What is relaxing the hair?

What is relaxing the hair?

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There are a lot of different relaxers for the hair. Some of them are chemical and work on coarser types of hair, others are more gentle and you'd use on finer types of hair. What a chemical relaxer does to the hair is, it generally softens the curl in the hair. All relaxers are different. Some of them just leave a little bit of wave in the hair, others make the hair completely straight. You have to know before you go in whether you want it completely straight, or whether you want a bit of wave in it.