Hair Straightening

Hair straightening is a way to make wavy, frizzy and curly hair straight without damaging it. Hair straightening is very famous in salons today. Hair straightening includes either excessive heat or chemicals, both of which cause damage to the hair and hair follicles. The most common reason which people determine to have their hair straightened is to remove curls.

Sometimes this process will be used also to soften or eliminate wavy hair. Chemical hair straightening, also known as relaxing, embodies a process where the basic structure of overly curly or wavy hair is changed into a straight form. Hair straightening processes can leave you with burnt and thinning hair, hair follicle injury, hair breakage, and hair loss.

There are three basic forms of hair relaxers. These are sodium hydroxide and guanidine hydroxide that may or may not need pre-shampooing, and ammonium thioglycolate, which may require a pre-shampooing. Sodium hydroxide is the potent of the three relaxers and will show the most dramatic results. Chemical hair straightening is not a complicated procedure, but it does require a thorough technical knowledge of the relaxing process.

A protective base of petroleum cream is frequently applied to the scalp and other areas of the hair which have been previously straightened to prevent over processing, hair breakage or burning and irritation of the scalp and skin.

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