Your hair's optimal health depends on moisture. With very little assistance and some slight changes in your grooming routine, your hair can absorb enough water to tame your frizz. The more porous each strand is, the more it can absorb. Your hair's ideal moisture content should be about 8 percent. Frizzy hair tends to fall below this level. Changing your conditioner and adjusting your habits can go a long way toward maintaining this level and smoothing your tresses.
Ingredients
The best conditioner for your frizzy hair is not any one product but several products, according to the website Beauty Tips Online. Each conditioner has its own patented chemistry and if you continue to use the same one, some of the ingredients will build up on your hair over time. Buildup prevents moisture absorption.
Pioneer Health suggests rotating various conditioners that contain wheat, corn or rice proteins to improve your hair's porosity. One containing sunscreen will help maintain porosity if you live in an arid, hot climate because sun and heat will leach your hair of moisture if you don't take steps to prevent it. Ingredients that you don't want to see on the label of any hair product you buy include sodium lauryl sulfate and alcohol.
Preparation
Before you use a conditioner, prep your hair to receive it. Select a shampoo with natural humectants. These act like little magnets to draw in the moisture provided by your own natural oils and the conditioner you will eventually apply to your hair.
Natural Options
Unbalanced pH levels can also cause your hair to frizz. Women's Health says you can find the solution to this at your grocery store. A mixture of equal parts apple vinegar and water makes a suitable rinse that will improve pH balance. Vegetable glycerin and water works well to maintain hair health and shine. You can also try shea butter instead of commercial styling products to smooth your hair without greasy aftereffects.
Aftercare
After you've applied your conditioner, rinse with cold water. Don't rinse completely. Leave a little behind so your hair can keep absorbing the moisture until your next shampoo. Women's Health advises against towel-drying afterward because this can remove the conditioner that you've left in. Wrap your hair in a towel for 10 minutes to help absorption, then let it air-dry if you've got the time.
Blow-drying it or using any hot styling tool will also remove the conditioner that you've left behind as well as all the moisture you are trying to retain. If grooming is a whirlwind activity for you because you are always pressed for time and you can't allow your hair to air-dry and absorb the conditioner, then Beauty Tips Online suggests a spray-on, leave-in conditioner used periodically over the course of the day to tame frizz.
Other Tips
Women's Health warns against washing your hair every day if it tends to be frizzy. Too much washing can dry out even healthy hair and you are more susceptible to developing frizzy hair. At most, shampoo three times a week.
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