Collection: Low Porosity Hair
Products built light, because low porosity hair rejects everything heavy
If water beads on your hair before it soaks in, if products sit on top and leave a white film, and if your wash and go takes most of a day to dry, you have low porosity hair. The cuticle lies flat and tight, so getting moisture in is the hard part. Keeping it in is easy.
Almost everything marketed to type 4 hair is far too heavy for this. Thick butters, raw shea, and a lot of castor oil sit on the surface and never absorb, which is where the coated, greasy, still somehow dry feeling comes from.
Why these work when heavy products do not
Every Crown Reserve oil is built on grapeseed, jojoba, and avocado, three of the lightest oils there are. Jojoba is structurally close to the sebum your own scalp makes, so it spreads instead of coating. Avocado is one of the few oils small enough to move into the hair shaft rather than sit on it. Castor oil is used sparingly, because castor in quantity is exactly what makes an oil feel heavy.
The Flaxseed Gel is water based and brewed from organic flaxseed, so it defines curls without laying a film over hair that already struggles to absorb.
How to use them on low porosity hair
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Use warmth. Apply oil to hair that is warm and damp, then cover with a cap for twenty minutes. Heat lifts those flat scales enough to let anything in. This one change matters more than which product you buy.
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Water first, always. Oil does not moisturize. It slows down how fast water leaves. Oil on dry hair seals dryness in.
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Less than you think. Low porosity hair needs a fraction of what a product label suggests.
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Clarify every four to six weeks. Buildup is the low porosity tax, and it is what makes hair stop responding to everything.
Not sure this is you? Read how to tell if you have low porosity hair first. The float test everybody posts does not actually work, and we explain why.
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