How To Tame Your Curly Hair?

By Author: Vijay Koragappa Shetty
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Use hair straightening cream to relax your curly hair. If you are not aware of the procedure read through it carefully and utilize the same. Take adequate care to protect your hair post relaxation in order to avert any hair fall problems. You need not worry about frizzy ones; you can make use of these relaxers and still avoid any hair problems.

Frizzy follicles have a good solution now! Follow the right procedure to avoid any problems in future. It is easier to relax your hair but needs quick strokes of comb while you apply the cream. How do you do this? Chemical straightening creams should be chosen carefully. See if it has an original mark on them, avoid any relaxing product that is available in the market as they may be fake. Rest would be to have a technical knowledge of the process of straightening.

If this is the first time you are using this relaxing cream, it is advisable to do a strand test. This is done in order to determine the recommended strength of the relaxer that should be used. Strong, Medium and light are the different strength of relaxers used. It is also done to see if your follicle is strong ...
... enough to withstand the strong chemicals. Strong is used for highly frizzy follicles and very curly ones. Such follicles are usually strong and need strong relaxers. Which ever level of relaxer you use, the procedure will be the same.

A strand test can be done in a variety of ways which include:

1.  Pulling the hair to determine its degree of elasticity.
2.  Applying a small amount of relaxer to determine the hair reactions to the chemicals.
3.  A finger test.

Make use of chemical relaxer or straightening formula, neutralizer, shampoo specifically used for relaxed follicles, conditioners for the same purpose and petroleum cream. Sodium hydroxide based relaxers are used to soften very frizzy hair. It contains a high alkaline content and hence needs special care while applying this chemical. Petroleum cream is used on your scalp in order to protect them from the chemical cream. You then iron your hair with an ironing machine or can skip this step if you don't have one. Apply the cream as directed in the manual of the relaxer and brush your follicles carefully and continuously do not let it form lumps. Wash them, iron it and then apply neutralizer. To wash away the neutralizer this time you should use shampoo lightly and then use conditioner. As it dries up, you can see them relaxed and soft.

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