The after-rinse step ensures that your ends are fresh and clean, but - surprisingly - moisturized, too. This step uses a hair conditioner instead of the misguided second shampooing that is often recommended on most bottles of shampoo. Your conditioner will step in to perform the role that's usually played by the shampoo. By swapping hair conditioner for shampoo, you're still using something that will grab and hold onto any remaining dirt or excess oils. Conditioner can attach itself to grime as well as shampoo does. The hair conditioner will take the grime down the drain with it as you rinse it off.
The big advantage here is that you've bypassed the harsh drying that comes from a second shampooing and replaced it with something healthy. I do this last cleansing of my hair before the final application of real hair conditioner. It ensures that my scalp is clean and my hair well rinsed. This is especially helpful if my hair happens to be very dirty. If it is, I add more rinsing hair conditioner and really poke and squeeze it all through my hair. The advantage is that if I have to do it several times for some reason, it's no big thing. Because I am using conditioner, I can repeat as many times as necessary.
Rinsing with hair conditioner is an optional step, but it's a healthy substitute if shampoo is trapped inside the matted areas and it's hard to get it out of there. Like a mole, the hair conditioner likes to burrow in tangled spots. This conditioning rinse lubricates your hair and helps loosen your mats so that it's easier to rinse your hair.
If your hair is difficult to handle all at once, you can pin up one half and do the other half first, then take it down and do the second half. This is what I do. Use a small palmful of hair conditioner and rub it into your scalp under your hair, as if it were shampoo. You need to use a generous amount - your curls are thick, and more is needed to coat them. Squeeze more hair conditioner into the ends of your hair. Once your hair is coated, knead it by squeezing up and down your hair. When you see the hair conditioner "sploot" between your fingers, you'll know you've used enough.
When your hair has been coated, rinse out the hair conditioner. Gently work your hair open in little patches, as you did with the shampoo. Never pull your hair apart all the way to the ends, like a wishbone. Open it in little spots to let the water flow in, then move on to other areas. The hair conditioner makes your hair slippery, so any shampoo that's trapped inside a thick tangled spot can be reached with ease. Now you are ready for the next step: conditioning.
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