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2. Return of the relaxer? Why some Black women are ... - AOL

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   This back-and-forth of relaxers and natural hair throughout the years mirrors trends in the socio-political state of society, adds Kadian Pow, a sociology and Black Studies lecturer at Birmingham ...

3. Are chemical hair relaxers safe? - AOL

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   Stylist applying relaxer cream with a comb to natural long hair. Danielle Ward Mason started using hair relaxer when she was eight years old. "When I was a child, I always wanted to engage in ...

4. Rio Hair Naturalizer System - Wikipedia

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   Despite the claims of the relaxer being safe and natural, the product contained copper, ammonium, and chloride salts and a pH of less than the listed level of 3. [3] Due to these factors, people using the product suffered from hair loss, scalp burns, and (in some cases) green hair color. [4]

5. Relaxer - Wikipedia

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   A relaxer is a type of lotion or cream generally used by people with tight curls or very curly hair which makes hair easier to straighten by chemically "relaxing" the natural curls. The active agent is usually a strong alkali, although some formulations are based on ammonium thioglycolate or formaldehyde.

6. Chemical hair relaxers carry an increased risk of uterine ...

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   So it’s not known whether these results are generally applicable to chemical hair relaxers on the market today (the women in the study were followed from 1997 — “when chemical hair relaxer ...

7. Conk - Wikipedia

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   Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.