Dr. Oz says stop damaging your hair

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Interesting video. Your thoughts?

do i just copy and past the video?

u can just click on it or if your browser is like mine right click and open in a new tab.

I used to relax my hair every 4 weeks and then I would blow dry and flat iron everyday

Now I know why my hair always reached a certain length and stopped.

ok, forget about the cultural and socioeconomic contexts of relaxed vs. natural. if anything, this video looks at the process from a scientific, unbiased point of view!!!! i appreciate the vivid visual of why you should not relax your hair. thank you for sharing with us!!

If that doesn't open our relaxed sistas eyes I don't know what will. Ditto to what you said dajewel. And your very welcome.

Wow! Great vid. I just read on another forum a mom asking for advice because she relaxed her 20 month old's hair, she asked if her hair was damaged, I will have to pass the video on to her.

I pretty much knew how damaging a flat iron is but cooking an egg? Wow.

When I used to dye my hair it was horribly damaged. I did it often though, and I would bleach it before I dyed it. I remember one time (teen years) my head was actually smoking!! It was crazy. It would come out in chunks. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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WOW!!! Thanks for sharing!

First of all, let me just say that I loooooove Dr. Oz! He is always on point and breaks everything down to a tee! So glad that he has his own show now!

But yes, this video was very interesting! Im so happy that I don't use heat on my hair like that! I just emailed the clip to a ton of my friends, some of whom I think want to go natural, but are scared! Maybe this will open their eyes!!!!

@AfrikanLatina Thanks sooo much for posting this!

NikG20 wrote:Wow! Great vid. I just read on another forum a mom asking for advice because she relaxed her 20 month old's hair, she asked if her hair was damaged, I will have to pass the video on to her.

I pretty much knew how damaging a flat iron is but cooking an egg? Wow.

When I used to dye my hair it was horribly damaged. I did it often though, and I would bleach it before I dyed it. I remember one time (teen years) my head was actually smoking!! It was crazy. It would come out in chunks. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

OMGoodness! 20 months old! Poor Baby!!

How "BAD"(thinking from the mothers mindset) can a 20 month old babys hair be that you feel you have to relax it? That is beyond ridiculous! Poor baby indeed!

i never had problem with healthy hair and growth with a perm, however i've had a perm since i was like 10 so im curious to what my hair is like in its natural state! however, perming a baby's hair, ridiculous!

NikG20 wrote:Wow! Great vid. I just read on another forum a mom asking for advice because she relaxed her 20 month old's hair, she asked if her hair was damaged, I will have to pass the video on to her.

I pretty much knew how damaging a flat iron is but cooking an egg? Wow.

When I used to dye my hair it was horribly damaged. I did it often though, and I would bleach it before I dyed it. I remember one time (teen years) my head was actually smoking!! It was crazy. It would come out in chunks. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

OMG!! that is so bad of that Mom, I mean,WHY??? I don't even use store bought soaps on my babies skin, because they r all so harsh, I would, could not do that to a 20 month old child. Shame on her [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Thanks for the link. I'm so glad I was too lazy to flat iron my hair after relaxing it.

Thanks! Very informative vid!

My aunt just came to visit from out of town and her last relaxer damaged her scalp so bad that she is now 45% bald, I felt so bad that this is what it took for her to get away from the lye and so happy that me, my mother, and my sister got away from it before the same couldve happened to us.

Oh that is so sad @cocoavixen....was the relaxer left on or not rinsed out? I'm so happy I was never burned by the creamy crack...well at least not my entire head. Ive had a couple of small scabs but even then I didnt let it go. Like you said I'm glad I got away from it before that happened to me because it could've been any of us.

That was lye correct? What about "no-lye" relaxers? Someone could always write that video off because of that.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Very information video and I am going to pass it on to my friends. I guess you don't believe until you see it...

Erica5417 wrote:I used to relax my hair every 4 weeks and then I would blow dry and flat iron everyday

Now I know why my hair always reached a certain length and stopped.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] WHAT!!! Thats insane. I hated relaxers even when I got the, I went a good year without one as a teen!

ChiChi10 wrote:That was lye correct? What about "no-lye" relaxers? Someone could always write that video off because of that.

The person doing that is probably the type of person that would write anything negative about relaxers off...just so they could justify getting one.

After seeing something like that I don't see how one could SANELY justify getting a relaxer.