Darn you Southern Texas, Southern Florida, and Parts of California!Brr. I'm cold. And my roommate insists on leaving our window open at night because she's psycho and from Pennsylvania. I don't remember the last time I was warm in my room.
But ranting about annoying roommate issues aside, it really is cold where I am right now and there are low dewpoints to match. I confess I had stopped checking dewpoints for several weeks because I was just having fun playing with products. I think it may be time to get back down to business though.
There are lots of fabulous articles out there on dewpoint and what it means for your hair. A couple of my favorites:
http://pittsburghcurly.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/its-not-the-humidity-its-the-humidity/
http://coloradocurly.wordpress.com/dew-point/
To sum up the highlights, low dewpoints mean that products with humectants high up on the ingredients list will actual faciliate moisture leaving your hair rather than staying in it. This can results in dryness, poof, and fuzzyness (such scientific terms I use!)
I've been dutifully avoiding any thought about humectants all winter, and I think that my hair is starting to pay the price for my ignorance is bliss attitude. Lately I've been, dry, poofy, frizzy, and fuzzy.
I'm thinking it may be time for me to look into severely limiting my glycerin usage. Unfortunately, just about all my favorites have it in them. There are some good standby's that are glycerin-free however. I can switch my suave coconut for VO5, put the LVPNG gloss on hold in favor of glycerin free AOHR, and I can use glycerin free styling products like boots, Lustrasilk, Giovanni DLI, and Herbal Essences Totally Twisted Gel (a CG remnant from my non-CG days...I often forget about this little purple tube shoved in the back of my hair shelf). Although I used suave and LVPNG today, I did use all glycerin free styling products. Hopefully this will help me get some gloss and definition back.
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