weft sealer?

Hi. I think you can use a anti-fraying sealer such as Fray Not that you use to keep your clothes from fraying. pm Sherrie she may know.

I personally think that Fray Block and Fray Check are terrible weft sealers as they are VERY thin.. IMO a good weft sealant must be able to form a bond with the hair in order to be effective. For this to occur, the sealant must have some viscosity.

(Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to being deformed by either shear stress or extensional stress. It is commonly perceived as "thickness", or resistance to flow. Viscosity describes a fluid's internal resistance to flow and may be thought of as a measure of fluid friction. Thus, water is "thin", having a lower viscosity, while vegetable oil is "thick" having a higher viscosity.)

Fray Block and Fray Check are low in viscosity, whereas Aleene's Stop Fraying has a higher viscosity, as does the weft sealer that HE101 sells. There are other similar products available at your local fabric stores. Two years ago I tried an experiment to test a lot of these products side by side for effectiveness as weft sealers. I won't bore you with the LONG list of glues that I tried, but with the exception of Aleenes Stop Fraying, I personally rejected many of these other products as ineffective due to either lack of viscosity, flexibility (how hard did they dry), the product's inability to resist heat and water, or a combination of all of these factors. HTH


Edited by Divavocals - June 01 2008 at 9:23pm