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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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   The "relaxers are back" hashtag on TikTok has over 4 million views, and there is no shortage of content featuring Black women relaxing their hair either at home or in a salon. "The past year, I ...

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

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   Long-term use of chemical hair relaxers by postmenopausal Black women is associated with an increased risk of uterine cancer, ... we did ask about the usual use of lye vs. no-lye formulations ...

5. Rio Hair Naturalizer System - Wikipedia

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   January 24, 1995 an investigator with FDA's San Francisco district office went to Addressing and Mailing to inspect the firm and found more than 8,000 cases of the Rio hair relaxers, worth about $500,000 in retail value. FDA notified the State of Nevada Division of Health, which, in turn, embargoed the products, thus preventing their sale.

6. Hair straightening - Wikipedia

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   Relaxers/chemical straightening - Chemical relaxers break hair’s disulfide bonds. Lye relaxers contain sodium hydroxide, while non-lye relaxers contain calcium hydroxide and can be used on more sensitive scalps.

7. Sodium hydroxide - Wikipedia

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   Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, [1] [2] is an inorganic compound with the formula NaOH. It is a white solid ionic compound consisting of sodium cations Na + and hydroxide anions OH − .

8. Before-and-After Photos Show the Sudden Devastation ... - AOL

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   No one has been spared, including celebrities. “I mean, everybody lost their house,” TikTok star Caitlin Doran recently told PEOPLE after she had to flee. “So it's all of us. We're all going ...

9. 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.