Coconut oil to prevent damage from peroxide/bleach

the CO is protein, so you may be over proteining your hair? usually washing it out with conditioner & a deep condition gets it all out for me & leaves me soft. i also use the green h&b one. its my fav one ive used so far! i know everyones hair is diffferent though.

amy how is the condition of your hair? im bamboozled as to why yours till felt wet. unless you didnt wsh it out enough oerhaps?

It's in okay condition, I had it cut a week or so ago so it's feeling pretty good. It's crazy, I've used shampoo and conditioner lots! It's still all oily now, my roots are fine but my ends feel damp 🙁

maybe you've over conditioned it? i remember theodora saying you can do that.

Maybe, should I use a shampoo for a while? I've been conditioner only washing recently. I need to.strip out this colour anyway to get a base for my blue, see if that helps it.

Thanks for remembering who posted about the coconut oil and protein, Pippa 😀  I was able to find the thread I was thinking of earlier.  The oil basically seals the protein into the hair, so it can make it brittle and it's vital to moisturise before coconut oil.

http://www.hairdyeforum.com/index.php?topic=4280.0

Thanks Pippa and Intemp for reminding me of that. I did use a protein treatment, and then washed it out, then slathered my hair in a colesterol mask, then washed that out and then used the coconut oil. I thought I'd be able to get away with it since there was another non-protein treatment inbetween, silly me thought it would help my hair. But obviously my hair didn't like it and next time I won't do it after a protein treatment at all! ;D

For people with really dry curls or just curly hair:
leave a lot of oil for about 1-2 hours in your hair and after that wash it only once with conditioner, no shampoo, no other products.
Do not care if your hair feels a little strange or not really clean, it won't look like that!
I got the most beautyfull, well-defined, shine curls I've ever had in my whole life by treating my hair that way!

I left coconut oil on my hair all night and most of soaked into my hair. Then I threw some more on until it was dripping and put 20 vol bleach in my hair. There was minimal damage and my hair still feels healthy! Thanks for the tip! Wish I had known about this when I bleached my hair before.

got a qusetion guys ...iv been looking at coconut oil but it keeps coming up with raw coconut...looks like a white mass...it says its refined 100% coconut oil...i thought this stuff would be an actual oil...am i mistaken...n can any1 recommend 1

got a qusetion guys ...iv been looking at coconut oil but it keeps coming up with raw coconut...looks like a white mass...it says its refined 100% coconut oil...i thought this stuff would be an actual oil...am i mistaken...n can any1 recommend 1

when it gets warm to turns into a liquid, so when you use it scoop it out with your hands and hold if for a few mins and it should melt

but wouldnt it turn back to a hard mass on your hair????? from what iv read most ppl sound like there using an actual oil????

I've read that people put the bottle/tub under hot water for a bit, for it to melt. Then to prevent it solidifying in your hair, you can blast it with hot air from the blowdrier to keep it warm, or wrap it well with cling film and a towel, and hope it stays warm under it if you don't want to use heat. I wish I could find coconut oil here, or buy it online at a reasonable price D:

Just being near to your body is enough to keep it in liquid state. It has a very low melting temp and body temp is surprisingly high.

the one i got was a white solid, but it melted in my hands and i put a shower cap on which kept the heat in so its stayed melted 🙂

thought i would try this out. can't say i notice much damage from bleaching on the newer hair but the ends definitely get dryer as they grow (& retain more toner, making them a different colour to the hair further up the shaft). got my coconut oil from the supermarket in the indian foods section, about $7AU for 300 gram jar. melted some in a small container in microwave & applied to roots first using a tint brush (also wanted to time my application for reference when bleaching) oil spread really easily & i combed thru to ends. covered in plastic wrap, changed my mind as i thought it was too greasy so wrapped & pinned a small towel around my head & slept that way. in the morning hair was still moist, not super greasy like the night before. oil stayed liquid, i was afraid it would harden on the ends away from the heat on my scalp, but did not at all! found it helpful when sectioning hair also as the hair tended to stay where i put it rather than flop back down. cant say i noticed quicker processing time as some people say they get. i certainly overlapped onto previously bleached hair & have not found any stretchy or snappy sections from double processing. not sure if this was due to the oil or my hair being in ok condition beforehand? it did not hinder the bleaching process in any way. still noticed the same amount of short flyaway hairs after blowdrying but perhaps this will improve with time & repeated use of oil before processing?