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Heat Damaged Hair: How to Prevent Heat Damage Today

Heat damage is caused by using excessive heat/heated styling tools on your hair and can make your hair feel and look dry, thin, rough, brittle and dull. You may notice you have increased hair breakage, while your ends may be split and broken with white bits showing at the ends. Heat damaged hair can even become discoloured (especially if you have dyed or bleached hair) and notice more tangles and knots (even on a hair strand). 

Heat Damaged Hair: How to Prevent Heat Damage Today

Heat damage is caused by using excessive heat/heated styling tools on your hair and can make your hair feel and look dry, thin, rough, brittle and dull. You may notice you have increased hair breakage, while your ends may be split and broken with white bits showing at the ends. Heat damaged hair...
by Jeanette Nkwate

12 Ways to Make Transitioning to Natural Hair Easier

Transitioning to natural hair is the process that involves no longer using a hair relaxer, letting your natural hair texture grow and cutting off the chemically processed or damaged ends. Want to transition to natural hair but not sure where to start? Or has lockdown caused you to ‘forcibly’ transition?...
by Jeanette Nkwate

Hair Relaxers: Everything You Need to Know

A hair relaxer is a cream-like treatment that is typically used to chemically 'relax'/straighten curls and afro hair (hence the term hair relaxer). For over a century, relaxers have played an integral part of black women’s hair experience.  Many people still love the look of hair that stays straight and...
by Jeanette Nkwate

Afro Hair Care for Doctors, Nurses & Other Essential Workers

When it comes to afro hair care, we often talk about how important it is to create a regime. But how do you approach this when we’re in the middle of a pandemic and you’re working on the front line?
by Jeanette Nkwate

6 Tips for How to Take Care of Locs

Locs, also known as dreadlocks, are a beautiful and versatile way to carry your natural hair. However, there is a common misconception that locs require no maintenance when in reality, locs like all hair require care. So, whether you’re new to locs or just want to know more about how...
by Cleide Cardoso

Top 5 Lockdown Hair Care Tips

'Lockdown' doesn't need to spell disaster for your hair. Here are our top tips on how to maintain your hair over the next few weeks.
by Cleide Cardoso

How to dry Afro hair without heat (4 top tips)

Looking for ways to dry your hair without the damage? Here are four tips on how to ensure it doesn’t take forever to air dry your Afro hair (especially for those with long hair or a dense amount of hair on their head). Read on before you go looking for...

Homemade hair treatments that do work

We previously shared a post that outlined common homemade hair treatments that don't work. In this post, we share homemade treatments that are realistic and promising, without under or over-promising results. Learn what ingredients are always good to have should you run out of your favourite Afrocenchix products!
by Cleide Cardoso

Winter Afro hair care

On Saturday, October 26th we had the pleasure of exhibiting at CurlyTreats natural Afro hair show. Our cofounders gave a talk that aimed to dispel winter hair care myths. In this article, we summarise the talk so that you can go on and live your best healthy hair life!

Is afro hair really hard to manage?

Is afro hair hard to manage?There is a misconception that it takes hours and hours to get natural hair to "do what you want it to do." The notion that learning how to look after Afro hair and properly maintain it requires a significantly greater amount of time is not...

Product buildup: a tricky afro hair care problem

Have you ever wondered what those white, flaky bits that fall from your scalp on the top of your shoulders are? The dandruff-like flakes could be a sign scalp buildup. Scalp buildup is an easy-to-solve scalp condition caused by a few, often overlapping, reasons.
by Rachael Corson

Do I really need to use a scalp oil for my afro hair?

What can a scalp oil afro hair product do for your hair? Do you need to use one? What are the benefits? Check out our blog for all the answers!
by Afrocenchix Team

Why Trimming your Afro Hair Will Not Lead to Faster, Longer Growth

One myth I believed growing up was that "If you trim your curls, they will grow longer and faster”. If you were told this hair myth growing up and still hold onto it, get ready to get disappointed! Sure, trimming your hair a few inches will definitely make your it look and feel...