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There are no remedies that can change the fundamental texture of your hair. The amount of curling in your hair is in fact a product of genetics rather than a controllable factor like environment, diet, or medication. This is not to say that there is no way to straighten your hair. There are methods that include thermal treatment and chemical relaxing that can straighten out your hair. Unfortunately, prolonged use of these will damage your hair permanently. Therefore, use them with a certain amount of discretion.
Before you perform any treatment to straighten your hair, you need to ensure that your hair is completely healthy, no matter what the shape. Curly hair has an inherent flaw - it does not allow the natural oil from the scalp to reach the hair tips. For this reason, you might have to supplement your hair with oil for a few weeks before you start straightening treatments. The oil of choice for this task is almond oil because of its vitamin E content and essentially fatty acid content, which makes it quite similar in nature to the skin secretion sebum. The next task is to purchase a conditioner that has thermal protection and surfactant properties as the chemicals in these types of conditioners form a coating over individual hair strands, protecting against damage.
Finally, you can start the straightening treatment. The safest alternative is to use a hair iron. This is basically a device that has two flat metal or ceramic plates that heat up to a very high temperature. Individual layers of hair then fall straight by an action akin to ironing. This is a simple technique that places the least amount of pressure to the hair. Do this treatment only once in two days to avoid major damage to the hair. The other alternative is to use a hot comb to straighten out your hair but this can be a painful method to use if the comb comes into contact with the hair. The final alternative is to use a chemical hair relaxer. Relaxers work by breaking the disulfide bonds in the hair making it fall straight. This is not a process that is as harmless as it sounds. This is because disulfide bonds are what give strength to the hair and without these bonds the hair is more susceptible to breakage. Relaxers are also implicated as one of the reasons for alopecia or hair loss.
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