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Thio relaxers use ATG, or ammonium thioglycolate, which is also used in permanent waving, but at a much higher pH and concentration than used in permanent waves. It is usually higher than a pH of 10. These relaxers are also thicker with a higher viscosity, or thickness, which makes for an easier relaxer application.
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]
However, men's beauty products were relatively non-existent on the market until the end of the 1990s. [5] Only a few brands were interested in producing men's cosmetics because it was regarded as a niche market. [6] Male cosmetics are not as widely accepted as female cosmetics; only 17% of men think that makeup products are important in daily life.
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Many women on social media have returned to using hair relaxers for ease while styling. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty Images/Image Source)
[1] [2] The company produced Ultra Wave, a hair relaxer aimed at men that George developed while at Fuller Products, an African American cosmetics company. [1] [3] The product was sold in Chicago, Harlem and other African American neighborhoods of New York City to barbers. [3] Joan repositioned the product in 1957 as Ultra Sheen and marketed it ...
2023 is the year of men putting their best face forward. Women’s skincare products dominated the market for decades, providing a wide range of face moisturizers tailored to female skin types and ...
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.