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April 21, 2024
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Do you know what chemical cutting is?

Every woman loves taking care of her hair, always leaving it beautiful and well-groomed. This is because, besides being one of the main features of the female profile, the hair serves as a face frame and also acts as a seduction item at the time of conquest. Smooth, curly, long and even short, the ones that reveal the nape have a special charm.

But when it comes to coloring, discoloring and especially straightening your hair, it is essential to be aware of the products used, the way the treatment is done and also the professional who will take care of your hair. Every care is valid to ensure the health of the wires and avoid problems such as the so-called chemical cutting.

What is chemical cutting?

Anyone who has never experienced this feeling can imagine how desperate it can be. You go to a salon, or buy a new product that has been said to be excellent for smoothing, painting or even moisturizing the product.

You perform the application and when you can no longer wait to see the result and see that it looked beautiful, tufts and more tufts of hair begin to fall. A real nightmare. This is how chemical cutting occurs, caused by the weakness of the wires, the reaction with certain products and especially by some oversight of indications and applications.

When there is some kind of error in the chemical application procedure, either due to improper break time, straightening force, excess and especially chemical incompatibility, chemical shearing may occur which is when the yarn breakdown occurs leading to its breakage. .

For example, if a person relaxes the hair using ammonia and then retouch with sodium hydroxide product, there will be a mismatch between the product reagents and the hair will fatally break.

Understanding the reasons is easier than accepting them. If a single chemical already causes damage to the wires, together they have even greater aggression power. And once broken, there is no way to glue or reverse the procedure that has already reacted on the hair.

Another example of how to cause chemical shearing is when applying some ammonia based product and letting it react for a long time (over an hour) to the hair. The prolonged action of ammonia weakens the strands making them more susceptible to breakage.

However, there is no reason to despair or stop doing the treatments you prefer, but it is essential to have the help of a professional who not only knows the formulation of the products, but also knows their treatment history to identify them. what you can and what you can't use.

My hair had a chemical cut, what to do?

If your hair has been chemically cut, relax, this is not the end of the world. There is no way to repair broken wire, but there are ways to recover strands that have become elastic and tend to break sooner or later. Below are some tips from professionals for those who have been chemically cut:

If the chemical cut has reached more than 70% of the hair, the ideal is to cut the hair, because only then your hair can regain length. If it does not cut, it tends to keep breaking slowly.
If the cut slightly affected the hair, you will also need to cut the length a bit, but the cut does not have to be radical, you can just trim from where the cut occurred.
Avoid washing your hair too often.
Use products like shampoos and moisturizing conditioners and do weekly hydrations.
Cauterize to return protein and essential amino acids to restore yarn health.
Do not abuse the dryer and when brushing, use thermal protectors.

And don't forget, the best way to take care of your hair is to entrust it to trusted professionals only to avoid further problems.

Before you begin any procedure, talk to the provider, question the results, explain the treatments and chemicals you have used, and require them to have a hair resistance test. This protects you from possible unpleasant problems.