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Breakage from Hair Straightening

By Expert Author: Endy W | Article Abstract
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Hair breakage is a common problem with products using ammonium thioglycolate, such as the hair perm, hair relaxer, styling gel and tool products.

Relaxers are not supposed to be applied directly to the scalp. Many safety warnings even say this, but it is often ignored by consumers as nonsense. Most of the time, people will use a creme relaxer and breakage isn't a very big problem for the majority of people (it's a risk a lot of people take, and often they get away with it!). However, ammonium thioglycolate is not a creme relaxer; it is completely different from lye and no-lye relaxers. The risk of breakage is greater.

Ammonium Thioglycolate can make your hair stiff once you neutralize it. Because of this, it should not be applied directly to the scalp, and especially not directly to the part line. You or the stylist may be inclined to do this, but don't do it, this never goes well. If it does get on the scalp, it will straighten all the way to the scalp. This sounds like a good idea at first. However, because it makes your hair so stiff it will have a tendency to break instead of bend.

This is very very bad. In general however, your hair doesn't bend too much unless you have it in a pony tail (thoroughly educated cosmetologists should understand this and tell you that you should not put your hair in a pony tail for a few days after a chemical relaxation process because it can cause your hair to crimp where you have the hair tie and it also puts too much tension on the still fragile hair and can cause breakage).

The one exception the fact that hair not in traction does not bend very much in most places is on the part line! Wherever your part line is, the hair is under a lot of stress at the scalp because it has to be bent at such a sharp angle to go in the direction you want it to go.
Endy W

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