Many Black women suffer from hair loss. The common causes range from Alopecia, aging, heredity, and stress. The cause that is found in almost epidemic proportions with black women, however, is chemical damage from relaxers -- or chemical hair strengtheners.

Though used by Black women to straighten and relax their hair from light texturizing to bone straight, most black women have no idea what these relaxers really do to the hair, nor what the process actually involves. There are two types of relaxers. They are SODIUM HYDROXIDE ( lye-based) and GUANIDINE HYDROXIDE (no-lye). Although the no-lye products are thought to be less damaging, both types are harmful because they strip the hair of its natural moisture and then breaks the structure.

In lay mans terms, hair has two bonds, a physical bond and a chemical bond, referred to as the S and H bonds. These bonds create the S-shaped kink or curl in Black hair. Chemically processing the hair changes the molecular structure by breaking down these bonds... thereby is damaging the hair. Once the bonds are broken, the hair loses its natural shape and elasticity, and can then be manually formed into straight hair. After the S-shaped bond is changed, it can never be returned to its original healthy form. It has undergone a permanent change caused by chemical damage.

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