Lightening your hair is a popular way to look young and beautiful. You can lighten your hair from a dark brown to a pale honey blonde. The question is, will adding liquids to hair lightening affect its efficiency? In my experiment, I will be testing to see if rubbing alcohol, soybean oil, and milk will affect the efficiency of hair lightening. What I am researching is important because I will find out if rubbing alcohol, soybean oil, or milk can make hair lightening better or worse.
There are many things you don’t know about your own hair. Every strand of hair you have is made up of the medulla, cortex, and cuticle. According to http://en.wikipedia.com, hair is long chain of many proteins called Keratin grown on your skin. Hair always grows back because there is this special bulb underneath your skin that allows
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that to happen. Also, http://en.wikipedia.com says that the reason the color of your hair is that color is because of your hair pigments. In brown and black hair, you will find eumelanin while in red and blonde hair, you will find pheomelanin. Hair comes in many textures, shapes, and sizes. People have curly hair because of the helical design Keratin makes. Hair is not just something to make ponytails with. Hair lightening is a very interesting. According to the website http://www.humantouchofchemistry.com, hair lightening has been around for ages. It also says, “In the 1800s, chemists found a substance called as para-phenylenediamine (PPD) and discovered its use in the creation of a synthetic dye. At the same time, it was found that hydrogen peroxide was a gentler and safer chemical as compared to the other chemicals for hair bleaching. These two discoveries paved way for chemist Eugene Schueller, who created the first commercial chemical hair dye, which he called as Aureole. This product was later known as L'Oreal.” Because of these discoveries, Lawrence Gelb was able to make a hair dye that actually went through a shaft of hair allowing the dye to change the color of human hair. For hair lightening to work, we must be able to open the cuticle layer of a piece of hair. Hydrogen-peroxide is able to do that. This is why most hair lightening kits have a volume of hydrogen peroxide-based developer. Hair lightening is a chemical change since the hair chemically changed colors. Hair lightening is definitely a whole new world to look at and learn about. Liquids may seem boring, but it’s actually one of the most interesting things on Earth.
The website https://en.wikipedia.org says that liquids are one of the four primary states of matter. On https://en.wikipedia.org, it also states, “A liquid is a fluid. Unlike a solid, the molecules in a liquid have a much greater freedom to move. The forces that bind the molecules together in a solid are only temporary in a liquid, allowing a liquid to flow while a solid remains rigid.A liquid, like a gas, displays the properties of a fluid. A liquid can flow, assume the shape of a container, and, if placed in a sealed container, will distribute applied pressure evenly to every surface in the container. If you place the liquid in a bag, you can squeeze it into any shape you want. Unlike a gas, a liquid may not always mix readily with another liquid, will not always fill every space in the container, forming its own surface, and will not compress significantly, except under extremely high pressures. ” Liquids also don’t have its own shape so it takes the shape of its container. There are all kinds of liquids all around you. Some examples are water, milk, oil, and
honey. Now that I know about the information I need, I will have to do the project. First, I will go get four swatches of untreated hair from the same person to test on. Then I’ll will get a hydrogen peroxide-based developer volume, hair lightener in power or cream form, aluminum foil, and a stiff brush or just a kit. Then I will mix the hair lightener with the hydrogen-peroxide until the paste has a consistency of honey consistency of honey. If I use a kit, I will just follow those instructions. I will only use four teaspoons of the mix for each swatch of hair. For one swatch of hair, I won’t add any of my three liquids. This swatch will be used for comparison. For the other three swatches, I will add one teaspoon rubbing alcohol, soybean oil, or milk to the mix. Then I will put my swatch of hair on the aluminum foil. Finally, I will
This cycle tends to last anywhere from five to seven years and is shorter for hair on the eyebrows, armpits and pubic area. Inside the bulb of each hair is a component called the dermal papilla which controls the hair growth while the matrix of the hair, which contains a large amount of epidermal cells that rapidly divide, is responsible for the length of the hair. Next is the catagen phase which is characterized as a transition period between the anagen and telogen phases. At this time the hair bulbs are pushed out in order to become keratinized and the hair appears short and thick. This phase tends to only last between two and three weeks. During the telogen phase, no new cell division occurs, which means that the length of the hair remains the same. This pause allows the dermal papilla to fill up the matrix with new cells in preparation for the anagen phase to begin again. This phase can last between three and nine months. After this phase, the anagen phase begins again. The telogen phase is periodically followed by shedding, or exogen. This leads to the last phase, the exogen phase. This phase is characterized by the shedding of hair. Each day about one hundred hairs are shed from the average individual’s scalp. The shaft of the hair is shed and the follicle remains. Despite the fat that the exogen phase usually follows the telogen phase, there are exceptions when it does not, resulting in hair follicles needing to go
In “Straightening Our Hair”, Bell Hooks articulates her opinion of black women straightening their hair. “Black women straightening their hair seemed more and more to be exclusively a signifier of white supremacist oppression and exploration” (Hooks 337). Hooks illustrates that racial discrimination of African-American women forced them to want to conform to societies unrealistic white supremacist beauty standards. I agree with Bell Hooks arguments because she supported it with historical and surface reasoning’s on why women straighten their hair.
