Why study Chemical Texture Services?
Types of Relaxer
Texture Services Chart
Chemical Relaxers
MISC
100

These are the two broad categories of texture services.

What is Permanent and semipermanent?

100

12.5-14.0;Lye relaxer; Very effective for coily curly and wavy, highly textured hair; may cause scalp irritation and hair damage.

What is Sodium Hydroxide?

100

Loosens very curly hair, leaving hair with soft curls or waves; BEST 4 clients who want to permanently rearrange their coils to a looser curl pattern.

What is soft curl permanent?
100

Is a process that permanently rearranges curly hair's structure into a straighter or smoother form.

What is chemical hair relaxing?

100
4.5-5.5 on the pH scale?

What is Hair and scalp?

200

Smoothing treatments that eliminate frizz and smooth curly or wavy hair for up to three months. 

What are semipermanent smoothing treatments?

200

9.0-11.0; no-lye relaxer; Good for clients with a looser curl or wave pattern, not for coily hight textured hair; may dehydrate & damage hair, less skin irritation than others.

What is Guanidine hydroxide?
200

Smooths curly and wavy hair textures & eliminates frizz; BEST 4 clients with highly textured hair who want controlled frizz and the option of wearing curls or straight hair.

What is keratin-based smoothing treatment? 

200

the bonds broken when hair is wet and then naturally reform as the hair dries.

What is Hydrogen bonds? 
200

Porous hair on the pH scale.

what is Acidic?

300
Permanently straighten highly textured hair, relax tightly coiled hair, curl straight hair, or soften curls.
What is permanent texture services?
300

9.0-11.0; No-lye relaxer; very effective for relaxing curly to wavy hair textures that straighten with the aid of milder strength chemical; may cause scalp irritation and hair damage.

What is lithium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide?

300

Remove curl or wave, leaving hair smooth or straight; BEST 4 Clients who prefer a permanent solution for straightening highly textured hair; can be used on moderately wavy coily hair. 

What is a Chemical relaxer?

300
The two categories of chemical relaxers.

what is Ammonium thioglycolate and hydroxide relaxers?

300

Coarse hair on the pH scale.

What is Alkaline?

400

Hair services that either cause a change within the hair's natural wave or curl pattern or smooth the cuticle.

What is Chemical texture services?

400
9.0-10.0; thio relaxer, no-lye relaxer; suitable for clients that want to keep texture in hair, not for previously treated with lye or no lye relaxers, not for highly textured hair; strong unpleasant ammonia smell, may damage hair. 

What is Ammonium thioglycolate?

400
Adds wave or curl to the hair; also used to loosen curls; BEST 4 clients with straight hair who want to add curls and lift or body to their flat hair, also for clients who desire to loosen their curly hair to wear it straight, but do not require strong alkalis to straighten hair.

What is permanent waving?

400

Bonds that cannot be broken by water. 

What is disulfide bonds?

400
When a chemical relaxer is applied to the hair it can increase the hair's alkalinity up to pH...
What is 14?
500
Even though the hairstyling world is ever changing, many clients will always want to chemically alter the texture of their hair. (why are?)
Why are texture services considered timeliness?
500

6.5-8.5; low-pH relaxer, no-lye relaxer; less damaging to hair, NOT common, all professional no-lye or low-pH relaxers are usually guanidine or calcium; does not sufficiently relax highly textured or coarse hair, curl reversion incident is high.

What is Ammonium sulfite/ammonium bisulfite?

500

Of the Four texture services I am the semipermanent one.

What is keratin-based smoothing treatment? 

500

Describes a substances acidity and alkalinity by measuring the quantity of hydrogen ions it contains.

What is pH scale?
500

Abbreviation for potential hydrogen.

What is pH?

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