Once Upon A Natural

Protein Treatment

The Aphogee Two-Step Protein Treatment.

Deep Moisture Shampoo-makes styling easier, restores body and vibrancy, controls frizz.

Protein treatment- stop hair breakage, rebuilds hair structure for six weeks, ideal for color-treated, relaxed or permed hair.

Balancing moisturizer-infused moisture, improves manageability,softness and shine.

HOMEMADE PROTEIN TREATMENT VS APHOGEE

Over the months of watching YouTube natural hair videos I have learnt that protein makes your hair feel dry or at least takes away some moisture. So with this knowledge I always did a protein treatment whenever I felt that my hair had too much moisture. It worked , it made my hair less moistured but I absolutely hated the scent of egg so when I heard about the aphogee two-step protein treatment I was over the moon with joy. This treatment does smell too but if I had to choose between this scent and the egg scent I would definitely choose aphogee.
Before I purchased the item I watched videos of natural hair gurus doing reviews on it and so far everyone seemed to like the result. However, when watching a particular video a youtuber mentioned how soft her hair felt after using it. I immediately thought that this was a lie because  hair gurus instilled the knowledge in me that protein makes the hair dry and I have proven that for myself whenever I did my homemade protein treatment.
I bought the product and I followed the instructions to the T and the end results where similar to the youtuber; my hair felt so soft and looked so healthy and it had a natural shine to it.

So this had me questioning things, if this makes my hair feel soft then why didn't the homemade protein treatment give me that feeling as well?

I still have not found a direct answer but I was making some assumptions from my basic information and experiences from using these two different treatments.

Too much protein=dryness and breakage
Aphogee=soft hair, healthy looking hair
Homemade protein treatment= dryness

So this either means that the homemade protein treatment has a higher concentrate of protein because it didn't go through all that heavy processing as manufactured product would or there is something in the aphogee treatment that just makes the hair feels soft. Either way I love this product and I will continue using it.

I will do a protein treatment every six weeks as that's how long it restores your hair structure for and if my hair ever starts  breaking then I will reduce the time to 2 months.

If you have been using this product ,please let me know if you got the same results as me or opposite.
Next week is my one hair anniversary!! Yeeaaa!!....so next chapter I will update you guys on my length and a hair challenge that hope you guys will join me on.