The complete process is carried out under local anesthesia to numb the scalp. These grafts grow into natural hairs with the progress of time. Hence, hair transplantation is able to complete the process of hair restoration successfully.
One such musical that does this is Hairspray. It tells the story of Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager in 1962 Baltimore as she tries to make her dream of dancing on a local TV show, ‘The Corny Collins Show’, come true, whilst also campaigning for racial integration on the show and in society.
It is believed that the majority of hair pulling starts during childhood or around adolescence. Hair is most commonly pulled from the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, pubic area and other areas such as the arms, legs or face. It is also common to start pulling in one area and then move onto other areas.
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... was always allowed to grow again. Great importance was attached to the preservation of the hair even under the kings of the second dynasty, for Charlemagne orders the hair to be removed as a punishment in certain crimes.
Popular Natural Hair Products and Why Black Women Need Them Now that natural hair has definitely made a comeback in black beauty, the natural hair industry is seeing a spike in the number of black women who are now sporting kinky, coily, and thick locks. Celebrities are also seen experimenting with their natural hair including Spiderman: Homecoming’s Zendaya. Meanwhile, here are some of the brands and companies that are banking on the natural hair trend.
For many years, I coveted anyone's hair that was anything that my hair wasn't. Despite our differences, we have come to a mutual understanding. And, now, I can say, with some confidence, that my hair and I are friends, not just forced to be together because of genetics. But I can admit this only after years of hard lessons and experience.
Since the days of Aristotle, all substances have been classified into one of three physical states. A substance having a fixed volume and shape is a solid. A substance, which has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape, is a liquid; liquids assume the shape of their container but do not necessarily fill it. A substance having neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume is a gas; gases assume both the shape and the volume of their container. The structures of gases, and their behavior, are simpler than the structures and behavior of the two condensed phases, the solids and the liquids
The most common and practiced method of lightening hair is through bleaching it. In the 1800s, “it was found that hydrogen peroxide was a gentler and safer chemical as compared to the other chemicals for hair bleaching” (human touch of chemistry, discovery of hair dye). Nowadays we still use hydrogen peroxide (h202) in our hair bleach and it is the main oxidizing agent in the alkaline solution which has a pH above 7. (hair bleach as a pH of 9-11)
Bleaching has become an undeniably popular trend most especially among women. This is essentially a process to lighten the color of your hair. However, not most women, especially teenagers who go to salons and have their makeovers do know the effects of having their hair colored, or even worse, bleached. Hydrogen peroxide is often used in combination with ammonia and a toner to both lighten and change the pigmentation or shade of your hair. Back in 2015, the granny hair color became a very popular trend in which women dye their hair grey. However, having to achieve a blonde or a grey hair color, a stylist would require you to bleach your hair up to 7 times or more. Most of the time, a client will not know this kind of information until a stylist
Though some may ask, why is hair so important? Why does society make these natural strands that grow out of a human’s head so much of a big deal? Well, Hair is much more than just random strands that grow out of one’s head. People have made tons of dollars from styling hair, selling hair, advertising hair, and even having taboo
What if the reason a girl left her hair long was because of something other than what she wanted? The simple answer to this question is sex. Throughout our history, having long hair was a sign of fertility (Stuff Mom Never Told You, 2014). Men often chose their wife based on the length of her hair.
Certain people believe that shaving the hairs on your body will force the hair to grow back faster, darker, and thicker. However, this is not the case, according to professionals. According to Dr. Vreeman, “Shaving hair will not cause it to grow back in a darker or coarser form or to grow back faster. This belief is often reinforced by popular media sources and perhaps by people contemplating the quick appearance of stubble on their own body.” She believes that the power of coincidence can make the belief seem obvious to some as well.