WHAT is the Problem?!?!

[Cleo]

Have any of you ever experienced any irritation on your skin (body) from washing your relaxer out in the shower. I have been doing this for over a year and I'm starting to wonder if it's the cause of my skin becoming really sensitive and irritable in certain places. It's really frustating because I don't know what's causing this. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

 

[Queenie]

It could be due to the high pH of relaxers. A high enough pH will irritate the skin. You should follow up with washing your body with something containing an acidic pH.

 

[Cleo]

Thanks Queenie. What would you recommend that has an acidic pH?

 

[NAY007]

I would never wash my relaxer out in the shower standing up....I mean just imagine it running all in your booty crack...well I don't know.
Do you really wash it standing up with all of the relaxer running down your back or chest? Or do you you bend sideways or forward???

 

[Britt]

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NAY007 said:
I would never wash my relaxer out in the shower standing up....I mean just imagine it running all in your booty crack...well I don't know.
Do you really wash it standing up with all of the relaxer running down your back or chest? Or do you you bend sideways or forward???

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I was thinking the samething. I would be concerned about the traces of the relaxer running down my vagina and booty

 

[Cleo]

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NAY007 said:
I would never wash my relaxer out in the shower standing up....I mean just imagine it running all in your booty crack...well I don't know.
Do you really wash it standing up with all of the relaxer running down your back or chest? Or do you you bend sideways or forward???

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Nay please don't make me laugh

...I usually lean my head back in the water flow so that the chemical does not run down my body. It may splash a little here and there but generally I don't have a problem. It never gets on the front of my body

. Maybe I'll go back to leaning over the tub just in case this is part of the problem.

 

[cutebajangirl]

I wash it up standing up and I've never experienced any adverse effects.

But you could be getting irritation from that, so if I was you I would go back to leaning over the tub.