Natural Hair Essay

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Natural Hair vs. Relaxed Hair My speech today is to persuade you on why natural hair is healthier and less harmful than chemically processed hair. I was always natural up until I got to middle school. I started to wonder why I had this big, thick hair and every other girl had long straight hair. My two best friends informed me that they had gotten perms. I decided I wanted my hair to be like everyone else’s so I begged my dad until he finally let me get a perm like everyone else. From that day on my hair was never the same. It was still thick but I started to notice a little bit of breakage from time to time. I also began to notice my hair would not grow past a certain length. My senior year when I moved to California I decided I wanted a change so I cut my hair into a short cut. When I moved back to Maryland I was no longer going to a hairstylist every two weeks as I was in California. My perms weren’t on a regular schedule anymore so I started to see my natural hair texture again and loved it. I have now been natural for a year and it is a growing experience. Natural hair is healthier than relaxed hair because not only does it harm your hair it also harms your body. Also natural hair Natural hair is healthier than relaxed hair. Relaxers damaged the hair shaft. This causes damage that cannot be repair, meaning once you first perm your hair it will be altered that way forever unless you grow it out and cut it off. A relaxer is a chemical substance which contains lye, which is sodium hydroxide, or, no lye which active ingredient is guanidine hydroxide. A lye relaxer is supposed to be stronger than a no lye relaxer but no the less they both alter your and are chemically damaging. Also for pregnant women, relaxing of the hair can be harmful to the fetus. Relaxers can be absorbed through the skin of your scalp and cause poteintal harm to the fetus. If not done by a
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