When you relax your hair, it undergoes some controlled damage and as such, it is important to maintain it in a healthy fashion. Natural hair requires pampering, relaxed hair requires even more tender ...

Relaxers for hair have long been a beauty staple, but what exactly does it mean to have relaxed hair? In simple terms, relaxed hair refers to hair that has been chemically straightened using the same ...

The kitchen used to be my stepmother’s makeshift salon; it was where I got my first hair relaxer. I was 13 and knew nothing about the process of this hair treatment, all I knew was my hair was finally ...

Up until I was about 16, I used to get my hair chemically relaxed about once every six weeks. At that point, I started wearing my hair in weaves and other protective styles, which is why I held off on ...

After years of falling out of favor due to the natural hair movement, relaxed hair seems to be back by popular demand. With over 47.9 million views on TikTok and 600,000 posts on Instagram, a growing ...

In the quest for sleek, straight hair, many of us have reached for chemical relaxers. Tips to maintain relaxed hair (Destiny Magazine) But let’s face it, while they do the job, they’re not exactly ...

The age-old debate continues: chemically relaxed hair vs natural hair — which one actually grows faster and makes your life easier? Let’s cut through the myths and get to the real facts about what’s ...

Relaxing your own roots is notoriously difficult to get right and can be damaging to the hair. But you do have options. By Crystal Martin Much of the conversation surrounding black hair in recent ...

So now that we've heard what the science suggests about the risk of hair relaxers, maybe you've decided to stop using them. To help us figure out how to do that, we're joined now by April Kayganich.