Relaxed hair basics
Back to the Basics: ‘Safely’ using chemical relaxers
The relaxer step is the first step on the journey to achieving ‘healthy’ relaxed hair. As discussed in my last post, Back to the Basics: Knowing your Relaxers, there are several different types of relaxers. You can choose to: leave some texture in your hair (‘texlaxing’), make it just straight or very straight. The degree of hair straightness produced by a relaxer would depend on: The strength of the relaxer. Many relaxer formulations come in Mild, Normal and Super strengths. The stronger the formulation, the straighter your hair would be.Read More
Back to the Basics: Knowing your relaxers
Relaxers are chemicals that are used to straighten hair in order to remove its natural curl pattern. Some would argue that relaxed hair is easier to manage and to detangle. Disadvantages of relaxed hair include: You have to keep on retouching the new growth at chosen intervals to maintain the straight texture. This might be cumbersome for some people. Causes more damage to the hair because relaxers work by altering the structure of the peptide chain bonds in the hair. (These bonds are called disulfide bonds). As a result of thisRead More
Back to the basics: moisturizing and sealing
Hi guys. One of the major causes of hair breakage is lack of moisture. There are several ways you can restore the moisture levels in your hair. They include: Deep Conditioning. You can read my post, BACK TO THE BASICS: DEEP CONDITIONING Baggying. To read my post about baggying, read HERE. Moisturizing and sealing. Today, I’m just going to talk briefly about moisturizing and sealing. Most people I know that are on aRead More
