Hair Tie Research Paper

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Everyday people use an invention that has come far over the years, evolving and changing to become better and better. One does not even think about the tool they use every day, how it’s made or what it’s structure is. The hair tie has changed from an ordinary, plain ribbon to a comfortable, stylish Emi-Jay(Murray) with many chemicals used to make it function so well. Everyday many women and girls use hair ties and don’t even think about what this simple, yet effective, tool is made of.
Today, hair ties are made of cloth and elastic. The cloth wrapped around an elastic is key to the success of a good hair tie. It wasn’t until 1986 that cloth even started to be used(Flaherty). Many companies use satin because of it’s smooth texture but other …show more content…

Rubber has nineteen other chemicals that make it up, and not excluding any they are: carbon black, neoprene, EPDM, nitrile butadiene, styrene butadiene, isobutene isoprene, isoprene (natural & synthetic), chloro-sulfonyl-polyethylene, acrylate-butadiene copolymer of acrylic ester and acrylic halide, polyethylene-apdate, poly(oxy-1, 4, butylene)ether, chlorinated- polyethylene, hexafluoropropylene-vinylidene fluoride, polybutadiene, tetrafluoroethylene-flouronitrosomethane-perfluoro butyric acid, polychloromethyl oxirane, ethylene oxide, chloromethyl oxirane, fluorocarbon (Polysiloxane). All of these chemicals are vital to rubber and rubber could not exist, and without rubber, we would not have elastic or hair ties. Along with the chemical makeup of hair ties, the history of the hair tie is interesting as well.
Hair ties originally started out as simple ribbons in the 1700s. Used by working women and young girls all over the world, these ribbons helped all females greatly. Even though this was very useful and women loved this invention, the ribbons were not accepted and were considered “unladylike.”(Murray) The ribbon was later improved in the

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