What is worse for hair? flat ironing or relaxing?

what is worse for my hair? i've dyed it before, non permenant hair dye, i have caucasian hair. what is worse? straightening my hair everyday with an ionic straightener, or getting my hair chemically relaxed?What is worse for hair? flat ironing or relaxing?
Those are both equally bad. Heat will eventually destroy the layers of your strands (we all have three layers).


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I cannot emphasize this enough, it is like taking a paper clip and bending it back and forth until it snaps. When you straighten or apply heat in any form you strip hair of moisture and it's ability to retain moisture. Relaxers also strip hair of moisture, destroy layers and can also cause chemical burns on the scalp and hair breakage. It's a toss up really. The sodium and calcium hydroxide in relaxers are very strong hazardous chemicals that can eat away lead pipes. But yet we put them on our scalps for long periods of time.


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Both damage hair but relaxers can penetrate into the scalps and bodies. I personally believe this becuase when I stopped getting relaxers, my new growth coming in was damaged and relaxed. So relaxers can affect the hair follicles and seep into our scalps! Scary. And there have been studies done where hair stylists who apply and work with PPD chemical hair dyes and permenants have a higher incidence of blood cancer and other cancers.


If you MUST relax your hair here is site to an apparently all natural relaxer:


htt://www.treasuredlocks.com/chemical-鈥?


and if you are looking for a more natural alternative to PPD chemical dyes in the future look into henna for hair. It's actually good for hair:


http://hennaforhair.com





SOOO...if you HAVE to change your texture I would go with a flat iron becuase at least irons aren't chemicals that harm your health. BUT you don't have to straighten your hair. If you want to work with your natural wavy/curly texture I highly recommend this site:


http://naturallycurly.com





Hope that helped.What is worse for hair? flat ironing or relaxing?
chemically relaxed i think


but over time if you straighten it too much your hair will be equally damaged
relaxing because you can get cancer, scalp burns, and (hair loss) alopecia.