Eugene Davis Hair

Fabric of Hair Investigates: The Resurrection of the Hair Relaxers 🧐

Chemical hair relaxers are designed to straighten extremely curly, coiled or tightly coiled textured hair by breaking down the disulfide bonds found within the cortex layer of the hair.

Hydroxide and Thio are the most common types of hair relaxers.

Hydroxide relaxer types include sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, lithium hydroxide and guanidine hydroxide.

Thio relaxers differ from hydroxide relaxers in a few ways. The pH of thio relaxers is typically around 10 whereas the pH of hydroxide relaxers is approximately 13.

Also, oxidizing agents like hydrogen peroxide or sodium bromate is used to neutralize thio relaxers.

How Do Relaxers Work?

During a chemical relaxing procedure of a hydroxide relaxer a process called lanthionization occurs, which is the breaking of a disulfide bonds to alter the curl pattern of the hair.

Note: Lanthionization is the process by which hydroxide relaxers permanently straighten hair.

During this process the curl pattern is loosened or relaxed.

The cortex is thus elongated, stretching the original curl pattern, therefore making this a permanent alteration.

What is wrong with getting hair too straight?

If you relax the hair until it is super straight or 100%, you are essentially over relaxing and damaging the hair.

This removes any degree of elasticity, thus weakening the hair.

Over a period of time of continuous over relaxation, blow drying and hot mantience tools, the hair will become damaged and prone too breakage.

To avoid irreparable damage and maintain the integrity of the hair, it is recommend to straighten the hair 65% – 75% when using this straightening process.

Introducing texlaxing and how does it differ from a traditional chemical relaxer?

Texlaxing is a hair processing method in which clients choose to under-process their natural curl pattern with the use of chemical relaxer, resulting in a textured appearance and feel.

Texlaxing differs from the traditional chemical process by using a mild strength relaxer and monitoring the application time closely.

Despite the widespread use of relaxers, many consumers and stylist have not considered how they actually work on a scientific level.

Relaxers are a personal choice and are perfectly safe, when done properly and in the caring hands of the professional. When the consumer is educated on what’s happening to the hair during the process, and what it take to keep that hair in good health.

With correct information we can now dismiss the negative stigma around Hair Relaxers.
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