How To Care For Hair While In Box Braids. While your braids are drying youll want to tie them down flat to keep your hair from frizzing as it dries. Also did you let the sides and back grow out long enough just to braid it.
While you should only wash your hair about once every week or two with box braids you can clean your scalp more often. Contrary to that braided or twisted hair. Create a moisturizing spray.
While the extensions for your box braids will protect a lot of your hair from drying out 6-8 weeks which is the average amount of times that box braids are able to stay in without damaging your hair is a long time.
Dampen a washcloth and dip it into warm water and witch hazel astringent. Here are some tips on how to care for box braids. Do this by wiping your scalp down in parted hair sections using a damp cloth. However it has been 4 months of natural hair and Im in the in between stages of hair growth waiting for the top to grow for more length but keeping a tapered cut.