CosmoBiz Magazine November 2017 | Page 69

home hair dryer. If you don’t have a hair- dryer, place a towel on top of the plastic cap. We fully recommend with any deep conditioning to sit under a hair dryer or apply heat through a towel to let the deep conditioner penetrate. 3. After 30 minutes under a dryer or 45 with the towel, rinse and apply a leave-in conditioner. Deep Conditioning With Heat Ex- plained Adding warmth to the hair on which the conditioner is applied can amplify the conditioning effect. When the molecules of the conditioner get heated, they move away from each other and become active and make the absorption of nutrients more and faster. So it is important to constantly deliver warmth to your hair during deep conditioning. There are a variety of means of delivering warmth to the hair in a variety of ways. Hood caps and hood dry- ers have been used, but in the case of hood dryers, there is inconvenience for use throughout the duration of the deep conditioning by limiting movement due to electric wires. Using a heat cap is the most efficient as in being able to multitask. The heat cap is put into a microwave oven for 1-2 minutes, and the warmth is maintained for about 30 minutes. Therefore, it takes about 5-6 times to per- form microwave or heating in order to perform a 2-hour deep conditioning. The heating cap can be worn on the plastic cap in the process of applying the conditioner to the head and then using the plastic cap. The type of heating cap can be divided into gel and cloth. The price of a gel cap is cheap and it is possible to do laundry, but the comfort of a heating cap, which needs to be worn for a long time is lowered. The cloth cap gives soft feel- ing and warm feeling, but it is difficult to wash. Deep Conditioning Recommendation Recently Luxe Coco has released a comfortable heating product that is soft enough to be used as a baby under- wear. Its use for natural hair seems to attract enough customers. Lux Coco Hitch Cap has good elasticity of rubber band, which fixes on head when cap is worn, but it doesn’t feel uncomfortable because it does not press the hairline even when worn for a long time because of its wide rubber band area. As a precaution to inform the customer when using the product, the product is made of cloth. It is possible to use the product safely and for a long time by giving heat (not to be long) for about a minute and 30 seconds from the microwave oven. image by blackhairinformation.com 69