217291 1144 Personal Care & Style Hair Hair Care true Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:24:41 -0800 DIY, Instructional, tutorial, Do It Yourself, Tips, Essential Skills, Learn to, personal, care, style, hair, relax, relaxing, women, woman, women's How To Relax Your Hair http://www.howcast.com/videos/217291-How-To-Relax-Your-Hair http://www.howcast.com/videos/217291-How-To-Relax-Your-Hair/edit live 1 Howcast http://img.howcast.com/images/icons/howto-xxlarge.png 5789 83025 15102 0 Warning Don’t relax your hair if it’s been bleached, unless the bleach has grown out or been cut off.

]]> 83026 15103 0 Step Choose an agent Choose your relaxing agent. For people with serious kink in their hair, sodium hydroxide is the way to go. It’s stronger that ammonium thioglycolate, which should be used for hair that is fine and not super kinky.

]]> 83027 15104 0 Warning Do not mix the two types of relaxing agents—sodium hydroxide-based and ammonium thioglycolate-based.

]]> 83028 15105 0 Step Shampoo Shampoo the hair with a high-alkaline shampoo. This will strip the hair of all natural oils and enable it to absorb the chemicals in your relaxing agent more easily.

]]> 83029 15106 0 Step Section your hair Section your hair off into four parts with hair clips: the two sides, the crown to the back, and the front.

]]> 83030 15107 0 Step Apply relaxer Apply the relaxer with a color brush or comb while the hair is still wet. If you’re using sodium hydroxide, start a half-inch from the scalp. If you’re using ammoninum thioglycolate, start a quarter-inch inch from the scalp.

]]> 83031 15108 0 Tip Apply the relaxer from the roots to the tips, working in one-eighth-inch sections for each stroke.

]]> 83032 15109 0 Step Do the roots Once you finish the entire head, go back and apply the relaxer to the roots.

]]> 83033 15110 0 Warning Make sure you do not apply relaxer where the roots meet the scalp—leaving relaxer on the scalp for too long can burn and cause temporary hair loss.

]]> 83034 15111 0 Step Let it sit Leave the relaxer on for 15 minutes, occasionally checking the progress by running a wide-tooth comb through the hair and seeing how much of the curl comes back.

]]> 83035 15112 0 Step Rinse as needed If you are using sodium hydroxide, rinse it out with cool water for five minutes. If you are using ammonium thioglycolate, do not rinse the chemical out.

]]> 83036 15113 0 Step Repeat Shampoo twice only if you are using sodium hydroxide. It is important to make sure all chemical relaxer has been rinsed out.

]]> 83037 15114 0 Step Condition Condition the hair, and do not rinse the conditioner out. This will soften your hair and nurture it from the serious alteration it just endured.

]]> 83038 15115 0 Step Enjoy Enjoy your new de-stressed do.

]]> 83039 15116 0 Fact The main bonds found in our hair are hydrogen and polypeptides; hair relaxers break down the polypeptide bonds.

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