What about adding Bamboo extract to the relaxer?

[gn1g]

I love the herbal essence hair color with the bamboo extract. It really strengthens the hair. Much better than any protein conditioner I've ever used.

So I was thinking that since the hair cuticles are open when relaxing the hair wouldn't it do the same thing while relaxing the hair?


Your thoughts?

 

[DDTexlaxed]

I'd be to afraid of playing with chemicals. If you try it, please be careful.

 

[WiiSlim]

No, I wouldn't try that!

 

[gn1g]

c'mon girls. I know someone else had a thought about this.

 

[Tiye]

Where do you get bamboo extract? I don't think I have any hair products with it but I know it's a very effective when added to nail varnish (sally hansen). Seems like it could be a vegetarian alternative to keratin and if so I'd use it.

 

[morehairplease]

Where do you get bamboo extract? I don't think I have any hair products with it but I know it's a very effective when added to nail varnish (sally hansen). Seems like it could be a vegetarian alternative to keratin and if so I'd use it.

Hi there,

You can purchase it from here:
http://www.makingcosmetics.com/Botanical-Extracts/Bamboo-Extract-p1025.html

hths,
tishee

 

[Minty]

I like my relaxer as it is. I don't add anything to it.

 

[Tiye]

Where do you get bamboo extract? I don't think I have any hair products with it but I know it's a very effective when added to nail varnish (sally hansen). Seems like it could be a vegetarian alternative to keratin and if so I'd use it.

Hey - I shop there. I guess I never spend much time in their botanical extracts department. It says this stuff is extracted in glycerin and water - whether or not that is helpful for the relaxing process I don't know (don't know much about the science of relaxing yet). It's worth trying out as a conditioning ingredient though - I'll be ordering some. Thanks for the tip.

eta - I should say that the bamboo extract in nail polish is very effective - but the problem I ran into is that it made my nails too hard but with no flex so when I accidentally hit something I got terrible breaks. Maybe the extract sold at making cosmetics is extracted into glycerin to counteract that effect. So to answer OP's question my thoughts are if you haven't already been using bamboo extract on your hair then you should experiment with that first to see what it does before you add it to a relaxer. If it acts like e.g., aphogee and makes your hair hard then it may have to be used as a part of a two step process and followed up by a moisturizing conditioner - like aphogee. Anyway that's just theory. It's affordable so I plan to order some and see what it's about.