Chaosbutterfly
Transition Over
Things like progesterone and the patch are transdermal. They're formulated and designed for the user to apply that stuff to the skin and for the stuff to get past the epidermis to the blood vessels below.
Relaxers aren't even meant to touch the skin, so you really can't compare them to medications administered through the skin.
Turning to relaxer alone, I know that the scalp tends to be highly vascular (scalp wounds bleed like crazy) but even with that, I highly doubt that any gets into the blood. If you base and process it correctly, relaxer shouldn't even be touching your scalp. And any that may seep in through the follicles is negligible, and definitely would not cause scars or your brain or skull.
I don't think that relaxers are safe....it's a caustic chemical and there's plenty that can go wrong with them. You can go bald, have burns, have permanent follicular damage, be blinded...apparently suffer major damage to your inner ear...but that's almost always due to improper use.
Everyone so quick to blame relaxer for all their problems, and no one wants to take responsibility and admit that they left it on for 50-11 minutes. Or that they used the oldest, dustiest kit on the shelf. Or that they didn't neutralize afterwards.
Oh yeah...and about the post that suggested that people put cotton in their ears to protect them from sloppy stylists, why?!
If your stylist is sloppy with relaxer, you need to tell her to calm down or get up out the chair and find a new stylist!
Relaxers aren't even meant to touch the skin, so you really can't compare them to medications administered through the skin.
Turning to relaxer alone, I know that the scalp tends to be highly vascular (scalp wounds bleed like crazy) but even with that, I highly doubt that any gets into the blood. If you base and process it correctly, relaxer shouldn't even be touching your scalp. And any that may seep in through the follicles is negligible, and definitely would not cause scars or your brain or skull.
I don't think that relaxers are safe....it's a caustic chemical and there's plenty that can go wrong with them. You can go bald, have burns, have permanent follicular damage, be blinded...apparently suffer major damage to your inner ear...but that's almost always due to improper use.
Everyone so quick to blame relaxer for all their problems, and no one wants to take responsibility and admit that they left it on for 50-11 minutes. Or that they used the oldest, dustiest kit on the shelf. Or that they didn't neutralize afterwards.
Oh yeah...and about the post that suggested that people put cotton in their ears to protect them from sloppy stylists, why?!
If your stylist is sloppy with relaxer, you need to tell her to calm down or get up out the chair and find a new stylist!