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Here are tips on how to care for your hair based on its unique porosity.

Then, read on to find out how to take care of your hair! How to care for low vs.

Take a couple minutes now and determine your hair porosity. If you notice the water sitting on your hair for a couple minutes before absorbing in, you have medium porosity hair. If it absorbs quickly, your hair is high porosity. Watch closely: if the water beads up on your hair, it is low porosity.

The Spray Bottle Test: Take a small section of your hair and mist it with a spray bottle.

If the shaft is smooth, your cuticle is bound tight and you have low porosity hair. If you feel small bumps along the way, you have high porosity.

The Slip ‘n Slide Test: Take a strand of hair and slide your fingers up it, toward your scalp.

(It may float somewhere in the middle of the bowl if you have medium porosity.) If your hair floats after the time is up, you have low porosity.

The Float Test: Take some strands of hair from your brush or comb (note: use clean hair! Hair products can alter your results), and drop them in a bowl of water.Porosity is very simple to determine: there are three tests you can do right now! Porosity is determined by genetics, but can be altered by external factors like heat and chemical processing.ģ porosity tests you can do at home to determine hair porosity Low porosity hair has a tightly bound cuticle layer, making it difficult for moisture to penetrate (but also difficult for moisture to escape, once it’s in your hair.) On the other hand, high porosity hair has gaps and holes in the cuticle, allowing moisture to easily pass in and out. Porosity is determined by the structure of your cuticle- the outer layer of your hair. Porosity is a measurement of your hair’s ability to absorb and hold moisture. It indicates how easily moisture can penetrate your hair. This is often due to another important but less visible characteristic of hair, called porosity. The truth is, people with the same exact curl pattern may have hair that behaves extremely differently.