Natural Hair and Skin Assessment - Have you taken the time to understand what your hair and skin needs?

It can be a merry go round finding the right products to suit you skin and hair needs.  The important thing to remember is you can make a better decision when you're informed about what your hair and skin likes and needs.  In order to make an informed decision about anything in life requires you to have knowledge and educate yourself as much as possible.  I compare it to teaching my students in class each day.  When they enter my class I assess them to understand what they're lacking so I can attempt to close the achievement gap.  In order to do this I have to know the problem and have the understanding of what is needed to fix it, but step number one is identifying the problem.  It's impossible to fix a problem that hasn't been identified.  Step number two is using my current knowledge to correct the situation or further educate myself because I don't have enough knowledge to fix this problem.

Now lets apply this to hair and skin.  For example, you know your hair is dry so the obvious solution is to fix it, sounds easy enough.  The real issue is do you have enough education or knowledge to solve the problem. Sometimes we think we know but as it turns out many of us don't.  For example,  many people have asked me if they can use oil to moisturize their hair because they don't like for their hair to be wet.  I used to think this was a silly question because we all know water equates to moisture (so I thought).  After being asked this question on more than one occasion I realized some haven't educated themselves enough about the ingredients used on hair or what their hair needs.  When I reply that oil is an emollient, they ask what is an emollient and this is where the learning begins.

We take assessments of things everyday whether it relates to life, job or personal events.  The biggest step is finding a solution to the things we want to fix as a result of the assessment.  Stay tuned in for the Let's Talk Ingredients series to learn more ingredients used to treat various hair and skin issues.

**this information is intended to inform, not treat or diagnose any condition**


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