relaxer potency

[Integrity]

to all relaxer heads, how do you know which strength to use (ie, mild, regular, super). i know it may have nothing to do with hair types cos some of u have type 4a, b and still relax with mild. i have always used regular but am beginning to wonder WHY i have been doing that. i wanna get into the habit of knowing WHY i do certain things to my hair... any ideas???

 

[AmilLion]

I used think think that I required Super, but Mild works fine. I feel that its the smoothing process that actually helps the relaxer more, not the strength. But that's with MY hair. I prefer to use a mild lye relaxer and my hair looks great (at least I think so)....I need to post photos.

 

[simone103]

I have very thick, type 4b coarse hair, so personally I have to use a regular or super strength relaxer, but I can usually get by with a regular. I have tried to use mild relaxers in the past, but they just don't produce the type of look that I want, in which my hair is at least 90% straight. I'm starting to think that not all relaxer brands are created equal, because I have used Mizani and Elucence, and neither of these relaxers got my hair straight, where as I've used Affirm or Revlon and both have made my hair straight. I guess some relaxer brands are stronger than others. But I think the type of hair you have, whether the texture is soft, fine, thick, or coarse probably dictates what strength of relaxer you should use.

 

[Yarnie]

I've been using super ever since i remember, and I think it was recomended by a stylist to my mother. Recently I had the same doubt, and I tried a regular relaxer. It didnt work for me, my roots were very volumous (sp?) and I experienced lots of breakage.

My hair is v. coarse and I have lots of hair (used to be called the helmet by some of my cousins /images/graemlins/crazy.gif). So maybe I'm really one of those people that the super formula is aimed at...

 

[Kitkat]

I have thick coarse 4a/4b hair, and a mild relaxer worked very well on me, much to my surprise. I always thought that I needed to use a regular relaxer, which I used to use. I don't know when and why super relaxers are required.