Low Porosity Hair and How To Care For It
Hair care tips from my own personal journey with multi textured low porosity hair.
Low Porosity Hair
Low porosity hair is a type of hair that doesn’t absorb moisture and nutrients as easily as high porosity hair. This can lead to dryness, frizziness, and breakage. Here’s how to find out how porous you hair is:
What is low porosity?
You’re probably here because you’ve noticed that your hair is dry and lacks volume or it gets dried out easily even after conditioning it. If this sounds like you, then you may have low porosity hair.
Low porosity hair isn’t as common as high or normal porosity but it does exist. Low porosity hair is a type of hair that has an inability to absorb moisture efficiently and easily. This can cause breakage, dryness, dullness and limpness in the strands when they aren’t properly hydrated.
Those with low porosity tend to have fine and thin hair (although some people with thick low-porosity curls do exist!). It’s also prone to damage, breakage and split ends — so it’s important for…
