![]() And as anyone with curly hair knows, moisture = life. And then I stumbled upon the very magical, very excellent “ squish to condish” (or S2C), a hair-conditioning method that helps push even more moisture into your curls to keep them hydrated and healthy even after you rinse. Just like kneading bread or mixing muffin or brownie batter to assure every bit of dough/batter is properly prepared.Įven if you need to rinse out your conditioner after conditioning due to sensitive skin, or hair that tends to become limp or develop an oily or coated appearance, this technique still provides much better conditioning that combing conditioner through your hair and hoping for the best.I’m gonna bet that your current conditioning routine involves haphazardly raking a blob of conditioner through your curls, letting it sit for a few minutes (jk, like 60 seconds max), rinsing it out, and calling it a day. I did work with real hair and real conditioner - it's a conditioner with a little protein and oil, so this is very close to what happens in your hair.īy "kneading" the water and conditioner into your hair, you create a more-hydrated, better-lubricated, more malleable result. Keep in mind - this is a dramatization to help you visualize and understand how this technique works. Squish to Condish hair close-up - blue-colored conditioner covers most of the hair surface. Blue coloring is spread more evenly over more of the hair, meaning more conditioner has contact with the hair, and the hair is better-hydrated from having "kneaded" the water and conditioner into the hair. Hair using Squish To Condish - water added to conditioner on the hair, squeezed together, but has not has the excess water removed - a little more water/conditioner removal would be the next step. That includes ingredients like Glycerin, Panthenol, Amino acids, Cetrimonium chloride (or bromide).Ĭlose-up of hair with conditioner smoothed over the surface. More of the hair-penetrating ingredients can find their way into the hair because of better coverage, and more thorough saturation.Better contact with all hair surfaces means conditioner can bond to more bonding-sites on the hair, and with it, water for more thorough saturation.The hair is more evenly saturated with water, and evenly coated with more-fluid conditioner. The physical manipulation used - scrunching, gliding, pressing hairs together, gentle squeezing, finger-combing, helps saturate hair evenly. Like kneading bread just enough - there will be no little bits of dry flour here and bits of wetter dough there after you've done this.Shampoos are even more effective wetting agents than conditioners. You'll find that if your hair tends to repel water and be slow to wet, applying conditioner to it first helps it become wet more quickly. But don't over-think it - instead try it yourself. This is a little counter-intuitive because conditioners also help hair repel water once a dsorbed to the hair. Adding water to conditioner once in the hair to take advantage of conditioner's action as a "wetting agent." Wetting agents like surfactants (and conditioners contain cationic surfactants) help a conditioner overcome hair's resistance to water a bsorption.Squish to Condish: This method enhances 4 important elements to conditioner-use. Lubrication reduces friction - and friction creates frizz. When hair is lubricated, hairs can settle in snugly next to neighboring hairs. If your hair is straight - hydrated hair is less likely to spread out at the ends (like the end of a broom) if it is well-hydrated. It will group more readily with neighboring hairs into waves or curls during styling. Dehydrated hair becomes inflexible, which is part of what we mean when we say hair feels dry or, "like straw." Flexible hair is more pliable. When hair is hydrated - meaning it contains a certain percentage of water - it is flexible. ![]() ![]() Because they seem most literal and accurate to me. I use un-glamorous words like hydration and lubrication for hair. You can find videos on YouTube demonstrating the technique. I often recommend this technique, so I've had to think quite a lot about why it works so well. This technique is meant to leave some conditioner in the hair and achieve excellent hydration and lubrication. Stites text here on her blog - which she has generously shared and it is helpful to so many people. Squish to Condish is a conditioner-rinsing method for which you can find Ms. It was named by Melissa Stites, hairstylist and owner of There Once Was A Curl salon in Southgate, Michigan. ![]()
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