The REAL Reason Coconut Oil Stopped Working on Black Women's Hair (It's Not the Oil)

If coconut oil left your hair hard, dry, and breaking, the oil probably wasn't the problem. Janet threw out a whole jar one February before a neighbor from Ghana showed her what Black women were getting wrong about coconut oil for hair, and it comes down to when it goes on. -- Here's How To Go From Hair Coming Out Everywhere To Long Hair Again, With 3 Things From Your Kitchen: https://www.janetmercer.cc/kitchen -- Coconut oil works as a pre-wash oil, warmed and smoothed down damp hair before the shampoo, never as an every-morning grease on dry hair. You'll hear the other reasons coconut oil stops working on our hair: cold weather turning it solid, buildup on low porosity hair, coconut stacked in every product on the shelf, gray hair that has changed, and a flaky scalp that oil can feed. She also turns over the hair grease with a coconut on the label and petrolatum listed first, and explains what a study found about coconut oil against mineral oil. Then the full coconut oil hair routine for Black women over 55, step by step, from the seven-dollar jar to the towel, plus the week of habits that keeps breakage down and length on: gentle washing, satin at night, low heat, and loose styles. It closes with the patch test and the scalp signs that call for a dermatologist instead. Sources: Rele and Mohile, Journal of Cosmetic Science, volume 54, 2003. Coconut oil penetrated the hair shaft and reduced protein loss used before and after washing; mineral oil and sunflower oil did not. American Academy of Dermatology. Scalp hair grows about six inches a year.