Here are some details about hair straightening creams, including their positive and negative aspects, as well as common ingredients or materials used in their formulation:
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Product details:
- Hair straightening creams are designed to make frizzy, curly, or wavy hair appear straight and smooth.
- Some variations of hair smoothing or straightening procedures include Brazilian keratin treatment, Japanese straightening, hair rebonding, and chemical perm.
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Positive aspects:
- Hair straightening creams may contain active nourishing ingredients such as collagen, glycerin, and plant extracts, which can help improve the condition of the hair.
- Cetrimonium chloride, an ingredient found in some hair straightening creams, has a positive charge that attracts it to the negative charge found in hair proteins, making it useful for detangling and smoothing hair.
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Negative aspects:
- Some hair straightening creams may contain harmful chemicals, such as cyclosiloxanes, diethanolamine, formaldehyde, metals, butylphenyl methylpropional, triethanolamine, fragrance, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone, and ethoxylated ingredients (PEGs, Polysorbates, "-eth").
- Permanent hair straightening procedures that use chemical relaxers and neutralizers can be damaging to the hair.
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Ingredients or materials:
- Glyoxyloyl carbocysteine and glyoxyloyl keratin amino acids are active ingredients in some hair straightening creams.
- Keratin and glyoxyl acid are used in the formulation of certain hair straightening creams.
- Cetrimonium chloride is an ingredient that can be found in some hair straightening creams.
