Friday, September 4, 2015

Benefits Of Natural Relaxers For Black Hair

By Nancy Gardner


Some women visit the salon often times but others go in scarcely. Salon services are very expensive and this is one of the reasons which make many of the potential clients shy away from these places in an attempt to cut on the budget of hair care. Those with long hair pay even up to double the normal rates. For those seeking other alternatives, natural relaxers for black hair may be the way to go.

Relaxers which are home-made are less costly than getting the job done in the salon. However, do not put your scalp and the health of your hair at risk for a few bucks. That is why before you undertake this you need to know the exact procedure and follow it to the later. Lime and coconut milk are the most popular non-chemical relaxers for black hair. The recipe of creating them is very interesting.

At some point in life, black women wish to have straight hairs. This may be just out of wanting to have the experience or a desire to eliminate the kinkiness of the hairs. It ends up being softer than it was before and forms waves. The outcome is breathtaking.

Commercially made hair relaxers contain chemicals and many a times they have left some women with sorrowful stories to tell. For some, it may be a bald scalp while for others it is burns on the scalp which may have left them bed-ridden. Using these relaxers is a risk and you will be worried of the number of things which may go wrong throughout the process. Natural relaxers can save you the worry.

The efficiency and safety of the natural kind of relaxers has been confirmed and that is why the techniques have been transferred from one generation to the other. The basic methods for relaxing the hairs naturally are two. The first one is the simplest but the next one produces a better outcome and does not generate much waste.

The first technique requires mixing of half a cup of milk from coconut with lime. The solution is given some time to foam. It is the foam which is applied on the mane. One of the challenges faced when this method is used is the possibility of certain foam consistency getting compromised. This makes it runny and it will not give good results.

A better method is involves addition of 1 or 2 spoons of cornstarch and olive oil to the lime-coconut milk mixture. These products are whipped together under minimal heat until the consistency gets to the level of the conditioners made commercially. This ensures that once it is applied on the hairs it will not run off like the mixture in the first method. Olive oil is for maintenance of good hydration levels of the hairs.

After the application, the mane has to be wrapped with a shower cap for some hours. The material of the cap should be plastic. When it is uncovered, it has to be shampooed and moisturized. The results are very good and the hairs is strengthened too.




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