Hair Care Tips
The Basics of Taking Care of Virgin Hair
Aug
What Is Virgin Hair?
Taking care of Virgin Hair is very simple. It’s the same as caring for your own hair. Just to be clear, let’s start by defining what virgin hair is in the first place. Virgin hair refers to human hair that has not gone through any chemical treatment whatsoever. So, no bleaching, no chemical straightening, no dyeing. So, if you ever hear someone say that they’re selling a 613-virgin hair bundle, just know that something fishy is going on there.
While chemical treatments are off the table for virgin hair, heat treatments are not. These treatments are used to create a uniform pattern across all the hair and are responsible for all those trendy styles we know and love such as silky straight, body wave, curly and kinky units (if they’re starting with hair that doesn’t originally have that pattern).
Within the virgin category, there’s 2 kinds: Remy and Non-Remy hair.
Remy hair is sourced from one donor- literally cut from one ponytail – so the hair’s cuticles are all facing one direction. This is important because when they are all facing the same direction, your hair is less likely to tangle. We, however, specialize in Remy Virgin hair.
Non-Remy hair isn’t single sourced and therefore not very likely to be aligned in the same direction as a result, this hair will give you much more trouble with tangling and it will do so quicker than Remy hair.
Here are the major steps we absolutely need to include
A good routine has 3 basic components: cleansing, moisturizing and detangling. So, let’s get into these.
Cleansing: Taking Care of Virgin Hair
With our own strands, cleansing takes care of both our scalps and the actual strands of hair. It’s the same principle with virgin hair.
If it’s a wig, you need to clean the lace and fabric bits as well as the strands. This is important because if we don’t do this properly, all the moisturizing and styling products will eventually form a thin layer on the virgin hair that keeps our strands from getting enough water in (therefore keeping our hair feeling dry). This will also cause the products you currently use to stop working effectively since they are not able to actually get in contact with your strands.
So, we recommend you have 2 shampoos on rotation:
1. Moisturizing Sulfate- Free shampoo – these are more gentle cleansers suitable for regular use on coily, curly and wavy types.
2. Clarifying Sulfate- Free shampoo – these are more heavy-duty cleansers meant to break down product build-up. If you’re not using thick or heavy products often, then there’s no need to use this regularly; just keep it on standby and use it when you notice your hair is more dry than usual and your O.G. products have stopped working like they used to.
Detangling: Taking Care of Virgin Hair
Unless you bought a braided or dreadlock wig, then you will also need to detangle the Virgin hair often to keep your hair from slowly turning into a big, matted mess.
This varies depending on texture, but you can either use combs and brushes or use your fingers to slowly work apart tangles. Either way you decide to go, remember to be patient, work in sections and do this step with some conditioner in your hair that adds slip to the hair.
And outside of wash days, if it’s a straight or body wave unit, brush through the hair after every time you wear it, so you prevent large tangles from forming to begin with.
Oh, and sleep on satin pillowcases or have a satin bonnet or scarf on – you’ll thank yourself the next morning.
Moisturizing: Taking Care of Virgin Hair
The last step you need to include when taking care of Virgin Hair is Moisturizing. Simply put, this is first applying water/moisture to your hair and then using a thicker agent e.g. an oil, leave-in-conditioner, a cream, etc., to help keep your hair from drying out too quickly. A great replacement for this type of treatment would be our Silicone Conditioner Mix here.
Again, this depends on hair type, but for a looser texture, lightweight products are better e.g. more watery leave-in conditioners since they don’t weigh down the hair and make it look greasy. Thicker textures that tend to also be drier, often do better with thicker products like creams. This same principle applies even when choosing which styling products work for your hair.
Whichever products you use, make it a routine to moisturize a couple of times a week to keep your strands healthy, full and with a gorgeous sheen.
Tip: Also buy a good-quality heat protectant to help prevent heat damage to the hair which can loosen/rid the curl pattern, leave your hair feeling chronically dry and lead to lots of breakage and tangling.
We tried to keep that as short and sweet as possible, but if you have any questions, let us know and we’ll work on answering them. You may also check out our FAQs here. And if you’re shopping around for virgin hair, we got you boo! Check out our wide selection of lengths and textures, here.
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