Heat protection products possibly damaging African American hair?

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I recently stopped realxing my hair after learning how damaging it is. Since then I have been flatironing my hair every two weeks after deepconditioning. I use all natural products except for my heat protectant. However I recently read in this article: http://www.worldofhair.com/questions/black-dry-hair.htm that dimethicome, a main ingredient in most heat protection products can actually burn black hair. I thought cones were supposed to calm down frizz and protect my hair from heat not burn it. What else is there to use use if this is true? Would deep conditioning and a good leave-in just be enough to protect my hair form bi-weekly flatironing?

Thanks

Janis

I've had ZERO problems with dimethicone although it's got a bad rap lately. It's trendy to inagime that it causes global warming, kills baby seals, and lets the terrorists win at the moment.

My hair is sort of the nappy-side-of-white (100% Italian), and it helps tremendously as long as it's used sparingly and washed out thoroughly.

There's a quite good website about black and mixed hair at www.biracialhair.org that you might find interesting, though. She's very much a booster for natural curls, so she doesn't tell you how to flatiron, but she is also VERY much a lover of silicone products for African hair.

The biggest problem with them is basically that they weigh down classically "white" hair (the straight fine stuff), but for curlier darker hair, they are much better. I'd say that the flatironing is worse by far for your hair than the silicones, and the silicones help you comb it with a minimum of friction.

Left Brain

There is no evidence that dimethicone will damage hair when exposed to heat. It actually protects hair.

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