hair issues), so I think we've pretty much got that covered.
Getting hair color back in October (wow that was a long time ago lol) only heightened my awareness and experience with porosity changes in natural hair.
Needless to say, I didn't start concerning myself with porosity until long after I had chopped my damage off, and was working with completely natural hair. When you've got heat damage, worrying about porosity is borderline pointless because well, the cuticles are damaged and any porosity reading you glean from the damaged hair will be inaccurate (and you're going to be cutting away at that hair anyway). To be completely honest, I never delved too much into porosity as a transitioner. Porosity is a hot issue when it comes to natural hair, as it is the way that many of us came to learn and understand the needs of our highly textured hair.
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