Vanessa Williams Swears by Phytospecific Relaxer

[chica_canella]

I don't know if you guys saw the Essence Magazine with her on the cover aling with other black women a couple of months ago, but she said one of her beauty secrets for her hair was using a "non-chemical" phyto specific relaxer.

Just wanted to share.

 

[JLove74]

I don't know if you guys saw the Essence Magazine with her on the cover aling with other black women a couple of months ago, but she said one of her beauty secrets for her hair was using a "non-chemical" phyto specific relaxer.

Just wanted to share.

I love Vanessa, but she's gone need to get educated. Anything that alters the natural state of your hair is a CHEMICAL - be it a curly perm or relaxer.

 

[Tee]

I love Vanessa, but she's gone need to get educated. Anything that alters the natural state of your hair is a CHEMICAL - be it a curly perm or relaxer.

lol. And I have this mag. I will browse her section again. (I skipped hers and went to Kelly's and Wendy R. Robinson. (Regina for the Steve Harvey Show.)

 

[navsegda]

I love Vanessa, but she's gone need to get educated. Anything that alters the natural state of your hair is a CHEMICAL - be it a curly perm or relaxer.

Well, the post I made in here last night is also now gone, along with someone else's. Ah well.

Anyway, you are correct. However, I don't blame Vanessa or anyone else who believed their hype because Phytospecific does indeed pass this off as a chemical-free relaxer, but that is not true. One of the ingredients in it is guanidine carbonate (from mushroom salts, they say). Guanidine carbonate is most definitely a CHEMICAL. There is even some in my lab. It can be used for a variety of purposes, just one of those happens to be for the hair straightening process. People seem to think that because it is organic that that means it is chemical free. That is not correct. For instance, there are several chemical toxins in nature that can kill you in a matter of minutes that come from plants or animals (one of the dangerous neurotoxins in my lab is secreted from the skin of the Panamanian golden frog, Atelopus zeteki, and another is called saxitoxin and it can be found in shellfish; both of these are designated by the federal government as weapons of biological warfare and they are perfectly natural, mind you).

Sites where the chemical guanidine carbonate can be purchased/listed as a chemical:
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http://www.chemicalland21.com/indust...0CARBONATE.htm
http://www.chemexper.com/index.shtml.../593-85-1.html
http://www.sciencelab.com/page/S/PVAR/10414/SLG1114
http://www.chemblink.com/products/593-85-1.htm
http://jemkely.diytrade.com/sdp/145140/4/cp-1005048.html
http://www.ehs.iupui.edu/ehs/manifest_chemG.asp
http://www.buyersguidechem.de/chemical_supplier/Guanidine_carbonate.php

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The list goes on and on and on. I'm not saying the relaxer is bad (in fact I've only heard good things about it), just do not believe one company trying to market its product and saying it is "chemical free" to get more money when there are 1000s of other websites that beg to differ.

P.S. A "guar gum derivative" is also listed as an ingredient. Well, it's also an organic chemical.

 

[JLove74]

I love Phyto and have used it faithfully. I'ts much gentler on my hair than anything I'd used before, but I know it's still a chemical.