Hair Loss Due to Relaxing Hair Treatment

Any kind of chemical treatment can be damaging to hair, it can cause severe hair loss. Before you think of getting your hair straightened, it is good to know how exactly do relaxers work and what makes them your hair’s biggest enemy. Any kind of chemical treatment works with the bonds of your hair, be it colouring, perming, re-bonding, relaxing etc. All chemical treatments change the structure of your hair bonds. This makes the hair very fragile and delicate. It also causes severe breakage, since hair is no longer in its original state. Moreover, these chemicals also cause the hair fibre to swell, which is again not a good thing for your hair.

Your hair becomes very weak and will break off easily. Some women have experienced hair fall in chunks after a chemical treatment. Hope, we haven’t scared you, though chemical treatments are very strong, they do not affect some hair types. However, it is difficult to tell, which type of hair is less affected by chemical treatment. We share some more information about hair relaxers, read on.

There are various types of hair relaxers and one of them is Lye Relaxer, it contains sodium hydroxide. This chemical straightens the curls by loosening it. The curls become looser due to a chemical reaction, which makes the hair fibre swell. So, those poker straight hair are not a gift, they are actually a torture to your tresses.

This method of straightening breaks the original bonds of the hair shaft to loosen the curls. The broken bonds are re-bonded with other treatments. However, you hair will continue to break and form new bonds for the next few days. Extreme care needs to be taken, to ensure that there is no hair damage. Inspite of the gruesome torture to your hair, relaxing treatments are known to be the mildest of all chemical treatments. So, you can imagine how harsh a perm can be.