This is a great article I found on hubpages about natural hair and the journey from having a relaxer. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Healthy Scalp, Healthy Locs
Nyesha Samuel, Publisher/Master Loctician for healthylocsblog.com
Why do we use relaxers anyways?
Natural black hair is not hard to manage. This myth prevents many black women from going natural. They think once they stop relaxing their hair, they will be left with kinky matted hair.
Black women have been conditioned to believe, that their natural hair is unattractive and impossible to manage. Relaxer companies feed this lie, to sell their products. Relaxers are very damaging to the hair and scalp. not only are they unhealthy for your hair, but they can have unhealthy effects on one’s self image.
Most black women relax their hair because they have been taught from a young age that black hair is ugly and needs to be fixed. The decision to chemically straighten one’s hair, is likely about being socially acceptable. It’s more than just a hairstyle choice, for most black women.
Click below to read the full article;
http://gabbyg.hubpages.com/hub/Natural-Black-Hair-My-Journey-and-Hair-Advice
Being that our skin is the largest organ on our bodies it make sense that putting something as harmful as a relaxer on your scalp would cause internal damage to your body as well. There have been many studies over the years speaking on the damage that relaxer do to your hair but this one is especially scary. Is looking “cute” really worth risking your life ?! If you’re already natural good for you, but if you read this and currently have a relaxer I would stop putting that in your scalp right away. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
Healthy Scalp, Healthy Locs
Nyesha Samue, Publisher/Master Loctician for healthylocsblog.com
A new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology has linked hair relaxers to uterine fibroids, as well as early puberty in young girls.
Scientists followed more than 23,000 pre-menopausal Black American women from 1997 to 2009 and found that the two- to three-times higher rate of fibroids among black women may be linked to chemical exposure through scalp lesions and burns resulting from relaxers.
Women who got their first menstrual period before the age of 10 were also more likely to have uterine fibroids, and early menstruation may result from hair products black girls are using, according to a separate study published in the Annals of Epidemiology last summer.
Click below to read the full article;
http://blackdoctor.org/news/article/Fibroids/New_Study_Links_Relaxers_To_Fibroids.aspx
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