Hairstyling Ideas & Treatments : Steps to Relax Black Hair

Hi I’m Emilia and I’m here to talk to you about steps to black hair. Hair is not black or white, Indian and Asian. Hair is texture, so when you’re trying to figure out what kind of relaxer you’ll need; it’s not so much whether you use a white relaxer or a black relaxer. Really it’s about your hair texture. Is your hair fine? Is it course? Is it color treated? Is it thick? Is it thin? Is it previous relaxed? These are the things you need to take in to consideration when you go to the beauty supply or when you get your hair relaxed at a salon.

There are several different types of relaxers on the market. There are sodium hydroxide base relaxers; there are also ammonium thioglycolate-based relaxers. You do not want to mix the two, if you do, your hair will break off. The sodium hydroxide base relaxers are what are known as traditional black hair relaxers, traditional African American. They’re two steps. You’ve got one that you apply all over the head then you neutralize with the shampoo. The ammonium thioglycolate-based relaxer gets its origin from combing perm solution to the hair then they start adding thickeners to it and it’s basically the same as a perm.

You apply it to the hair and finish off with your traditional neutralizer. So these are the types of products that are on the market. It’s going to really depend on what you are looking for as far as the relaxer goes. I actually prefer the traditional relaxers. I feel that, not only they are quicker and easier to do especially when you’re trying to do it at home, but they also do a far superior job to straightening the hair. So when searching out a relaxer or figuring out how to do a relaxer, make sure you take into consideration your hair textures not your ethnicity or your race.