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2. Relaxer - Wikipedia

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   The scalp can suffer severe chemical burns if over exposed to lye or no-lye relaxers. A lye relaxer consists of sodium hydroxide (also known as NaOH or lye) mixed with water, petroleum jelly, mineral oil, and emulsifiers to create a creamy consistency. On application, the caustic "lye cream" permeates the protein structure of the hair and ...

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

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   Hair relaxers have seen a considerable resurgence in popularity among the Black hair community. ... including lye and no-lye versions, and their origins can be traced back to the early 1900s ...

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. Black Women Say Products for Black Hair Are Dangerously Toxic

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   No Lye relaxers: a chemical lotion or cream that breaks down the hair’s natural bonds by using calcium hydroxide, an odorless white powder used to treat sewage and in mortar, which is used for ...

6. Are chemical hair relaxers safe? - AOL

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   And hair relaxers were a means to be able to do that." Techniques for hair straightening include towel drying, blow drying, using a flat iron, and applying straightening chemicals known as relaxers.

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.

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

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   Postmenopausal Black women who reported using hair relaxers more than twice a year or for more than five years had a greater than 50% increased risk of uterine cancer.

9. No Lye: An American Beauty Story - Wikipedia

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   No Lye has been called "probably the best film on the history of black hair care" and was declared a "must see" by the San Francisco Bay View. [9] The Journal of American History said the film "could be used by those who teach popular culture, black business practices, cultural appropriation and expropriation, and the history of the black image ...