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A lot of people ruin their hair with straightening kits, even when they follow the directions exactly. The results are very unpredictable, especially on caucasian hair. If you decide you want to try this, whatever product you choose, be sure to do a strand test, regardless of what the package says to do.

Thio based relaxers are the ones recomended for caucasian hair or hair that is curly instead of napy or kinky. Rusk anticurl, Redken Vertical, X-tenso are the most popular ones. Rusk is probably the only one you can buy over the counter. You can also find it on ebay. It costs about $17 and it works great. However instructions must be folllowed to the T, and the product should never touch the scalp. If you can, just have it professionaly done. Make sure the stylists is an expert thought. Otherwise you might as well just do it yourself. And I agree, run far far away from easy straight, you might as well just put acid in your hair.