QuoteReplyTopic: Rinsing out relaxers Posted: April 20 2005 at 1:41pm
When you rinse out relaxers, do you have to use warm water? Because our hot water heater isn't working right now so we don't have any hot water but my mom is going to touch-up my hair today. Is it okay to just use cold water?
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The strangeness didnt happen immediately..... Why? I dont know.
But my hair has become less moisturized, brittle and the color is redder than before. I was told that lukewarm is the best to use. The cold water is supposed to make the lye react in a coating like way. That's why they never used cold water. But i had no choice, i was going to get overprocessed.
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please wash out your relaxer with warm water. with warm water, its easier to get out all the relaxer. This is a relaxer rinse out not an ordinary wash day rinse out. The only time cold water could help is when you do it as a final rinse.
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The strangeness didnt happen immediately..... Why? I dont know.
But my hair has become less moisturized, brittle and the color is redder than before. I was told that lukewarm is the best to use. The cold water is supposed to make the lye react in a coating like way. That's why they never used cold water. But i had no choice, i was going to get overprocessed.
its because cold water seals the hair cuticle up, so when you rinse out the relaxer with cold water you can possibly trap some relaxer in the hairs and it can cause the hair to trap relaxer inside of it.
warm water keeps the cuticles open and the relaxer can rinse out better
Sorry if I didn't explain. I use cold water (well, as cold as I can stand it) when I'm rinsing my hair normally, like conditioner out of my hair. I usually use warm water with my relaxers but I haven't tried it with cold water.
Sorry Layla, I don't want you to mess up your hair!!
Don't worry I didn't mess up my hair. I heated up the water because I know when I'm washing stuff off of my hands or something it's easier to wash with warm water and cold makes stuff like shea butter get thick and hard so I didn't want it to make the relaxer get hard or anything.
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I was always told that you should wash out your relaxer with very warm water and the conditioner should be washed out with cold water. I've always done this.
I hear youmysweetevie, I had a hairdresser rinse my relaxer out with cold water and my hair came out really funky and stringy. It took a loooonnnng time for my hair to get back to normal.
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Why? I dont know.
mysweetevie wrote:
It took a loooonnnng time for my hair to get back to normal.