how do u test your hairs ph?
@soaring-eagle
14 years ago
29,637 posts
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updated by @soaring-eagle: 01/13/15 08:51:48PM
@lukey-luke
14 years ago
26 posts
well you could try to do it similar to the way we do it in the hort trade. get your dreads saturated (but not dripping), set aside enough water so that some will run out (shouldn't take too much, a cup or two maybe), and test the pH of it to make sure its pretty close to neutral. pour it through your dreads and collect as much runoff as you can, then test that. Those cheap little pH sticks should work well enough to get a general idea, unless you want to spend a bunch of money and go all high tech lol. I don't know if it works for dreads, but thats the "proper" way to test for soil pH anyways.
@panterra-caraway
14 years ago
667 posts
Hair will adopt the ph of the products used. When I was in beauty college we used litmus paper to test the individual products used on the hair and divide by that number. In other words, if a shampoo you used was a 7, and your conditioner was a 5 and your mousse was a 3...your ph is a 5, which is balanced. A trichometer measures tensile strength or "stretchability" of the hair and we kept one in the salon to add in the decision to chemically process a client or not. As far as reading an actual ph on the hair itself..I would guess that that would only be possible by a hair analysis in a lab. It is possible to map the use of drugs and trace minerals on the hair, so I assume you could probably map the ph as well.
@soaring-eagle
14 years ago
29,637 posts
i was r=thinking something simular but wasnt sure how it would work
i think i have a ph test kit here somewhere ill try that when i find it
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