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How to Use Oil for Curly Hair: A Science-Backed Guide (Without the Myths)

Curly-haired woman applying golden oil to her curls.

If you have curly hair, someone has probably told you to keep oil away from it: that oil suffocates your strands, weighs curls down, turns lightened hair yellow, or simply does not belong on textured hair. I never bought it. On my own bleached, high-porosity curls, oil was one of the few things that genuinely […]