@elyserox00: Coconut oil and hair lightener. Stylists are putting coconut oil on clients before lightening, and clients are putting it on their own hair thinking it adds moisture and keeps their hair strong. Here’s what the research actually shows. Coconut oil is mostly lauric acid, a small, straight fatty acid that can get past the cuticle and into the cortex. Olive oil gets in too, just not as fast or as deep. Coconut oil applied to dry hair before shampooing reduced protein loss during washing and combing. It doesn’t add protein, and it doesn’t add moisture. Hydration is water in, moisture is sealing it in, and coconut oil adds zero water. The only study that put coconut oil on hair before bleaching used peroxide and ammonia, not professional lightener, and it never measured what happened to the hair during processing. Virgin, unrefined or refined coconut oil all work. Liquid, fractionated or MCT coconut oil has most of the lauric acid removed. Coconut derived detergents in your shampoo clean your hair but don’t give you coconut oil benefits. If you would like to book an appointment, my salon Rockit Studio is located in Schaumburg, Illinois, 40 minutes outside of Chicago. I service Chicago and the northwest suburbs, the Chicagoland area. Elyserox, Elyserox00 Schaumburg hairstylist, Hair educator, hairstylist @elyserox00_ #coconutoil #haireducation #blondehaircare #hairchemistry #hairtok

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