Need Healthy Hair? Helpful Tips To Relax Your Hair.

If your relaxed hair is breaking, it’s most likely because you’re not adopting good relaxer practices. You can stop breakage and have healthy relaxed hair with these tips.  Just because relaxer kits are inexpensive and readily available, you should still use caution when using them. Chemical abuse is real and the effects can be permanent to completely damaged hair, hair losing its glow or hair loss. Follow these tips for safe relaxer applications that straighten your hair without damaging it. Click here for best relaxers for your hair.

1. Relaxing your hair too often makes you end up with damage Hair.

Go longer than 12 weeks post-touchup and you may experience more shedding and breakage than usual. Around 8-10 weeks after your previous touchup, you’ll easily see your new growth, allowing you to only apply the relaxer to this area, and not to tresses that have already been processed.

2. Use the right relaxer for your hair type. 

Relaxers generally come in regular and super formulas. If you have fine, thin hair then Superformula is a no-no for your hair. You should only use the regular formula.  Likewise, if you have pretty thick and coarse hair, then you should only use super formulas. Using regular formulas for coarse hair will not relax it properly.

3. Ensure your hairdresser bases your hairline – all round and the ears. For women who have sensitive scalps, the entire scalp must be based.
4. Avoid exercising at least two days before applying relaxer since sweat tends to open up pores making your scalp a likely culprit of burning.
5. Never wash your hair before relaxing it. It should be at least a week old after the last shampoo before you relax it.
6. If you have any sores or irritation on your scalp, do not apply a relaxer; wait until the scalp is completely healed. If your scalp itches, don’t scratch it. Rub it gently, otherwise, you open up the skin exposing it to the harsh chemical.
7. Some hairdressers have the habit of applying chemical on your hair and stepping; sometimes they may end up forgetting that they left behind a client with the chemical on their hair. Look at the clock and alert your hairdresser when the time is up.