Supergirl said:
Still doesn't make sense. When I was getting the Nairobi relaxer, my hair that was relaxed with Nairobi felt super-silky, but not the rest of my hair that had been relaxed with a non-Nairobi relaxer. This is common sense. The only exception I could see would be if someone is SEVERELY overlapping their relaxer.
Well this case is personal to
you. I have experienced otherwise and so have others. Every relaxer is the same in that it contains a main straightening chemical ingredient. But a lot of them aim to differentiate themselves by adding certain things to it and hoping that YOU choose theirs. Most likely these are "conditioning" ingredients which are suppose to make the relaxer 'better' for your hair. These particular ingredients just may not agree with people's hair. Now let's eliminate the straightening part of the relaxer that actually opens up the cuticle and allows these ingredients to seep into the core of the hair to make the effect 'permanent' on the touched-up newgrowth
alone and look at it from the "superior conditioning" properties they all claim to have that WILL coat all of the hair as it is rinsed. This effect of course wouldn't be permanent or change the hair, just the way the hair
feels (soft/dry, etc.)
What I mean to say is let’s look at it as just a regular hair care product like a regular conditioner with the same conditioning claims. I’ve heard many people say that from the second a conditioner was applied to their hair, it turned soft OR in that same second, their hair became tangled and rough, etc. For example, there was a thread where some hated the ORS pak after one use. I, on the other hand LOVE it. I often apply it in the shower with no cap or heat for 2 min and still get soft hair.
I’m explaining all of this to say that maybe the added ingredients in a relaxer can also cause this to happen during the rinsing out process as it touches ALL of the hair. There has to be something in the relaxer to make someone dislike the way it made their hair feel after one use. For me, it was the mineral deposit in ORS, yes on ALL of my hair after the FIRST use. For affirm, I don’t know what it is, but it must be something. I know you liked affirm and all, but everything works differently on everyone else’s hair. That’s all. I’m not simply trying to bash affirm. I’m just trying to make a general point.
We can agree to disagree. That's fine.
Maybe I didn’t convey my point well or clearly enough. I know you said that I don’t make sense. But what makes more sense to me is that people know their own hair and how it feels.-- Now THAT's common sense.
